Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
by Katlin Sarantou, Jeff Bane · first published 2019
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…decades, and helps you learn to appreciate minimalist art to boot. - Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions - Burton G. Malkiel - A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah. Saw myself in several of these characters - Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek --- Also good: - Jack London - John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs. Illustrates all of the interesting…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗Sure, my Top 5 books by non-whitemen I read in 2014 are: FICTION 1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah 2. Terezia Mora - Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent (not translated yet I think) 3. Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower 4. Jose Saramago - Blindness 5. James Baldwin - If Beale Street…
on “The Best Books I Read in 2014” ↗There's a great line from the book Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie where the narrator of the book remarks that (and I'm paraphrasing here), there's loads of ways in the world to be poor, but apparently there's only one way to be rich - indulge in the same 'luxuries'.
on “Things I Never Knew About Las Vegas Until I Ran a High-Roller Suite” ↗