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October 05, 2026
We’re officially in the last quarter of the year, and hopefully, the reading is still going. Maybe you’re still making your way through the TBR list you made in January, or perhaps you’ve abandoned it entirely and are looking for something new to read.
Either way, if you’re looking for books to read this October, we’ve got you covered. From Deon Meyer’s Scorpio Rising to Imbolo Mbue’s Every Story Is a Love Story, here are seven African books to add to your TBR this month.
448 pages
Two impossible cases bring detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido to the brink. While Benny investigates the suspicious death of a private eye, Vaughn probes an arson that seems unrelated. When a caravan explodes and its occupant’s identity sparks a media frenzy, the cases collide, threatening their careers and those closest to them.
416 pages
When an alien spacecraft appears in the sky, Nigerian assassin Tope is caught in a deadly struggle over humanity’s future. Joined by South African astronomer Itumeleng, who is plagued by mysterious dreams, he must navigate powerful enemies, buried histories and a dangerous assassin before the craft lands and changes the world forever.
400 pages
At Tanglewood Preparatory School, witch-born Deja Freeman discovers she may be following the same dangerous path that led to her mother’s murder. Alongside brilliant student Tóbi Ẹkúndayọ̀, who shares her disturbing dreams, Deja investigates a classmate’s disappearance and the school’s dark history before something sinister catches up with them.
480 pages
Three years after his wife’s death in a car accident, Wolo receives an unexpected letter from Victoria, the woman who was driving. Despite his family’s warnings, he agrees to meet her. As Victoria’s remorse moves him, Wolo begins to consider whether forgiveness might offer a path through grief and toward healing.
256 pages
1967, Nigeria. After her reform school closes, Celia returns to the family home she was banished from following her brother’s death. As the civil war brews outside, she confronts her hostile mother, a past love and the horrors lurking within the Water House, where she begins to question the truth about her brother’s death.
270 pages
Twenty-one-year-old Mxabanisi Bulawayo works nights at a crematorium and writes unauthorized obituaries by day. When his grandmother dies under mysterious circumstances, his township begins to unravel. Haunted by ghosts, rumours and strange creatures, Mxabanisi encounters Baba Bouka, a keeper of beasts who forces him to confront family, grief and inheritance.
435 pages
In the ancient city of Savat, the tyrannical Sodality seeks to eradicate magic and worship of the old gods. But three exiled deities—Chaos, War and Nightmare—are locked in a deadly family conflict, while a scholar develops a way to make magic accessible to all. Their collision threatens both worlds with destruction.
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