Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” Makes It Into The list Of 12 ‘Greatest Books Ever Written’

Encyclopedia Britannica has compiled a list of the 12 ‘Greatest books ever written’ and “Things Fall Apart”, the first novel written by late Legendary Nigerian literary icon, Chinua Achebe, made the list.

Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”, is the most widely read book in modern African literature.

John Pecoraro, who compiled the  list, noted that“Things Fall Apart” now exists in 57 translations across the world, and is one of the greatest novels ever written on the website of Encyclopedia Britannica in recent times.

Other novels that made the list include:
“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“One Hundred Years of Solitu” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
“A Passage to India” by E.M. Forster
“Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison
“Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Beloved” by Toni Morrison
“Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf
“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte and
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker.