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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 — 416,815 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 108,466 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,876 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,170 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 329,747 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,151 ratings — published 1961
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 186,073 ratings — published 2006
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,629 ratings — published 1952
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 563,577 ratings — published 1899
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,549 ratings — published 1999
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,217 ratings — published 1950
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,429 ratings — published 1988
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 416,952 ratings — published 2013
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 176,533 ratings — published 2000
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,863 ratings — published 1993
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.06 — 19,034 ratings — published 1988
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,069 ratings — published 1966
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,051 ratings — published 1990
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,384 ratings — published 1994
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,215 ratings — published 1980
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,118,042 ratings — published 1967
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 798,786 ratings — published 1998
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,044 ratings — published 1956
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 410,843 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 145,521 ratings — published 2003
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,326 ratings — published 1988
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 280,125 ratings — published 2007
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,985 ratings — published 1981
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 285,655 ratings — published 2003
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 56,549 ratings — published
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,249 ratings — published 2004
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 207,623 ratings — published 1999
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 594 ratings — published 1989
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.67 — 86,464 ratings — published 1924
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,655 ratings — published 1986
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,344 ratings — published 1990
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,527,262 ratings — published 2003
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 492,937 ratings — published 2022
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 161,172 ratings — published 1995
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,002 ratings — published 2008
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,241 ratings — published 2001
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 140,078 ratings — published 1992
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,907 ratings — published 1979
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 35,958 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 38,414 ratings — published 2014
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,549 ratings — published 2013
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.00 — 541 ratings — published 1999
On Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 91,905 ratings — published 2005
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 497,172 ratings — published 1987
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,186 ratings — published 1983
“far noh mattah wat dey say,
come wat may,
we are here to stay
inna Inglan,
inna disya time yah...”
― Inglan is a Bitch
come wat may,
we are here to stay
inna Inglan,
inna disya time yah...”
― Inglan is a Bitch
“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
