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Purple Hibiscus
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Year of Publication: 2003, Central Themes: Religious Extremism, Family, and Tyranny
Season of Migration to the North
Author: Tayeb Salih, Year of Publication: 1966, Central Themes: Postcolonial Identity, Cultural Conflict, and Modernity
The Inheritance of Loss
Author: Kiran Desai, Year of Publication: 2006, Central Themes: Globalization, Nationalism, and Socio-economic disparity
The Interpreter of Maladies
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri, Year of Publication: 1999, Central Themes: Diaspora, Communication, and Alienation
The God of Small Things
Author: Arundhati Roy, Year of Publication: 1997, Central Themes: Social Discrimination, Family, and Forbidden Love
Disgrace
Author: J.M. Coetzee, Year of Publication: 1999, Central Themes: Post-Apartheid South Africa, Redemption, and Human Dignity
Wide Sargasso Sea
Author: Jean Rhys, Year of Publication: 1966, Central Themes: Colonialism, Identity, and Racial inequality
The Famished Road
Author: Ben Okri, Year of Publication: 1991, Central Themes: Spirit Child, Poverty, and Political Corruption
July's People
Author: Nadine Gordimer, Year of Publication: 1981, Central Themes: Apartheid, Power Dynamics, and Postcolonial Reality
Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe, Year of Publication: 1958, Central Themes: Colonialism, Tradition, and Change
Midnight's Children
Author: Salman Rushdie, Year of Publication: 1981, Central Themes: Partition of India, Identity, and Magical Realism
Death and the King's Horseman
Author: Wole Soyinka, Year of Publication: 1975, Central Themes: Duty, Conflict between Cultures, and Sacrifice
Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison, Year of Publication: 1987, Central Themes: Slavery, Motherhood, and Trauma
Cry, the Beloved Country
Author: Alan Paton, Year of Publication: 1948, Central Themes: Apartheid, Inequality, and Reconciliation
The Shadow Lines
Author: Amitav Ghosh, Year of Publication: 1988, Central Themes: Partition, Memory, and Borders
Homegoing
Author: Yaa Gyasi, Year of Publication: 2016, Central Themes: Family Saga, Slavery, and Colonialism
The Autobiography of My Mother
Author: Jamaica Kincaid, Year of Publication: 1996, Central Themes: Identity, Colonialism, and Motherless Women
Clear Light of Day
Author: Anita Desai, Year of Publication: 1980, Central Themes: Family, Memory, and Partition of India
A Passage to India
Author: E.M. Forster, Year of Publication: 1924, Central Themes: British Colonialism in India, Race Relations, and Friendship
Small Island
Author: Andrea Levy, Year of Publication: 2004, Central Themes: World War II Aftermath, Racism, and Immigration
Orientalism
Author: Edward W. Said, Year of Publication: 1978, Central Themes: Western Perception of the East, Cultural Stereotypes, and Imperialism
The Wretched of the Earth
Author: Frantz Fanon, Year of Publication: 1961, Central Themes: Decolonization, Violence, Psychological Effects of Colonization
Half of a Yellow Sun
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Year of Publication: 2006, Central Themes: Biafran War, Love, and Political Instability
Waiting for the Barbarians
Author: J.M. Coetzee, Year of Publication: 1980, Central Themes: Oppression, Empire, and The 'Other'
White Teeth
Author: Zadie Smith, Year of Publication: 2000, Central Themes: Multiculturalism, Family Histories, and Chance
The Lonely Londoners
Author: Sam Selvon, Year of Publication: 1956, Central Themes: Immigrant Experience, Racism, and Community
Nervous Conditions
Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Year of Publication: 1988, Central Themes: Patriarchy, Education, and Coming of Age
Annie John
Author: Jamaica Kincaid, Year of Publication: 1985, Central Themes: Coming of Age, Mother-Daughter Relationship, and Colonial Education
The Joys of Motherhood
Author: Buchi Emecheta, Year of Publication: 1979, Central Themes: Gender Roles, Colonial Influence, and Motherhood
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