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

Wondering who pulled this together.

Was looking for Oliver Twist, 12 Nights, Macbeth, Lambs Tales from Shakespeare

BoldBrainz:


Not Dan Brown or Clive Cussler or Katherine Neville or Mario Puzo?

Dan brown. Such a good writer
Mario puzo is another don

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

I love Sidney Sheldon books also. Read couple of it

coputa:
13. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

Jeffrey too is good to an extent

MirrorofChrist:
There are novels by Opeyemi Ojerinde,
Life in the Veneha,
Teacher chuk,
Room 401,
Once upon a time,
My father farmland,
Etc

I don't know why and how African writers have gone down hill.
Honestly, I missed old African novels and writers.
Achebe, weep not child, the boy slave, the return of shettima etc

What's your reference? On what basis?

jamesversion:
What books did Wole Soyinka even write that even one of them cannot feature in world greatest books?

The question is which body/organisation classified these books as presented by this person.

Zeus123:
Lol......Achebe on that list is just funny.
A nigerian must have compiled that list.

Shakespeare, dostoevsky, hemminway, twain, Virginia Wolfe, Jane austen, George orwell and so many not on that list.

No shades on Achebe but come on man. For fuxk sake be serious

It’s clear you’ve not read things fall apart cos if you read novels you will know that book is magical in all ramifications

jamesversion:
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

This is actually my favourite book, followed by the Harry Potter series

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.

What makes them the gratest pls can someone put me through

EmperorCaesar:


Do u even know my tribe or am I a citizen of England?

I never talked down on Achebe's works, I only stated what i saw on Quora and what other literary institutions think about Williams works

Not even the Greek could boast of such a great writer that can rival Williams despite their advance years of civilization over England. I would be cool with Achebe ranking by williams side but not above him

I think that Shakespeare's novels are published only in English language, whereas "Things Fall Apart" has been published in more than 50 languages.

TKVick:
This are my top 5
1. War and peace by leo tolsoy
2. The first blade trilogy.
3. The da vinci code by dan brown.
4.

Any list without War and Peace and, Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) alongside Anna Karenina na fake. Three Russian books.
Not to include Candide by Voltaire shows it's actually an anglophone thing but barely included a few others to disguise.

Not enough to merely state their titles.

A brief synopsis of each would help those who may want to check them out.

Is it on war, history, politics, religion, romance, etc.

Authoreety:
Achebe really did a lot in putting Nigeria 🇳🇬 in the limelight

Dear seun, kindly stop this dude from using bots. I suspect he is using bots. Do good to investigate. Thank you sir.

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.

Was number 10 name misspelled or intentional?

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

You de mind them?

Ishilove:

Virginia Woolf.

Stop being mischievous

Probably an honest mistake

Hmmm

Weretuntun:
I JUST WASTED MY MONEY TO BUY THE INVISIBL MAN,VERY LONG AND BORING.

There are literatures you buy and stash as decor pieces... The forementioned book fits that category.

jamesversion:
What books did Wole Soyinka even write that even one of them cannot feature in world greatest books?

Prose isn't Soyinka's genre. He is more of a Poet and Playwright.

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.

So that Yoruba Nobel Laureate that now imports rice didn't make the elite list? I suspect Obidients.

Weretuntun:
I JUST WASTED MY MONEY TO BUY THE INVISIBL MAN,VERY LONG AND BORING.

watch d film instead

tishbite42:

He did only prose and poetry and last time I checked his poetry won international awards.
You Yorubad are just envious of the man
He's in a class of his own

It was Achebe that was envious of Soyinka.
It was the envy and bitterness that killed him.

Soyinka no be him mate.

Pilgrim progress by buyan

viyon02:
I bet you no nothing about Achebe's novels,: "things fall apart" was translated to more than 60 languages and if you want to study Africa history and culture in any part of the world you must read this novel. The fat is, Achebe deserve Nobel Laurel too. One of the finest Africa writer ever produced

Achebe was an ordinary novelist.
He could not have won Nobel laureate.

Those who won laureate are complete writers in drama, poetry, novels
Achebe tried his hands
on poetry and drama and he failed woefully

Spandau:


Dear seun, kindly stop this dude from using bots. I suspect he is using bots. Do good to investigate. Thank you sir.

Seriously!

Is this how u accuse people on this forum?
Seun you have to do something about this false allegation.
Meanwhile, wats the meaning of bots

AareGaa:


It was Achebe that was envious of Soyinka.
It was the envy and bitterness that killed him.

Soyinka no be him mate.

Just 'Things Fall Apart' no be Wole Soyinka mate.
There are levels to this.

tishbite42:

Just 'Things Fall Apart' no be Wole Soyinka mate.
There are levels to this.

Na ibos dey hype Achebe, just the way they hype other failed leaders from their region.

It's ibos who will believe that someone as dumb and inarticulate as Obi is better than Tinubu.
Ibos are delusional and largely illiterates

I knew Jane Eyre wud enter.
Read that book while in secondary school.
Book was kinda boring back then. But I immediately believed it was a classic even in an era where internet was just warming up.
Like very boring.. Maybe I'll find it interesting if I try it again

TKVick:
This are my top 5
1. War and peace by leo tolsoy
2. The first blade trilogy.
3. The da vinci code by dan brown.
4.

Those are interesting books.

They are not necessarily classic.



I thought 'treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson wud make the list tho.

Pride and prejudice no deh?

AareGaa:


Na ibos dey hype Achebe, just the way they hype other failed leaders from their region.

It's ibos who will believe that someone as dumb and inarticulate as Obi is better than Tinubu.
Ibos are delusional and largely illiterates

Igbos are the whole world that have praised the man. From Obama to Godimer to countless number of people.
Thank God Tinubu is in the saddle, representative of all Yorubad worldwide, and we can see how dumb and foolish you people are.
Even the Fulanis are far smarter than you. Look at the mess we now have in less than a year. You should be ashamed to compare Tinubu and Obi. Even his wife and children won't be stupid to do such comparison.