Colonialism Books

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Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.43 — 569,794 ratings — published 1899
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 267 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.75 — 421,848 ratings — published 1958
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The Wretched of the Earth The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,143 ratings — published 1961
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 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
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Discourse on Colonialism Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,507 ratings — published 1950
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Babel Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.13 — 520,586 ratings — published 2022
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Orientalism Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,874 ratings — published 1978
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,974 ratings — published 1971
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A Passage to India A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,160 ratings — published 1924
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Black Skin, White Masks Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,174 ratings — published 1952
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The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.11 — 805,669 ratings — published 1998
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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 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
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent 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
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Homegoing Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.47 — 419,870 ratings — published 2016
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The Colonizer and the Colonized The Colonizer and the Colonized (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,057 ratings — published 1957
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Culture and Imperialism Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,917 ratings — published 1993
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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India 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
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Wide Sargasso Sea Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,535 ratings — published 1966
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A Dying Colonialism A Dying Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,695 ratings — published 1959
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Burmese Days Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.87 — 33,443 ratings — published 1934
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 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
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire 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
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States 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
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Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.37 — 690 ratings — published 1965
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West 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
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Kim Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,573 ratings — published 1901
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,922 ratings — published 2006
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Nervous Conditions Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,915 ratings — published 1988
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World 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
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature 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
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Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 189,380 ratings — published 2006
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution 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
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World 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
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Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1) Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 30,593 ratings — published 2008
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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,338 ratings — published 2021
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"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide "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
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Waiting for the Barbarians Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,705 ratings — published 1980
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A Small Place A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,545 ratings — published 1988
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The Quiet American The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 74,132 ratings — published 1955
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives 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
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Out of Africa Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.91 — 49,090 ratings — published 1937
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World 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
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Pachinko Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 667,548 ratings — published 2017
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The Message The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.49 — 44,885 ratings — published 2024
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Season of Migration to the North Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,735 ratings — published 1966
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The Word for World Is Forest The Word for World Is Forest (ebook)
by (shelved 33 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.07 — 47,417 ratings — published 1972
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The Stranger The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,480,878 ratings — published 1942
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 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
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The Heart of the Matter The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,304 ratings — published 1948
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The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 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
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Margarita Barresi
“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.”
Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

Barack Obama
“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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