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Five Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once
By Vince Passaro
O, The Oprah Magazine  |  From the May 2005 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe
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.
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