See here for methodology; I am excluding books not actually set in Tanzania.
| Title | Author | Goodreads raters | LibraryThing owners |
| Green Hills of Africa | Ernest Hemingway | 12,287 | 2,315 |
| The Lioness | Chris Bohjalian | 23,336 | 463 |
| Paradise | Abdulrazak Gurnah | 10,774 | 664 |
| Afterlives | Abdulrazak Gurnah | 11,782 | 481 |
| We All Went On Safari | Laurie Krebs | 660 | 1,081 |
| Hard Rain | Irma Venter | 4,002 | 140 |
| Golden Boy | Tara Sullivan | 2,227 | 223 |
| Elizabeti’s Doll | Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen | 320 | 540 |
I had to exclude a lot of books here which only briefly touched on Tanzania (eg Going Solo, by Roald Dahl) or are largely about somewhere else entirely (eg The Shadow of the Sun, by Ryszard Kapuściński). Not completely certain about She, by H. Rider Haggard, which could really be set in any one of a number of African locations.
Dismaying that the top two books here are about Americans on safari, but very glad to see local Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah putting in a strong showing.
Next up, while I’m in the neighbourhood, is South Africa.