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Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 576,200 ratings — published 1899
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.44 — 942,754 ratings — published 1850
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 47,219 ratings — published 2006
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,831 ratings — published 1924
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.61 — 477,155 ratings — published 1953
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.03 — 162,801 ratings — published 1958
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,783 ratings — published 1958
Caleb's Crossing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 73,635 ratings — published 2011
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 135,989 ratings — published 2000
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 384,852 ratings — published 2001
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,040 ratings — published 1934
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.20 — 73,405 ratings — published 1998
Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
by (shelved 10 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 275,175 ratings — published 1996
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,969 ratings — published 2004
Petals on the River (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,079 ratings — published 1997
The Frozen River (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.37 — 704,479 ratings — published 2023
The Indigo Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.21 — 55,072 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 429,470 ratings — published 2016
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,924 ratings — published 2010
American Colonies: The Settling of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,859 ratings — published 2001
Surrender (MacKinnon’s Rangers, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,788 ratings — published 2006
The Wordy Shipmates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,286 ratings — published 2008
The Witches: Salem, 1692 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.26 — 25,252 ratings — published 2015
The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 231,923 ratings — published 2001
The Wolves of Andover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,596 ratings — published 2010
Untamed (MacKinnon's Rangers, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,087 ratings — published 2008
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,444 ratings — published 2000
Sweet Release (Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,651 ratings — published 2003
The Heretic's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 38,231 ratings — published 2008
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 257,624 ratings — published 2005
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,055 ratings — published 2013
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,492 ratings — published 1978
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.22 — 207,339 ratings — published 2004
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,665 ratings — published 1952
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 104,324 ratings — published 1826
The Flame and the Flower (Birmingham, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 21,463 ratings — published 1972
Meet Felicity: An American Girl (American Girl: Felicity, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,387 ratings — published 1991
Ride the Fire (Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,831 ratings — published 2005
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.73 — 59,616 ratings — published 2009
An Uncommon Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,846 ratings — published 2020
The Colonel's Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,929 ratings — published 2011
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.91 — 49,692 ratings — published 1937
The Lacemaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,899 ratings — published 2018
America's First Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.23 — 72,016 ratings — published 2016
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 (Dear America)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,429 ratings — published 1996
Phenomena: The Lost and Forgotten Children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 425 ratings — published 2013
Shanna (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.17 — 13,632 ratings — published 1977
Courting Morrow Little (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,343 ratings — published 2010
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,605 ratings — published 1955
“What a charming place!” Bess remarked, as they reached a small, white, two-story colonial house surrounded by a white picket fence with a gate. Flowers, especially old-fashioned American varieties, grew in profusion in the front yard.”
― The Clue in the Old Stagecoach
― The Clue in the Old Stagecoach
“It’s alright,” they say, “Of course, there’s beauty there,” but they hold back; you know they have seen or heard of the ugliness and the insularity there. They have experienced the farawayness of it. I have learned to keep silent, not to berate them for their disregard of the Brits’ role in the colonial tragedy of my country.”
― Barracuda
― Barracuda
