Uncommon Grounds
1999★ 4.4
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Cod
1997★ 4.5
A Good Man in Africa
1981★ 4.7
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
1957★ 4.8
Half of a Yellow Sun
2006★ 5.4
The Colonizer and the Colonized
1957★ 5.4
Marvelous Possessions
1991★ 5.6
Open Veins of Latin America
1971★ 5.7
The Fatal Shore
1986★ 5.8
The Siege of Krishnapur
1973★ 5.8
King Leopold's Ghost
1998★ 5.8
History of the Conquest of Mexico
1843★ 5.8
The Conquest of the Incas
1970★ 5.9
The Joys of Motherhood
1979★ 6.0
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
1552★ 6.1
A Small Place
1988★ 6.2
Decolonising the Mind
1986★ 6.2
Nervous Conditions
1988★ 6.2
Season of Migration to the North
1966★ 6.4
Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
1887★ 6.5