A Book About or Featuring Colonialism

Updated January 13, 2026
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The Message
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell--and the ones we don't--shape our realities. "Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a...
Enter ghost
Hammad, Isabella
Paper Book
Winner of the Aspen Words Literary Prize Winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year "Assured and formidable." -- Wall...
Rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U. S. history
Blackhawk, Ned
Paper Book
National Bestseller Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History * Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction * Winner of the 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize ...
Things fall apart
Achebe, Chinua.
Other
"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama "African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe." --Toni Morrison "A...
We had a little real estate problem : the unheralded story of Native Americans in comedy
Nesteroff, Kliph
Paper Book
A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire From Kliph Nesteroff, "the human encyclopedia of comedy" (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy. It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill's...
Heart of darkness
Conrad, Joseph
Paper Book
Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by Hellboy artist Mike Mignola.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Heart of Darkness is the thrilling tale...
The widows of Malabar Hill
Massey, Sujata
Paper Book
1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's first female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India's first female attorney, this is a richly...
Hum if you don't know the words
Marais, Bianca
Paper Book
Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation, but worlds apart, Beauty, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children after her husband's death....
Semiosis
Burke, Sue
Paper Book
Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance inSemiosis,acharacter driven science fiction novel of first contact bydebut author Sue Burke. 2019 Campbell Memorial Award Finalist 2019 Locus Finalist for Best Science Fiction...
WARRIOR GIRL UNEARTHED
BOULLEY, ANGELINE
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times bestseller! A #1 Indies Bestseller! Six Starred Reviews! #1 New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley takes us back to Sugar Island in this high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen...

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