Books recommended by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer internationally recognized for novels such as Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, as well as the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Her essay We Should All Be Feminists, adapted from a TED talk, has become one of the most widely read and cited texts on feminism of the last decade.

Her reading recommendations reflect a broad literary background, spanning African and diasporic fiction, the great tradition of the English-language novel, and political essays. Adichie tends to recommend works that explore identity, race, colonialism, and the human experience in depth — a curation that speaks directly to the themes running through her own writing.