My Library

                     

MY LIBRARY 

Ever since I read William Ellery Channing's words on books in Ben Carson's Think Big, I have developed voracious palate for books. Channing rightly posits that "it is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levelers. They give all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. " This assertion has had considerable influence on my literary enthusiasm, and I will forever crave the orgasmic fulfilment I get from reading books. 

Although, I currently have in soft copies more than 8,000 books on my laptop, these are the titles of books that you will likely find in hard copies in my library. 

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self Reliance

 2. Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power

 3. R. Brown and A. Gilman's The Pronouns of Power and Solidarity 

 4. George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant

 5. George Orwell's Politics and the English Language

 6. Spencer Johnson's Who moves my Cheese

 7. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

 8. Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

 9. Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People

10. Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood

11. Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's wives

12.  J. P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt

13.  J. P. Clark's Song of a Goat

14. Ahmed Yerima's The Wives

15. Meriama Ba's So long a Letter

16. Yann Martel's Life of Pi

17. Sefi Atta's Everything Good will Come

18. Abimbola Adelakun's Under the Brown Rusted Roofs

19. Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born

20. Nawal El Saadawi's Women at Point Zero

21. Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince

22. John Maxwell Coetzee's Disgrace

23. Wole Soyinka's The Man Died

24. Wole Soyinka's Ake: The year of childhood

25. Wole Soyinka's The Death of the King's Horseman

26. Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

27. Vincent Egbuson's The Poet is a Man

28. Chukwuemeka Ike's The Potter's Wheel

129. Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo's The Trial of Dedan Kimathi

30. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between

31. Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom

32. George Orwell's 1984

33. Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector

34. George Eliot's Silas Manner

35. George Samuel Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon

36. Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich

37. Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad

38. Bernard Shaw's The Arms and the Man

39. William Golding's The Lord of the Flies

40. George Orwell's Animal Farm

41. Asare Konadu's Women in her Prime

42. Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu

43. Femi Osofisan's Morontodun

44. Femi Osofisan's Midnight Hotel

45. Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus

46. Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun

47. Ngozi Adichie's Americana

48. Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease

49. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep not Child

50. Ben Okri’s The Famished Road

51. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat

52. Amos Tutuola's The Palm Wine Drinkard

53. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood

54. Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino

55. Femi Fatoba's They Said I Abuse the Government

56. Elechi Amadi's The Concubine

57. Wole Soyinka's The Interpreter

58. Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal

59. Kofi Awoonor's This Earth, my Brother

60. Flora Nwapa's Efuru

61. Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizons

62. Dambudzo Marechera's The House of Hunger

63.  Alex La Guma's In the Fog of the Seasons' End

64.  Alex La Guma's A Walk in the Night and Other Stories

65. Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy

66. Dennis Brutus' A Simple Lust

67. Tawfiq al-Hakim's Fate of a Cockroach and Other Plays

68.  T. M. Aluko's Kinsman and Foreman

69. Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure

70. Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

71. Thomas Hardy'sTess of the D'Urbervilles

72. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Height

73. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

74. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

75. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

76. Joyce Cary's Mister John

77. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

78. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel

79. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress

80. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

81. Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in  Wonderland

82. Bram Stoker's Dracula

83. James Joyce's Ulysses

84. James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

85. Richard Wright's Native Son

86. Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter

87.  F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

88. Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

89.  E. M. Forster's A Passage to India

90.Peter May's The Blackhouse

91. Niyi Osundare's Random Blues

92. Niyi Osundare's The Eyes of the Earth

93. Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

94. Toyin Falola and Matthew Heaton’s A History of Nigeria

95. Elizabeth Isichei’s A History of Nigeria

96. Max Siollun’s Nigeria’s Soldiers of Fortune: The Abacha and Obasanjo Years

97. Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

98.Fox Butterfield's In My Father’s House

99. Toyin Falola’s A Mouth Sweeter than Salt

100. Zulu Sofola's Wedlock of the Gods

101. Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter

102. Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen

103. Olayinka Egbokhare's Dazzling Mirage

104. Camara Laye's African Child

105. Bertolt Brecht's Galileo

106. Ola Rotimi's The gods are not to blame

107. Sophocle's Oedipus Rex

108. Terrence's Brothers

109. Aristophanes' The Frogs

110. Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels

111. Jordan Belfort's The Way of the Wolf

112. Rick Joyner's Leadership: The Power of Creative Life

113. Sun Tzu's Art of War

114. Alice Walker's The Color Purple

115. Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

116. Thomas Sowell's "Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective

117. Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia

118. Ayisa Asori's Love does not Win Elections 

119. Godwin Alabi's The Tragedy of Victory 

120. J.P. Clark's Three Plays 

121. Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa

122. Sembene Ousmane's Black Girl 

123. Amos Tutuola's The Complete Gentleman 

124. Peter Abraham's Mine Boy 

125. Arthur Miller's The Crucible 

126. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter 

127. Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities 

128. Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist 

129. Sir Thomas More's Utopia  

130. Buchi Emecheta's Bride Price 

131. Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji

132. Samuel Richardson's Pamela

133. Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto 

134. Mathew Lewis' The Monk 

135. James Herbert's Jonah and the Haunted 

136. Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange 

137. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid Tale 

138. John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea 

139. Aristophanes' Lysistrata 

140. Jonathan Swift's A Treatise on Good Manners 

141. William Hazzlit's On Prejudice 

142. George Orwell's Why I Write 

143. William Hazzlit's On Personal Character 

144. E.B. Omobowale's Seasons of Rage 

145. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal 

146. Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkard 

147. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest 

148. Keith Ferrazzi's Leading Without Authority

149.  Keith Ferrazzi's Never Eat Alone

150. Alexandra Carter's Ask for More

151. Jacqueline Novogratz's Manifesto for a Moral Revolution 

152. David De Cremer's Leadership by Algorithm 

153. Rutger Bregman's Humankind

154. Stefanie Johnson's Inclusify

155. Maria Konnikova's The Biggest Bluff

156. Casper Ter Kuile's The Power of Ritual 

157. Olivier Sibony's You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake! 

158.  Tom Young's The Making of a Leader

159. Marisa Porges' What Girls Need

160. Sam Harris' Making Sense

161. Kari Nadeau and Sloan Barnett's The End of Food Allergy 

162. Gary Hamel and Michele Zaninivs Humanocracy 

163. Mauro Guillen's 2030 AD 

164. James Hardley Chase's Books 

1. No Orchids for Miss Blandish - 1939

2. The Dead Stay Dumb - 1941

3. The Dolls Bad News - 1941

4. Miss Callghan Comes to Grief - 1941

5. Get a Load of This - 1942

6. Miss Shumway Waves a Wand - 1944

7. Eve - 1945

8. I'll Get You for This - 1946

9. Last Page - 1947

10. The Flesh of the Orchid - 1948

11. You Never Know With Women - 1949

12. You're Lonely When You're Dead - 1949

13. Figure It Out for Yourself - 1950

14. Strictly for Cash - 1951

15. The Fast Buck - 1952

16. Double Shuffle - 1952

17. I'll Bury My Dead - 1953

18. This Way for a Shroud - 1953

19. Tiger By The Tail - 1954

20. Safer Dead - 1954

21. You've Got It Coming - 1955

22. There's Always a Price Tag - 1956

23. The Guilty Are Afraid - 1957

24. Not Safe to Be Free - 1958

25. Shock Treatment - 1959

26. The World In My Pocket - 1959

27. What's Better Than Money - 1960

28. Come Easy - Go Easy - 1960

29. A Lotus for Miss Quon - 1961

30. Just Another Sucker - 1961

31. I Would Rather Stay Poor - 1962

32. A Coffin from Hong Kong - 1962

33. One Bright Summer Morning - 1963

34. Tell It to The Birds - 1963

35. The Soft Centre - 1964

36. This is for Real - 1965

37. The Way the Cookie Crumbles - 1965

38. You Have Yourself A Deal - 1966

39. Cade - 1966

40. Have This One on Me - 1967

41. Well Now - My Pretty - 1967

42. An Ear to the Ground - 1968

43. Believed Violet - 1968

44. The Whiff of Money - 1969

45. The Vulture Is a Patient Bird - 1969

46. Like a Hole in the Head - 1970

47. There's a Hippie on the Highway - 1970

48. Want to Stay Alive? - 1971

49. An Ace Up My Sleeve - 1971

50. Just a Matter of Time - 1972

51. You're Dead Without Money - 1972

52. Have a Change of Scene - 1973

53. Knock, Knock! Who's There?

54. So What Happens To Me? - 1974

55. Goldfish Have No Hiding Place - 1974

56. Believe This - You'll Believe Anything - 1975

57. The Joker In The Pack - 1975

58. Do Me a Favour, Drop Dead - 1976

59. My Laugh Comes Last - 1977

60. I Hold the Four Aces - 1977

61. Consider Yourself Dead - 1978

62. You Must Be Kidding - 1979

63. A Can of Worms - 1979

64. You Can Say That Again - 1980

65. Try This One for Size - 1980

66. Hand Me a Fig Leaf - 1981

67. Have a Nice Night - 1982

68. We'll Share a Double Funeral - 1982

69. Not My Thing - 1983

70. Hit Them Where It Hurts - 1984

71. He Won't Need It Now - 1941

72. Lady, Here's Your Wreath - 1940

73. Just The Way It Is - 1944

74. Blonde's Requiem - 1945

75. Make The Corpse Walk - 1947

76. No Business of Mine - 1947

77. Trusted Like the Fox - 1948

78. The Paw in the Bottle - 1949

79. Mallory - 1950

80. But A Short Time To Live - 1951

81. Why Pick on Me? - 1951

82. In A Vain Shadow - 1951

84. The Wary Transgressor - 1952

85. The Things Men Do - 1953

86. The Sucker Punch - 1954

87. Mission To Venice - 1954

88. Mission To Sienna - 1955

89. You Find Him, I'll Fix Him - 1956

90. Hit And Run - 1958

91. Slipstream: A Royal Airforce Anthology - 1946

92. More Deadly Than The Male - 1947

165. Joyce Carol Oates' Zombie 

166. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

167. James J. Oluleye's Architecturing A Destiny: An Autobiography

168. Stephen King's The Stand 

169. Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven

170. Richard Preston's The Hot Zone 

171. Sonia Shah's Pandemic

172. David Quammen's Spillover

173. Pius Adesanmi's Naija no Dey Carry Last 

174.Bola Ige's People, Politics and Politicians of Nigeria 

175. Debo Bashorun's Honour for Sale

176. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow 

177. Wande Abimbola's Ifa will Mend our Broken World 

178. Chinua Achebe's There was a Country 

179. S.O Babayemi's Egungun Among the Yoruba 

180. Michael Peel's A Swamp of Dollars 

181. Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon 

182. Sidney Poitier's The Measure of a Man

183. Eric Wilson's October Baby

184. Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness 

186. Ify Omeni's Wind of Change 

187. Bukola Ayinde's Naked and not Ashamed 

188. Ebi Akpeti's The Perfect Church 

189. Tayo Emanuel's Echoes from the Past 

190. Ayobami Adebayo Stay with me 

191. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat

192. Ken Follett's World without End

192. Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth 

193. Colleen McCullough's The Horn Birds 

194. Emma Ugolee's A 100 Random Light Bulbs 

195. Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana

196. Elizabeth of Toro: The Odyssey of an African Princess: An Autobiography

197. Kenneth Kaunda's Zambia shall be Free 

198. Bilquish Sheikh's I Dared to Call him Father 

199. Lee Kuan Yew's From Third World to First 

200. Zig Ziglar's Something to Smile about 

PS. I will be updating this list whenever I come across more great books.