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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,882 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,645 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 342,626 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,740 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,052 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 121,924 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,501 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 576,330 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 814,207 ratings — published 1998
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,382 ratings — published 1988
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 193,057 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 426,967 ratings — published 2013
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,668 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,235 ratings — published 1980
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,494 ratings — published 1966
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,049 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,784 ratings — published
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,153,664 ratings — published 1967
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,824 ratings — published 1961
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 58,003 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 — 3,909 ratings — published 1939
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 181,045 ratings — published 2000
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,839 ratings — published 1924
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 165,316 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,760 ratings — published 1990
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 151,451 ratings — published 2003
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,453 ratings — published 1987
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,657 ratings — published 1988
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 429,662 ratings — published 2016
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,222 ratings — published 1979
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,359 ratings — published 1983
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 211,757 ratings — published 1999
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,796 ratings — published 2013
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,045 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,639 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,929 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 — 3,867 ratings — published 1969
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,666 ratings — published 2007
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,582 ratings — published 1956
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,822,618 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,957 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,615,887 ratings — published
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 289,579 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 — 599 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,523 ratings — published 2006
Clear Light of Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,375 ratings — published 1980
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,789,222 ratings — published 2001
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,269 ratings — published 1967
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,972 ratings — published 1993
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,957 ratings — published 1991
“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
“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
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post-colonial-lit, post-colonial-literature, postcolonial, postcolonial-lit, and postcolonial-literature