Dream Count

A Novel

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sandra Okuboyejo, A'rese Emokpae, Janina Edwards

• NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

A searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires

Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin Omelogor is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.

Dream Count is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s searing, unforgettable story of these four women—a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself.

The authenticity of the languages and accents.

I liked the relationships between the women and the in-depth discussions between them. Also the allusions to today’s world.

Such a beautiful book

I love this author- her writing is so beautiful it is almost poetic but also sometimes raw and direct. I did not want to reach the end of this story, I was so immersed in the lives of the characters. This book made me think about happiness, race, and class in new and deeper ways and had me looking back over my relationships and experiences with a different lens. I can’t wait for this author’s next book.

very enjoyable deeply rich story

I found out about this book from an interview the author did, it was a awesome choice to look it up and listen to it. I enjoyed listening to the story and was fully invested in all the characters.

The best

She has written masterpieces before but...THIIIIIS!! This is a PHD piece. Her as narrator for Chia! Was phenomenal. I didn't think I would but I grew to love and admire Omelogo! I will miss the characters because for almost 20 hrs they became my friends and gladly became invested in their lives. Chimaamandaaaa!! Girrrl!! You did it again.

The art of literary creativity at its height

Adiche has written a novel rich with women we get to know who seem to know how I am/we are made on the inside. It is remarkable to be a well-read American woman in psychology, feminism, and literature and think, "I have never read anyone who describes so well the true range of thoughts and feelings I live with." There are four Nigerian women in the novel, none of them alike, none of them conventional nor stereotypical, all of them like friends I know intimately but not entirely. They live through romances, the pandemic, careers, a trauma, and the stark, dark experience of the injustice of the American criminal justice system. Adiche gives me a refreshingly honest take on American culture 2025.