5 Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once
The wisest poetry the most extraordinary prose: five top-shelf books that will blow open your understanding of the world.
5 of 5
Things Fall Apart
By Chinua Achebe
148 pages;
Heinemann
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.
— Vince Passaro
Published 11/07/2010