Colonial and Post-colonial Literature

1.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating β€” 545,735 ratings
2.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating β€” 130,710 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating β€” 403,089 ratings
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Orientalism
Orientalism 4.13 avg rating β€” 28,508 ratings
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The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things 3.96 avg rating β€” 317,155 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating β€” 103,275 ratings
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Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating β€” 170,142 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating β€” 476,948 ratings
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Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North 3.72 avg rating β€” 32,265 ratings
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Culture and Imperialism
Culture and Imperialism 4.18 avg rating β€” 5,661 ratings
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A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating β€” 84,383 ratings
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Devil on the Cross
Devil on the Cross 3.93 avg rating β€” 2,032 ratings
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Lotusland
Lotusland 4.31 avg rating β€” 58 ratings
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The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures 3.76 avg rating β€” 585 ratings
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Omeros
Omeros 3.98 avg rating β€” 3,240 ratings
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Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,523 ratings
17.
Foe
Foe 3.42 avg rating β€” 12,207 ratings
18.
A Small Place
A Small Place 4.05 avg rating β€” 17,327 ratings
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating β€” 324,970 ratings
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country 3.92 avg rating β€” 78,544 ratings
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The Kingdom of This World
The Kingdom of This World 3.78 avg rating β€” 7,900 ratings
21.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,315,481 ratings
23.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating β€” 176,454 ratings
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Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating β€” 203,036 ratings
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Stoning the Devil
Stoning the Devil 3.87 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
25.
The Lesson
The Lesson 3.57 avg rating β€” 3,812 ratings
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White Teeth
White Teeth 3.79 avg rating β€” 170,746 ratings
28.
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution 4.39 avg rating β€” 7,201 ratings
28.
The Great Indian Novel
The Great Indian Novel 3.89 avg rating β€” 6,722 ratings
30.
My Place
My Place 3.99 avg rating β€” 6,669 ratings
31.
A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre
A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre 3.63 avg rating β€” 3,450 ratings
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The Shadow Lines
The Shadow Lines 3.86 avg rating β€” 8,850 ratings
31.
A House for Mr Biswas
A House for Mr Biswas 3.81 avg rating β€” 21,971 ratings
34.
Disgrace
Disgrace 3.86 avg rating β€” 114,206 ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth 4.34 avg rating β€” 30,601 ratings
36.
Nervous Conditions
Nervous Conditions 4.04 avg rating β€” 22,077 ratings
37.
A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance 4.38 avg rating β€” 156,850 ratings
38.
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories 4.35 avg rating β€” 3,451 ratings
39.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Haroun and the Sea of Stories 3.98 avg rating β€” 37,172 ratings
40.
Cities of Salt (Ω…Ψ―Ω† Ψ§Ω„Ω…Ω„Ψ­ #1)
Cities of Salt (Ω…Ψ―Ω† Ψ§Ω„Ω…Ω„Ψ­ #1) 4.06 avg rating β€” 4,758 ratings
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Say You're One of Them
Say You're One of Them 3.55 avg rating β€” 16,253 ratings
41.
The Whale Caller
The Whale Caller
by: Zakes Mda
3.56 avg rating β€” 566 ratings
43.
Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays
Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays 4.30 avg rating β€” 139 ratings
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Dear Junia
Dear Junia 3.86 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Memoirs of a Prisoner of War in Shewa (March 1896 - January 1897)
Memoirs of a Prisoner of War in Shewa (March 1896 - January 1897) 4.20 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Shifting Allegiances: A Nigerian's story of Nigeria, America and Culture Shock
Shifting Allegiances: A Nigerian's story of Nigeria, America and Culture Shock 3.96 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Revolution
Revolution 4.50 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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The House with a Thousand Stories
The House with a Thousand Stories 3.67 avg rating β€” 166 ratings
43.
Margarita's husband: A Fable of the Levant
Margarita's husband: A Fable of the Levant really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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The Lonely Londoners
The Lonely Londoners 3.70 avg rating β€” 13,078 ratings
50.
The Farming of Bones
The Farming of Bones 4.07 avg rating β€” 9,774 ratings
50.
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating β€” 29,066 ratings
50.
His Father's Disease: Stories
His Father's Disease: Stories 4.11 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
54.
The Famished Road
The Famished Road
by: Ben Okri
3.73 avg rating β€” 13,392 ratings
54.
Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer
Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer 3.87 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
54.
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Colonialism / Postcolonialism 3.88 avg rating β€” 617 ratings
54.
How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency: Fifteen tales from Assam
How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency: Fifteen tales from Assam 4.07 avg rating β€” 58 ratings
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Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians 3.93 avg rating β€” 34,739 ratings
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Agaat
Agaat 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,576 ratings
58.
The Tempest
The Tempest 3.78 avg rating β€” 222,553 ratings
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There Is No Good Time for Bad News
There Is No Good Time for Bad News 4.73 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
62.
Nostromo
Nostromo 3.81 avg rating β€” 17,603 ratings
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The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere
The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere 4.09 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
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The House with a Thousand Stories
The House with a Thousand Stories 3.67 avg rating β€” 166 ratings
65.
Such a Long Journey
Such a Long Journey 3.96 avg rating β€” 11,413 ratings
65.
Tsotsi
Tsotsi 3.59 avg rating β€” 2,097 ratings
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Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean
Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest 4.08 avg rating β€” 922 ratings
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Kanthapura
Kanthapura
by: Raja Rao
3.38 avg rating β€” 1,540 ratings
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King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1) 3.79 avg rating β€” 51,857 ratings
71.
God's Bits of Wood
God's Bits of Wood 3.98 avg rating β€” 3,057 ratings
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No Telephone to Heaven
No Telephone to Heaven 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,389 ratings
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Untouchable
Untouchable 3.74 avg rating β€” 6,414 ratings
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The Narayanpur Incident
The Narayanpur Incident 3.85 avg rating β€” 95 ratings
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Six Feet of the Country
Six Feet of the Country 3.95 avg rating β€” 345 ratings
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Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating β€” 18,205 ratings
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Wizard of the Crow
Wizard of the Crow 4.22 avg rating β€” 3,646 ratings
78.
In the Castle of My Skin
In the Castle of My Skin 3.71 avg rating β€” 1,014 ratings
78.
The Yacoubian Building
The Yacoubian Building 3.71 avg rating β€” 22,608 ratings
78.
So Long a Letter
So Long a Letter 3.99 avg rating β€” 11,637 ratings
81.
Imaginary Maps
Imaginary Maps 3.86 avg rating β€” 313 ratings
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Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World 3.62 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
81.
Three Strong Women
Three Strong Women 3.23 avg rating β€” 4,198 ratings
84.
The Joys of Motherhood
The Joys of Motherhood 4.21 avg rating β€” 8,107 ratings
84.
Trial of Dedan Kimathi
Trial of Dedan Kimathi 3.70 avg rating β€” 399 ratings
86.
Allah Is Not Obliged
Allah Is Not Obliged 3.68 avg rating β€” 2,316 ratings
86.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 4.16 avg rating β€” 204,455 ratings
88.
Redemption in Indigo
Redemption in Indigo 3.88 avg rating β€” 2,932 ratings
89.
Ways of Dying (Toloki #1)
Ways of Dying (Toloki #1)
by: Zakes Mda
3.89 avg rating β€” 1,940 ratings
90.
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
The Palm-Wine Drinkard 3.73 avg rating β€” 3,577 ratings
91.
The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
The Nawal El Saadawi Reader 4.05 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
92.
In the Hour of Signs (African Writers Series)
In the Hour of Signs (African Writers Series) 3.72 avg rating β€” 54 ratings
93.
Proud Beggars
Proud Beggars 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,239 ratings
94.
The Thief and the Dogs
The Thief and the Dogs 3.65 avg rating β€” 11,998 ratings
95.
Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1)
Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1) 4.20 avg rating β€” 21,768 ratings
96.
Tales of Tenderness and Power
Tales of Tenderness and Power 4.06 avg rating β€” 104 ratings
97.
Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English
Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,044 ratings
98.
Chicago
Chicago 3.43 avg rating β€” 22,645 ratings
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Death and the King's Horseman
Death and the King's Horseman 3.79 avg rating β€” 5,157 ratings
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The Plague
The Plague 4.02 avg rating β€” 300,321 ratings
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