It's time to start thinking about the December Book Club pick! Next month we will be reading and discussing Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe was the author of numerous novels, children's books, short stories, poetry, and essays. Things Fall Apart was his first novel and was written in the late 1950s. This novel tells two stories, both focusing on Okonkwo, a man of an Ibo village in Nigeria.Chinua Achebe's Novels:
Things Fall Apart
No Longer at Ease
Arrow of God
A Man of the People
Anthills of the Savannah
Chike and the River
Achebe's Children's Books:
How the Leopard Got His Claws
The Flute
The Drum
Works similar to Things Fall Apart:
Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Inheritors by William Golding
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
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