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Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 576,215 ratings — published 1899
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.44 — 942,769 ratings — published 1850
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 47,219 ratings — published 2006
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,832 ratings — published 1924
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.61 — 477,160 ratings — published 1953
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.03 — 162,805 ratings — published 1958
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,800 ratings — published 1958
Caleb's Crossing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 73,637 ratings — published 2011
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 135,991 ratings — published 2000
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 384,868 ratings — published 2001
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,040 ratings — published 1934
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.20 — 73,411 ratings — published 1998
Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
by (shelved 10 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 275,182 ratings — published 1996
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,969 ratings — published 2004
Petals on the River (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,079 ratings — published 1997
The Frozen River (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.37 — 704,593 ratings — published 2023
The Indigo Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.21 — 55,073 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 429,488 ratings — published 2016
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,933 ratings — published 2010
American Colonies: The Settling of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,859 ratings — published 2001
Surrender (MacKinnon’s Rangers, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,788 ratings — published 2006
The Wordy Shipmates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,287 ratings — published 2008
The Witches: Salem, 1692 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.26 — 25,253 ratings — published 2015
The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 231,927 ratings — published 2001
The Wolves of Andover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,596 ratings — published 2010
Untamed (MacKinnon's Rangers, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,087 ratings — published 2008
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,444 ratings — published 2000
Sweet Release (Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,651 ratings — published 2003
The Heretic's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 38,232 ratings — published 2008
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 257,629 ratings — published 2005
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,055 ratings — published 2013
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,494 ratings — published 1978
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.22 — 207,357 ratings — published 2004
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,665 ratings — published 1952
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 104,325 ratings — published 1826
The Flame and the Flower (Birmingham, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 21,464 ratings — published 1972
Meet Felicity: An American Girl (American Girl: Felicity, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,387 ratings — published 1991
Ride the Fire (Blakewell/Kenleigh Family Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,831 ratings — published 2005
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.73 — 59,616 ratings — published 2009
An Uncommon Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,846 ratings — published 2020
The Colonel's Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,929 ratings — published 2011
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.91 — 49,692 ratings — published 1937
The Lacemaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,899 ratings — published 2018
America's First Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.23 — 72,018 ratings — published 2016
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 (Dear America)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,429 ratings — published 1996
Phenomena: The Lost and Forgotten Children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 425 ratings — published 2013
Shanna (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.17 — 13,632 ratings — published 1977
Courting Morrow Little (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,343 ratings — published 2010
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,610 ratings — published 1955
“One of the tragic ironies of the second half of the 20th century is that when colonies in the developing world freed themselves from European rule, they often slid back into warfare, this time intensified by modern weaponry, organized militias, and the freedom of young men to defy tribal elders.77 As we shall see in the next chapter, this development is a countercurrent to the historical decline of violence, but it is also a demonstration of the role of Leviathans in propelling the decline.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“Imperials rise upon indigenous fall,
declaring themselves as light-bringer.
Native tears form kohinoor on the crown,
Blood is but cologne to the colonizer.”
― Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
declaring themselves as light-bringer.
Native tears form kohinoor on the crown,
Blood is but cologne to the colonizer.”
― Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
