Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Book Recommendations
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories, and nonfiction. She is known for her novels 'Purple Hibiscus', 'Half of a Yellow Sun', and 'Americanah', and for her TED talks, particularly 'We Should All Be Feminists'. Her diverse reading interests range from classics like 'Moby Dick' and 'Doctor Zhivago' to contemporary works.
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π Books Recommended by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 19
The Female Persuasion
"A page-turner that succeeds both at character and ideas."
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Cuz
"Unbearably moving."
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Speak No Evil
"It is elegant and elegiac, and evokes Washington DC with subtle power."
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Enid Blyton Famous Five Series
"I was entranced by the children who had these wonderful adventures and who were always magically at the right place at the right time."
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Arrow of God
"Complex and funny and interesting."
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Things Fall Apart
"[The author's] classic."
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The Remains of the Day
"A stunning book."
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Doctor Zhivago
"I also loved Doctor Zhivago."
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Moby Dick
"The classic I am supposed to have read but have had difficulty getting past the first page."
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Naked Lunch
"A book I consider grossly overrated."
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Anil's Ghost
"Made me cry."
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Fine Boys
"Made me laugh. Itβs a brilliant novel about contemporary Nigeria."
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
"I think itβs glorious."
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Playing in the Light
"A very sharply observed, brilliant, beautiful novel about life in postapartheid South Africa."
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The Unwinding
"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recommended this book in an EW interview."
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Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
"It is so atmospheric, so hauntingly described, that the reader never quite emerges from the book."
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Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals
"This is a humourous, irreverent and unabashedly political novel."
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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."
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The Color Purple
"I admired the fierce honesty in the single-mindedly feminist world-view of this book."
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