
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Recommended Books
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has recommended 19 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction.
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The Female Persuasion
A Novel
"A page-turner that succeeds both at character and ideas." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
Cuz
The Life and Times of Michael A.
"Unbearably moving." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
Speak No Evil
A Novel
"It is elegant and elegiac, and evokes Washington DC with subtle power." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
Enid Blyton Famous Five Series
21 Books Box Collection Pack Set
"I was entranced by the children who had these wonderful adventures and who were always magically at the right place at the right time." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
Arrow of God
"Complex and funny and interesting." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
Things Fall Apart
African Trilogy, Book 1
"[The author's] classic." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
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The Remains of the Day
"A stunning book." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
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Doctor Zhivago
"I also loved [this book]." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
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Moby Dick
"The classic I am supposed to have read but have had difficulty getting past the first page." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
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Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, PewDiePie, Penn Jillette, Jack Edwards
Naked Lunch
The Restored Text
"A book I consider grossly overrated." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
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Anil's Ghost
"Made me cry." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
Fine Boys
A Novel
"Made me laugh. It’s a brilliant novel about contemporary Nigeria." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
"I think it’s glorious." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
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Playing in the Light
A Novel
"A very sharply observed, brilliant, beautiful novel about life in postapartheid South Africa." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
The Unwinding
An Inner History of the New America
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recommended this book in an EW interview. (Source)
Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
"It is so atmospheric, so hauntingly described, that the reader never quite emerges from the book." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals
"This is a humourous, irreverent and unabashedly political novel." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
Fathers and Sons
"I loved this book as a teenager and have never forgotten how completely absorbed I was by [the author's] wonderfully evocative world." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
The Color Purple
"I admired the fierce honesty in the single-mindedly feminist world-view of this book." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)
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