This is a list of Postcolonial fiction and non-fiction. For additional context, see postcolonial literature
{{TOC left}}| Author | Nationality | Title | Year | Geographic/Cultural Focus | Original Language | ISBN(s) | | Chinua Achebe[1] | Nigerian | Things Fall Apart[2] | 1958 | Africa, Nigeria | English | ISBN 0385474547 |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie[3] | Nigerian | Half of a Yellow Sun[4] | 2006 | Africa, Nigeria | English | ISBN 1400095204 |
| Ama Ata Aidoo[5] | Ghanaian | Our Sister Killjoy[6] | 1977 | Africa, Ghana | English | ISBN 978-0582308459 |
| Mariama Ba[7] | Senegalese | So Long a Letter[8] (Une si longue lettre) | 1981 | Africa, Senegal | French | ISBN 1577668065 |
| Giannina Braschi[9] | Puerto Rican | Yo-Yo Boing![10] | 1998 | Americas, United States, Puerto Rico | English, Spanish, Spanglish | ISBN 161109089X |
| Giannina Braschi | Puerto Rican | United States of Banana[11] | 2011 | Americas, United States, Puerto Rico | English | ISBN 1611090679 |
| J.M. Coetzee[12] | South African, Australian | Disgrace[13] | 1999 | Africa, Cape Town | English | ISBN 0140296409 |
| Joseph Conrad | Polish | Heart of Darkness[14] | 1899 | Africa, Congo | English | ISBN 1503275922 |
| Edwidge Danticat[15] | Haitian-American | Breath, Eyes, Memory[16] | 1994 | Americas, United States; Caribbean Islands, Haiti | English | ISBN 1616955023 |
| Edwidge Danticat | Haitian-American | The Farming of Bones[17] | 1998 | Americas, Caribbean Islands, Dominican Republic, Haiti | English | ISBN 1616953497 |
| Edwidge Danticat | Haitian-American | The Dew Breaker[18] | 2004 | Americas, United States; Haiti | English | ISBN 1400034299 |
| Buchi Emecheta[19] | Nigerian | In the Ditch[20] | 1972 | Africa, Nigeria | English | ISBN 1911428233 |
| Buchi Emecheta | Nigerian | Second-Class Citizen[21] | 1974 | Africa, Nigeria | English | ISBN 0807610666 |
| Buchi Emecheta | Nigerian | The Joys of Motherhood | 1979 | Africa, Nigeria | English | ISBN 0807616230 |
| Buchi Emecheta | Nigerian | Head Above Water[22] | 1986 | Africa, Nigeria | English | ISBN 0435909932 |
| Amitav [23]Ghosh | Indian | The Circle of Reason[24] | 1986 | Asia, India | English | ISBN 9780618329625 |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | The Shadow Lines[25] | 1988 | Asia, India | English | ISBN 9780618329960 |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | The Calcutta Chromosome[26] | 1995 | Asia, India | English | ISBN 9780380813940 |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | The Glass Palace[27] | 2000 | Asia, India | English | ISBN 0375758771 |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | The Hungry Tide[28] | 2004 | Asia, India | English | ISBN 061871166X |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | Sea of Poppies[29] | 2008 | Asia, India | English | ISBN 0312428596 |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | River of Smoke[30] | 2011 | Asia, India | English | ISBN 9781250013750 |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | Flood of Fire[31] | 2012 | Asia, India | English | ISBN 1250094712 |
| Mohsin Hamid | Pakistani-British | Moth Smoke[32] | 2000 | Asia, Pakistan | English | ISBN 1594486603 |
| Mohsin Hamid | Pakistani-British | The Reluctant Fundamentalist[33] | 2007 | Asia, Pakistan | English | ISBN 9780156034029 |
| Mohsin Hamid[34] | Pakistani-British | Exit West | 2017 | Asia, Pakistan | English | ISBN 0735212201 |
| Jamaica Kincaid[35] | Antiguan-American | Lucy (novel)[36] | 1990 | Americas, United States; West Indies | English | ISBN 9780374527358 |
| Hanif Kureishi[37] | Pakistani-English | The Buddha of Suburbia[38] | 1990 | Europe, United Kingdom; India | English | ISBN 014013168X |
| Jhumpa Lahiri[39] | American | Interpreter of Maladies[40] | 1999 | Americas, United States; India | English | ISBN 039592720X |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | American | The Namesake | 2003 | Americas, United States; India | English | ISBN 9780618485222 |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | American | The Lowland | 2013 | Americas, United States; India | English | ISBN 0307278263 |
| Doris Lessing[41] | British | The Grass is Singing[42] | 1950 | Europe, United Kingdom; Africa, Rhodesia | English | ISBN 0061673749 |
| Ben Okri[43] | Nigerian | The Famished Road[44] | 1991 | Europe, United Kingdom; Africa | English | ISBN 9780385425131 |
| Jean Rhys[45] | Dominican | Wide Sargasso Sea[46] | 1966 | Americas, Caribbean island, Jamaica | English | ISBN 9780393352566 |
| Arundhati Roy[47] | Indian | The God of Small Things[48] | 1997 | Asia, India, Kerala | English | ISBN 0812979656 |
| Sam Selvon[49] | Trinidadian | The Lonely Londoners[50] | 1956 | Europe, United Kingdom; Americas, Caribbean, West Indies | English |
| Salman Rushdie[51] | British Indian | Midnight's Children[52] | 1981 | Europe, United Kingdom; Asia, India | English | ISBN 9780812976533 |
| Salman Rushdie | British Indian | Shame[53] | 1983 | Asia, Pakistan | English | ISBN 0812976703 |
| Salman Rushdie | British Indian | The Satanic Verses[54] | 1988 | Europe, Britain; Asia, India | English | ISBN 0812976711 |
| Ousmane Sembene[55] | Senegalese | God's Bits of Wood (Les Bouts de bois de Dieu)[56] | 1960 | Africa, Sengal; Europe, France | French | ISBN 0435909592 |
| Bapsi Sidhwa[57] | Pakistani-American | Cracking India | 1988 | Asia, India, Pakistan | English | 0435909592}} |
| Zadie Smith[58] | English | White Teeth[59] | 2000 | Europe, United Kingdom; Asia, Bangladesh | English | ISBN 0375703861 |
| Wole Soyinka[60] | Nigerian | The Interpreters[61] | 1965 | Africa, Nigeria | English | ISBN 084190121X |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Kenyan | Weep Not, Child[62] | 1964 | Africa, Kenya | English | 1-4050-7331-4}} |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o[63] | Kenyan | The River Between | 1965 | Africa, Kenya | English | 0-435-90548-1}} |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Kenyan | A Grain of Wheat | 1967 | Africa, Kenya | English | 0-14-118699-2}} |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Kenyan | Petals of Blood | 1977 | Africa, Kenya | English, Gikuyu | 0-14-118702-6}} |
| Title | Year | Author(s) | Cultural/Geographic Focus | Theme/Topic | ISBN(s) | | African Philosophy: Myth & Reality[64] | 1983 | Paulin J. Hountondji | Africa | African philosophy | ISBN 0-253-21096-8 |
| At the Risk of Being Heard: Indigenous Rights, Identity, and Postcolonial States[65] | 2003 | Bartholomew Dean and Jerome Levi | Various | Indigenous peoples; ethnic identity development | ISBN 0-472-06736-2 |
| Beginning Postcolonialism[66] | 2010 | John McLeod | Various | Postcolonial literature | ISBN 0-719-07858-X |
| Calibán and Other Essays[67] | 1989 | Roberto Fernández Retamar | Latin America | Latin American literature | ISBN 0-816-61743-0 |
| Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese and Western[68] | 2000 | Guy Ankerl | Various | Eastern world, civilization | 2-88155-004-5}} |
| Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race[69] | 1995 | Robert J.C. Young | Various | Ethnocentrism, Race and society | ISBN 0-415-05374-9 |
| Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory[70] | 1994 | Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen | Various | Postcolonialism, cultural theory | ISBN 0-719-04876-1 |
| Colonialism and postcolonial development : Spanish America in comparative perspective[71] | 2010 | James Mahoney | Latin America | Postcolonialism in Latin America | ISBN 0-5117-4957-0 |
| Colonialism/postcolonialism[72] | 2015 | Ania Loomba | Various | Postcolonialism, colonialism | ISBN 0-415-35064-6 |
| Coloniality at large : Latin America and the postcolonial debate[73] | 2008 | Mabel Moraña, Enrique D. Dussel, Carlos A. Jáuregui | Latin America | Postcolonialism, Imperialism | ISBN 0-8223-4147-6 |
| Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World: Two Lectures[74] | 1988 | Alamgir Hashmi | Commonwealth, english literature | N/A |
| A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present[75] | 1999 | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | Postcolonial literature,transnationalism | ISBN 0-674-17764-9 |
| Culture and Imperialism[76] | 1993 | Edward Said | Europe | Imperialism, colonialism, western literature | ISBN 0-679-75054-1 |
| Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature[77] | 1986 | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Africa | African literature, languages of Africa | ISBN 0-435-08016-4 |
| Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British imagination, 1880-1930[78] | 1983 | Benita Parry, Michael Sprinker | Asia, India | Indian literature, Anglo-Indian,Indian English literature | ISBN 1-859-84128-7 |
| Determinations: essays on theory, narrative, and nation in the Americas | 2001 | Neil Larsen | Latin America | Latin American literature | ISBN 1859843298 |
| The disappointed Bridge: Ireland and the Post-Colonial World[79] | 2014 | Richard Pine | Europe, Ireland | Music of Ireland, Irish literature, Government of Ireland, Politics of the Republic of Ireland | ISBN 1-443-85893-5 |
| Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism[80] | 1997 | Uma Narayan. | Various | Postcolonial feminism | ISBN 0-415-91418-3 |
| Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature[81] | 1990 | Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin | Various | Postcolonial literature | ISBN 0-415-28020-6 |
| Encyclopedia of post-colonial literatures in English[82] | 2005 | Eugene Benson, L.W. Conolly | Various | Postcolonial literature | ISBN 4-152-7885-6 |
| Encyclopedia of postcolonial studies[83] | 2016 | Sangeeta Ray, Henry Schwarz, J. L. Villacañas Berlanga, Alberto Moreiras, April Shemak | Various | Postcolonialism, postcolonial literature | ISBN 1-119-07650-1 |
| Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World[84] | 1986 | Kumari Jayawardena. | Various | Postcolonial feminism, nationalism | ISBN 0-862-32264-2 |
| Gayatri Spivak: deconstruction and the ethics of postcolonial literary interpretation[85] | 2015 | Ola Abdalkafor | Asia, India | Postcolonial literature | ISBN 1-4438-7777-8 |
| The Heathen in His Blindness: Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion[86] | 1994 | S. N. Balagangadhara | Asia | Eastern religions | ISBN 90-04-09943-3. |
| A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Thought in English[87] | 2005 | Prem Poddar and David Johnson | Various | Postcolonialism, Literary theory | ISBN 0-231-13507-6 |
| The Idea of Latin América[88] | 2005 | Walter Mignolo. | Latin America | Postcolonialism in Latin America | ISBN 1-405-10085-0 |
| Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism[89] | 1983 | Benedict Anderson | Various | Nationalism, Imagined community | ISBN 0-86091-329-5. |
| Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Империализм как высшая стадия капитализма) | 1917 | Vladimir Lenin | Imperialism, capitalism, social criticism | ISBN 0-717-80098-9 |
| The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism[90] | 1983 | Ashis Nandy | Asia, India | Imperialism, postcolonialism, colonialism, colonial India | ISBN 0-195-61505-0 |
| Inventing Ireland[91] | 1995 | Declan Kiberd | Europe, Ireland | Nationalism, Irish literature | ISBN 0-674-46363-3 |
| Invention of Africa: gnosis, philosophy, and the order of knowledge[92] | 1988 | V. Y. Mudimbe | Africa | African philosophy, Epistemology | ISBN 0-253-33126-9 |
| A People Interrupted[93] | 2007 | Hamid Dabashi | Asia, Middle East, Iran | Iranian studies, History of Iran
| ISBN 978-1595583338 |
| Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies[94] | 1998 | Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin | Various | Postcolonialism, colonialism, decolonization | ISBN 0-415-15303-4 |
| Eurocentrism (L'eurocentrisme)[95] | 1988 | Samir Amin | Europe | Ethnocentrism, capitalism | ISBN 0-853-45786-7
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| Local Histories/Global designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking[96] | 2000 | Walter Mignolo | Various | Postcolonial literature, colonialism, literary Theory | ISBN 0-691-00140-5 |
| Location of Culture[97] | 1994 | Homi K. Bhabha | Various | Imperialism, postcolonial literature | ISBN 1-136-75104-1 |
| Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa[98] | 1988 | Abdul JanMohamed | Africa | African literature, imperialism | ISBN 0-870-23395-5 |
| Myth of the Lazy Native: a study of the image of the Malays, Filipinos and Javanese from the 16th to the 20th century and its function in the ideology of colonial capitalism[99] | 1977 | Syed Hussein Alatas | Asia, Southeast | Colonialism | ISBN 0-714-63050-0 |
| Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories[100] | 1993 | Partha Chatterjee | Asia, India | Nationalism, colonial India | ISBN 0-691-01943-6 |
| New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy[101] | 2019 | Roopika Risam | Various | Postcolonial literature, digital humanities | ISBN 0-810-13887-5 |
| On the Postcolony[102] | 2000 | Achille Mbembe | Africa | Postcolonialism | ISBN 0-520-20434-4 |
| The other writing : postcolonial essays in Latin America's writing culture[103] | 1993 | Djelal Kadir | Latin America | Postcolonial literature, Postcolonialism in Latin America | ISBN 1-5575-3031-9 |
| Postcolonial Borges: Argument and Artistry | 2017 | Robin W. Fiddian | Latin America | Occidentalism, postcolonial literature | ISBN 9780198794714 |
| Postcolonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues[104] | 1990 | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Sarah Harasym | Postcolonial literature, literary Theory, philosophy | ISBN 0-4159-0170-7 |
| Post-Colonial Question: common skies, divided horizons[105] | 1999 | Iain Chambers, Lidia Curtis | Various | Nationalism, cultural pluralism | ISBN 0-4151-0857-8 |
| Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz | 2016 | Oliver Kozlarek | Latin America | Critical theory | ISBN 3319443011 |
| Post-Colonial Studies Reader[106] | 1995 | Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin | Various | Postcolonialism, postcolonial literature, imperialism, colonialism, decolonization | ISBN 0-415-09621-9 |
| Postcolonial Theory and the Arab–Israeli Conflict[107] | 2008 | Philip Carl Salzman and Donna Robinson Divine | Asia, Middle East | Postcolonialism, History of the Middle East | ISBN 0-4154-9576-8 |
| Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction[108] | 1998 | Leela Gandhi | Postcolonialism, Imagined community, Postcolonial feminism | ISBN 0-231-11273-4. |
| Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction[109] | 2001 | Robert J.C. Young | Various | Postcolonialism | ISBN 978-140512094-4 |
| Postcolonial concepts of hybridity and identity in Carlos Fuentes' "Aura" | 2012 | Antonia Lilie | Latin America | Latin American Studies | ISBN 3656111456 |
| Presentations of Postcolonialism: New Orientations[110] | 2007 | Jaydeep Sarangi | Asia, India | Postcolonial literature, Indian literature | ISBN 8-1727-3383-6 |
| Prospero and Caliban, the Psychology of Colonization[111] | 1990 | Octave Mannoni | Africa | Colonial mentality, psychological anthropology | ISBN 0-47206430-4 |
| Selected Subaltern Studies[112] | 1988 | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | Asia | Subaltern Studies | ISBN 0-195-05289-7 |
| Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness[113] | 1987 | Ashis Nandy | Various | Oppression, psychology | ISBN 0-1956-1988-9 |
| White Mythologies: Writing History and the West[114] | 1990 | Robert J.C. Young | Western culture | Postcolonialism, eurocentrism | ISBN 0-4153-1181-0 |
| Woman, Native, Other. Writing postcoloniality and feminism[115] | 1989 | Trinh T. Minh-ha | Postcolonial feminism | ISBN 0-2533-6603-8 |