Krystle Zara Appiah Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Krystle Zara Appiah is a British-Ghanaian writer as well as editor and screenwriter.

Based in London, Krystle has a degree in literature and creative writing that she received from the University of Kent. By the time 2020 came along, Krystle was one of forty writers who was picked to be part of the London Library’s Emerging Writers Program.

Her debut novel was Rootless, followed by her novel Half Lives.

Rootless is a 2023 novel by Krystle Zara Appiah. If you have been looking for a new original story to read, this is a great pick for you! The story follows a marriage in crisis and poses the query to readers whether one can ever find roots in a home that is on the verge of collapse.

The setting is London in the spring and in the afternoon, Sam is taking the stairs of his apartment two at a time. He is in a state of emergency. There is over a thousand pounds that has gone missing from the shared bank account that he has with his wife Efe. All the calls that he is making are all going to voicemail.

Sam finally manages to get through to someone and that is when he finds out that Efe is about five thousand miles away. Their toddler is still there and is looking around and asking where Efe is.

Efe and Sam first met when they were teens and they were on their way to university. It appeared that everyone around them knew that these two were meant to be together. Efe had just come to the United Kingdom from Ghana and is struggling with the pressure of her parents’ expectations. She was able to find some level of comfort in Sam, who is idealistic but extremely focused.

Sam was stable in his life and was working hard to form a law career. He had a vision for their future that he was not straying from. Efe found the vision suitable at the time, but now a decade has gone by and she is finding it insufferable. They may appear to be perfect from the outside, but if you look closer, you can start to see the cracks.

Efe and Sam eventually find out that they are pregnant, something that is totally unplanned. While the two theoretically should be on the same page, the two of them find themselves on different sides of things. Sam finds that being a father is all that he had dreamed that it would be, while Efe feels like she is in a nightmare.

When something new comes up, the pair must at last face just how different they would like their lives to be. Efe disappears, dealing with the demands of being a mother while dealing with the dreams that she had slipping away from her until at last it is all too much to take.

This story is about love as well as sacrifice and motherhood. It shows what can happen after a marriage falls apart, which can lead to two different people finding out what they want in the end and figuring out if they still want each other. Can the pair reconcile their differences or are they about to find out that they’re better off without each other? Read this book to find out!

Half Lives is a 2026 novel by Krystle Zara Appiah. Whether you’ve read her debut or are just on the lookout for a creative book that will make you feel something as you follow along, this is a great book that you’ll want to check out.

When it comes to love, only a sister can end up hurting you. Evelyn and Maggie are growing up in Ghana in the seventies and they are just like two sides to the same coin. Evelyn is the reliable one so she is given the duty of supporting her family, which is struggling. Meanwhile Maggie has much less responsibility and is often passing up going to class so that she can spend time flirting with boys.

Even though they are so different, the sisters are close. They have made a promise to each other that one day they are going to get out of here, escaping to America so that they can begin a new life with each other.

Evelyn finds her prospects completely turn around when she gets married to Gus. He is a wealthy surgeon who resides in New York. In what seems like no time at all, she gets pregnant. At the same time, Maggie sees her options start to disappear when she finds out that she is also pregnant but does not have a husband by her side.

Then a horrible accident leads to Evelyn losing her baby before it’s even born. The solution seems so simple. Evelyn ends up taking Maggie’s baby along with her to the U.S. so that she can raise the child as her own. While it seems like an easy matter, the act ends up having consequences for the two sisters. One of them changes their mind and now has a tough decision to deal with.

Emotional and compelling, this novel is a story about how love and endures and what it is able to take before breaking. Read Half Lives by Krystle Zara Appiah to absorb every detail!