You be my witness: personal reading challenge

Below is my growing list. The books are not exclusively by African writers or about Africa, but I've highlighted, in bold, the ones that are "Africa interest." This is often largely subjective. If you have any suggestions, please do share them, preferrably with a reason why it's a good read. Please have mercy on me and not too many tomes 🙂

1. I Write What I Like – Steve Biko
2. Self-Reliance and Other Essays – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling – Patrick Chabal
4. I Wonder – Marian Bantjes
5. The Thing Around Your Neck – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6. African Love Stories: An Anthology – Ama Ata Aidoo (Ed.)
7. Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery – Adam Hochschild
8. The Palm-Wine Drinkard – Amos Tutuola
9. Walden: Or, Life in the Woods – Henry David Thoreau
10. The Rebel – Albert Camus
11. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
12. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
13. A Mercy – Toni Morrison
14. It's Our Turn to Eat – Michela Wrong
15. The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna (thanks to @sciculturist for the recommendation!)
16. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives – Lola Shoneyin (thanks Zahra)
17. Powder Necklace – Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
18. Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
19. The Secret – Rhonda Byrne
20. The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
21. Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom: The Feminine Face of Awakening – Rita Marie Robinson
22. Dead Aid – Dambisa Moyo
23. Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else – Geoff Colvin
24. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment – Eckhart Tolle
25. Zenzele: A Letter for my Daughter – Nozipo Maraire (thanks Selali)
26. Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe – Doreen Baingana (another from Selali, expanding my list! :-S)