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Post Colonial Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.74 — 410,455 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 106,249 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 323,438 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 132,462 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,978 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,543 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,417 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 555,669 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 790,570 ratings — published 1998
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 181,975 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 410,173 ratings — published 2013
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,816 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,929 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,628 ratings — published 1980
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,348 ratings — published 1966
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,261 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,822 ratings — published 1950
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,096,033 ratings — published 1967
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,251 ratings — published 1961
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 55,493 ratings — published 2005
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 174,115 ratings — published 2000
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.67 — 85,580 ratings — published 1924
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,586 ratings — published 1939
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 159,292 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,615 ratings — published 1990
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 399,435 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 141,766 ratings — published 2003
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 487,538 ratings — published 1987
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 71,502 ratings — published 1988
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 96,355 ratings — published 2013
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,101 ratings — published 1983
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 205,656 ratings — published 1999
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,748 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,132 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,468 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 3.64 — 3,579 ratings — published 1969
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,709 ratings — published 1979
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 277,914 ratings — published 2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,722,167 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 748,852 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,467,759 ratings — published 2003
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 283,012 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 3.75 — 590 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,012 ratings — published 2006
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,668 ratings — published 1956
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,746,255 ratings — published 2001
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,770 ratings — published 1967
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,774 ratings — published 1993
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,325 ratings — published 1996
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,296 ratings — published 1990
“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.”
― Orientalism
― Orientalism
“It was not long after that Ganesh saw a big new notice in the shop, painted on cardboard.
‘Is Leela self who write that,’ Ramlogan said. ‘I didn’t ask she to write it, mind you. She just sit down quiet quiet one morning after tea and write it off.’
It read:
NOTICE
NOTICE, IS. HEREBY; PROVIDED: THAT, SEATS!
ARE, PROVIDED. FOR; FEMALE: SHOP, ASSISTANTS!
Ganesh said, ‘Leela know a lot of punctuation marks.’
That is it, sahib. All day the girl just sitting down and talking about these puncturation marks. She is like that, sahib.”
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
‘Is Leela self who write that,’ Ramlogan said. ‘I didn’t ask she to write it, mind you. She just sit down quiet quiet one morning after tea and write it off.’
It read:
NOTICE
NOTICE, IS. HEREBY; PROVIDED: THAT, SEATS!
ARE, PROVIDED. FOR; FEMALE: SHOP, ASSISTANTS!
Ganesh said, ‘Leela know a lot of punctuation marks.’
That is it, sahib. All day the girl just sitting down and talking about these puncturation marks. She is like that, sahib.”
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
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post-colonial-lit, post-colonial-literature, postcolonial, postcolonial-lit, and postcolonial-literature
