Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is undoubtedly the most famous novel ever written by an African. It is widely read in African countries and also a staple in schools in the USA and Europe. It was ranked 14th of the 100 most influential novels in the world by Newsweek magazine, outpacing its equally popular contemporaries like Anna Karenina, (Tolstoy), Beloved (Toni Morrison) and One hundred years of solitute (Marquez).

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Aside from "To Kill a mockingbird" by Harper Lee, perhaps the most famous American novel and "Pride and Prejudice" regarded as the most famous novel of all times which was penned by a European (Jane Austen), what other novels from other continents has a near universal recognition (in the literary circle) as Things Fall Apart?

I think Oliver Twist,Pilgrim‘s Progress,
Mayor of casterbridge, Romeo n Juliet,Gulliver‘s tales.
Dis is my opinion

Merchant of Venice & Hamelt- William Shakespeare

Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe

Animal Farm- George Orwell

All Sidney Sheldon novels

Bring me the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson.

Great Thriller!

Akin Goes to school
Ebere and the snake pillow
Lacombe for maths

To Sir With Love - E.R. Braithwaith
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The secret of the Sheikh

salman rushdie - the satanic verses

Waoh, six replies and already on the front page. Nairaland wonder!
I think catch Alice Adventures in wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Lord of the rings by John Ronald Reuel
catch 22 by Joseph Heller  will surely make the list.

I cant find any of James Hardley Chase novels in the list. Those are d'bomb to me any day!

1) Boy slave,,,
2) King Emene
3) All Macmillian Pacesetters Series,,,,,,,,,like,,,,sisi, for Mbatha and rabeka, The cyclist, the worshippers, Evbu My Love, etc.
4) Second Chance

A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin

The Da vinci code & Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Lord of the rings by J.R Tolkien
Kane and Abel by Jeffery Archer
The God father by Mario Puzo + All Harry Porter Books by J.K Rowling

I'm sure nobody knows about this Igbo novel called

Juo Obinna.

Honestly can't remember the author. Read it while in secondary school all in Igbo lingo.

1. From Good to Great
2. Who Moved my Cheese

Dr faustus by christopher marlowe and robinson crusoe by daniel defoe

the old man and the sea

Passport of mallam illia
kane and abel
the taipan

Without A Silverspoon
The Drummer Boy
Aja lo leru
Baba Rere
Kekere Ekun
So long A Letter
African Child
Weep not Child
Rere Run ETC.

Hamlet
The Great Gatsby
The Chronicles of Narnia

pepper soup by elechi amadi and the beautiful ones are not yet born

William Shakespeare

Tom clancy:Wild card
Ian Flemmings:Doctor No

Harold Robbins: 79 Park Avenue, etc.
James Hadley Chase: Figure it out for yourself, An ear to the ground, Do me a favour, Drop dead, etc
Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile, etc.
Alex Haley: Roots.
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace.

Treasure Island
Robinson Crusoe
Shakespeare's books

Mayor of casterbridge

So Long A Letter

Evbu My Love

Our husband has gone mad again

The Passport Of Mallam Ilia

yeah! i love this book, 79 Park Avenue

I give it to Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, anytime, anywhere.

Pacesetters, lol

pride's castle by frank yabin

mmiri oku eji egbu mbe
Triad- Mary Leader

the beautyful ones are not yet born is another master piece