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Post Colonial Fiction Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 423,764 ratings — published 1958
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 338,269 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 135,921 ratings — published 1981
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,555 ratings — published 2003
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 423,624 ratings — published 2013
A Man of the People (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,731 ratings — published 1966
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 190,665 ratings — published 2006
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 179,529 ratings — published 2000
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,353 ratings — published 1966
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,837 ratings — published 1995
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,800,913 ratings — published 2007
The Glass Palace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,623 ratings — published 2000
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,332 ratings — published 2003
In the Castle of My Skin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,106 ratings — published 1953
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,594 ratings — published 1965
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 423,613 ratings — published 2016
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,079 ratings — published 1988
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,127 ratings — published 1979
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,513 ratings — published 2008
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 717,070 ratings — published 1989
The Space Between Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 53,823 ratings — published 2005
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,212 ratings — published 1988
Acqua sporca (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.53 — 553 ratings — published
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.52 — 57,416 ratings — published 2006
The Death of Artemio Cruz (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,183 ratings — published 1962
The Autumn of the Patriarch (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,451 ratings — published 1975
In the Penal Colony (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,891 ratings — published 1918
Death and the King's Horseman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,597 ratings — published 1975
Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 53 ratings — published 1962
Ti-Jean and His Brothers
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 617 ratings — published 1998
Gitanjali (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,145 ratings — published 1910
The Bone People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,510 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 — 6,103 ratings — published 1988
Kanthapura (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.38 — 1,608 ratings — published 1938
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,373 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 3.85 — 490 ratings — published 1998
To Every Birth Its Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 82 ratings — published 1981
Nós matamos o Cão Tinhoso! (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 918 ratings — published 1964
The Old Man and the Medal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.60 — 485 ratings — published 1956
Petals of Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,809 ratings — published 1977
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,171 ratings — published 1967
Houseboy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,448 ratings — published 1956
A Question of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,154 ratings — published 1973
When Rain Clouds Gather (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,758 ratings — published 1969
Anthills of the Savannah (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,677 ratings — published 1987
Your House Will Pay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,760 ratings — published 2019
The Sentence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 88,035 ratings — published 2021
The Yield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as post-colonial-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,516 ratings — published 2019
“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