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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 — 416,805 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 108,464 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 329,742 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,876 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,151 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,548 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,170 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 563,575 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 798,775 ratings — published 1998
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 186,067 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 416,949 ratings — published 2013
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,427 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,629 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,215 ratings — published 1980
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,066 ratings — published 1966
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.06 — 19,034 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,217 ratings — published 1950
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,118,038 ratings — published 1967
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,464 ratings — published 1961
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 56,549 ratings — published
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,743 ratings — published 1939
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 176,532 ratings — published 2000
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.67 — 86,463 ratings — published 1924
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 161,172 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,051 ratings — published 1990
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 497,163 ratings — published 1987
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 410,835 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 145,521 ratings — published 2003
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,325 ratings — published 1988
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 96,849 ratings — published 2013
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,906 ratings — published 1979
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,186 ratings — published 1983
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 207,622 ratings — published 1999
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,249 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,293 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,655 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 — 3,714 ratings — published 1969
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 280,122 ratings — published 2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,759,248 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 758,868 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,527,227 ratings — published 2003
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 285,653 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 — 594 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 24,222 ratings — published 2006
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,044 ratings — published 1956
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,763,347 ratings — published 2001
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,969 ratings — published 1967
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,863 ratings — published 1993
The Hungry Tide (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,222 ratings — published 2004
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,550 ratings — published 1996
“There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?”
― Crossing the Mangrove
― Crossing the Mangrove
“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
