List of 30 Books Based in Uganda
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Need some stories that take place in a particular location? Take a look at this list of relevant examples. In this collection, you'll find a variety of books based in Uganda.
Interested in learning more about Uganda? The books below are great but some were published a while ago. Some other resources to learn about Uganda include the Crowdsourced Explorer and Wikipedia.
| Title | Author | Publishing Year | Genre |
| A Dark Redemption | Stav Sherez | 2012 | Fiction, Mystery |
| A Girl Is a Body of Water | Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | 2020 | Coming-of-age story, Bildungsroman, Psychological Fiction |
| A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa | Alexis Okeowo | 2017 | True crime |
| All Our Names | Dinaw Mengestu | 2014 | Psychological Fiction |
| Beatrice's Goat | Page McBrier | 2001 | Children's literature, Fiction |
| Child of Dandelions | Shenaaz Nanji | 2008 | Fiction |
| Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful | Katie Davis Majors | 2017 | Biography, Christian literature |
| First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria | Eve Brown-Waite | 2009 | Biography, Autobiography, Travel literature |
| Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children | Faith J.H. McDonnell | 2007 | Christian literature |
| In a Free State | V.S. Naipaul | 1971 | Short story, Literary fiction |
| Kintu | Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | 2014 | Novel, Historical Fiction |
| Kisses from Katie | Katie Davis | 2009 | Biography, Autobiography, Christian literature |
| Manchester Happened | Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | 2014 | Literary fiction |
| Operation Thunderbolt | Saul David | 2015 | History, Nonfiction |
| Orange for the Sunsets | Tina Athaide | 2019 | Historical Fiction |
| Sleep Well, Siba & Saba | Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl | 2017 | Fiction |
| Soldier Boy | Keely Hutton | 2017 | Historical Fiction, Biographical Fiction |
| Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol | Okot p'Bitek | 1966 | Epic poetry, World literature |
| The Atlas of Forgotten Places | Jenny D. Williams | 2017 | Mystery, Suspense |
| The Last King of Scotland | Giles Foden | 1998 | Novel, Thriller, Adventure fiction |
| The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village | Twesigye Jackson Kaguri | 2010 | Biography, Autobiography |
| The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster | Tim Crothers | 2012 | Biography |
| The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda | Andrew Rice | 2009 | Law material |
| The Ukimwi Road | Dervla Murphy | 1993 | Travel literature |
| Thirty Girls | Susan Minot | 2014 | Suspense, Psychological Fiction |
| This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World | Matt LaMothe | 2017 | Children's literature, Children's non-fiction literature |
| Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe | Doreen Baingana | 2005 | Cultural, Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction |
| Walking the Nile | Levison Wood | 2015 | Travel, Nonfiction, Cultural, Adventure |
| War Brothers: The Graphic Novel | Sharon E. McKay | 2008 | Novel, Fiction, War story |
| We Are All Birds of Uganda | Hafsa Zayyan | 2021 | Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction |
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