Books written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Thing Around Your Neck

A collection of twelve stories includes the tale of a medical student in hiding with a poor Muslim woman, and a woman who discovers a devastating secret about her brother's death.
Half of a Yellow Sun

With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe.
Purple Hibiscus: A Novel

This is the haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes, by a young Nigerian writer.
Americanah: A novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun—the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race, belonging, the overseas ...
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners

Featured in this collection: Daphne Palasi Andreades • David Means • Sindya Bhanoo • Crystal Wilkinson • Alice Jolly • David Rabe • Karina Sainz Borgo (translator, Elizabeth Bryer) • Jamel Brinkley • Tessa Hadley • ...
We Should All be Feminists

Offers an updated definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist.
Purple Hibiscus: A Novel

Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.
Notes on Grief

Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.
Purple Hibiscus: A Novel

Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.
The Thing Around Your Neck

These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — the Orange Broadband Prize–winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun — are her most intimate works to date.
Americanah

'A delicious, important novel' The Times 'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent 'Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both' Guardian
One World Anthology: A global anthology of short stories

Hisasthma medicine ranout and none of the pharmacieshad the stuffto fill up his inhaler. Mhamhi and Dhedhi looked everywhere. But there was none anywhereso Mhamhi asked Auntie Sue fromnext doorto getthe medicine when shewent to South ...
美国佬

Ben shu jiang shu:tian zhen lan man de yi fei mai lu he ao bin zi zai la ge si de yi suo zhong xue xie hou bing xiang lian,Ta...
One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories

A collection of twenty-three short stories from around the world includes contributions by such authors as Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, India's Lucinda Nelson Dhavan, and Botswana's Lauri Kubuitsile.
We Should All Be Feminists

Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for ...
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners

Featured in this collection: Daphne Palasi Andreades • David Means • Sindya Bhanoo • Crystal Wilkinson • Alice Jolly • David Rabe • Karina Sainz Borgo (translator, Elizabeth Bryer) • Jamel Brinkley • Tessa Hadley • ...
Purple Hibiscus

This is a book about the promise of freedom; about the blurred lines between childhood and adulthood, between love and hatred, between the old gods and the new.
The Shivering

In this poignant, stirring short depicting the solitary lives that immigrants face in the United States, acclaimed author of Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie celebrates faith and the fragile ties that can ...
Purple Hibiscus

The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.