204 books
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Colonialism Books
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Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.43 — 569,794 ratings — published 1899
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 267 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.75 — 421,848 ratings — published 1958
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,143 ratings — published 1961
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 203 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,799 ratings — published 1998
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,507 ratings — published 1950
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.13 — 520,586 ratings — published 2022
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,874 ratings — published 1978
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,974 ratings — published 1971
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,160 ratings — published 1924
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,174 ratings — published 1952
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.11 — 805,669 ratings — published 1998
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.49 — 38,144 ratings — published 2020
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.31 — 29,117 ratings — published 1971
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.47 — 419,870 ratings — published 2016
The Colonizer and the Colonized (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,057 ratings — published 1957
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,917 ratings — published 1993
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,939 ratings — published 2016
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,535 ratings — published 1966
A Dying Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,695 ratings — published 1959
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.87 — 33,443 ratings — published 1934
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 58 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,361 ratings — published 2014
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.20 — 19,520 ratings — published 2019
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.46 — 24,411 ratings — published 2019
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.37 — 690 ratings — published 1965
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 104,944 ratings — published 1970
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,573 ratings — published 1901
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,922 ratings — published 2006
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,915 ratings — published 1988
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.61 — 19,563 ratings — published 2020
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,063 ratings — published 1981
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 189,380 ratings — published 2006
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,824 ratings — published 1938
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,195 ratings — published 2000
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 30,593 ratings — published 2008
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,338 ratings — published 2021
"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,832 ratings — published 1992
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,705 ratings — published 1980
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,545 ratings — published 1988
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 74,132 ratings — published 1955
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,327 ratings — published 2023
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.91 — 49,090 ratings — published 1937
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,547 ratings — published 2007
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 667,548 ratings — published 2017
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.49 — 44,885 ratings — published 2024
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,735 ratings — published 1966
The Word for World Is Forest (ebook)
by (shelved 33 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.07 — 47,417 ratings — published 1972
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,480,878 ratings — published 1942
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.57 — 68,037 ratings — published 2025
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,304 ratings — published 1948
The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,769 ratings — published 1991
“Marco had examined every inch of Guayanés Beach, where coconut palms that once grew along the shore in majestic rows lay crisscrossed in the sand like scattered pencils.”
― A Delicate Marriage
― A Delicate Marriage
“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”
― Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
― Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance












