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Things fall apart

valentineuwakwe:
Just two o....

One week one problem

Trouble in form six

Those stubborn school boys that later became heroes because they helped secure their principal's vehicle.

The same vehicle they initially wanted to go & destroy in the middle of the night.

That book had this cultist vibe!

Domainer1999:
The Gods are not to blame - Ola Rotimi

This is a play

Drama

It's a surprise no one mentioned MARK TWAIN.
I can't think of one book as a favorite because whenever i pick anyone up, the information comes fresh.
The book of PROVERBS & ECCLESIATES? Many thousand reads.

Any Stephen King...

Mothers Choice - Agbo Areo

LIGHTROOM:
Skull Miners
I so much love that novel

You lost it even before you started.

If ur comment is on political or outside educative post, i wouldnt have commented on you.

I took my time to read every comment from beginning until I reached ur comment. Every comentator says something to have meaningful contributions, but when it got to yours! .........

I would be surprised if you ever read a single novel, yet foolish and hopeless guys like you, always wail about ladies that are unwilling and poor wen discussing issues. I think someone who silent when discusing issues, is far better than an hopeless guy who has becomed nuisance to educative topics.

People see you as a lunatic in making that just started displaying traits of madnesd while you mistaken it for arogancy.

Meanwhile, did you even think number of years you will continuing to wail and lameting,...4? 8? 12?

I no pity u o, but mama that gave birth to lunatic, mistaken it for glorious child.

It has to be Sherlock Holmes Novels. All his novels are great. But if I'm to choose one, I'll go for "The Valley of Fear".

Bottled leopard

Things fall Apart

Palmwine drinkard by Amos tutuola

Joys of motherhood

Tess of the D’uberville

Zayttoven:
Sometimes I wonder how I fell in love with reading novels. I presume it was out of sheer curiosity. Although I no longer read novels, I can't help but reminisce on the good ol' days.

I've read a lot of novels from authors such as Dante Alighieri, Leo Tolstoy, George R.R. Martin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen King, Dan Brown, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, Mario Puzo, Robert Ludlum, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sidney Sheldon, George Orwell, Tom Clancy, James Patterson and our very own Chinua Achebe just to mention a few.

My personal favourite would be Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

What's yours?

So many, I can't settle for one
It would have been easy if you narrow the question to a certain continent, country or Era in human civilization.

@Ishilove what's your favorite Novel ?

John Grishan series.

James Hardly Chase series

China achebe'sthings fall apart.
Because it challenged the white narrative of how the African lack culture.
George Orwell 's animal farm.
Because politicians and people are forever bound to testify that the book is right

Street Lawyer by John Grisham
DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

Zayttoven:
Sometimes I wonder how I fell in love with reading novels. I presume it was out of sheer curiosity. Although I no longer read novels, I can't help but reminisce on the good ol' days.

I've read a lot of novels from authors such as Dante Alighieri, Leo Tolstoy, George R.R. Martin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen King, Dan Brown, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, Mario Puzo, Robert Ludlum, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sidney Sheldon, George Orwell, Tom Clancy, James Patterson and our very own Chinua Achebe just to mention a few.

My personal favourite would be Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

What's yours?

It might be elementary but I will never forget "cheer up brother"
Main character is reverend wahihi,the devils uncle

Treasure Island

My book of bible story published by Jehovah witness

ThierryJay:
Harry Potter series 1 - 7 by J.K Rowling is the most interesting and engaging piece of literature I've ever read, but I don't consider it a novel due to the length.

For proper novels, my best five are:

1. Windmill of the Gods - Sidney Sheldon (The don of unexpected twists, mindblowing suspense and action. Number 1 for a reason)

2. By the light of the moon - Dean Koontz (Exciting mystery, thriller, gave me my first insight into fictional nanotechnology)

3. Kane & Abel - Jeffery Archer (a masterpiece in family politics, plots & business intrigues)

4. Shogun - James Clavell (Greatest epic book imo. My first introduction to Seppuku and other Asian practices)

5. Beyond Pardon - Bertha M. Clay (greatest romance novel in my opinion and to think it was written since 1890)


Locally, my best five:

1. The Gods are not to blame - Ola Rotimi

2. Arrows of God - Chinua Achebe

3. An African night's entertainment - Cyprian Ekwensi

4. A gift to the troubled tribe - Segun Okunoren

5. Shaka Zulu (the funny sounding names like bulawayo, dingiswayo were so fascinating to me at the time combined with the epic plot)

By the way who remembers the book below:

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

ciro11:
I found lord of the flies really boring

Annoyingly boring

ThierryJay:
Thanks!

Sadly, it's been years since I've last read a novel. Most of the ones I read were when I was between 9 - 24 years. Can't seem to find the motivation to create the time any longer.

But the beautiful memories will never go away.

Same here.

I keep telling myself I'll go back to reading books once again soon but the hustle of life has taking away all the time to relax with a great book.

God, how I have missed reading like crazy.

It give me the most satisfying joy ever.

Just so you know we both seem to have almost the same favorite author.

bigpicture001:
That book " the passport of Mallam illia"...had and have a live long lasting impression on me...omoh...books dey ooo

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.

1. Shogun- Jame Clavell
2. Presumed Innocent- Scott Turow
3. Master of the game- Jeffrey Archer
4. The Brethen- John Grisham
5. The Negotiator- Fredrick Forsyth
6. Montezuma's Daughter-H. Rider Haggard
7. Gulliver's Travel- Jonathan Swift

ruzell86:
Mothers Choice - Agbo Areo

Nice. Agbo Areo was a legend of the Pacesetters series.

Meanwhile there are some novels I read as a kid whose front and title pages were already torn so I didn't know their title but were so interesting. Many years after I still have that longing to finally know them.

One of them was an Egyptian setting. The main character was mostly in migration mode with some of his tribe and encountered several epic challenges. One of such was that he was captured and thrown into a pit that contained a massive crocodile/s that had never been defeated, but he was able to kill the crocodile and come out of the pit.

There was a lot of mention of the sun god Ra in that book. Abeg who can remember the title?

i have read it, it was my first time reading a novel that was not nigerian or european. So enchanting

gentleguy1975:
Has anyone here read, mission to Kala?

Dirty Dozen

Love all novels by
1.Stephen King.
2.Dean Koontz.
3.Carolyn Keene, with reference to Nancy Drew series.
4.Brian Keene.
5.Shirley Wells.
I have this extremely valuable app on my phone _BooksLibrary which contains millions of books and novels.
I use this great app to access all books by the above mentioned authors and more.
The app is very much available on PlayStore.

Zulezu

King Solomon's mines
Allan Quatermain
The Chronicles of Narnia series

See as thread scanty. Nigerians wey go insult you say you dey speak English. School na scam.

The culpable bus man.

Road to Ibadan.

bigpicture001:
That book " the passport of Mallam illia"...had and have a live long lasting impression on me...omoh...books dey ooo

Will you buy soft copy?

I am planning to buy a hard copy and scan it. I love that book so much