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1.
The Poisonwood Bible
by:
Barbara Kingsolver
4.11 avg rating β 779,818 ratings
2.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by:
Chinua Achebe
3.74 avg rating β 403,102 ratings
3.
Waiting for Godot
by:
Samuel Beckett
3.84 avg rating β 217,120 ratings
4.
The House of Blue Mangoes
by:
David Davidar
3.57 avg rating β 1,508 ratings
5.
Sita's Ramayana
by:
Samhita Arni
3.73 avg rating β 1,236 ratings
6.
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
by:
Amitav Ghosh
3.97 avg rating β 29,070 ratings
7.
Purple Hibiscus
by:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.18 avg rating β 137,140 ratings
8.
Bombay Stories
by:
Saadat Hasan Manto
3.82 avg rating β 1,333 ratings
9.
Yayati: A Play
by:
Girish Karnad
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 451 ratings
10.
Three Plays: Naga-Mandala; Hayavadana; Tughlaq
by:
Girish Karnad
4.07 avg rating β 198 ratings
11.
Sitt Marie Rose
by:
Etel Adnan
4.10 avg rating β 1,027 ratings
12.
Silence! The Court is in Session
by:
Vijay Tendulkar
3.94 avg rating β 789 ratings
13.
Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition
by:
Saadat Hasan Manto
4.32 avg rating β 882 ratings
14.
The Sea Around Us
by:
Rachel Carson
4.17 avg rating β 4,838 ratings
15.
Silent Spring
by:
Rachel Carson
4.05 avg rating β 53,321 ratings
16.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
by:
Mohsin Hamid
3.82 avg rating β 23,501 ratings
17.
Malgudi Days
by:
R.K. Narayan
4.21 avg rating β 18,920 ratings
18.
English, August: An Indian Story
by:
Upamanyu Chatterjee
3.78 avg rating β 6,120 ratings
19.
The Moths and Other Stories
by:
Helena MarΓa Viramontes
4.04 avg rating β 586 ratings
20.
David's Story
by:
ZoΓ« Wicomb
3.37 avg rating β 276 ratings
21.
Anil's Ghost
by:
Michael Ondaatje
3.58 avg rating β 18,629 ratings
22.
Diamond Dust: A Novel by the Booker Prize Finalist Author of Rosarita
by:
Anita Desai
3.32 avg rating β 418 ratings
23.
The Thousand Faces of Night
by:
Githa Hariharan
3.47 avg rating β 210 ratings
24.
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by:
Franz Kafka
3.90 avg rating β 1,338,617 ratings
25.
A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)
by:
Vikram Seth
4.11 avg rating β 49,457 ratings
26.
Cutting for Stone
by:
Abraham Verghese
4.33 avg rating β 417,406 ratings
27.
Open City
by:
Teju Cole
3.49 avg rating β 17,169 ratings
28.
The Collaborator
by:
Mirza Waheed
3.68 avg rating β 744 ratings
29.
Leaves of Grass
by:
Walt Whitman
4.11 avg rating β 114,642 ratings
30.
Animal Dreams
by:
Barbara Kingsolver
4.08 avg rating β 76,502 ratings
31.
Passing
by:
Nella Larsen
3.92 avg rating β 76,712 ratings
32.
The Collected Poems
by:
Langston Hughes
4.36 avg rating β 18,158 ratings
33.
Selected Poems
by:
Gwendolyn Brooks
4.20 avg rating β 2,813 ratings
34.
In the Presence of Absence
by:
Mahmoud Darwish
4.37 avg rating β 4,251 ratings
35.
The Country Between Us
by:
Carolyn ForchΓ©
4.23 avg rating β 2,766 ratings
36.
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
by:
Howard Zinn
4.34 avg rating β 3,634 ratings
37.
The Way to Rainy Mountain
by:
N. Scott Momaday
3.80 avg rating β 4,130 ratings
38.
Geographies of Light
by:
Lisa Suhair Majaj
4.74 avg rating β 19 ratings
39.
Small Island
by:
Andrea Levy
4.01 avg rating β 37,173 ratings
40.
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
by:
Kiran Desai
3.47 avg rating β 6,221 ratings
41.
A Grain of Wheat
by:
NgΕ©gΔ© wa Thiong'o
3.88 avg rating β 6,515 ratings
42.
Breath, Eyes, Memory
by:
Edwidge Danticat
3.90 avg rating β 30,928 ratings
43.
E-mails from Scheherazad (Contemporary Poetry Series)
by:
Mohja Kahf
4.31 avg rating β 345 ratings
44.
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
by:
Naomi Shihab Nye
4.07 avg rating β 1,505 ratings
45.
Bent Box
by:
Lee Maracle
4.06 avg rating β 34 ratings
46.
From Sand Creek
by:
Simon J. Ortiz
3.99 avg rating β 487 ratings
47.
The Baghdad Blues
by:
Sinan Antoon
3.76 avg rating β 51 ratings
48.
Point No Point: Selected Poems
by:
Sujata Bhatt
3.95 avg rating β 43 ratings
49.
After the Last Sky
by:
Edward W. Said
4.38 avg rating β 264 ratings
50.
My Year of Meat
by:
Ruth Ozeki
4.03 avg rating β 20,797 ratings
51.
American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings
by:
ZitkΓ‘la-Ε Γ‘
3.89 avg rating β 755 ratings
52.
The Grapes of Wrath
by:
John Steinbeck
4.02 avg rating β 971,656 ratings
53.
Mornings in Jenin
by:
Susan Abulhawa
4.51 avg rating β 48,773 ratings
54.
When Rain Clouds Gather
by:
Bessie Head
3.84 avg rating β 1,682 ratings
55.
The English Teacher
by:
R.K. Narayan
3.82 avg rating β 4,585 ratings
56.
A Short History Of Indians In Canada
by:
Thomas King
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 641 ratings
57.
Discourse on Colonialism
by:
AimΓ© CΓ©saire
4.44 avg rating β 7,437 ratings
58.
Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories
by:
Ghassan Kanafani
4.43 avg rating β 1,003 ratings
59.
Monkey Bridge
by:
Lan Cao
3.47 avg rating β 1,360 ratings
60.
Gate of the Sun
by:
Elias Khoury
3.90 avg rating β 2,523 ratings
61.
Invisible Man
by:
Ralph Ellison
3.92 avg rating β 198,742 ratings
62.
Under the Feet of Jesus
by:
Helena MarΓa Viramontes
3.62 avg rating β 3,866 ratings
63.
Midnightβs Children
by:
Salman Rushdie
3.98 avg rating β 130,717 ratings
64.
Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1)
by:
Naguib Mahfouz
4.20 avg rating β 21,769 ratings
65.
Season of Migration to the North
by:
Tayeb Salih
3.72 avg rating β 32,268 ratings
66.
I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
by:
Rabih Alameddine
3.97 avg rating β 1,453 ratings
67.
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
by:
Mohja Kahf
3.74 avg rating β 1,600 ratings
68.
Leo the African
by:
Amin Maalouf
4.21 avg rating β 16,104 ratings
69.
Tracks (Love Medicine. #3)
by:
Louise Erdrich
3.94 avg rating β 13,677 ratings
70.
Secrets
by:
Nuruddin Farah
3.42 avg rating β 277 ratings
71.
A Sky So Close
by:
Betool Khedairi
3.49 avg rating β 1,342 ratings
72.
The Map of Love
by:
Ahdaf Soueif
3.81 avg rating β 7,165 ratings
73.
A Fine Balance
by:
Rohinton Mistry
4.38 avg rating β 156,862 ratings
74.
A Map of Where I Live (Asian Writers Series (Heinemann))
by:
Subramanian Shankar
2.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
75.
Kindred
by:
Octavia E. Butler
4.31 avg rating β 258,373 ratings
76.
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
by:
Ntozake Shange
4.10 avg rating β 3,963 ratings
77.
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
by:
Paule Marshall
4.02 avg rating β 312 ratings
78.
In the Time of the Butterflies
by:
Julia Alvarez
4.15 avg rating β 77,528 ratings
79.
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
by:
Maxine Hong Kingston
3.53 avg rating β 1,084 ratings
80.
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
by:
Ayi Kwei Armah
3.87 avg rating β 3,380 ratings
81.
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
by:
Ama Ata Aidoo
3.78 avg rating β 596 ratings
82.
The Namesake
by:
Jhumpa Lahiri
4.02 avg rating β 280,160 ratings
83.
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
by:
Vikram Chandra
3.79 avg rating β 2,745 ratings
84.
Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral
by:
Jessie Redmon Fauset
3.93 avg rating β 1,562 ratings
85.
The God of Small Things
by:
Arundhati Roy
3.96 avg rating β 317,173 ratings
86.
Bluest Eye
by:
Toni Morrison
4.13 avg rating β 288,131 ratings
87.
Nervous Conditions
by:
Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.04 avg rating β 22,085 ratings
88.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by:
Gabriel GarcΓa MΓ‘rquez
4.12 avg rating β 1,070,108 ratings
89.
Crossing The River
by:
Caryl Phillips
3.72 avg rating β 1,104 ratings
90.
Ceremony
by:
Leslie Marmon Silko
3.84 avg rating β 25,794 ratings
91.
Cracking India
by:
Bapsi Sidhwa
3.85 avg rating β 5,867 ratings
92.
From A to X: A Story in Letters
by:
John Berger
3.89 avg rating β 1,713 ratings
93.
When Memory Dies
by:
Ambalavaner Sivanandan
4.24 avg rating β 254 ratings
94.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by:
Mark Haddon
3.89 avg rating β 1,568,944 ratings
95.
Footnotes in Gaza
by:
Joe Sacco
4.35 avg rating β 6,825 ratings
96.
A Small Place
by:
Jamaica Kincaid
4.05 avg rating β 17,329 ratings
97.
Breaking Poems
by:
Suheir Hammad
4.38 avg rating β 203 ratings
98.
Poet in Andalucia (Pitt Poetry Series)
by:
Nathalie Handal
3.94 avg rating β 63 ratings