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Post Colonial Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,963 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 107,395 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 326,877 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,243 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,644 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,636 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,818 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 560,191 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 795,419 ratings — published 1998
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 184,385 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,109 ratings — published 2013
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,130 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,305 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,963 ratings — published 1980
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,708 ratings — published 1966
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,648 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,065 ratings — published 1950
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,147 ratings — published 1967
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,367 ratings — published 1961
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 56,087 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 — 3,656 ratings — published 1939
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 175,498 ratings — published 2000
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 86,053 ratings — published 1924
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 160,410 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,842 ratings — published 1990
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,578 ratings — published 1987
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,584 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,876 ratings — published 2003
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 71,981 ratings — published 1988
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 96,637 ratings — published 2013
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,822 ratings — published 1979
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,154 ratings — published 1983
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 206,799 ratings — published 1999
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,003 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,204 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,564 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 — 3,645 ratings — published 1969
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 279,112 ratings — published 2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,743,817 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,446 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,768 ratings — published 2003
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 284,580 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 — 590 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,120 ratings — published 2006
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,855 ratings — published 1956
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,757,283 ratings — published 2001
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,887 ratings — published 1967
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,822 ratings — published 1993
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,437 ratings — published 1996
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,314 ratings — published 1990
“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
“Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.”
― Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
― Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf:
post-colonial-lit, post-colonial-literature, postcolonial, postcolonial-lit, and postcolonial-literature
