brain54:
I have only read about 6 from this list…


But who made them the greatest?

What was the criteria used for selecting them and making them the greatest?

Personally I have read some really good books… some by relatively “unknown “ authors.

There are Books I would pick anytime and any day over the ones listed here as greatest…

… at least the 6 I have read from the list!

LordIsaac:
I’ll stay with Sidney Sheldon and the Bronte’s anytime.😊

Sapiosexuality:
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky has to be the greatest novel ever written.

Airlord2030:
achebe was so jealous of soyinka that he died of heart attack

viyon02:
Achibe my man

AareGaa:


Ibo man Don smuggle achebe book into the list.
Trash

udede:
leave tribalism aside, you have not read things fall apart by Achebe

EmperorCaesar:
Shakespeare books no even dey here

Went to quora to read up on this and they are there arguing about mark twain, ralph emerson but for here, even achebe dey ahead of Williams shakespeare

jamesversion:



Encyclopedia britannica

coputa:
13. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

armadeo:


I agree. I've read 9 of them and kon of them would ever appear on my.list of greatest novels I've ever read. Though if I stick to local I'll say things fall apart would likely be in my top 10.


A song of ice and fire
Shogun
King rat
Fire and blood.
The king killer chronicles
The vampire chronicles ( vampire lestat and Queen of the damned to be specific)
The gentleman bastard series
Mistborn
Everything written by james hardley chase
The witcher

And many more.





I'm.prone to fantasy novels so maybe I'm.biased.


Ishilove what do you think.

whitejs:

AareGaa:


Achebe is not a complete writer.

He tried his hands on poetry and drama, but failed woefully

9jaBloke:
The comment below is needless.
Wole Soyinka is one of the greatest literary icons in the world and last time I checked, he is still the only Nigerian with the Nobel prize in Literature. Rare feat!


Achebe & Soyinka were founding members of Ulli Bier's Mbari Club, together with J.P Clark, Chris Okigbo, Demas, Mabel and Pa Bruce Onobrakpeya and they all maintained maximum respect for one another.

It's sad to see this generation of youngsters, most of who do not know literary s**t from chocolate denigrate their legacy.


It's high time some of us switched off our tribal antennae

coputa:
13. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

Couldntfigurean:
Dont be jealous,wole Soyinka name will be listed in the list of greatest Cultists in the world

EmperorCaesar:
Shakespeare books no even dey here

Went to quora to read up on this and they are there arguing about mark twain, ralph emerson but for here, even achebe dey ahead of Williams shakespeare

EmperorCaesar:



Something shakespeare couldnt do for England

If u believe an Achebe books will ever be rated above that of Williams, omo, u must believe dragons once existed

Okolo3662:
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee. Hardcover book first published July 11, 1960. Novel won 1961 Pulitzer Prize. Later made into an Academy Award winning film.
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude Garcia Marquez, 1982.
5. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster.
6. Things Fall Apart by Chinualumogu Achebe.
7. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
8. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison
10. Mrs Dalloway by Vagina Wolf.
11. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
12. The purple color by Alice Walker.

AareGaa:


Ibo man Don smuggle achebe book into the list.
Trash

EmperorCaesar:



Something shakespeare couldnt do for England

If u believe an Achebe books will ever be rated above that of Williams, omo, u must believe dragons once existed

MeaslesMumpsRub:


Lol.
Wole Soyinka has a Nobel laureate, Chinua Achebe think say na degree certificate.