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Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.43 — 575,864 ratings — published 1899
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 273 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,534 ratings — published 1958
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,997 ratings — published 1961
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 209 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.20 — 73,328 ratings — published 1998
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.12 — 544,237 ratings — published 2022
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,728 ratings — published 1950
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,458 ratings — published 1978
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,280 ratings — published 1971
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,636 ratings — published 1952
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,800 ratings — published 1924
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.12 — 813,630 ratings — published 1998
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.49 — 39,531 ratings — published 2020
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,824 ratings — published 1971
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.47 — 429,064 ratings — published 2016
The Colonizer and the Colonized (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,081 ratings — published 1957
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,966 ratings — published 1993
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.17 — 13,076 ratings — published 2016
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,496 ratings — published 1966
A Dying Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,739 ratings — published 1959
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.20 — 20,089 ratings — published 2019
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,017 ratings — published 1934
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 60 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,857 ratings — published 2014
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.45 — 26,638 ratings — published 2019
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.37 — 710 ratings — published 1965
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.61 — 20,894 ratings — published 2020
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 106,312 ratings — published 1970
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,139 ratings — published 2006
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,876 ratings — published 1901
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,239 ratings — published 2000
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,341 ratings — published 1988
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,149 ratings — published 1981
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,998 ratings — published 1938
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 192,822 ratings — published 2006
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 31,002 ratings — published 2008
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,194 ratings — published 1980
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,005 ratings — published 1988
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,559 ratings — published 2021
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 693,439 ratings — published 2017
"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,910 ratings — published 1992
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,568 ratings — published 2007
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,523 ratings — published 1955
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,443 ratings — published 1966
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.91 — 49,671 ratings — published 1937
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.35 — 19,264 ratings — published 2023
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.49 — 45,971 ratings — published 2024
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.55 — 79,017 ratings — published 2025
The Word for World Is Forest (ebook)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.08 — 49,575 ratings — published 1972
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,378 ratings — published 2005
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,163 ratings — published 1983
The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,787 ratings — published 1991
“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”
― Burmese Days
― Burmese Days
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
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