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Post Colonial Fiction Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,145 ratings — published 1958
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 326,029 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,068 ratings — published 1981
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,421 ratings — published 2003
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 413,300 ratings — published 2013
A Man of the People (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,582 ratings — published 1966
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 183,879 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 404,117 ratings — published 2016
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,794 ratings — published 1979
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,085 ratings — published 2008
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 175,206 ratings — published 2000
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.59 — 107,113 ratings — published 1966
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 160,142 ratings — published 1995
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,739,176 ratings — published 2007
The Glass Palace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 28,099 ratings — published 2000
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.46 — 35,770 ratings — published 2003
In the Castle of My Skin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,057 ratings — published 1953
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.43 — 559,227 ratings — published 1899
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 84,371 ratings — published 2007
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,389 ratings — published 1965
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,039 ratings — published 1988
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 709,973 ratings — published 1989
The Space Between Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 53,046 ratings — published 2005
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 71,863 ratings — published 1988
Death and the King's Horseman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,352 ratings — published 1975
Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 52 ratings — published 1962
Ti-Jean and His Brothers
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 611 ratings — published 1998
Gitanjali (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,866 ratings — published 1910
The Bone People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,038 ratings — published 1984
Trench Town Rock (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 86 ratings — published 1994
Cracking India (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,990 ratings — published 1988
Kanthapura (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.39 — 1,577 ratings — published 1938
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,334 ratings — published 2003
Store up the Anger (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.40 — 10 ratings — published 1980
Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 480 ratings — published 1998
To Every Birth Its Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 80 ratings — published 1981
Nós matamos o Cão Tinhoso! (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 870 ratings — published 1964
The Old Man and the Medal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 469 ratings — published 1956
Petals of Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,692 ratings — published 1977
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,848 ratings — published 1967
Houseboy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,382 ratings — published 1956
A Question of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,126 ratings — published 1973
When Rain Clouds Gather (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,720 ratings — published 1969
Anthills of the Savannah (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,580 ratings — published 1987
Your House Will Pay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,424 ratings — published 2019
The Sentence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 84,230 ratings — published 2021
The Yield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,145 ratings — published 2019
Bad Cree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 20,068 ratings — published 2023
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,370 ratings — published 1994
Kintu (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,538 ratings — published 2014
“She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage, shabby nineteenth-century binding, pages bearing vague stains, fingered, smoothed. She opened the book to the place she left it when the taxicab pulled up.
“My daughter, flee temptation.”
“Mother, I will,” Jane responded, as the moon turned to woman.
The fiction had tricked her. Drawn her in so that she became Jane.
Yes. The parallels were there. Was she not heroic Jane? Betrayed. Left to wander. Solitary. Motherless. Yes, and with no relations to speak of except an uncle across the water. She occupied her mind.
Comforted for a time, she came to. Then, with a sharpness, reprimanded herself. No, she told herself. No, she could not be Jane. Small and pale. English. No, she paused. No, my girl, try Bertha. Wild-maned Bertha. Clare thought of her father. Forever after her to train her hair. His visions of orderly pageboy. Coming home from work with something called Tame. She refused it; he called her Medusa. Do you intend to turn men to stone, daughter? She held to her curls, which turned kinks in the damp of London. Beloved racial characteristic. Her only sign, except for dark spaces here and there where melanin touched her. Yes, Bertha was closer to the mark. Captive. Ragôut. Mixture. Confused. Jamaican. Caliban. Carib. Cannibal. Cimarron. All Bertha. All Clare.”
― No Telephone to Heaven
“My daughter, flee temptation.”
“Mother, I will,” Jane responded, as the moon turned to woman.
The fiction had tricked her. Drawn her in so that she became Jane.
Yes. The parallels were there. Was she not heroic Jane? Betrayed. Left to wander. Solitary. Motherless. Yes, and with no relations to speak of except an uncle across the water. She occupied her mind.
Comforted for a time, she came to. Then, with a sharpness, reprimanded herself. No, she told herself. No, she could not be Jane. Small and pale. English. No, she paused. No, my girl, try Bertha. Wild-maned Bertha. Clare thought of her father. Forever after her to train her hair. His visions of orderly pageboy. Coming home from work with something called Tame. She refused it; he called her Medusa. Do you intend to turn men to stone, daughter? She held to her curls, which turned kinks in the damp of London. Beloved racial characteristic. Her only sign, except for dark spaces here and there where melanin touched her. Yes, Bertha was closer to the mark. Captive. Ragôut. Mixture. Confused. Jamaican. Caliban. Carib. Cannibal. Cimarron. All Bertha. All Clare.”
― No Telephone to Heaven
