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History books incorporating post-1994 developments are starting to appear. One such tome is The Mind of South Africa, which is opinionated, readable and insightful.
Mandela's exhaustive autobiography is compulsory reading.
This book is the outstanding autobiography of a white South African attempting to come to terms with his heritage and his future.
Laurens van der Post provides a poetic interpretation of San culture in this work.
Folk tales, history, legends, customs and beliefs have all been bundled together in this book.
If you're going thingummy-spotting, Mammals of Southern Africa could be useful.
Gordimer, the most-lauded South African fiction writer, won a Booker Prize for The Conservationist in 1974. Her novel turns a merciless eye on South Africa's people and their interaction.
Coetzee won the 1999 Booker Prize for this cynical examination of South African society.
