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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 3.74 — 410,563 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 106,273 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 323,522 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 132,489 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,997 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,601 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,430 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 555,837 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 790,729 ratings — published 1998
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 182,068 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 410,294 ratings — published 2013
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,826 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,945 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,638 ratings — published 1980
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,363 ratings — published 1966
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,276 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,833 ratings — published 1950
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,096,474 ratings — published 1967
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,254 ratings — published 1961
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 55,516 ratings — published 2005
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 174,161 ratings — published 2000
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.67 — 85,606 ratings — published 1924
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,590 ratings — published 1939
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 159,327 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,621 ratings — published 1990
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 399,620 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 141,838 ratings — published 2003
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 487,722 ratings — published 1987
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 71,522 ratings — published 1988
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 96,366 ratings — published 2013
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,105 ratings — published 1983
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 205,710 ratings — published 1999
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,758 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,135 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,470 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 3.64 — 3,581 ratings — published 1969
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,712 ratings — published 1979
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 277,952 ratings — published 2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,722,767 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 749,011 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,468,793 ratings — published 2003
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 283,054 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 — 590 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,017 ratings — published 2006
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,671 ratings — published 1956
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,746,561 ratings — published 2001
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,772 ratings — published 1967
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,774 ratings — published 1993
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,329 ratings — published 1996
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,297 ratings — published 1990
“Ah, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela, she always by you. Why you don’t sit down, sahib? It ain’t dirty. Is just how it does look.’
Ganesh didn’t sit down. ‘Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.”
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
Ganesh didn’t sit down. ‘Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.”
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
“Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.”
― Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
― Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf:
post-colonial-lit, post-colonial-literature, postcolonial, postcolonial-lit, and postcolonial-literature
