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Heart of Darkness
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Midnight’s Children
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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Orientalism
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The God of Small Things
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3.96 avg rating — 319,481 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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Dubliners
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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Season of Migration to the North
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Culture and Imperialism
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A Passage to India
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Devil on the Cross
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Lotusland
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4.31 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures
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Omeros
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Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
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3.98 avg rating — 1,524 ratings
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Foe
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A Small Place
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Robinson Crusoe
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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The Kingdom of This World
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3.78 avg rating — 8,024 ratings
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The Stranger
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Interpreter of Maladies
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Stoning the Devil
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3.87 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Lesson
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Cadwell Turnbull (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 3,835 ratings
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White Teeth
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3.79 avg rating — 172,155 ratings
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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4.39 avg rating — 7,302 ratings
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The Great Indian Novel
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3.89 avg rating — 6,744 ratings
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My Place
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3.99 avg rating — 6,703 ratings
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A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre
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3.64 avg rating — 3,486 ratings
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The Shadow Lines
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3.86 avg rating — 8,895 ratings
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A House for Mr Biswas
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3.81 avg rating — 22,068 ratings
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Disgrace
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3.86 avg rating — 115,158 ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
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Nervous Conditions
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A Fine Balance
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4.38 avg rating — 157,906 ratings
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Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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Cities of Salt (مدن الملح #1)
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Say You're One of Them
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3.55 avg rating — 16,306 ratings
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The Whale Caller
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3.56 avg rating — 569 ratings
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Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays
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Dear Junia
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Tomi Makanjuola (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Memoirs of a Prisoner of War in Shewa (March 1896 - January 1897)
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Shifting Allegiances: A Nigerian's story of Nigeria, America and Culture Shock
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Amaka Lily (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Revolution
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Piet Hein Wokke (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The House with a Thousand Stories
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Aruni Kashyap (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Margarita's husband: A Fable of the Levant
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The Lonely Londoners
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The Farming of Bones
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Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 29,369 ratings
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His Father's Disease: Stories
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Aruni Kashyap (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Famished Road
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3.73 avg rating — 13,453 ratings
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Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer
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3.87 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Colonialism / Postcolonialism
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3.89 avg rating — 617 ratings
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How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency: Fifteen tales from Assam
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Aruni Kashyap (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Waiting for the Barbarians
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Agaat
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The Tempest
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There Is No Good Time for Bad News
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4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Nostromo
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The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere
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The House with a Thousand Stories
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3.67 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Such a Long Journey
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Tsotsi
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Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean
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Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
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Kanthapura
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King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
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God's Bits of Wood
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No Telephone to Heaven
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Untouchable
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The Narayanpur Incident
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Six Feet of the Country
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Black Skin, White Masks
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Wizard of the Crow
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In the Castle of My Skin
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The Yacoubian Building
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So Long a Letter
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Imaginary Maps
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Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
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Three Strong Women
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The Joys of Motherhood
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Trial of Dedan Kimathi
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Allah Is Not Obliged
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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Redemption in Indigo
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Ways of Dying (Toloki #1)
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard
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The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
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In the Hour of Signs (African Writers Series)
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Proud Beggars
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The Thief and the Dogs
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Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, #1)
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Tales of Tenderness and Power
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Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English
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Chicago
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Death and the King's Horseman
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The Plague
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