
The African Queen is a 1935 novel written by English author C. S. Forester. It was adapted into the 1951 film of the same name.

The Book of Secrets is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 1994.

No New Land is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 1991. The action is largely set in Dar es Salaam and Toronto. The title is derivited from Lawrence Durrell's novel The Alexandria Quartet, in which he translates Constantine P. Cavafy's "The City".

Paradise is a historical novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. The novel was nominated for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction.

Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 2014 novel by John Michael Greer. The novel is a work of speculative political fiction, in which a declining United States attempts to gain control of some desperately needed oil by overthrowing the government of Tanzania. This prompts an intervention by Tanzania's ally, the People's Republic of China, with disastrous consequences for the United States.

The Worms of Kukumlima is a humorous book written by Daniel Pinkwater for all ages and first published in 1981.

Zanzibar is a 2002 novel by Giles Foden. It is about a marine biologist working in Zanzibar, who meets an American embassy employee while in Dar es Salaam, embroiling them both in a terrorist conspiracy. The book discusses the threat of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden before September 11 attacks.