A Decolonized Canon

From “This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelf in 50 Years” by Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne, and Kadija George Sesay (2021).

#1

Love in a Fallen City

1943 • 42 Readers • 346 pages 4

#2

All About H. Hatterr

1948 • 11 Readers • 316 pages

#3

Thousand Cranes

1952 • 57 Readers • 160 pages 4

#4

The Lost Steps

1991 • 3 Readers • 294 pages

#5

The Lonely Londoners

#1 of 3 in London Trilogy

1956 • 48 Readers • 156 pages 3.8

#6

Things Fall Apart

#1 of 3 in The African Trilogy

1958 • 834 Readers • 185 pages 3.6

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#8

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966 • 339 Readers • 189 pages 3.4

#9

A Grain of Wheat

1967 • 32 Readers • 247 pages 4

#10

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

1968 • 15 Readers • 196 pages 4

#11

The Bridge of Beyond

1972 • 8 Readers • 246 pages 5

#12

A Question of Power

2012 • 9 Readers • 223 pages 1.5

#13

If Beale Street Could Talk

1974 • 251 Readers 4.4

#14

Between Two Worlds

1979 • 2 Readers • 232 pages 4

#15

Woman at Point Zero

1975 • 71 Readers • 100 pages 4.1

#16

Our sister Killjoy

1977 • 6 Readers • 134 pages 5

#17

Territory of Light

1978 • 75 Readers • 122 pages 3.8

#18

Kindred

1979 • 1,170 Readers • 287 pages 4.4

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#19

Joys of Motherhood: A Novel

1979 • 10 Readers • 224 pages 4

#20

So Long a Letter

1980 • 39 Readers 3.7

#21

The Color Purple

#1 of 3 in The Color Purple Collection

1976 • 1,168 Readers • 288 pages 4.2

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#22

Ségou. Les murailles de terre

#1 of 3 in Ségou

1984 • 14 Readers • 513 pages 5

#23

Annie John

1985 • 44 Readers • 164 pages 3.8

#24

Beloved

#1 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

1987 • 1,061 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

#25

Nervous Conditions

#1 of 3 in Nervous Conditions

1988 • 66 Readers • 212 pages 3.5

#26

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

1991 • 33 Readers • 196 pages 3.7

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#28

Breath, Eyes, Memory

1994 • 48 Readers • 234 pages 3.5

#30

Cover 6

5 Readers

#31

The God of Small Things

1997 • 651 Readers • 344 pages 3.8

#32

Trumpet

26 Readers 4.3

#33

The Years with Laura Diaz

2012 • 4 Readers • 528 pages 4.5

#35

Monkey Beach

2000 • 50 Readers • 386 pages 4

#36

The Emperor's Babe

2001 • 14 Readers • 250 pages 3

#37

Dogside Story

2001 • 2 Readers • 312 pages

#38

Shell shaker

2001 • 227 pages

#39

The Kite Runner

1969 • 2,027 Readers • 401 pages 4.2

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#40

Small Island

2004 • 69 Readers • 441 pages 3.8

#42

Half of a Yellow Sun

1831 • 403 Readers • 541 pages 4.2

#43

The White Tiger

2008 • 277 Readers • 292 pages 3.7

#44

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

2009 • 19 Readers • 247 pages 3.5

#45

How to Read the Air

2010 • 6 Readers • 320 pages

#46

NW

2012 • 126 Readers • 338 pages 3.7

#47

The Swan Book

2013 • 16 Readers • 352 pages 3

#48

A Brief History of Seven Killings

2014 • 258 Readers • 688 pages 4

#49

The Sellout

2015 • 315 Readers • 289 pages 3.8

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#50

The White Girl

2019 • 17 Readers • 320 pages 3.3