Postcolonial Theory in 100 Texts

The following books are the top 100 books in postcolonial theory (followed by additional recommendations).
The list is subjective and idiosyncratic, and, quite possibly, completely wrong.

The list is in alphabetical order by author. The list is the grounding for an annotated and curated online bibliography for Oxford University Press.
Let me know your thoughts.

Abu-Lughod, Janet. Before European Hegemony. 
Achebe, Chinua. “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness"
Afzal-Khan, Fawzia and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, eds. The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies. 
Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory. 
Ahmed, Sara. Strange Encounters. 
Al-e-Ahmad, Jalal. Occidentosis: A Plague from the West.
Amin, Shahid. Event, Metaphor, Memory. 
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities.
Appadurai, Arjun. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy"
Appadurai, Arjun and Carol Breckenridge. “Why Public Culture?”
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. In My Father’s House. 
Aravamudan, Srinivas. Tropicopolitans. 
Arondekar, Anjali. For the Record. 
Asad, Talal. Formations of the Secular.

Baucom, Ian. Specters of the Atlantic. 
Benhabib, Seyla. Another Cosmopolitanism. 
Benitez-Rojo, Antonio. The Repeating Island. 
Beverley, John. Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory.
Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. 
Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia. 
Brennan, Timothy. At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now. 

Cabral, Amilcar. “National Liberation and Culture"
Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. 
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe. 
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “The Climate of History: Four Theses."
Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and its Fragments.
Cheah, Pheng and Bruce Robbins, eds. Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation. 
Clifford, James and George Marcus, eds. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. 

Devji, Faisal. The Impossible Indian. 
Dirlik, Arif. “The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism"

Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. 
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin White Masks. 

Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory: An Introduction. 
Gandhi, Leela. Affective Communities. 
Gandhi, Leela. The Common Cause. 
Gandhi, M.K. and Anthony Parel (ed.). Hind Swaraj. 
Gaonkar, D. (ed.) (2001). Alternative Modernities. 
Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement. 
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic. 
Glissant, Édouard. The Poetics of Relation. 
Goldberg, D.T., Quayson, A., eds. Relocating Postcolonialism. 
Guha, Ranajit, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, eds. Selected Subaltern Studies. 

Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora"
Harlow, Barbara and Mia Carter, eds. Archives of Empire. 
Hook, Derek. A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial. 

James, C.L.R. Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways. 
James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins. 

Lamming, George. The Pleasures of Exile. 
Lazarus, Neil. The Postcolonial Unconscious. 
Legg, Stephen. Prostitution and the Ends of Empire.
Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism.
Loomba, Ania, Suvir Kaul, Matt Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, Jed Etsy, eds. Postcolonial Studies and Beyond. 
Lowe, Lisa. The Intimacies of Four Continents. 
Lugones, Maria. Peregrinajes/Pilgrimages.

Mamdani, Mahmood. Citizen and Subject. 
Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety.
Mannoni, Octave. Prospero and Caliban. 
Masuzawa, Tomoko. The Invention of World Religions. 
Mbembe, Achille. On the Postcolony. 
Mbembe, Achille. Critique of Black Reason. 
McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather. 
McKittrick, Katherine, ed. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis. 
Mehta, Uday Singh. Liberalism and Empire. 
Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized. 
Mignolo, Walter. The Darker Side of the Renaissance. 
Mitchell, Timothy and Anupama Rao, et. al., “Mission Statement and Responses"
Mohanty, Chandra Tapalde. Feminism Without Borders. 
Moraña, Mabel, Enrique D. Dussel, Carlos A. Jáuregui, eds. Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate. 

Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy. 
Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Decolonising the Mind. 
Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. 

Perry, Benita. “Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse.”
Povinelli, Elizabeth. The Cunning of Recognition. 
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. 
Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages. 

Quijano, Aníbal. “Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality."

Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder. Real and Imagined Women. 
Robinson, Cedric. Black Marxism. 
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children. 

Said, Edward. Reflections on Exile and Other Essays. 
Said, Edward. Humanism and Democratic Critique. 
Said, Edward. Orientalism.
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. 
Scott, David. Refashioning Futures. 
Scott, David. Conscripts of Modernity. 
Senghor, Leopold Sedar. “Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth-Century" 
Shohat, Ella. “Notes on the ‘Post-Colonial’” 
Skaria, Ajay. Unconditional Equality. 
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” 
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Critique of Postcolonial Reason. 
Stoler, Ann Laura. Race and the Education of Desire.

Wilder, Gary. Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World. 
Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery. 
Williams, Patrick and Laura Chrisman, eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory. 

Viswanathan, Gauri. Masks of Conquest. 
Viswanathan, Gauri. Outside the Fold. 

Young, Robert J.C. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. 
Young, Robert J.C. Postcolonial Theory: A Very Short Introduction. 
Young, Robert J.C. “Postcolonial Remains"

Additional Recommendations

[updated 24 August 2021]

Abbas, Ackbar. Hong Kong.
Abu-Lughod, Lila. Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large.
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffins, and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back.

Balibar, Étienne. We the People of Europe?
Banerjee, Prathama. Elementary Aspects of the Political
Burton, Antoinette and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, eds. Archive Stories.

Cabral, Amilcar. Resistance and Decolonisation. 
Carby, Hazel. Imperial Intimacies.
Césaire, Aimé. Notebook of my Return to the Native Land.
Chow, Rey. Not Like a Native Speaker.
Chow, Rey. The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Comaroff John and Jean Comaroff. Of Revelation and Revolution.
Cooper, Fredrick. Colonialism in Question.
Coronil, Fernando. “Elephants in the Americas?"

Dirks, Nicholas, ed. Colonialism and Culture.
Dirlik, Arif. “Is There History After Eurocentrism?”

Galeano, Eduardo. Open Veins. 
Gandhi, Leela. “The Pauper’s Gift”
Glissant, Édouard. Caribbean Discourse.  
Guha, Ranajit. Elements of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India

Hall, Stuart. Stranger Familiar.
Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection.
Hartman, Saidiya. Lose Your Mother.

Jaaware, Aniket. Practicing Caste.
JanMohammed, Abdul. Manichean Aesthetics.

Kakir, Sudhir. The Colors of Violence.

Maclean, Kama and J. Daniel Elam. “Who is a Revolutionary?”
Mani, Lata. Contentious Traditions.
Mantena, Karuna. Alibis of Empire. 
Melas, All the Difference in the World.
Mitchell, Timothy. Colonising Egypt.
Mudimbe, V.Y., The Invention of Africa.

Reddy, Gayatri. With Respect to Sex.

Said, Edward. The World, the Text, the Critic.
Sartre, Jean Paul. Black Orpheus.
Scott, J. Barton. Spiritual Despots.
Shih, Shu-mei. The Lure of the Modern.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. The Death of a Discipline
Stoler, Ann Laura. Along the Archival Grain.

Taylor, Christopher. Empire of Neglect.
Todorov, Tzvetan. Conquest of the Americas.
Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Woman, Native, Other.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past.

Wenzel, Jennifer. Bulletproof.
Wenzel, Jennifer. The Disposition of Nature.
Wolf, Eric. Europe and the People Without History.

Young, Robert J.C. White Mythologies.