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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 429,475 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,683 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 345,524 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 137,339 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,488 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 122,760 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,782 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 579,445 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 817,996 ratings — published 1998
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,652 ratings — published 1988
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,577 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 429,108 ratings — published 2013
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,922 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,488 ratings — published 1980
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,861 ratings — published 1966
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,320 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,918 ratings — published
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,162,201 ratings — published 1967
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,904 ratings — published 1961
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 58,295 ratings — published 2005
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,968 ratings — published 1939
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 182,228 ratings — published 2000
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 88,161 ratings — published 1924
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 166,404 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,949 ratings — published 1990
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 152,817 ratings — published 2003
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 520,282 ratings — published 1987
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,981 ratings — published 1988
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,667 ratings — published 2016
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,289 ratings — published 1979
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,410 ratings — published 1983
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 212,561 ratings — published 1999
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,981 ratings — published 2013
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,280 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,750 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,991 ratings — published 1986
A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,951 ratings — published 1969
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 284,417 ratings — published 2007
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,811 ratings — published 1956
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,837,059 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 777,395 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,633,876 ratings — published 2003
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 290,483 ratings — published 2003
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.76 — 598 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,586 ratings — published 2006
Clear Light of Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,410 ratings — published 1980
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,793,979 ratings — published 2001
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,353 ratings — published 1967
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,992 ratings — published 1993
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,999 ratings — published 1991
“I say, ‘Man, you best behave youself this time, cause we ain’t never getting this mattress out from in here.’ … Berry say, ‘Don’t you worry about that. Cause I’s a married man now, I got to behave. My name done write.’ He say, ‘Why I going in some other bed when I got this big foam bed to lie in?’ I say, ‘It ain’t the bed it’s who does hot the sheets.’ He say, ‘Well best bring them sheets let we hot them up right now.”
― Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel
― Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel
“I mean to ask whether there is any way of avoiding the hostility expressed by the division say, of men into "us" (Westerners) and "they" (Orientals). For such divisions are generalities whose use historically and actually has been to press the importance of the distinction between some men and some other men, usually towards not especially admirable ends.”
― Orientalism
― Orientalism
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post-colonial-lit, post-colonial-literature, postcolonial, postcolonial-lit, and postcolonial-literature