Americanah vs Beloved: Which Should You Read?

Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 1969 ★★★★☆ 4.3 768 pages · ≈ 14 h 13 m · Moderate

“Princeton, in the summer, smelled of nothing, and although Ifemelu liked the tranquil greenness of the many trees, the clean streets and stately homes, the delicately overpriced shops, and the quiet, abiding air of earned grace, it was this, the lack of a smell, that most appealed to her, perhaps because the other American cities she knew well had all smelled distinctly.”

Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman,…

Beloved Toni Morrison · 1987 ★★★★☆ 4.0 362 pages · ≈ 6 h 42 m · Moderate

Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the…