See here for methodology.
| Title | Author | Goodreads raters | LibraryThing owners |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 373,665 | 20,683 |
| Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 372,646 | 7,733 |
| Chris Cleave | 242,690 | 8,434 | |
| We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 294,105 | 3,988 |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 159,809 | 6,915 |
| My Sister, the Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite | 295,960 | 3,405 |
| Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 120,916 | 4,538 |
| The Girl with the Louding Voice | Abi Daré | 150,418 | 1,544 |
This is a much more satisfactory list than the one for Pakistan last week, though it’s notable that four of the top eight books are by the same author. I haven’t gone back and checked, but I’m pretty sure that more than 50% of Americanah is set in Nigeria; I have not read any of the other three by Adichie, but from online summaries it’s clear that all three are entirely set in the country, as are the two lower down the table. I think this is also the most feminine list I’ve had so far.
I’m disqualifying Little Bee (which I read under the UK title The Other Hand) because as far as I remember a majority of the story is set in England rather than Nigeria. Again, I haven’t gone back and checked. Very lazy of me.
Anyway, at the top, far ahead on LibraryThing and by a whisker on Goodreads, is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I don’t think it’s very good on gender, but it’s definitely a classic for critiquing colonialism, and it’s also nice to see a Nobel Prize winer take the top spot.
Next up: Brazil.
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