Nnedi Okorafor Books in Order

Zahrah Tsami has always felt different, and in the Ooni Kingdom that difference may mean hidden power. When her best friend is endangered, she must enter the forbidden Greeny Jungle and face what makes her strange.

In a future Niger where technology and mysticism have both gone strange, Ejii can speak to shadows. Her search for answers about her father's death sends her across a harsh, transformed desert world.

Ngoli has heard stories about Long Juju Man from her grandfather, but meeting him in the forest is something else entirely. The result is a strange, tense folktale about fear, friendship, and stepping beyond what you think you know.

In a brutal post-apocalyptic Sudan, Onyesonwu grows up marked by violence, prophecy, and dangerous magical power. Her journey becomes a fierce struggle against the history and cruelty built into her world.

Sunny Nwazue, an American-born Nigerian girl with albinism, discovers she belongs to a hidden magical world. With new friends and dangerous lessons ahead, she must help stop a deadly criminal using dark juju.

Rain mixes witchcraft and technology to create wigs that can influence people and fight corruption. But power has a way of curdling, and soon her invention is changing her friends for the worse.

This collection moves through illegal taxis, spirits, future cities, and uneasy spaces between Nigeria and the wider universe. The stories range from playful to unsettling, but all carry Okorafor's mix of myth, technology, and sharp human feeling.

A poor Nigerian girl discovers a gift in her hands that can change people and alter her family's future. It is a small, hopeful story about talent, dignity, and the quiet force of being finally seen.

When aliens arrive off the coast of Lagos, a marine biologist, a soldier, and a rapper get pulled into the chaos. First contact becomes a citywide collision of myth, politics, fear, and possibility.

Binti becomes the first of her Himba people to attend Oomza University, leaving home for the stars. Then an attack by the Meduse turns her journey into a fight for survival and peace.

Anyaugo wakes in the night, follows a giant chicken into the kitchen, and tumbles into a funny, uncanny adventure. With a festival meal at risk, she must figure out whether the strange spirits around her are helpers or troublemakers.

Phoenix is an accelerated woman raised inside New York's Tower 7, where she slowly realizes she is both prisoner and experiment. Her escape turns into a furious, world-shaping story about power, control, and the future of humanity.

Sunny is stronger now, but her strange Nsibidi book and the pull of destiny will not leave her alone. With Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha beside her, she heads toward Osisi for a battle that could decide humanity's future.

A year after reaching Oomza University, Binti returns home with her Meduse friend Okwu. The trip forces her to face family, change, and whether peace can hold between old enemies.

This graphic adaptation turns Dana’s time slips between 1970s California and antebellum Maryland into a stark visual story. The core conflict remains the same: survival inside a family history shaped by slavery.

Okoye, Ayo, and Aneka pursue a Wakandan threat into New York and land in Spider-Man's orbit. It is the opening move in a fast crossover chase that keeps Wakanda's stakes front and center.

This graphic retelling follows the legendary Black Knight, warrior-poet Antar, as he fights for honor in a world eager to deny him respect. It is a sweeping story of identity, courage, and hard-won reputation.

The opening issue introduces Antar as a scorned outsider whose strength and will are impossible to ignore. History, legend, and battlefield energy collide right from the start.

The chase reaches its climax as T'Challa joins the fight and a stolen Wakandan weapon threatens everyone nearby. Okoye, Ayo, and Aneka have to rely on skill, history, and each other to bring the crisis down.

As Wakanda rebuilds after revolution, T'Challa finds his people under attack by a massive monster. The story balances superhero action with the harder work of being king when a nation needs repair.

Binti hopes the violence is behind her, but the conflict between the Meduse and the Khoush flares again on Earth. Far from home, she races to stop a war that could erase her people.

Okoye, Ayo, and Aneka chase Nakia, now Malice, and a stolen Wakandan secret through a fast three-part adventure. Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Avengers show up, but the Dora Milaje remain the real center of the story.

Malice sets a trap aimed straight at T'Challa's world, with Storm and the X-Men caught in the fallout. The Dora Milaje keep the pursuit moving as the Wakandan crisis grows bigger and more personal.

Okorafor looks back on the surgery that left her paralyzed, the long recovery that followed, and the writing life that grew out of it. Part memoir and part reflection on creativity, it is personal, direct, and quietly inspiring.

Pregnant Nigerian American doctor Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka arrives at an interstellar airport carrying an illegal alien plant. What follows is a sharp, funny immigrant sci-fi story about paperwork, community, and who gets to belong.

A Ghanaian girl survives a strange object from space and becomes deadly to anyone who gets too close. As she walks from village to village, people fear her, mythologize her, and try to use her power.

Shuri keeps stepping out of the lab as Wakanda faces new threats tied to science, power, and leadership. The story leans into her quick mind and the growing weight of protecting her nation on her own terms.

After his police chief father is murdered, twelve-year-old Nnamdi receives a mystical Ikenga that grants him superpowers. Suddenly revenge, justice, and growing up in contemporary Nigeria all become the same hard lesson.

This collection follows Shuri through high-tech crises and superhero-scale trouble as she balances invention, family duty, and Wakandan responsibility. It is a lively mix of science, action, and the making of a leader.

During a violent storm in a Nigerian town, Chioma opens her door to a badly wounded boy and steps into a destiny she does not understand. This graphic adaptation turns a short supernatural shock into something eerie and vivid.

AO, a heavily augmented woman in near-future Nigeria, just wants to live her life until one market trip goes catastrophically wrong. On the run with a Fulani herdsman named DNA, she crosses desert and surveillance-state danger alike.

Issaka returns to Timbuktu after an al-Qaeda raid and finds his home and history in ruins. A supernatural being named Faro rises from a burning book and leads him into a story of survival, ancestry, and hidden knowledge.

Sunny and Sasha take what should be a quick trip through Chicago and end up seeing a hidden city inside the city. From Lake Michigan to the skyline, it is a brief magical detour full of secrets and wonder.

Sunny and her friends are sent after a precious object hidden in an otherworldly realm. The quest is bigger, stranger, and more dangerous than ever, and winning may change Sunny for good.

Wakandan princess Shuri steps out of the lab when T’Challa disappears, teaming up with Miles Morales and Kamala Khan and outsmarting rival inventors. Tech-heavy adventures and a magical quest alike underline her role as both scientist and future leader.

Tornado Onwubiko agrees to spend ten years alone in space with a sentient ship in exchange for money and discovery. Halfway through, a brief meeting with the other travelers forces her to rethink what solitude has done to her.

Dikéogu, the boy who can bring rain, is older now and slowly losing his grip on himself. Reuniting with Ejii in 2077 Niger, he learns their earlier quest was only the beginning.

When thirteen-year-old Najeeba receives the yearly Call to the Salt Roads, she breaks a rule that says only boys and men should hear it. Her journey to the Dead Lake becomes the first step in a much larger destiny.

Disabled Nigerian American writer Zelu loses her job, gets another rejection, and finally writes the strange book she actually wants to write. Her sudden rise to fame turns into a sharp, emotional story about art, identity, and control.

Now older and carrying deep grief, Najeeba decides to learn the Mystic Points from the harsh sorcerer Aro. To move forward, she must face her past and hunt something terrible that needs killing.

Periwinkle, a pampered cat with big opinions, is uprooted when his family moves to Nigeria for a year. He soon discovers humans who dislike cats, a new world to explore, and hints that aliens may not be far away.

An older, fully trained Najeeba sets out with the glass maker Dedan and the camel MorningStar on a dangerous return to her beginnings. This final book pushes her toward courage, healing, and hard use of power.