Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

Recommended in 6 interviews and reading lists

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1. Dana MackenzieInterview

   Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Wikipedia got me interested. I have read very little African literature, only Alexander McCall Smith’s 1 Ladies Detective Agency series and Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (an assignment when I was in high school). Those were written by white writers, so it’s possible to…

2. Jeff KreislerInterview

   We’ve covered Welcome to the Monkey House, right? Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. They are all just great, full, perspective shifting, mind opening, others focused journeys.

3. George MonbiotInterview

   Middlemarch by George Eliot, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy…

4. Kristi DeMeesterInterview
5. Chigozie ObiomaInterview

   I think the book that’s had the most impact is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The Igbos of West Africa have not recovered from colonialism and the suppression and even demolition of our once thriving civilization by the “madman” who, claiming universal truth, upended the entire structure. Achebe’s book was an…

6. Jason Y. NgInterview

   I like world literature—books from cultures different from mine. I always recommend to friends and family Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Vendor of Sweets by R.K. Narayan, Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, and short stories by Jorge Luis Borges.

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