Americanah
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. • From the award-winning author of Dream Count, We Should All Be Feminists, and Half of a Yellow Sun
“An expansive, epic love story.”—O, The Oprah Magazine
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she…
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March 4, 2014
About the Author
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time…
Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How to Write About Africa
Binyavanga Wainaina
Mama's Sleeping Scarf
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writing as Nwa Grace-James; Illustrated by Joelle Avelino
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
Edited by John Freeman
We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Best Short Stories 2021
Edited by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Jenny Minton Quigley, Series Editor
Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Arrangements
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Imitation
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Summer Pact
Emily Giffin
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak
Mina's Matchbox
Yoko Ogawa; Translated by Stephen B. Snyder
The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry
Code Noir
Canisia Lubrin
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
Homesickness
Colin Barrett
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
A Minor Chorus
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Other Worlds
André Alexis
The Book of Records
Madeleine Thien
The Names: A Read with Jenna Pick
Florence Knapp
The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl
The Pretender
Jo Harkin