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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by joshkke(m): 1:56pm On Aug 20
Iagos:


Please do you have soft copies of the following books? African Nights entertainment, the children of Ananse. I would do anything to read those books again

Enjoy!


https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/cyprian-ekwensi/pdf-epub-an-african-nights-entertainment-african-readers-library-download/
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by kunleiky(m): 1:57pm On Aug 20
Spagi:
Kunta kinte
Root by Alex Haley right?
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by joshkke(m): 1:59pm On Aug 20
ObalendeCMS:


Could this be a book about a poor mallam that lost his betrothed to a rich man and then went in search of an herbalist to help render their only child useless?

It's been long I read that book, but a phrase I will never forget I read in the novel was when the betrothed told the poor Hallam that, a woman is like a cloth in the market; it's not the first person that price it that eventually gets to buy it.

Damn! That phrase stuck to my mind, though I was in pry 4 then when I read the book.
That's African Nights Entertainment

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by Wegums: 2:03pm On Aug 20
Please where can I find the book Beyond Pardon, I can’t find it on ocean pdf
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 2:07pm On Aug 20
joshkke:


Great list except for the Harry Potter thing. Didn't read but I try to avoid books that seem to actively promote witchcraft or the occult. Have read all the rest except for Dean Koontz who is a bit too dark for me. Bertha M. Clay is just sensational, and I recently began to read her again under her USA alias, Charlotte M. Brame. Btw, have you tried the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson?

Oh, not read Segun O either

Thanks. If you look at it critically though, Harry Potter is in the same fantasy genre as the Chronicles of TC which you liked. The message in HP is overwhelmingly a battle of good against evil and the value of having friends who are there for each other through thick and thin. The "witchery" was just a unique commercial angle and I can tell you that nobody feels sympathetic to witchcraft after reading that book.

By the way, first time I read HP, I spent over 24 hours continuously eating up the over 1800-pages volumes without food. No other book could have made me do that.

Yeah Dean Koontz is a bit dark but what will you then say about Stephen King lol. Truly I got a bit tired of Koontz novels after a while but By the light of the moon is quite different from Koontz's regular horror vibe. It is an actual thriller and was completely hooked all through.

I haven't read the COTC series. I have only come across its reference several times just as J.R Tolkien's lord of the rings.

If you like epic adventure and enlightening scripts, please read Shogun. It's voluminous but worth the read as an all time classic.

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by Tolupage(m): 2:08pm On Aug 20
Charismatic Charlie Wade


Problem is novel is too long more like a continuing series
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by patchsk(f): 2:10pm On Aug 20
ThierryJay:


Beyond pardon was the most emotional romance story I read. Lord and Lady Eleanor Rydal. I could visualize the scenes with the way the story was told. A true classic.


You mentioned and still didn't mention Sir Lionel Rydal 😂 .
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by kunleiky(m): 2:12pm On Aug 20
Kemistri3:
My favourites:

Purple Hibiscus
Things Fall Apart
Arrow of God
Half of a Yellow Sun
There was a Country
Joys of Motherhood
In Dependence
A Song of Ice and Fire (series)
The Palm Wine Drinkard
Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Last Days at Forcados

Fun fact: The author of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives Lola Shoneyin is married to Wole Soyinka's son
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by noob03saibot(m): 2:15pm On Aug 20
Pedrocross4568:



Kane and Abel was a master class man.

Sydney Sheldon is my all time favorite but between those two you listed Kane and Abel was the best, but not as great as wind mills of the God and [/b]master of the game by Sydney Sheldon[b]. Same bloodline too. I read those books over 5 times each.
I remember it. Never read the book, but saw the movie many many years ago on VHS. Lovely story. It had two female twins later on it, Alex and Eve I think.

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 2:17pm On Aug 20
patchsk:

You didn't mention Sir Lionel Rydal lol.

That's the Lord Rydal I was referring to nah grin
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by dalongjnr: 2:19pm On Aug 20
The passport of mallam illiya.

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by Wegums: 2:19pm On Aug 20
ThierryJay:


That's the Lord Rydal I was referring to nah grin

Please where can I get the book? Thanks
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by Hussein27: 2:23pm On Aug 20
Juliearth:
All of James Hadley Chase's series and recently, I am more invested in reading novels by Nigerians.


PS you can download any and every book from ocean of pdf.


Thanks for the tip of where to download any novel.

Just downloaded harry Potter.

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by TheWinterBird: 2:29pm On Aug 20
I absolutely love Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. I first read it when I was 17 and wrote a paper on it for one of my classes in the 12th grade. I became a huge fan of Dostoyevsky and have also read
The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot. This man was a phenomenal writer! Russian writers are geniuses, which's why I also enjoyed reading Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Anna Karenina.

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is also dope!

And oh yeah, I have read a ton of Shakespeare's plays!

If I start listing all the books I've read, I'll be here all day.

I've a bit of down time now and have been meaning to go to the bookstore to get a couple of novels. I'll certainly do that sometime this week!

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by Spagi(m): 2:31pm On Aug 20
kunleiky:

Root by Alex Haley right?
yeah best novel i ever read made me hate the white men for life

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by uglodoh(f): 2:46pm On Aug 20
ThierryJay:


Brother, few years ago, I stumbled on a bookshop and took the opportunity to buy several classic storybooks (pacesetters and the likes) out of nostalgia. But they've been gathering dust since on my shelf, it's like I've missed that window for enjoying them and don't want to spoil it.

I assume you are referring to Sidney Sheldon. He's untouchable to me. His use of short punchy sentences to create suspense and emphasis is unrivalled. Very unpredictable to the extent that he became predictable with his unpredictability.

Bloodline, oh my God!
That bloodline was something else but try and read the windmills of God by Sydney Sheldon.



Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by Bizzysmitty(m): 2:50pm On Aug 20
The Catcher in the rye

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 3:03pm On Aug 20
Wegums:


Please where can I get the book? Thanks

Not really sure. I was like 14yrs old when I read it.

Check if you can find it on oceanofpdf.
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ObalendeCMS: 3:09pm On Aug 20
ThierryJay:


Are you sure you are not referring to Time changes yesterday? Kofoworola Odu was in that story

Should be.

Thank you, I will search for it.
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by shadrach77: 3:12pm On Aug 20
Pope98:

Were can i get this book or download.read it when i was quite young been searching for it ever since

You can get it on ebay or amazon uk. Also check https://pacesettersnovels.com/
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by sync(f): 3:18pm On Aug 20
Any James Hardley Chase novel,any time any day
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ObalendeCMS: 3:22pm On Aug 20
Thanks to everyone that has contributed to this lovely thread, especially Thierryjay, including the op that created the thread.

One of the most interesting & engaging thread I've seen on this forum!

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by Iagos: 3:31pm On Aug 20
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by Elimon(m): 3:34pm On Aug 20
The westing game
eyes of orus(egyptian fiction) Bruiser Arrow of God
can anyone refer a civil war based novel apart frm yellow sun.

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by patchsk(f): 3:44pm On Aug 20
ThierryJay:


That's the Lord Rydal I was referring to nah grin

Oo yeah
Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by Haykay2403: 4:00pm On Aug 20
New General Mathematics undecided

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by linkin8k(m): 4:03pm On Aug 20
The Famished Road by Ben Okri

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by Fianze93(m): 4:08pm On Aug 20
'Tomorrow Died Yesterday' by Chukwuemeka Garricks

Honourable Mentions:

'Arrow of God' by Chinua Achebe

'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

The Davinci Code by Dan Brown

'So Long a Letter' by Mariama Bà

The trilogy of 'Pregnancy of the Gods', 'Pride of the Spider Clan' and 'Treasure in the Wind' by Odili Ujubuọṅụ.

'Tamara' by Asika Ikechukwu

'The Famished Road' by Ben Okri

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by noob03saibot(m): 4:15pm On Aug 20
ObalendeCMS:
Looking for a book titled, "Candle in the wind" by Nyengi Koin.

It's about a man that fell in love with, Mrs. Kòfowórolá, the class teacher of his daughter after he lost his wife for many years.

time changes yesterday?

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Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by rezzy: 4:17pm On Aug 20
Cibel59:
Triumph of the Water Lily by Stella Ify Osammor.


I can't get enough of this novel. cool


I love that book oooo
I used the have the soft copy until rain fell on it

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