Book Lists Liked by <a href="/user/show/2775204-alva">Alva</a> (12 Lists)

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King

Best Native American/First Nations Fiction

593 books — 366 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

1984 by George Orwell

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Non-American books that every American should read

696 books — 497 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Best Indian Fiction Books

937 books — 2,464 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Africa (fiction and nonfiction)

1,893 books — 1,775 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Best Postcolonial Literature (fiction and nonfiction)

186 books — 141 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Best Literary Mysteries

2,693 books — 5,100 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best Books of the 19th Century

1,739 books — 6,915 voters

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire (fiction)

317 books — 204 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

Books About Colonialism

691 books — 242 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

1984 by George Orwell

Best British and Irish Literature

1,183 books — 1,118 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Best French Literature

829 books — 1,577 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

254 books — 250 voters

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