Things Fall Apart, Half of A Yellow Sun named in the list of 100 novels that shaped the world

Things Fall Apart, Half of A Yellow Sun named in the list of 100 novels that shaped the world

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinua Achebe and Ben Okri's novels made the list of 100 novels that shaped the world

- Half of a Yellow Sun , Things Fall Apart and Astonishing the Gods are the books picked by panelists

- The novels considered are English language novels written over 300 years

A panel of leading writers, curators and critics come together to compile and choose from the array of novels 100 genre-busting English language novels that have had an impact on their lives on the demand of BBC.

The books selected were the ones written over the last 300 years and the list covers children’s classics to popular page-turners.

For easier classification, the books were organised into themes showing the ways books help shape and influence people’s thinking

Three Nigerian novelists' books made the list with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart falling in the same category, identity while Ben Okri’s Astonishing the Gods came under the life, death and other worlds.

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The panel includes media personalities Stig Abell and Mariella Frostrup; authors Juno Dawson, Kit de Waal and Alexander McCall Smith; and Bradford Festival Literary Director Syima Aslam

An excited and proud Chimamanda shared the good tidings on her social media page, see it below:

Check out categories of Nigerian novelists below:

Identity

Beloved – Toni Morrison

Days Without End – Sebastian Barry

Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels

Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi

Small Island – Andrea Levy

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

White Teeth – Zadie Smith

Life, Death & Other Worlds

A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin

Astonishing the Gods – Ben Okri

Dune – Frank Herbert

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Gilead – Marilynne Robinson

The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis

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The Discworld Series – Terry Pratchett

The Earthsea Trilogy – Ursula K. Le Guin

The Sandman Series – Neil Gaiman

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

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