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Postcolonial Lit Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,519 ratings — published 1958
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 339,307 ratings — published 1997
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,633 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,094 ratings — published 1981
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,959 ratings — published 1980
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.43 — 573,068 ratings — published 1899
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 191,201 ratings — published 2006
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,790 ratings — published 1988
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,130 ratings — published 1988
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,117 ratings — published 1966
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,288 ratings — published 1988
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 121,051 ratings — published 1999
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,593,411 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,806,133 ratings — published 2007
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,417 ratings — published 2013
Death and the King's Horseman (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,608 ratings — published 1975
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,598 ratings — published 1990
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 533,809 ratings — published 2022
Against the Loveless World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.50 — 33,794 ratings — published 2019
Petals of Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,811 ratings — published 1977
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,447 ratings — published 1956
Life & Times of Michael K (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 21,854 ratings — published 1983
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,638 ratings — published 1961
On Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 93,412 ratings — published 2005
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 179,882 ratings — published 2000
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 30,839 ratings — published 2008
Voyage in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,383 ratings — published 1934
The Farming of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,110 ratings — published 1998
The Bone People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,538 ratings — published 1984
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,734 ratings — published 1961
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,171 ratings — published 1978
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,968 ratings — published 2003
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.47 — 57,661 ratings — published 2005
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,717 ratings — published 1979
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,864 ratings — published 1986
Devil on the Cross (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,236 ratings — published 1980
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 141,912 ratings — published 1992
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 810,057 ratings — published 1998
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 64,237 ratings — published 2022
Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,119 ratings — published 2001
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 681,602 ratings — published 2017
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 249,470 ratings — published 1981
Our Sister Killjoy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,803 ratings — published 1977
The Bridge of Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,215 ratings — published 1972
A Dying Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,722 ratings — published 1959
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,421 ratings — published 2017
Crick Crack, Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.62 — 868 ratings — published 1970
Abeng (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,040 ratings — published 1984
Train to Pakistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 33,042 ratings — published 1956
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as postcolonial-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,407 ratings — published 1952