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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 427,161 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,746 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 342,945 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,806 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,117 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 122,007 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,528 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 576,689 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 814,640 ratings — published 1998
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,414 ratings — published 1988
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 193,205 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 427,188 ratings — published 2013
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,689 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,266 ratings — published 1980
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,537 ratings — published 1966
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,089 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,801 ratings — published
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,154,680 ratings — published 1967
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,839 ratings — published 1961
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 58,039 ratings — published 2005
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,912 ratings — published 1939
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 181,183 ratings — published 2000
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,872 ratings — published 1924
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 165,441 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,781 ratings — published 1990
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 151,609 ratings — published 2003
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,940 ratings — published 1987
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,706 ratings — published 1988
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 430,190 ratings — published 2016
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,227 ratings — published 1979
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,361 ratings — published 1983
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 211,891 ratings — published 1999
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,829 ratings — published 2013
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,068 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,649 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,938 ratings — published 1986
A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,877 ratings — published 1969
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,749 ratings — published 2007
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,605 ratings — published 1956
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,824,196 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 774,338 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,617,942 ratings — published 2003
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 289,687 ratings — published 2003
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.76 — 599 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,531 ratings — published 2006
Clear Light of Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,379 ratings — published 1980
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,789,787 ratings — published 2001
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,276 ratings — published 1967
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,975 ratings — published 1993
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,964 ratings — published 1991
“There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?”
― Crossing the Mangrove
― Crossing the Mangrove
“Ah, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela, she always by you. Why you don’t sit down, sahib? It ain’t dirty. Is just how it does look.’
Ganesh didn’t sit down. ‘Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.”
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
Ganesh didn’t sit down. ‘Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.”
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
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post-colonial-lit, post-colonial-literature, postcolonial, postcolonial-lit, and postcolonial-literature