Twenty-five books you probably should have read already

Jeff Somers is the author of Lifers, the Avery Cates series from Orbit Books, Chum from Tyrus Books, and the Ustari Cycle from Pocket/Gallery, including We Are Not Good People. At the B&N Reads blog he tagged twenty-five "books you must read, no matter who you are," including:Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

One of the first African novels to be widely studied and read in the English-speaking