See here for methodology. I am excluding books of which less than 50%, as far as I can tell, is actually set in Angola.
| Title | Author | Goodreads raters | LibraryThing owners |
| A General Theory of Oblivion | José Eduardo Agualusa | 8,003 | 475 |
| Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 | Patricia C. McKissack | 3,641 | 988 |
| Another Day of Life | Ryszard Kapuściński | 5,650 | 581 |
| The Book of Chameleons | José Eduardo Agualusa | 4,820 | 513 |
| The Land at the End of the World | António Lobo Antunes | 3,076 | 450 |
| Mayombe | Pepetela | 2,393 | 134 |
| Transparent City | Ondjaki | 1,398 | 113 |
| The Society of Reluctant Dreamers | José Eduardo Agualusa | 1,316 | 116 |
The top books for Angola are the least well known of any country so far that I have covered. Bangladesh is in the same ball-park, but clearly ahead of Angola. Three of the books on my list, including the winner, are by José Eduardo Agualusa, who sounds like a very interesting writer.
I disqualified only three books. The Last Train to Zona Verde, by Paul Theroux, is set in South Afrtica and Namibia as well as Angola, and reaches Angola a few pages after the half-way point, so just misses my 50% criterion. O Filho de Mil Homens, by Valter hugo mãe (which doesn’t seem to have been translated into English; note the author’s unorthodox capitalisation) appears to be set entirely in Portugal, though the author is originally from Angola. The Return, by Dulce Maria Cardoso, is about the experience of the Portuguese settlers who evacuated in 1975, so most of it is in Portugal, though Angola flavours the whole book.
Coming next: Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Malaysia and Mozambique.
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