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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 • 28 Readers • 346 pages 4

#2

All About H. Hatterr

1948 • 8 Readers • 316 pages

#3

Thousand Cranes

1952 • 39 Readers • 147 pages 3.8

#4

The Lost Steps

1991 • 3 Readers • 294 pages

#5

The Lonely Londoners

1956 • 34 Readers • 156 pages 3.5

#6

Things Fall Apart

1958 • 591 Readers • 185 pages 3.6

#8

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966 • 241 Readers • 189 pages 3.4

#9

A Grain of Wheat

1967 • 24 Readers • 247 pages 5

#10

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

1968 • 11 Readers • 196 pages 4

#11

The Bridge of Beyond

1972 • 3 Readers • 246 pages

#12

A Question of Power

2012 • 6 Readers • 223 pages 1

#13

If Beale Street Could Talk

1974 • 171 Readers • 225 pages 4.3

#14

Between Two Worlds

1979 • 2 Readers • 232 pages 4

#15

Woman at Point Zero

1975 • 46 Readers 4

#16

Our Sister Killjoy

1977 • 5 Readers • 134 pages 5

#17

Territory of Light

1978 • 57 Readers • 122 pages 3.6

#18

Kindred

1979 • 799 Readers • 292 pages 4.3

#19

Joys of Motherhood: A Novel

1979 • 8 Readers • 224 pages 4

#20

So Long a Letter

1980 • 26 Readers 3.6

#21

The Color Purple

1976 • 808 Readers • 288 pages 4.1

#23

Annie John

1985 • 28 Readers • 164 pages 3.7

#24

Beloved

1987 • 752 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

#25

Nervous Conditions

1988 • 45 Readers • 212 pages 3.7

#26

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

1991 • 18 Readers • 196 pages 3.5

#27

#28

Breath, Eyes, Memory

1994 • 27 Readers • 234 pages 3.6

#30

Cover 6

3 Readers

#31

The God of Small Things

1997 • 474 Readers • 344 pages 3.9

#32

Trumpet

21 Readers 4.3

#33

The Years with Laura Diaz

2012 • 3 Readers • 528 pages 4.5

#35

Monkey Beach

2000 • 36 Readers • 386 pages 4

#36

The Emperor's Babe

2004 • 13 Readers • 276 pages 2.7

#37

Dogside Story

2001 • 2 Readers • 312 pages

#38

Shell shaker

2001 • 227 pages

#39

The Kite Runner

1969 • 1,423 Readers • 401 pages 4.2

#40

Small Island

2004 • 52 Readers • 441 pages 3.8

#42

Half of a Yellow Sun

2006 • 288 Readers • 541 pages 4.2

#43

The White Tiger

2008 • 204 Readers • 292 pages 3.8

#44

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

2009 • 17 Readers • 247 pages 3.5

#45

How to Read the Air

2010 • 6 Readers • 320 pages

#46

NW

2012 • 95 Readers • 338 pages 3.6

#47

The Swan Book

2013 • 13 Readers 3

#48

A Brief History of Seven Killings

2014 • 179 Readers • 688 pages 4.1

#49

The Sellout

2015 • 220 Readers • 289 pages 3.8

#50

The White Girl

2019 • 8 Readers • 320 pages