5 Books That Read Like Tales by Moonlight

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Anyone who’s old enough would remember the popular Nigerian TV show Tales by Moonlight. If you’re older, chances are you might have witnessed the authentic thing at some point, gathering to tell and hear stories as the moon climbed into the sky. But everyone recognizes the thrill of such tales: tales that delight as well as terrify, that are just as imaginative as they are socially and politically relevant. That make you long for a world you never knew.

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of books that read like tales by moonlight. From the story of a troubled treasure hunter to that of a spirit child who chooses to remain in a crumbling world rather than escape to bliss of eternity, the books in this collection will cast a spell on you just like any tale by moonlight.

Read our recommendations below:

things fall apart

author: Chinua achebe

Genre: fiction

If ever an African novel could evoke a sense of nostalgia for a time that was never yours, like the best moonlight tales, then it is Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. A magnum opus of African literature, it tells a story of a crucial transitory period in African history—just before the incursion of the British government in a little Igbo village—creating a compelling idea of how things were in the African past for contemporary readers.