Shellf is a book recommendation application contains a list of books from different countries aimed at educating one fully on the culture of the select country.

1. Between Wild and Free - Caroline Numuhire

2. Barefoot in Germany - Tete Loeper

3. The girl who smiled beads - Clementine Wamariya

4. The Barefoot - Scholastique

5. From Red Earth: A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness - Denise Uwimana

6. Scars that Shape Us - Divine Akimana

7. Love tails - Yves Muhizi

8. First Creation - Sandra Nadege

1. Petals of blood by ngũgĩ wa thiong'o

2. The river and the source by margaret a. Ogola

3. One day i will write about this place: a memoir by binyavanga wainaina

4. Dust by yvonne adhiambo owuor

5. The promised land by grace ogot

6. Nairobi heat by mukoma wa ngugi

7. Population, tradition, and environmental control in colonial kenya by martin s. Shanguhyia

8. Facing mount kenya by jomo kenyatta

9. History of resistance in kenya 1884-2002 by maina wa kĩnyattĩ

1. Cutting for stone by abraham verghese

2. The shadow king by maaza mengiste

3. The beautiful things that heaven bears by dinaw mengestu

4. Open my eyes, that i may see marvellous things by alice allan

5. Beneath the lion's gaze by maaza mengiste

6. Addis ababa noir by various

7. The wife's tale by aida edemariam

8. Shallow graves: a memoir of the ethiopia-eritrea war by richard reid

9. I want to die with a flag. ethiopia: my delusions and disillusionment by vartkes nalbandian

10. Held at a distance: a rediscovery of ethiopia by rebecca g. Haile

1. Coconut: a black girl, a white foster family, and the search for belonging and identity by florence oòlaìjiìdeì

2. Hope and glory by jendella benson

3. You made a fool of death with your beauty by akwaeke emezi

4. A coastline is an immeasurable thing: a memoir across three continents by mary-alice daniel

5. The legacy of molly southbourne (the molly southbourne trilogy book 3) by tade thompson

6. Where the children take us: how one family achieved the unimaginable by zain e. asher

7. Notes from a young black chef by kwame onwuachi with joshua david stein

8. Wahala: A novel by nikki may

9. Operation sisterhood by olugbemisola rhuday-perkovich

1. Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo

2. Tail of the Blue Bird BY NII AYIKWEI PARKES

3. Ghana must go by Taiye Selasi

4. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

5. The housemaid by Amma Darko

6. Selected speeches by Kwame

7. This earth, my brother by Kofi Awoonor

8. Daughter in Exile: A Novel by Bisi Adjapon

9. Fragments by Ayi Kwei Armah

10. Fibbed by Elizabeth Agyemang

1. Treasure trove of benefits and variety at the table edited and translated by nawal nasrallah

2. Brains confounded by the ode of abu shaduf expounded edited and translated by humphrey davies

3. The essential tawfiq al-hakim ed. denys johnson-davies

4. The days by taha hussein, translated by e.h. paxton, hilary wayment, kenneth cragg

5. The call of the curlew by taha hussein, translated by a. b. as-safi

6. Miramar by naguib mahfouz, translated by fatma moussa mahmoud

7. The open door by latifa al-zayyat, translated by marilyn booth

8. The man who lost his shadow by fathy ghanem, translated by desmond stewart

9. The search: personal papers by latifa al-zayyat, translated by sophie bennett

1. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar

2. In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar

3. The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle by Riad Sattouf

4. Under the Tripoli Sky by Kamal Ben Hameda

5. The Shadows of Ghadame by Joëlle Stolz

6. Maps of the soul by Ahmed Fagih

7. Gold dust by Ibrahim Al-koni

8. Green book by Muammmar Gaddafi

9. The lion's Gane by Nelson DeMille

10. The puppet by Ibrahim Al-koni

1. Bitter fruit by Achmat Dangor

2. The promise by Damon Galgut

3. Portrait with keys by Ivan Vladislavic

4. Young blood by Sifiso Mzobe

5. The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer

6. The scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham

7. The quality of mercy by Siphiwe Gloria Ndiovu

8. Another country by Karel Schoeman, 1984

9. Zoo city by Lauren Beukes

10. The grass is singing by Doris Lessing

1. The old draft by Namwali Serpell

2. A cowrie of hope by Binwell Sinyangwe

3. Patchwork by Ellen Banda-Aaku

4. Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi

5. Travel light, move fast by Alexandra Fuller

6. The unheard by Josh Swiller

7. North of south by Shiva Naipul

8. The mourning bird by Mubanga Kalimamukwento

9. Fever Dream by Lincoln Child

10. The ukiwi Road by Dervla Murphy

1. The year of the gorilla by George Schaller

2. Congo by Michael Crichton

3. Refugee: A memoir by Emmanuel Mbolela

4. The poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

5. Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad

6. Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila

7. Mr. Fix it by Richard Ali A Mutu

8. Maison rouge by Leolina Leila Juma

9. No palce to call home by J.J Cola

10. Congolese Wiskunde by In Koli Jean Bofane

1.User is greeted with a menu explaining what shellf is.

2.The user sees a menu of ten countries each with 10 book recommendations.

3.Users are prompted for a country selection from the list of ten countries each represented by a digit from 1 to 10.

4.The user can then view the book recommendations as well as a link on where to buy them.

5.The user is also automatically prompted to rate a book.

6.The user enters the title then the rating which is from 1-5, five being the best.

7.The users feedback on rating is stored in a shellf MySQL database. The user can view the average rating of a book by selecting 11.