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Post Colonial Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 422,209 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,710 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 336,138 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 135,541 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,221 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 120,368 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,912 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 570,251 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 806,256 ratings — published 1998
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 189,610 ratings — published 2006
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,947 ratings — published 1988
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 422,111 ratings — published 2013
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,204 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,736 ratings — published 1980
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,789 ratings — published 1966
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,587 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,528 ratings — published 1950
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,134,779 ratings — published 1967
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 57,342 ratings — published 2005
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,646 ratings — published 1961
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,834 ratings — published 1939
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 178,773 ratings — published 2000
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 506,713 ratings — published 1987
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,208 ratings — published 1924
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,155 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,437 ratings — published 1990
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 148,665 ratings — published 2003
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,040 ratings — published 1988
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 420,528 ratings — published 2016
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,070 ratings — published 1979
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,277 ratings — published 1983
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,351 ratings — published 2013
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,604 ratings — published 1999
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,672 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,483 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,809 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 — 3,807 ratings — published 1969
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,046 ratings — published 2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,790,259 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 766,853 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,572,327 ratings — published 2003
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,124 ratings — published 1967
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 287,707 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 — 596 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,409 ratings — published 2006
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,346 ratings — published 1956
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,776,861 ratings — published 2001
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,923 ratings — published 1993
The Hungry Tide (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,459 ratings — published 2004
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,726 ratings — published 1996
“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
“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
