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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 3.74 — 405,204 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 104,194 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 131,226 ratings — published 1981
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 318,854 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,021 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 114,926 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,779 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 548,651 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 783,360 ratings — published 1998
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 178,290 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 404,424 ratings — published 2013
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,275 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,432 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 34,985 ratings — published 1980
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,627 ratings — published 1988
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 32,576 ratings — published 1966
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,538 ratings — published 1950
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,078,607 ratings — published 1967
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,048 ratings — published 1961
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.45 — 54,566 ratings — published 2005
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 171,820 ratings — published 2000
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 84,725 ratings — published 1924
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,475 ratings — published 1939
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 157,648 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,174 ratings — published 1990
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 390,395 ratings — published 2016
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 480,083 ratings — published 1987
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 95,912 ratings — published 2013
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,519 ratings — published 1979
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 138,611 ratings — published 2003
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,999 ratings — published 1983
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 203,868 ratings — published 1999
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 70,708 ratings — published 1988
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,361 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,011 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.42 — 12,289 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 3.64 — 3,473 ratings — published 1969
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 275,956 ratings — published 2007
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,216 ratings — published 1956
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,695,404 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 740,900 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,423,289 ratings — published 2003
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 281,044 ratings — published 2003
The Empire Writes Back, Second Edition: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 584 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 23,867 ratings — published 2006
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 258,760 ratings — published 2019
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,734,131 ratings — published 2001
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,587 ratings — published 1967
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,689 ratings — published 1993
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,143 ratings — published 1996
“I ain't know what it is to be a girl Mistress Grandsol. I pass straight from child to woman without even a pause for girl between. Girl is a privilege I never know.”
― Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel
― Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel
“—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
