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Introduction -- Decolonizing your bookshelf: Introducing this is the canon -- Decolonizing the canon: Welcoming diversity -- The canon -- Love in a fallen city and other stories, Eileen Chang (1943) -- All about H. Hatterr: A Gesture, G V Desani (1948) -- Thousand cranes, Yasunari Kawabata (1952) -- The lost steps, Alejo Carpentier (1953) -- The lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon (1956) -- Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe (1958) -- Children of the new world: A novel of the Algerian war, Assia Djebar (1962) -- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966) -- A grain of wheat, Ngig) wa Thiong'o (1967) -- The beautiful ones are not yet born, Ayi Kwei Armah (1968) -- The bridge of beyond, Simone Schwarz-Bart (1972) -- A question of power, Bessie Head (1974) -- If Beale street could talk, James Baldwin (1974) -- Between two worlds, Miriam Tlali (1975) -- Woman at point zero, Nawal El Saadawi (1975) -- Our sister killjoy: Or reflections from a black-eyed squint, Ama Ata Aidoo (1977) -- Territory of light, Yuko Tsushima (1979) - Kindred, Octavia E. Butler (1979) -- The joys of motherhood, Buchi Emecheta (1979) -- So long a letter, Mariama Ba (1980) -- The color purple, Alice Walker (1982) - Segu, Maryse Conď (1984) -- Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid (1985) - Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987) -- Nervous conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988) -- Woman Hollering Creek and other stories, Sandra Cisneros (1991) - Texaco, Patrick Chamoiseau (1992) -- Breath, eyes, memory, Edwidge Danticat (1994) -- Discerner of hearts and other stories, Olive Senior (1995) - Salt, Earl Lovelace (1996) -- The God of small things, Arundhati Roy (1997) - Trumpet, Jackie Kay (1998) -- The years with Laura Diaz, Carlos Fuentes (1999) -- The best of Albert Wendt's short stories, Albert Wendy (1999) -- Monkey beach, Eden Robinson (2000) -- The emperor's babe: A novel, Bernardine Evaristo (2001) -- Dogside story, Patricia Grace (2001) -- Shell Shaker, LeAnne Howe (2001) -- The kite runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003) -- Small island, Andrea Levy (2004) -- Dancing in the dark, Caryl Phillips (2005) -- Half of a yellow sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006) -- The white tiger, Aravind Adiga (2008) -- In other rooms, other wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin (2009) -- How to read the air, Dinaw Mengestu (2010) - NW, Zadie Smith (2012) -- The swan book, Alexis Wright (2013) -- A brief history of seven killings, Marlon James (2014) -- The sellout, Paul Beatty (2015) -- The white girl, Tony Birch (2019).
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