Prof. Chinua Achebe
Even after his death, the richness of Chinua Achebe’s literary zeal reverberated as his phenomenal novel, Things Fall Apartwas included among the Amazon.com list of 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime.
The novel ranked among others such as Toni Morrison’sBeloved, Charles Dickens’ The Great Expectations, Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life, Salman Rusdie’s Midnight’s Children, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Gabriel Garcia Marguez’s Love In The Time of Cholera, Oliver Sack’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Other Clinical Stories and Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret.
Editorial director of print and Kindle books at Amazon.com, Sara Nelson, was quoted as saying on the company’s website that the list was created through taxing months of deliberation among her team, though no mathematical algorithms were used.
“One of our tasks was to have books that don’t feel like homework: ‘eat your vegetables’ books. There was nothing in there except ‘I loved this book when I was 12 for this reason.’ We lobbied each other,” Nelson said.
‘‘The books are not ranked but rather are listed alphabetically to represent that “no book is more important than another,” she added.
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