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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 — 422,131 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,662 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 336,048 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 135,516 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,206 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 120,340 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,905 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 570,141 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 806,124 ratings — published 1998
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 189,553 ratings — published 2006
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,942 ratings — published 1988
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 422,038 ratings — published 2013
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,191 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,731 ratings — published 1980
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,777 ratings — published 1966
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,579 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,526 ratings — published 1950
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,134,524 ratings — published 1967
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 57,333 ratings — published 2005
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,643 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 — 3,832 ratings — published 1939
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 178,727 ratings — published 2000
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 506,572 ratings — published 1987
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,199 ratings — published 1924
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,121 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,432 ratings — published 1990
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 148,630 ratings — published 2003
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,030 ratings — published 1988
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 420,389 ratings — published 2016
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,067 ratings — published 1979
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,276 ratings — published 1983
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,348 ratings — published 2013
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,564 ratings — published 1999
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,662 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,480 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,807 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 — 282,022 ratings — published 2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,789,797 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 766,747 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,571,635 ratings — published 2003
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,122 ratings — published 1967
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 287,684 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 — 24,404 ratings — published 2006
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,342 ratings — published 1956
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,776,650 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 — 20,455 ratings — published 2004
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,721 ratings — published 1996
“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
“—I don't believe in that shit, Oscar. That's our parents' shit.
—It's ours too, he said.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
—It's ours too, he said.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf:
post-colonial-lit, post-colonial-literature, postcolonial, postcolonial-lit, and postcolonial-literature
