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Postcolonial Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.74 — 405,235 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 104,209 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 131,229 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,783 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 318,889 ratings — published 1997
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 178,327 ratings — published 2006
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,025 ratings — published 1961
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,435 ratings — published 1952
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 548,701 ratings — published 1899
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 114,935 ratings — published 1999
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,540 ratings — published 1950
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,279 ratings — published 1988
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 404,461 ratings — published 2013
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 171,841 ratings — published 2000
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,689 ratings — published 1993
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,630 ratings — published 1988
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 32,582 ratings — published 1966
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,176 ratings — published 1990
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 34,988 ratings — published 1980
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,078,719 ratings — published 1967
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 783,422 ratings — published 1998
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,347 ratings — published 1994
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,218 ratings — published 1956
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 390,460 ratings — published 2016
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 70,716 ratings — published 1988
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 281,060 ratings — published 2003
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.45 — 54,572 ratings — published 2005
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,366 ratings — published 2004
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 203,874 ratings — published 1999
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 275,976 ratings — published 2007
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 138,629 ratings — published 2003
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 84,729 ratings — published 1924
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,258 ratings — published 1990
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,776 ratings — published 1981
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 157,659 ratings — published 1995
The Empire Writes Back, Second Edition: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 584 ratings — published 1989
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.42 — 12,289 ratings — published 1986
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.16 — 414,917 ratings — published 2022
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,119 ratings — published 2013
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,423,603 ratings — published 2003
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 137,905 ratings — published 1992
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 37,511 ratings — published 2014
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 200,719 ratings — published 2008
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,519 ratings — published 1979
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 35,351 ratings — published 2003
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 480,131 ratings — published 1987
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,215 ratings — published 2001
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,144 ratings — published 1996
Postcolonial Love Poem (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,968 ratings — published 2020
Funny Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.06 — 8,759 ratings — published 1994
“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
“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
