A Decolonized Canon

Updated 6 months ago
50 Books

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

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#1	Love in a Fallen City Eileen Chang Karen S. Kingsbury (Translator)	4	9 reads
#2	All About H. Hatterr G.V. Desani	0	0 reads
#3	Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)	3.95	16 reads
#4	The Lost Steps Alejo Carpentier	0	1 read
#5	The Lonely Londoners Sam Selvon	3.81	16 reads
#6	Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.64	481 reads
#7	Children of the New World Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War Assia Djebar Marjolijn de Jager (Translator)	0	0 reads
#8	Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys	3.43	147 reads
#9	A Grain of Wheat Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	4	11 reads
#10	The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born Ayi Kwei Armah	4	4 reads
#11	The Bridge of Beyond Simone Schwarz-Bart	5	2 reads
#12	A Question of Power Bessie Head	1.5	4 reads
#13	If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin	4.38	99 reads
#14	Between Two Worlds Miriam Tlali	4	1 read
#15	Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi Sherif Hetata (Translator)	4.1	22 reads
#16	Our sister Killjoy Ama Ata Aidoo	5	1 read
#17	Territory of Light Yūko Tsushima Geraldine Harcourt (Translator)	3.75	27 reads
#18	Kindred Octavia E. Butler	4.36	526 reads
#19	Joys of Motherhood: A Novel Buchi Emecheta	4	1 read
#20	So Long a Letter Mariama Bâ	3.67	17 reads
#21	The Color Purple Alice Walker	4.16	509 reads
#22	Ségou. Les murailles de terre Maryse Condé Barbara Bray (Translator)	5	2 reads
#23	Annie John Jamaica Kincaid	3.8	16 reads
#24	Beloved Toni Morrison	3.91	422 reads
#25	Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga	3.5	17 reads
#26	Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Sandra Cisneros	3.72	15 reads
#27	Texaco Texaco Patrick Chamoiseau	0	0 reads
#28	Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat	3.54	19 reads
#29	Discerner of Hearts Discerner of Hearts Olive Senior	0	0 reads
#30	Salt Salt Earl Lovelace	0	0 reads
#31	The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.86	276 reads
#32	Trumpet Jackie Kay	4.28	14 reads
#33	The Years with Laura Diaz Carlos Fuentes	4.5	1 read
#34	The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories Albert Wendt	0	0 reads
#35	Monkey Beach Eden Robinson	4	15 reads
#36	The Emperor's Babe Bernardine Evaristo	3	4 reads
#37	Dogside Story Patricia Grace	0	0 reads
#38	Shell shaker LeAnne Howe	0	0 reads
#39	The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	4.16	1,260 reads
#40	Small Island Andrea Levy	3.78	20 reads
#41	Dancing in the dark Caryl Phillips	0	0 reads
#42	Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.24	146 reads
#43	The White Tiger Aravind Adiga	3.69	165 reads
#44	In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin	3.5	4 reads
#45	How to Read the Air Dinaw Mengestu	0	0 reads
#46	NW Zadie Smith	3.62	52 reads
#47	The Swan Book Alexis Wright	3	0 reads
#48	A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James	4.04	72 reads
#49	The Sellout Paul Beatty	3.82	125 reads
#50	The White Girl Tony Birch	3.25	2 reads