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Postcolonial Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 421,856 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,536 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 135,423 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,874 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 335,682 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,145 ratings — published 1961
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,174 ratings — published 1952
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 189,383 ratings — published 2006
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 569,802 ratings — published 1899
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 120,236 ratings — published 1999
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,509 ratings — published 1950
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,916 ratings — published 1988
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,761 ratings — published 2013
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,546 ratings — published 1988
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 178,604 ratings — published 2000
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,917 ratings — published 1993
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,735 ratings — published 1966
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,404 ratings — published 1994
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,415 ratings — published 1990
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,705 ratings — published 1980
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,133,653 ratings — published 1967
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 805,674 ratings — published 1998
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,329 ratings — published 1956
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 148,465 ratings — published 2003
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 419,883 ratings — published 2016
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,064 ratings — published 1981
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,995 ratings — published 1988
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 209,463 ratings — published 1999
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 281,937 ratings — published 2007
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 287,586 ratings — published 2003
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 57,305 ratings — published 2005
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,639 ratings — published 2004
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,164 ratings — published 1924
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.76 — 596 ratings — published 1989
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,569,054 ratings — published 2003
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,793 ratings — published 1986
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,393 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 205,482 ratings — published 2008
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,062 ratings — published 1979
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 520,621 ratings — published 2022
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,035 ratings — published 2014
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,005 ratings — published 1995
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,256 ratings — published 2001
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 141,080 ratings — published 1992
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,210 ratings — published 2003
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,715 ratings — published 2013
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,114 ratings — published 1967
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 838 ratings — published 1989
On Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 92,892 ratings — published 2005
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 505,969 ratings — published 1987
“Economic development has been central to the ideologies of post-colonial African states.”
― African Anarchism: The History of a Movement
― African Anarchism: The History of a Movement
“We were strolling along the waterfront, his favourite walk, going nowhere in particular, the postcolonial condition.”
― Admiring Silence
― Admiring Silence
