Harare Book Club

03/08/2026

29/07/2026

📢 Harare Book Club has added an exciting upgrade to our community library: a shelf dedicated to CARNELIAN HEART PUBLISHING

📚 Since 2024 Harare Book Club was partnered with the Zimbabwean founded publishing house to distribute their books to avid local readers

🤓 We look forward to seeing you drop by our library to pick up your next favourite read!

🏫 Library open every Wednesday, at 9 Avon Rise, Mt Pleasant

🔗 Check out the full book list via our WhatsApp catalogue:
https://wa.me/c/263733248459

📞 (+263)733248459 for orders

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22/07/2026

🌞 Nothing beats a bookish weekend 🤓

📚 We had a blast with our friends at Silent Book Club Harare and hosted another fun book swap!

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13/06/2026

📚 The Future is here and it's Female 🙂

🇿🇼 Young people in Zimbabwe today faces many challenges:
substance abuse, child marriages, lowering school enrollment rates - especially for girls, and lack of extra-curricula activities.

❤️ Tariro Hope & Health charity is doing amazing work with this group of girls from Glen View & Glen Norah. From sponsoring school supplies to providing confidence building workshops. The future certainly looks bright!

📖 Today the young ladies lent some books from our community library.

🙏🏾 Our library relies mostly on donations. We'd greatly appreciate any reading materials suitable for readers aged 10 - 16 years.

You can also sponsor via our Amazon gift list:
🔗 https://www.amazon.co.uk/registries/gl/guest-view/1YXQOEMBDPMTF

Contact for details:
📞: (+263)733248459
📧: [email protected]

02/04/2026

🇿🇼 Delighted to have the renowned chiShona linguist Dr Ignatius Mabasa pass by our community library!

📚 'Mapenzi' is a satirical novel about Hamundigoni, a man at an inflection point, reminiscing about his life and grappling with his sanity.

Have you read it yet? It was translated into chiShona in 2025!

08/03/2026

Hello March!! We're in Nigeria this month reading An Orchestra of Minorities, a finalist for the Booker Prize.

Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, An Orchestra of Minorities tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when he sees a woman attempting to jump from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his prized chickens into the water below to express the severity of such a fall. The woman, Ndali, is stopped her in her tracks.

Read along with us!

04/02/2026

Harare Book Club's first Meet The Author session of 2026 is with Zimbabwe's own Tarisai Ngangura!

Tarisai Ngangura is a journalist and photographer. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, she finished her post-secondary education in Canada. She has been based in several countries, reporting from Brazil, Canada and the US. Her essays, interviews and photography have appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly, Gusher Magazine, Oxford American and The Guardian, among other publications. Ngangura was formerly a writer and social manager at Vanity Fair. The Ones We Loved is her debut novel.

01/02/2026

Hello February! We are reading Zimbabwean author Tarisai Ngangura's debut novel- The Ones We Loved. We know we love discovering Zimbabwean and African authors and sharing them with the world! Read along with us!

26/01/2026

'Okoewo writes about her home with great care and nostalgiha, but resists the impulse towards romanticisation.'

✍🏾 Kupakwashe Mabulala

📚 Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama_ by Nigerian-American journalist Alexis Okeowo, proffers an exploration of the complexities of home, identity, reframing stereotypes and coming to terms with historical legacies.

Read the full review via our website :

https://www.hararebookclub.com/home/blessings-and-disasters

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08/01/2026

🎭 'Theatre remains one of the few spaces where audiences are invited to sit with discomfort, contradiction and recognition. Without the distraction of spectacle or easy resolution'

- Tinash Madamombe

🇿🇼 Founded by the amazing Danai Gurira, Almasi Collaborative Arts' African Voices Now Festival adds a much needed breath of fresh air to the local theatre scene!

🎭 Read Tinashe's review about the amazing plays showcased at the festival