Things Fall Apart
1958★ 8.9
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Heart of Darkness
1899★ 8.6
A Passage to India
1924★ 8.5
The Wretched of the Earth
1961★ 7.9
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
1929★ 7.2
Orientalism
1978★ 7.0
The Black Jacobins
1938★ 7.0
This Earth of Mankind
1980★ 6.8
Discourse on Colonialism
1950★ 6.8
The Quiet American
1955★ 6.7
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
1968★ 6.7
The Moonstone
1868★ 6.6
Black Skin, White Masks
1952★ 6.6
Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
1887★ 6.5
Season of Migration to the North
1966★ 6.4
Nervous Conditions
1988★ 6.2
Decolonising the Mind
1986★ 6.2
A Small Place
1988★ 6.2
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
1552★ 6.1
The Joys of Motherhood
1979★ 6.0
The Conquest of the Incas
1970★ 5.9
History of the Conquest of Mexico
1843★ 5.8
King Leopold's Ghost
1998★ 5.8
The Siege of Krishnapur
1973★ 5.8
The Fatal Shore
1986★ 5.8
Open Veins of Latin America
1971★ 5.7
Marvelous Possessions
1991★ 5.6
The Colonizer and the Colonized
1957★ 5.4
Half of a Yellow Sun
2006★ 5.4
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
1957★ 4.8
A Good Man in Africa
1981★ 4.7
Cod
1997★ 4.5
Uncommon Grounds
1999★ 4.4