Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Reading List

Nigerian novelist (Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah). MacArthur Fellow.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Recommended Reading List (2023)

Six-book list curated for Service95.

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."

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of What Now (2025-03-20).

George Eliot · 1871 · Buy on Amazon

"I really like Middlemarch. It's very wise, and you're also learning."

Andrzej Szczypiorski · 1986 · Buy on Amazon

"There's a wonderful writer from Poland — this book called The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman."

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of Talk Easy (2025-04-23).

W.E.B. Du Bois · 1926 · Buy on Amazon

"Isn't it interesting how this speaks to today?"