If you’ve never thought there was a word for not wanting to make small talk, for always wanting to skip the party, and just be yourself and be by yourself most of the time, then congratulations, you’re most likely in the right place, looking for books for introverts. I’ve always gravitated toward activities that didn’t…
Black Days by Jackson Ellis is about Daniel Fassett, who reaches his breaking point after crashing his car into a river on Christmas Eve. He nearly drowns, and falls into a coma for four months, just before he was supposed to retire. Because of this, he loses a big part of his pension. Feeling depressed…
“The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives” by Lola Shoneyin is a sadly beautiful tale that exposes the complexities of a polygamous household. When Bolanle, a young university graduate, decides to settle, she settles, not with the conventional husband as her parents and loved ones would have wished, but with the patriarch of the Alao…
“Half of a Yellow Sun” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a book that defies summaries. It is best appreciated through firsthand reading, and whether you’re diving into it for the first time or revisiting it for the twenty-fourth, each turn of the page has something new to discover. This novel is poignant and powerful, unfolding…
In a brutal fashion similar to Khaled Hosseini‘s, Ayobami Adebayo‘s A Spell of Good Things turns out to be a compendium of emotions detailing the travails of a family under an attack by poverty propelled by the government’s retrenchment of the family’s head, Baba Eniola from his work as a history teacher. Another family, the…