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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 429,475 ratings — published 1958
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 345,524 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 137,339 ratings — published 1981
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,683 ratings — published 1966
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,861 ratings — published 1966
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.43 — 579,446 ratings — published 1899
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,320 ratings — published 1988
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,162,201 ratings — published 1967
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 152,817 ratings — published 2003
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.47 — 58,295 ratings — published 2005
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.68 — 88,161 ratings — published 1924
Cracking India (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,198 ratings — published 1988
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,719 ratings — published 1961
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,652 ratings — published 1948
Fruit of the Lemon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,966 ratings — published 1999
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 290,483 ratings — published 2003
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,922 ratings — published 1952
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,488 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 122,760 ratings — published 1999
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 817,996 ratings — published 1998
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,488 ratings — published 1980
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,652 ratings — published 1988
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,989 ratings — published 1996
In a Free State (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.50 — 5,619 ratings — published 1971
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,577 ratings — published 2006
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,999 ratings — published 1991
Miguel Street (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,508 ratings — published 1959
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.49 — 193,565 ratings — published 2013
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,667 ratings — published 2016
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,811 ratings — published 1956
Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.43 — 23,921 ratings — published 1980
The Break (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 23,264 ratings — published 2016
God's Bits of Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,246 ratings — published 1960
Wenjack (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,273 ratings — published 2016
Indian Horse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 36,568 ratings — published 2012
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 243,711 ratings — published 2003
The Book of Negroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 93,551 ratings — published 2007
Three Day Road (Bird Family Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 26,548 ratings — published 2005
The Palm-Wine Drinkard & My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,502 ratings — published 1954
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 429,108 ratings — published 2013
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 284,417 ratings — published 2007
A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,951 ratings — published 1969
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 289,849 ratings — published 2007
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.73 — 86,917 ratings — published 2007
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.53 — 59,645 ratings — published 2006
Houseboy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,488 ratings — published 1956
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,353 ratings — published 1967
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,727 ratings — published 1965
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,280 ratings — published 2004
In the Heart of the Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as post-colonial-lit)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,869 ratings — published 1977