Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Reading List
Nigerian novelist (Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah). MacArthur Fellow.
Open in WellRead Daily app →Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Recommended Reading List (2023)
Six-book list curated for Service95.
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Muthoni Likimani · 1985 · Buy on Amazon
"This incredibly insightful book outlines the events that lead to the Mau Mau rebellion in 1950s Kenya. A must-read."
Andrzej Szczypiorski · 1986 · Buy on Amazon
"Transports us to Nazi-occupied Poland where a young Jewish woman, equipped with false papers, passes as the wife of a Polish officer."
Michael Ondaatje · 2000 · Buy on Amazon
"A wondrous look at how modern Sri Lanka is haunted by its brutal civil war."
Rachel Seiffert · 2017 · Buy on Amazon
"Weeks after the German invasion of Ukraine, a small town is overrun by the SS — a story of human survival amid Nazi atrocities."
Tim O'Brien · 1990 · Buy on Amazon
"A series of original short stories about the Vietnam War that functions as a novel."
Hala Alyan · 2017 · Buy on Amazon
"Follows a character displaced after the Six-Day War in 1967, losing her home repeatedly across Palestine, Kuwait, and beyond."
By the Book: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2020)
NYT By the Book column (2020-04-23).
Source: www.nytimes.com
Binyavanga Wainaina · Buy on Amazon
"is kept always on my bedside because I miss him desperately."
Isabel Wilkerson · 2010 · Buy on Amazon
"Magisterial can seem a little portentous but it really is the best word to describe it."
Buchi Emecheta · Buy on Amazon
"which I recently reread, and was struck by its quiet power and accomplishment."
Andrzej Szczypiorski · 1986 · Buy on Amazon
"I think even more should know of this finely wrought novel about a Jewish woman in Nazi-occupied Warsaw."
Chinua Achebe · Buy on Amazon
"I do reread novels I love, like Chinua Achebe's 'Arrow of God,' to remind myself of what fiction can do."
Ahmadou Kourouma · Buy on Amazon
"which is an enraged lament about the aftermath of colonialism on the African continent, but is also very funny and irreverent."
Caroline Criado Perez · Buy on Amazon
"Two brilliant books I read back to back infuriated me because they detail the pernicious real-world effects of sexism."
Saidiya Hartman · Buy on Amazon
"Hartman, one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers, introduced the term 'critical fabulation' into my world. She's a theorist and writer who actually changes what's possible in my thought patterns. It's exciting."
Elizabeth Hardwick · Buy on Amazon
"The complexity and contradictions of the narrator in Elizabeth Hardwick's 'Sleepless Nights,' a book I adore, appeal very much to me."
Romesh Gunesekera · Buy on Amazon
"I would elevate Romesh Gunesekera's 'Reef,' a modern classic that should be read as a study in that maxim about what literature should do: instruct and delight."