Five Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once

By Vince Passaro

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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe

This, the first in Achebe's monumental and unsparing trilogy of Igbo life in western Africa, is the strongest and most important novel of the postcolonial world.

From the May 2005 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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