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Post Colonial Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,182 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 109,435 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 332,553 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 134,636 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,616 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,275 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,502 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 566,507 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 801,985 ratings — published 1998
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 187,650 ratings — published 2006
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,652 ratings — published 1988
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 419,268 ratings — published 2013
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,895 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,439 ratings — published 1980
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,380 ratings — published 1966
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,309 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,367 ratings — published 1950
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,125,494 ratings — published 1967
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,536 ratings — published 1961
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 56,909 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 — 3,793 ratings — published 1939
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 177,486 ratings — published 2000
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 501,128 ratings — published 1987
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 86,768 ratings — published 1924
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 161,990 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,210 ratings — published 1990
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,682 ratings — published 1988
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 415,141 ratings — published 2016
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,979 ratings — published 1979
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 146,961 ratings — published 2003
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,224 ratings — published 1983
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,088 ratings — published 2013
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 208,445 ratings — published 1999
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,443 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,391 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,718 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 — 3,753 ratings — published 1969
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 280,992 ratings — published 2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,772,748 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 762,412 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,546,541 ratings — published 2003
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,048 ratings — published 1967
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 286,549 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 — 595 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,321 ratings — published 2006
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,210 ratings — published 1956
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,769,187 ratings — published 2001
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,881 ratings — published 1993
The Hungry Tide (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,324 ratings — published 2004
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,638 ratings — published 1996
“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
“There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?”
― Crossing the Mangrove
― Crossing the Mangrove
The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf:
post-colonial-lit, post-colonial-literature, postcolonial, postcolonial-lit, and postcolonial-literature
