This is the Canon. Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books

INTRODUCTION
Decolonizing Your Bookshelf: Introducing This is the
Canon
Decolonizing the Canon: Welcoming Diversity
THE CANON
1 Love in a Fallen City and Other Stories Eileen
Chang (1943)
2 All About H. Hatterr: A Gesture G V Desani
(1948)
3 Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata (1952)
4 The Lost Steps Alejo Carpentier (1953)
5 The Lonely Londoners Sam Selvon (1956)
6 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe (1958)
7 Children of the New World: A Novel of the
Algerian War Assia Djebar (1962)
8 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys (1966)
9 A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1967)
10 The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born Ayi
Kwei Armah (1968)
11 The Bridge of Beyond Simone Schwarz-Bart
(1972)
12 A Question of Power Bessie Head (1974)
13 If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin
(1974)
14 Between Two Worlds Miriam Tlali (1975)
15 Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi
(1975)
16 Our Sister Killjoy: Or Reflections from a
Black-eyed Squint Ama Ata Aidoo (1977)
17 Territory of Light Yuko Tsushima (1979)
18 Kindred Octavia E. Butler (1979)
19 The Joys of Motherhood Buchi Emecheta
(1979)
20 So Long a Letter Mariama Ba (1980)
21 The Color Purple Alice Walker (1982)
22 Segu Maryse Conde (1984)
23 Annie John Jamaica Kincaid (1985)
24 Beloved Toni Morrison (1987)
25 Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga
(1988)
26 Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
Sandra Cisneros (1991)
27 Texaco Patrick Chamoiseau (1992)
28 Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat
(1994)
29 Discerner of Hearts and Other Stories Olive
Senior (1995)
30 Salt Earl Lovelace (1996)
31 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
(1997)
32 Trumpet Jackie Ray (1998)
33 The Years with Laura Diaz Carlos Fuentes
(1999)
34 The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories
Albert Wendt (1999)
35 Monkey Beach Eden Robinson (2000)
36 The Emperors Babe: A Novel Bernardine
Evaristo (2001)
37 Dogside Story Patricia Grace (2001)
38 Shell Shaker LeAnne Howe (2001)
39 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini (2003)
40 Small Island Andrea Levy (2004)
41 Dancing in the Dark Caryl Phillips (2005)
42 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie (2006)
43 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga (2008)
44 In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal
Mueenuddin (2009)
45 How to Read the Air Dinaw Mengestu (2010)
46 NW Zadie Smith (2012)
47 The Swan Book Alexis Wright (2013)
48 A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
(2014)
49 The Sellout Paul Beatty (2015)
50 The White Girl Tony Birch (2019)
AFTERWORD
Decolonizing the Literary World
About the Authors
Acknowledgements