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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,540 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,641 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,101 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,173 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 339,347 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,648 ratings — published 1961
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,414 ratings — published 1952
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 191,216 ratings — published 2006
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 573,090 ratings — published 1899
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 121,062 ratings — published 1999
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,133 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,643 ratings — published 1950
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,437 ratings — published 2013
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,791 ratings — published 1988
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 179,893 ratings — published 2000
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,942 ratings — published 1993
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,120 ratings — published 1966
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,599 ratings — published 1990
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,412 ratings — published 1994
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,963 ratings — published 1980
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,142,770 ratings — published 1967
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 810,069 ratings — published 1998
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,449 ratings — published 1956
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,985 ratings — published 2003
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,290 ratings — published 1988
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 425,090 ratings — published 2016
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,513 ratings — published 1924
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 210,734 ratings — published 1999
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,820 ratings — published 2007
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,110 ratings — published 1981
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 288,605 ratings — published 2003
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 57,663 ratings — published 2005
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,840 ratings — published 2004
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 596 ratings — published 1989
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,593,583 ratings — published 2003
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,864 ratings — published 1986
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,425 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,223 ratings — published 2008
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,149 ratings — published 1979
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 533,906 ratings — published 2022
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,348 ratings — published 2014
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 164,190 ratings — published 1995
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,262 ratings — published 2001
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 141,922 ratings — published 1992
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,372 ratings — published 2003
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,794 ratings — published 2013
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,735 ratings — published 1961
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,193 ratings — published 1967
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 841 ratings — published 1989
On Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 93,417 ratings — published 2005
“far noh mattah wat dey say,
come wat may,
we are here to stay
inna Inglan,
inna disya time yah...”
― Inglan is a Bitch
come wat may,
we are here to stay
inna Inglan,
inna disya time yah...”
― Inglan is a Bitch
“Economic development has been central to the ideologies of post-colonial African states.”
― African Anarchism: The History of a Movement
― African Anarchism: The History of a Movement