What to Read After The Thing Around Your Neck
Readers who loved The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Thing Around Your Neck is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Thing Around Your Neck
Nervous Conditions
Purple Hibiscus
Half of a Yellow Sun
We Need New Names
Ghana must go
Americanah
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Swing Time
The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives
Unaccustomed Earth
NW
This Is How You Lose Her
The fishermen
On Beauty
Homegoing
One day I will write about this place
I do not come to you by chance
On Black Sisters Street
The Education of a British-Protected Child
Changes
Ake
Measuring Time
Everything good will come
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born