world: chad | From the Heart of Europe

See here for methodology. Books are disqualified if less than 50% of them is set in Chad.

These numbers are crunched by hand, not by AI.

Title	Author	Goodreads raters	LibraryThing owners
The Roots of Heaven	Romain Gary	2,653	526
Rain School	James Rumford	803	472
Told by Starlight in Chad	Joseph Brahim Seid	160	36
African Rice Heart	Emily Star Wilkens	72	10
To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré	Reed Brody	55	10
The Trial of Hissène Habré: How the People of Chad Brought a Tyrant to Justice	Celeste Hicks	18	6
France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa	Nathaniel K. Powell	7	5
The Plagues of Friendship	Sem Miantoloum Beasnael	4	4

This was unusually tough. Several users of both Goodreads and LibraryThing have used the “chad” tag for a lot of their books which have absolutely nothing to do with the country, and it must therefore refer to something else. Several political analyses had a handful of owners on LibraryThing, but none on Goodreads. This is the first time that I’ve had to go down to single figures on either system. I’m not going to list the disqualified books because there are too many of them and most of them are completely irrelevant.

Today’s winner was famously adapted into a 1958 film starring Errol Flynn, and it sounds interesting enough to track down. Two Chadian writers appear in today’s list. As well as the non-fiction, there’s also a high-scoring children’s book and a missionary testimony. But I think that all in all, Chad is the most literarily obscure country I have yet covered. I am sure that there will be more.

Next up: Kazakhstan, Chile, Somalia and Senegal.

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The best known books set in each country: Chad