CHINUA ACHEBE'S - ''THINGS FALL APART'' LISTED AMONG 50 MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE PAST 50YRS.

Eminent African
novelist Chinua
Achebe’s classic novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ has made its way to
the ‘50 Most
Influential Books of the last 50 years’ list
put together by a
group called
SuperScholar.

The group via their website described
Achebe’s 1958 novel as ‘the most widely
read book in
contemporary African literature, focuses on
the clash of
colonialism, Christianity, and native African culture’.

‘Chinua Achebe will always be important to me because his work influenced not so
much my style as my writing philosophy: reading him emboldened me, gave me permission to
write about the things I knew well’, famed
writer and author of the best seller ‘Purple Hibiscus’,
Chimamanda
Adichie said in a 2006 interview.

Other popular books to make the list include
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, Malcolm
X’s The Autobiography of
Malcolm X , J. K.
Rowling’s Harry
Potter Series
amongst other books.

Achebe’s latest
book, There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra will be published in September, 2012.

CHECK THE FULL LIST ON THEIR WEBSITE via THE BELLOW LINK
www.superscholar.org/features/50-most-influential-books-last-50-years/