List of works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Books

• Editor, The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners. New York: Anchor Books

Poetry

• "Decisions". London: Minerva Press

• "Sheer Beauty". Prime People
• "We dream". Poetry, pp. 3–9
• "Visiting Nigeria". Poetry
• "My Grandmother's Funeral". Allegheny Review, pp. 42–43

Short fiction

• "You in America". Zoetrope: All-Story
• "The Scarf". Wasafiri, pp. 26–30
• "The American Embassy". Prism International, pp. 22–29
• "Half of a Yellow Sun". Literary Potpourri; published in 2003 in Zoetrope: All-Story, pp. 10–17; published in 2004 in The Best American Nonrequired Reading edited by Dave Eggers, pp. 1–17; published in French as "Pâle était le soleil". Courrier International; published in Italian as "Mezzo sole giallo". Internazionale
• "My Mother, the Crazy African". In Posse Review: Multi-Ethnic Anthology; published in One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories by Chris Brazier, pp. 53–60
• "New Husband". The Iowa Review, pp. 53–66; published in The Thing around Your Neck, pp. 22–42
• "Women Here Drive Buses" in Proverbs for the People: Contemporary African-American Fiction edited by Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, pp. 1–7
• "Light Skin". Calyx, pp. 49–63
• "Transition to Glory". One Story; published in African Love Stories: An Anthology edited by Ama Ata Aidoo, pp. 34–49; published in All the Good Things around Us: An Anthology of African Short Stories edited by Ivor Agyeman-Duah
• "Lagos, Lagos" in Discovering Home: A selection of writings from the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing edited by Binyavanga Wainaina, pp. 76–86
• "The Thing around Your Neck". Prospect, pp. 64–68
• "Recaptured Spirits". Notre Dame Review, pp. 47–58
• "A Private Experience". Virginia Quarterly Review, pp. 170–179
• "You in America" ; published in This Is Not Chick Lit by Elizabeth Merrick, pp. 3–13; published in Ms., pp. 64–70; published in The Thing around Your Neck , pp. 115–127
• "The Scarf". The Observer, pp. 18; published in The Thing around Your Neck , pp. 43–56; published in An African Quilt: 24 Modern African Stories by Barbara H. Solomon and W. Reginald Rampone Jr., pp. 27–39
• "The Grief of Strangers". Granta, pp. 65–81
• "Ghosts". Zoetrope: All Story, pp. 38–43; published in The Thing around Your Neck , pp. 57–73
• "Do Butterflies Eat Ashes?". Fiction, pp. 3–17
• "The Master". Granta, pp. 17–41
• "Tomorrow is Too Far". Prospect, pp. 56–63; published in The Thing Around Your Neck, pp. 187–197
• "The Time Story". Per Contra
• "Jumping Monkey Hill". Granta, pp. 161–176; published in The Thing around Your Neck, pp. 95–114; published in The High Flier and Other Stories edited by Jairus Omuteche
• "Cell One". The New Yorker, pp. 72–77; published in Best African American Fiction: 2009 edited by Gerald Early and E. Lynn Harris, pp. 61–73; published in The Thing Around Your Neck , pp. 3–21
• "On Monday Last Week". Granta, pp. 31–48; published in The Thing around Your Neck , pp. 74–94
• "My American Jon" in Binyavanga Wainaina: Me, My Writing and African Writers by Binyavanga Wainaina; published in Conjunctions, pp. 231–240; published in 2009 in The Mechanics' Institute Review, pp. 27–37; published in African Sexualities: A Reader edited by Sylvia Tamale, pp. 288–294
• "A Tampered Destiny". Financial Times
• "Emeka" in Four Letter Word: New Love Letters edited by Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter
• "Hair". The Guardian; published in 2008 in Ms., pp. 66–70
• "The Headstrong Historian". The New Yorker, pp. 68–75; published in The PEN/O. Henry Prize stories 2010 edited by Laura Furman; published in The Thing Around Your Neck , pp. 198–218; published in Best African American fiction 2010 edited by Gerald Early and Nikki Giovanni, pp. 27–41; published in Who Knows Tomorrow edited by, Chika Okeke-Agulu and Britta Schmit; published in The Norton Anthology of World Literature edited by Martin Puchner
• "Chinasa". The Guardian; published in New Internationalist on 1 July 2009
• "Do" in Anonthology
• "Sola". The Sunday Times, pp. 60; published in Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• "Quality Street". Guernica; published in New Statesman from 5–18 April 2010, pp. 36–39
• "Ceiling". Granta, pp. 65–80
• "Birdsong". The New Yorker, pp. 96–103; published in 20 Under 40: Stories edited by Deborah Treisman, pp. 1–19; published in Literature: A Portable Anthology edited by Janet Gardner, pp. 434–445
• "The Arrangers of Marriage" in The Granta Book of the African Short Story edited by Helon Habila, pp. 1–17
• "New Husband", published in The Thing Around Your Neck, pp. 167–186
• "Checking Out". The New Yorker, pp. 66–73
• "Ofodile". The Guardian, pp. 46
• "The miraculous deliverance of Oga Jona". Scoop
• "The Shivering", published in The Thing Around Your Neck , pp. 142–166; published in Africa: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
• "Olikoye". Matter
• "Apollo". The New Yorker, pp. 64–69
• "The Arrangements". The New York Times
• "How Did You Feel About It?". Harper's Bazaar
• "Details". McSweeney's Quarterly, pp. 23–28
• "Janelle Asked to the Bedroom". The New York Times; published in Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria edited by Nduka Otiono and Diego Odoh Okenyodo
• "Chuka". The New Yorker

• "Heart is where the Home was". Topic Magazine
• "Chasing American". Farafina
• "On sex, we are just buffoons: my response". Vanguard
• "The Line of No Return". The New York Times, p. A21; published as "The line of no return at the embassy". International Herald Tribune, p. 6
• "Nsukka in the eyes of a novelist". The Guardian; published in the P.S. section of Harper Perennial edition of Purple Hibiscus, pp. 9-14
• "Blinded by God's business". The Guardian
• "Diary". New Statesman, p. 10
• "Blissful Sloth". Johns Hopkins Magazine
• "A Nigerian Book Tour in Australia". Farafina, pp. 3-5
• "Life During Wartime: Sierra Leone, 1997". The New Yorker, pp. 72-73
• "Buildings fall down, pensions aren't paid, politicians are murdered, riots are in the air... and yet I love Nigeria". The Guardian, p. 5
• "The little boy who talked of magic". Time
• "Truth and Lies". The Guardian, p. 22
• "My college roommate expected me to be a she-Tarzan". Jane, pp. 126-127
• "Our Africa Lenses". The Washington Post, p. A21; published as "Adopting Africans not the answer". Newsday, p. 51; published in a shorter version as "My Africa lens clearly sees charity in sharp relief". St. Petersburg Times, p. 1
• "In the Shadow of Biafra" in the P.S. section of the Harper Perennial edition of Half of a Yellow Sun, pp. 9-12
• "Shall I Live, Or Shall I Blog-Blah-Blah?". Hartford Courant
• "An der Klimafront: Schwarze Weihnachten". Neue Zürcher Zeitung
• "The exemplary chronicler of an African tragedy". The Guardian
• "The Writing Life". The Washington Post, p. 11
• "Kitchen Talk: Peppers". Brick, pp. 49-52
• "Real Food". The New Yorker, p. 92; published in Best African American Essays: 2009 edited by Debra Dickerson and Gerald Early, pp. 20-22
• "Operation". Granta, pp. 31-37; published as "To My One Love" in Utne Reader, pp. 84-86
• "An African Education in No Sweetness Here". NPR
• "Sex in the City". The Guardian, p. 3
• "Guest Editor's Note". Farafina, p. 3
• "Nigeria's immorality is about hypocrisy, not miniskirts". The Guardian, p. 32; published in The Hindu on 4 April 2008, p. 11; published in Leadership on 7 April 2008; published as "In Nigeria, miniskirts are a maximum issue". The Age
• "The Colour of an Awkward Conversation". The Washington Post, p. 7; published as "The color of an awkward conversation about race". The Dallas Morning News; published in Black in America: A Broadview Topics Reader edited by Jessica Edwards
• "As a child, I thought my father invincible. I also thought him remote". The Observer
• "African Authenticity and the Biafran Experience". Transition Magazine, pp. 42-53
• "Strangely Personal". PEN America, pp. 34-37; published in Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta edited by Michael Watts
• "Diary: The writer of Half of a Yellow Sun on the sour mood in Lagos, a reborn US and juicy plums". Times, p. 2; published as "Diary: the writer of Half a Yellow Sun on the joys of water for non-swimmers". Times
• "Diary". Financial Times, p. 2
• "My hero: Muhtar Bakare". The Guardian, p. 5
• "The Police, Our Friends". NEXT
• "Why do South Africans hate Nigerians?". The Guardian, p. 2
• "Father Chinedu". PEN America, pp. 91-93
• "Everywhere, moisture is greedily sucked up". The Guardian, p. 25; published as "The man who rediscovered Africa". Salon.com
• "What I see in the mirror". The Guardian Weekend, p. 43
• "Letter from Lagos". McSweeney's Quarterly, p. 1
• "Blood, oil and the banality of greed". NEXT
• "A new Nigerian-ness is infusing the nation". The Globe and Mail, p. 17
• "My favourite dress". The Guardian, p. 7
• "World Cup 2010: Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and South Africa - my boys". The Guardian, p. 2
• "Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee". The Guardian, p. 4; published as "Exposing America's social fault lines". Sunday Star-Times, p. 7
• "The Role of Literature in Modern Africa". New African, p. 96
• "A Street of Puzzles". The New York Times, p. 9; published as "Windows on the World". The Observer; published in Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views by Matteo Pericoli, pp. 16-18
• "Women of the Decade". Financial Times
• "A Nigerian revolution". The Guardian, p. 38
• "The Year's Biggest He Said, She Said". Newsweek, pp. 42-43; published as "DSK Vs. The Maid: Who Would the Jury Have Believed?". The Daily Beast
• "No More Superpower?". The New York Times
• "Why Are You Here?". Guernica
• "A Country's Frustration, Fueled Overnight". The New York Times, p. 23
• "To Instruct and Delight: A Case For Realist Literature". The Commonwealth Foundation
• "My Uncle Mai". Financial Times, p. 26
• "Things Left Unsaid: review of There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe. London Review of Books, pp. 32-33
• "Chinua Achebe at 82: We Remember Differently". Premium Times; published in Chinua Achebe: Tributes and Reflections edited by Nana Ayebia Clarke and James Currey, pp. 90-96; published as "Awo Versus Achebe - We Remember Differently". Vanguard
• "Facts are stranger than fiction". The Guardian, p. 15; published as "Truth is no stranger to fiction". Mail & Guardian
• "The baby who never made it to Atlanta". The New York Times, p. 9; published as "A flight diversion". The New York Times
• "We have lost a star". Premium Times
• "Why can't he just be like everyone else?". The Scoop; republished on 19 February 2014 in NewswireNGR and The Daily Times
• "Why can't a smart woman love fashion?". Elle
• "Hiding From Our Past". The New Yorker
• "The President I Want". Scoop
• "Nigeria's brutal past haunts the present". The Daily Telegraph
• "I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist". The Guardian, p. 2
• "Lights out in Nigeria". The New York Times, p. 4
• "Democracy, Deferred". The Atlantic
• "On The Oba Of Lagos". Olisa.tv
• "Raised Catholic". The Atlantic
• "Why Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Considers Her Sister a Firm Cushion at Her Back". Vanity Fair
• "Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions". Facebook
• "To the First Lady, With Love". T: The New York Times Style Magazine
• "Nigeria's Failed Promises". The New York Times, p. 14
• "What Hillary Clinton's Fans Love About Her". The Atlantic
• "Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About". The New Yorker
• "Rereading Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich". The New Yorker
• "Thank you for your patience". McSweeney's Quarterly
• "My Fashion Nationalism". Financial Times
• "Two Stories on Malaria". Evening Standard
• "The Carnage of the Cameroons". The New York Times, p. 10
• "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On Her Most Cherished Childhood Memories". British Vogue
• "Is There Anything Else I Can Help You with Today?". The Paris Review
• "Still Becoming: At Home in Lagos with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Esquire; published in Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity, and Culture They Know, pp. 61-71
• "Shut Up and Write". New Statesman, pp. 38-43
• "Lean on me". Facebook
• "A prizewinning novelist, a bad concussion and loss of memory during the coronavirus pandemic". The Washington Post
• "Notes on Grief". The New Yorker
• "The address President Buhari could have given". The Nigerian Guardian
• "Nigeria is murdering its citizens". The New York Times, p. 2
• "Legacy of Hope: review of A Promised Land by Barack Obama". The New York Times, p. 1
• "Dreaming As a Single Family: A Reflection on the Holy Father's Encyclicals". L'Osservatore Romano, p. 8
• "Why "Literary Lion Wole Soyinka Is My Inspiration". Times
• "What hat das Recht, den anderen auszustellen?". Die Zeit, p. 57
• "I Have Never Been So Proud of My Fellow Nigerians". The New York Times
• "My Country Is in a Fragile Place". The New York Times; published on 9 March 2023 by Time Africa
• "Nigeria's Hollow Democracy". The Atlantic
• "How I Became Black in America". The Atlantic
• "Preface to Pope Francis", published in Hands off Africa! by Pope Francis
• "The Story of My First Love". ''Vogue''

Lectures and speeches

• The Danger of a Single Story
• To Instruct and Delight: A Case for Realist Literature
• We Should All Be Feminists
• Eastern Connecticut State University Commencement Address
• Wellesley College Commencement Address
• Williams College Commencement Address

Adaptations

• "Flawless" by Beyoncé includes excerpts from the talk "We Should All Be Feminists"