Americanah vs The View from Castle Rock: 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,…

The View from Castle Rock Alice Munro · 2006 ★★★★☆ 3.9 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

"In stories that are more personal than any she's written before, Alice Munro pieces her family's history into gloriously imagined fiction. Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory, the town and…