9jaBloke:
Oliver Twist
The Burning Grass
Samankwe and the Highway Robbers
Arms and the man
She stoops to conquer
Chike and the river
Wedlock of the gods
Echi di ime
Tales out of school
Adventures of Souza
The African Child
The virtuous woman
Animal Farm
The mayor of Casterbridge
The Potter's Wheel
The Concubine
Lamb Tales from Shakespeare
Twelfth night or what you will

Literature was my favourite subject and I was a library rat. I read over 100 novels but the ones listed were in our curriculum.

McGg:


Have you come across the book "no man's Land".. I don't know the author

Ekpekus:

Pro Unitate spotted

Angelfrost:


You can find the soft copy online... Same thing happened to me. That's not a book to lose.

@Op... I read way too many novels starting from Primary school. Even now as a medical professional, I still read them in the hundreds every year.

The few that I have termed evergreen and timeless are:

1. The Concubine (Elechi Amadi)
2. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
3. Anthills of The Savannah (Chinua Achebe) (Almost all his books, he was the author of authors)
4. Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)
5. King of Torts (John Grisham) (I doubt there is a Grisham book I haven't devoured)
6. Mine Boy (Peter Abraham) (Every African should read this)
7. The Only Son (John Munonye)
8. When a Child is Motherless (Andrew Okogba) (Every serious Nigerian ought to read or have read this)
9. Weep Not Child (Ngugi Wa'Thiongo)
10. The Victims (Isidore Okpewho)
11. The Great Gatsby (F. Fitzgerald) (One of the greatest works of fiction in history)

Of course, I have since gone on to own a virtual library of over 2,000 novels and books!!! Still collecting, and would love to add more... Please, anyone should recommend current great Nigerian and African fiction writers on these contemporary times, as I seem to have more of foreign authored books.

exynos:
Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe

The passport of mallam ilia by Cyprian Ekwensi

An african night's entertainment by Cyprian Ekwensi

Drummer boy by Cyprian Ekwensi

Eze goes to school by Onuora Nzekwu

CalliDora1:


O really.. these two were my favorite too. The concubine was my eldest sisters novel. Used to steal it from her bag to read those days. It Should still be in major book shops in Lagos if you search very well.

I wish I can lay my hands on Animal farm again. Mehnn.. I really enjoyed that story.

If you're Lagos, you check the big bookshop at Marina lagos island. I believe it will be there.

precy111:
What is that novel you can never forget that you read in secondary school?

me; they are many of them like Woman in her Prime, Ozigolo, Women of Owu, Blind Search, Medicine for Money.

Jodha:



The concubine ...I lost that book and I can't find it in bookshops any more...
Animal farm is my all time favourite....I've read it more than 20 times...

BluntTheApostle:


You don't have any excuse.

You don't have to be a student of literature to know the difference between a novel, a play, and a poem.

Imagine, you even listed a poem as one of the novels you read.

It is shameful.

Mind you, I was also a science student.

Jodha:


I prefer hard copy sir... I'm very lazy when reading with soft copy...so I don't..

charlesucheh:
you are the biggest idiot of all time. you don't even know Mr and yet you're sounding like you know my unborn children. The OP would have taken it to an advanced literature section if he wanted experts to comment on it, but he brought it down to FP so even lay men's view can be heard. you acted like you didn't understand, but No! your busy bodied nature won't just let you..

wako!

precy111:
What is that novel you can never forget that you read in secondary school?

me; they are many of them like Woman in her Prime, Ozigolo, Women of Owu, Blind Search, Medicine for Money.