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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 — 407,465 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 105,079 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 320,853 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 131,787 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,425 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,598 ratings — published 1999
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 551,768 ratings — published 1899
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,050 ratings — published 1978
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 786,747 ratings — published 1998
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 180,024 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 407,196 ratings — published 2013
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,529 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,657 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,253 ratings — published 1980
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,894 ratings — published 1988
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 32,938 ratings — published 1966
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,664 ratings — published 1950
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,086,485 ratings — published 1967
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,136 ratings — published 1961
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 54,975 ratings — published 2005
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 172,879 ratings — published 2000
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.67 — 85,127 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 — 3,525 ratings — published 1939
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 158,440 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,362 ratings — published 1990
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 394,533 ratings — published 2016
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 483,160 ratings — published 1987
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 96,119 ratings — published 2013
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 140,090 ratings — published 2003
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,046 ratings — published 1983
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 204,659 ratings — published 1999
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 71,106 ratings — published 1988
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,553 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,058 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,381 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 — 3,505 ratings — published 1969
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,611 ratings — published 1979
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 276,832 ratings — published 2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,707,635 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 744,585 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,443,303 ratings — published 2003
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 281,931 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 — 585 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 23,936 ratings — published 2006
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,417 ratings — published 1956
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,739,702 ratings — published 2001
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,674 ratings — published 1967
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,721 ratings — published 1993
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,221 ratings — published 1996
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,271 ratings — published 1990
“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
“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
