Books Recommended by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Enid Blyton Famous Five Series
21 Books Box Collection Pack Set
Enid Blyton
Source: "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
1 recommenderFathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
Source: "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
1 recommenderDecorations in a Ruined Cemetery
John Gregory Brown
Source: "It is so atmospheric, so hauntingly described, that the reader never quite emerges from the book." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 recommenderThe Color Purple
Alice Walker
Source: "I admired the fierce honesty in the single-mindedly feminist world-view of this book." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Source: "The classic I am supposed to have read but have had difficulty getting past the first page." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Playing in the Light
A Novel
Zoë Wicomb
Source: "A very sharply observed, brilliant, beautiful novel about life in postapartheid South Africa." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 recommenderFine Boys
A Novel
Eghosa Imasuen
Source: "Made me laugh. It’s a brilliant novel about contemporary Nigeria." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 recommenderSpeak No Evil
A Novel
Uzodinma Iweala
Source: "It is elegant and elegiac, and evokes Washington DC with subtle power." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 recommenderThe Female Persuasion
A Novel
Meg Wolitzer
Source: "A page-turner that succeeds both at character and ideas." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 recommenderWaiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals
Ahmadou Kourouma
Source: "This is a humourous, irreverent and unabashedly political novel." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 recommenderThe Unwinding
An Inner History of the New America
George Packer
Source: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recommended this book in an EW interview.
1 recommender- 1 recommender
Naked Lunch
The Restored Text
William S. Burroughs
Source: "A book I consider grossly overrated." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2 recommendersCuz
The Life and Times of Michael A.
Danielle S. Allen
Source: "Unbearably moving." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 recommender- 1 recommender
Things Fall Apart
African Trilogy, Book 1
Chinua Achebe
Source: "[The author's] classic." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Source: "I think it’s glorious." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 3 recommenders
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