Post Colonial Books

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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 422,139 ratings — published 1958
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Wide Sargasso Sea Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,667 ratings — published 1966
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The God of Small Things The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 336,057 ratings — published 1997
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Midnight’s Children Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 135,519 ratings — published 1981
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The Wretched of the Earth The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,210 ratings — published 1961
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Disgrace Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 120,343 ratings — published 1999
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Orientalism Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,906 ratings — published 1978
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Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 570,153 ratings — published 1899
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The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 806,136 ratings — published 1998
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Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 189,564 ratings — published 2006
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Nervous Conditions Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,942 ratings — published 1988
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Americanah Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 422,041 ratings — published 2013
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Black Skin, White Masks Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,193 ratings — published 1952
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Waiting for the Barbarians Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,731 ratings — published 1980
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Season of Migration to the North Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,779 ratings — published 1966
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A Small Place A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,581 ratings — published 1988
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Discourse on Colonialism Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,526 ratings — published 1950
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One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,134,552 ratings — published 1967
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The Inheritance of Loss The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 57,335 ratings — published 2005
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A House for Mr Biswas A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,645 ratings — published 1961
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Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series) Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,833 ratings — published 1939
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White Teeth White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 178,731 ratings — published 2000
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Beloved Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 506,578 ratings — published 1987
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A Passage to India A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,201 ratings — published 1924
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A Fine Balance A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,125 ratings — published 1995
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Lucy Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,432 ratings — published 1990
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Purple Hibiscus Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 148,633 ratings — published 2003
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The Satanic Verses The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,032 ratings — published 1988
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Homegoing Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 420,406 ratings — published 2016
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A Bend in the River A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,068 ratings — published 1979
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Shame Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,276 ratings — published 1983
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The Lowland The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,349 ratings — published 2013
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Interpreter of Maladies Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,566 ratings — published 1999
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Small Island Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,662 ratings — published 2004
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Breath, Eyes, Memory Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,480 ratings — published 1994
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Foe Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,808 ratings — published 1986
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A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre 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 — 3,807 ratings — published 1969
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,023 ratings — published 2007
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A Thousand Splendid Suns A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,789,849 ratings — published 2007
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The Color Purple The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 766,760 ratings — published 1982
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The Kite Runner The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,571,707 ratings — published 2003
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A Grain of Wheat A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,123 ratings — published 1967
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The Namesake The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 287,686 ratings — published 2003
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The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents) The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.76 — 596 ratings — published 1989
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Mister Pip Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,405 ratings — published 2006
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The Lonely Londoners The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,342 ratings — published 1956
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Life of Pi Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,776,672 ratings — published 2001
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Culture and Imperialism Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,923 ratings — published 1993
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The Hungry Tide The Hungry Tide (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,455 ratings — published 2004
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The Autobiography of My Mother The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,721 ratings — published 1996
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Edward W. Said
“I mean to ask whether there is any way of avoiding the hostility expressed by the division say, of men into "us" (Westerners) and "they" (Orientals). For such divisions are generalities whose use historically and actually has been to press the importance of the distinction between some men and some other men, usually towards not especially admirable ends.”
Edward W. Said, Orientalism

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
“Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

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