not proud of it, but brave enough to admit it: i don’t dog-ear, i don’t use sticky tabs, and i’m definitely not out here highlighting. when i read something profound and life changing, i just go, "damn...." and keep it moving
Here is a comprehensive list of novels that shaped my outlook on life & the tip of my pencil:
1. The Moon and Sixpence - W. S. Maugham
2. Song of Lawino - Okot p'Bitek
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
4. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
5. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
6. A Man of the People - Chinua Achebe
7. An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen
8. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
9. The Stranger - Albert Camus
10. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
12. Peter Pan - J. M. Barry
13. Hekaya Za Abunuwasi
14. Mine Boy - Peter Abrahams
15. Half a Day and Other Stories
16. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Hyde - R. L. Stevenson.
17. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
18. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - F. Douglass.
19. Stuart Little - E. B. White
20. Nancy Drew Series - Carolyne Keene
21. The Berenstein Bears - Stan & Jan Berenstain
22. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
23. The Moses Series - Barbara Kimenye
24. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
25. Veronica Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
26. The Trial - Franz Kafka
27. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
28. Best Laid Plans - Sidney Sheldon
29. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
30. Dark Star Safari - Paul Theroux
My current read is "Race & Economics" by Professor Walter Williams. It's a very enlightening book on how strong institutions can bypass feckless pluralism. You will enjoy the read...
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