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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,514 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,630 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 339,298 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,094 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,637 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 121,051 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,171 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 573,065 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 810,052 ratings — published 1998
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,130 ratings — published 1988
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 191,198 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,415 ratings — published 2013
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,406 ratings — published 1952
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,789 ratings — published 1988
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,959 ratings — published 1980
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,117 ratings — published 1966
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,642 ratings — published 1950
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,142,691 ratings — published 1967
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 57,659 ratings — published 2005
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,734 ratings — published 1961
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,856 ratings — published 1939
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 179,881 ratings — published 2000
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,512 ratings — published 1924
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 164,171 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,598 ratings — published 1990
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,968 ratings — published 2003
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 510,925 ratings — published 1987
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,287 ratings — published 1988
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 425,047 ratings — published 2016
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,148 ratings — published 1979
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,316 ratings — published 1983
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 210,724 ratings — published 1999
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,566 ratings — published 2013
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,836 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,543 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,864 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 — 3,822 ratings — published 1969
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,815 ratings — published 2007
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,447 ratings — published 1956
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,806,115 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,253 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,593,392 ratings — published 2003
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 288,595 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 3.75 — 596 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,462 ratings — published 2006
Clear Light of Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,338 ratings — published 1980
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,782,924 ratings — published 2001
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,193 ratings — published 1967
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,942 ratings — published 1993
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,869 ratings — published 1991
“I ain't know what it is to be a girl Mistress Grandsol. I pass straight from child to woman without even a pause for girl between. Girl is a privilege I never know.”
― Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel
― Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel
“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
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post-colonial-lit, post-colonial-literature, postcolonial, postcolonial-lit, and postcolonial-literature