Aminatta Forna,Taiye Selasi reveal best books for summer 2016

Are you travelling for summer? Got 2 weeks leave from work? And you are stumped on what to read, then these great book recommendations from Aminatta Forna and Taiye Selasi, published on Guardian UK is worth checking out.

Aminatta Forna, author of the award-winning book Memory of Love suggest you read:

1. Elnathan John’s Born on Tuesday (Cassava Republic). John is a satirical columnist and lawyer in Abuja, and the novel is the story of a street boy unwittingly caught up in the tumultuous politics of Nigeria.

2. Ellah Allfrey’s Safe House (Cassava Republic), an eye-opening collection of non-fiction writing from the African continent.

Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go suggest you should check out:

1. Yaa Gyasi’s spectacular debut Homegoing (Viking), a book about the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade from both sides of the ocean. The narrative centres on half-sisters Effia and Esi, one a wealthy woman married to a British man in Ghana, the other captured and sold as a slave in America.

2. Alejandro Zambra's Multiple Choice (Granta)

Described as “Latin America’s new literary star”, Alejandro Zambra latest book could be called an experimental novella, written in the form of a multiple choice examination (specifically, the Chilean version of the Sats). Brilliant, innovative, beautiful.

Interested in more, do check out The Guardian UK

Compliment this list with Teju Cole's essay on the 4 brilliant people every writer must read and Taiye Selasi's thoughts on African literature and why writing fiction is a form of meditation

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