Heinemann African Writers Series
Heinemann African Writers Series names 71 books; ReadingRate holds 13 of them, listed here. The most approachable of them is A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe (difficulty 37/100, about 3 hours); the hardest is The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka (84/100).
- A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1967) — difficulty 59/100, about 6.5 hours
- A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe (1966) — difficulty 37/100, about 3 hours
- Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe (1964) — difficulty 73/100, about 10 hours
- Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1980) — difficulty 54/100, about 7.8 hours
- From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah (1970) — difficulty 46/100, about 3.1 hours
- No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe (1960) — difficulty 46/100, about 3.2 hours
- Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1977) — difficulty 62/100, about 14 hours
- Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (1966) — difficulty 65/100, about 4.8 hours
- The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah (1968) — difficulty 44/100, about 3.8 hours
- The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing (1950) — difficulty 71/100, about 8.6 hours
- The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka (1965) — difficulty 84/100, about 14 hours
- The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1965) — difficulty 59/100, about 4.2 hours
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958) — difficulty 45/100, about 3.3 hours
Questions
- How many books are on Heinemann African Writers Series?
- 71. ReadingRate holds 13 of them, each with how hard it is to read and how long it takes.
- Which book on Heinemann African Writers Series is the easiest to read?
- A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe, difficulty 37/100, about 3 hours. The hardest is The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka, at 84/100.
- How long would it take to read every book on Heinemann African Writers Series?
- About 86 hours for the 13 books ReadingRate measures, at 250 words a minute adjusted for each book's difficulty: 43 days at two hours a day.
Other lists: Penguin Classics Collection, Penguin Modern Classics, NYRB Classics, Everyman's Library, Library of America, Biblioteca Ayacucho, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Oxford World's Classics, UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. All lists.