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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,545 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,644 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,100 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,174 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 339,358 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,649 ratings — published 1961
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,414 ratings — published 1952
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 191,223 ratings — published 2006
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 573,100 ratings — published 1899
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 121,061 ratings — published 1999
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,133 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,643 ratings — published 1950
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,442 ratings — published 2013
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,791 ratings — published 1988
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 179,893 ratings — published 2000
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,942 ratings — published 1993
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,121 ratings — published 1966
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,599 ratings — published 1990
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,412 ratings — published 1994
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,965 ratings — published 1980
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,142,786 ratings — published 1967
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 810,074 ratings — published 1998
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,449 ratings — published 1956
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,988 ratings — published 2003
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,291 ratings — published 1988
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 425,104 ratings — published 2016
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,514 ratings — published 1924
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 210,734 ratings — published 1999
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,820 ratings — published 2007
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,110 ratings — published 1981
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 288,612 ratings — published 2003
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 57,665 ratings — published 2005
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,840 ratings — published 2004
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 596 ratings — published 1989
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,593,658 ratings — published 2003
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,865 ratings — published 1986
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,425 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,226 ratings — published 2008
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,149 ratings — published 1979
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 533,930 ratings — published 2022
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,349 ratings — published 2014
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 164,190 ratings — published 1995
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,262 ratings — published 2001
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 141,923 ratings — published 1992
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,372 ratings — published 2003
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,794 ratings — published 2013
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,736 ratings — published 1961
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,194 ratings — published 1967
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 841 ratings — published 1989
On Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 93,419 ratings — published 2005
“At the National Museum of the American Indian,
68 percent of the collection is from the United States.
I am doing my best to not become a museum
of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
68 percent of the collection is from the United States.
I am doing my best to not become a museum
of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“In our resistance to the business mentality, we are still Spanish, stubbornly Spanish. Also, we have not stopped being Catholic, nor have we stopped being romantic, and we cannot conceive of private life without love, nor of public life without chivalry, or of our children’s education without ideals.
If you want to be our friends, you will have to accept us as we are. Do not attempt to remodel us after your image. Mechanical civilization, material progress, industrial techniques, wealth, comfort, hobbies—all these figure in our programs of work and enjoyment of life. But, for us, the essence of human life does not lie in such things.”
― The Shark and the Sardines
If you want to be our friends, you will have to accept us as we are. Do not attempt to remodel us after your image. Mechanical civilization, material progress, industrial techniques, wealth, comfort, hobbies—all these figure in our programs of work and enjoyment of life. But, for us, the essence of human life does not lie in such things.”
― The Shark and the Sardines