Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Book Recommendations

Naked Lunch

The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

"A book I consider grossly overrated." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

"I admired the fierce honesty in the single-mindedly feminist world-view of this book." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

"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)

Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals

by Ahmadou Kourouma

"This is a humourous, irreverent and unabashedly political novel." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery

by John Gregory Brown

"It is so atmospheric, so hauntingly described, that the reader never quite emerges from the book." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

The Unwinding

An Inner History of the New America

by George Packer

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recommended this book in an EW interview. (Source)

Playing in the Light

A Novel

by Zoë Wicomb

"A very sharply observed, brilliant, beautiful novel about life in postapartheid South Africa." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"I think it’s glorious." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

Fine Boys

A Novel

by Eghosa Imasuen

"Made me laugh. It’s a brilliant novel about contemporary Nigeria." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

Anil's Ghost

by Michael Ondaatje

"Made me cry." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

The Female Persuasion

A Novel

by Meg Wolitzer

"A page-turner that succeeds both at character and ideas." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

"The classic I am supposed to have read but have had difficulty getting past the first page." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

"I also loved [this book]." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

"A stunning book." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

Things Fall Apart

African Trilogy, Book 1

by Chinua Achebe

"[The author's] classic." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

Arrow of God

by Chinua Achebe

"Complex and funny and interesting." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

Enid Blyton Famous Five Series

21 Books Box Collection Pack Set

by Enid Blyton

"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)

Speak No Evil

A Novel

by Uzodinma Iweala

"It is elegant and elegiac, and evokes Washington DC with subtle power." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)

Cuz

The Life and Times of Michael A.

by Danielle S. Allen

"Unbearably moving." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Source)