The Greatest Books of All Time on Colonialism

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17169 The Fifth Head Of Cerberus Gene Wolfe 1972 American English
17169 Black Robe Brian Moore 1985 Canadian English
17169 Empireland Sathnam Sanghera 2021 British English
17169 A Line In The Sand James Barr 2011 British English
17169 Black And British David Olusoga 2016 British English
17169 Our Country’s Good Timberlake Wertenbaker 1988 British English
17169 The Recollections Of Geoffrey Hamlyn Henry Kingsley 1859 British English
17169 On The Face Of The Waters Flora Annie Steel 1896 British English
17169 A Kick In The Belly Stella Dadzie 2020 British English
17169 A Door Into Ocean Joan Slonczewski 1986 American English
17169 Arabella Of Mars David D. Levine 2016 American English
17169 Aztec Century Christopher Evans 1993 British English
17169 Covered With Night Nicole Eustace 2021 American English
17169 Cuba Ada Ferrer 2021 American English
17169 Blood On The River Marjoleine Kars 2020 British English
17169 Fifth Sun Camilla Townsend 2019 American English
17169 The Dawn Watch Maya Jasanoff 2017 American English
17169 The Guardians Susan Pedersen 2015 Canadian English
17169 Going Dutch Lisa Jardine 2008 British English
17169 All Can Be Saved Stuart B. Schwartz 2008 American English
17169 Children Of The New World Assia Djebar 1999 Algerian French
17169 The Best Of Albert Wendt’s Short Stories Albert Wendt 1999 New Zealand English
17169 Shell Shaker LeAnne Howe 2001 American English
17169 Son Of The Morning Star Evan S. Connell 1984 American English
17169 The Crater, Or Vulcan's Peak James Fenimore Cooper 1847 American English
17169 The American Crucible Robin Blackburn 2011 British English
17169 Geronimo Angie Debo 1976 American English
17169 Warriors Gerald Hanley 1971 British English
17169 Rivers Of Empire Donald Worster 1985 American English
17169 Frontiers Noel Mostert 1992 South African English
17169 Louis Riel Chester Brown 2003 Canadian English
16980 Black Majority Peter H. Wood 1974 American English
17169 Wind From The South Abdelhamid Ben Haddouka 1971 Algerian Unknown
17169 Rabbit Boss Thomas Sanchez 1973 American English
17169 Fools Crow James Welch 1986 American English
17169 When Victims Become Killers Mahmood Mamdani 2001 American English
17169 Namíbia, Não! Aldri Anunciação 2012 Brazilian Portuguese
17169 Nothing Ever Dies Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016 American English
17169 King Leopold's Ghost Adam Hochschild 1998 American English
17169 Red Earth And Pouring Rain Vikram Chandra 1995 Indian English
17169 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17169 Caribbean James A. Michener 1989 American English
17169 Not Even The Dead Juan Gómez Bárcena 2023 Spanish Spanish
17169 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17169 From The Ruins Of Empire Pankaj Mishra 2012 Indian English
16813 Capricornia Xavier Herbert 1938 Australian English
17169 Unfamiliar Fishes Sarah Vowell 2011 American English
17169 The Book Of Secrets M.G. Vassanji 1994 Canadian English
17169 The Orenda Joseph Boyden 2013 Canadian English
17169 Cinnamon Gardens Shyam Selvadurai 1998 Sri Lankan English
17169 Running In The Family Michael Ondaatje 1982 Canadian English
17169 The Nutmeg's Curse Amitav Ghosh 2021 Indian English
17169 Frantz Fanon David Macey 2001 Unknown English
17169 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17169 Kings In Grass Castles Mary Durack 1959 Australian English
16813 Rum Rebellion H V Evatt 1938 Australian English
17169 A History Of South Africa Frank Welsh 1998 Unknown English
17169 The Anglo Boer War, 1899 1902 F. Pretorius 1999 Unknown English
17169 Cape Town E. Van Heyningen, Nigel Worden, Vivian Bickford-Smith 1998 Unknown English
17169 Re Creating Ourselves Molara Ogundipe-Leslie 1994 Nigerian English
17169 An American Sunrise Joy Harjo 2019 American English
17169 The Heartbeat Of Wounded Knee David Treuer 2019 American English
17169 My Sad Republic Eric Gamalinda 2000 Filipino English
17169 Rizal In Saga Nick Joaquin 1996 Philippine English
17169 The Winthrop Woman Anya Seton 1958 American English
17169 Gould's Book Of Fish Richard Flanagan 2001 Australian English
17169 Congo David Van Reybrouck 2010 Belgian Dutch
17169 This Thing Of Darkness Harry Thompson 2005 British English
17169 Inés Da Minha Alma Isabel Allende 2006 Chilean Spanish
17169 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17169 Wanting Tom Burgis 2021 Unknown English
17169 The Gospel According To The New World Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox 2021 French French
17169 Savarkar Vikram Sampath 2019 Indian English
17169 The Lion And The Lily Ira Mukhoty 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Washing Of The Spears Donald R. Morris 1965 American English
17169 The Broken String Neil Bennun 2004 Unknown English
17169 The Afrikaners John Fisher 1969 Unknown English
17169 The Rise & Fall Of The Zulu Nation John Laband 1995 Unknown English
17169 Jameson's Raid Elizabeth Longford 1982 British English
17169 Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Marcus Rediker 1987 American English
17169 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
17159 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17169 An Insular Possession Timothy Mo 1986 British English
17169 I Will Marry When I Want Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1977 Kenyan Gikuyu
17169 Sir William David Stacton 1965 American English
17169 A Durable Fire Virginia Bernhard 1990 Unknown English
17169 O Beulah Land Mary Lee Settle 1981 American English
17169 The First Rebel Neil Swanson 2009 American English
17169 The Carolinians Jane Barry 1959 Unknown English
17169 Bounty Lands William Ellis 1981 Unknown English
17169 Time Of The Gringo Elliott Arnold 1970 Unknown English
17169 Lord Of The Kongo Peter Forbath 1988 Unknown English
17169 Kenya John Halkin 1986 Unknown English
17169 Burton And Speke William Harrison 1982 Unknown English
17169 Manchu Robert S. Elegant 1980 American English
17169 From A Far Land Robert S. Elegant 1986 Unknown English
17169 Silk And Steel Stephen Alter 1980 Unknown English
16813 Shadow Of The Moon M.M. Kaye 1956 British English
17169 Raj Gita Mehta 1989 Indian English
17169 The Dreaming Barbara Wood 1991 American English
17169 All Soul's Rising Madison Smartt Bell 1995 American English
17169 Drums Of Destiny Bruce Jeffries Unknown Unknown
17169 A Signal Victory David Stacton 1960 American English
16993 Astoria Washington Irving 1835 American English
17169 The Rediscovery Of America Ned Blackhawk 2023 American English
17169 In The Shadow Of Quetzalcoatl Merilee Grindle 2023 Unknown Unknown
17169 Foreign Bodies Simon Schama 2023 British English
17169 The House Of Doors Tan Twan Eng 2023 Malaysian English
17169 The Lumumba Plot Stuart A. Reid 2023 Unknown English
17169 A Man Of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen 2023 American English
17169 Beyond The Door Of No Return David Diop 2023 French French
17169 The Great White Bard Farah Karim‑Cooper 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa Stephen Buoro 2023 Unknown English
17169 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
17169 An Honorable Exit Éric Vuillard 2023 French French
17169 Hungry Ghosts Kevin Jared Hosein 2023 Unknown English
17169 Writers And Missionaries Adam Shatz 2023 Unknown English
17169 Courting India Nandini Das 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
17169 Pirate Enlightenment David Graeber 2023 Unknown English