It was a joy for us to collate your recommendations for the 100 Caribbean Books that Made Us on social media during our five-week campaign in 2020, and we want to recognise all the books that were named by you during the crowd-sourcing phase. The 308 titles that have “made” you, our audience, can be found in this catalogue. It may be the greatest list of Caribbean reads – find poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama and even a song book recommendation! – enjoy making your way through it!
A
- Abrahams, Peter – “This Island Now”
- Adam, Claire – “Golden Child” – Fiction, 2019
- Adisa, Ed. by Donna Weir Soley; Opal Palmer – “Caribbean Erotic”
- Alcantara, Amanda – “Chula”
- Alexis, Andre – “Fifteen Dogs”
- Alkins, Jeunanne – “Hatch”
- Allen-Agostini, Lisa – “Home Home” – Fiction,
- Allende, Isabel – “Island Beneath the Sea”
- Allfrey, Phyllis Shand – “The Orchid House”
- Als, Michael – “Love on the River Stone”
- Alsina, Marta Aponte – “Somos Islas: Ensayos de Camino”
- Anthony, Michael – “Green Days by the River” – Fiction, 1967
- Anthony, Michael – “In the Heat of the Day”
- Anthony, Michael – “King of the Masquerade”
- Anthony, Michael – “The Games Were Coming”
- Anthony, Michael – “The Year in San Fernando” – Fiction, 1965
- Antoni, Robert – “Divina Trace”
- Arenas, Reinaldo – “Antes que anochezca”
- Avila, Lorraine – “Malcriada & Other Stories”
B
- Bahadur, Gaiutra – “Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture” – Non-fiction, 2013
- Barrett, Lindsay – “Song for Mumu”
- Beckles, Hilary – “Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide”
- BenÃtez-Rojo, Antonio – “The Repeating Island (La isla que se repite)”
- Bennett-Coverley, Louise – “Jamaica Labrish” – Poetry, 1966
- Bennett, Alvin – “God the Stone Breaker”
- Best, Lloyd – “Independent Thought and Caribbean Freedom”
- Bhattacharya, Rahul – “The Sly Company of Those Who Care”
- Binch, Caroline – “Gregory Cool”
- Bishop, Jacqueline – “The Gymnast and Other Positions: Stories, Essays, Interviews”
- Bolivar, Simon – “Carta de Jamaica”
- Bourne, Shakirah – “My Fishy Stepmom”
- Brand, Dionne – “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging ” – Non-fiction, 2001
- Brand, Dionne – “At the Full and Change of the Moon”
- Brand, Dionne – “In Another Place, Not Here”
- Brand, Dionne – “Land to Light On”
- Brathwaite, Kamau – “Ancestors”
- Brathwaite, Kamau – “Barabajan Poems 1492-1992”
- Brathwaite, Kamau – “History of the Voice: The development of nation language in Anglophone Caribbean poetry”
- Brathwaite, Kamau – “The Arrivants: Rights of Passage, Islands, Masks: A New World Trilogy” – Poetry, 1973
- Brinkhurst-Cuff, Charlie – “Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children”
- Brodber, Edna – “Myal” 1988
- Brown, Ian McDonald & Stewart – “The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry”
- Brown, John Wickham; Stewart (ed.) – “The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories”
C
- Callender, Kheryn – “Hurricane Child” – Fiction, 2018
- Callender, Timothy – “It So Happen: Caribbean Short Stories”
- Capildeo, Vahni – “Measures of Expatriation” – Poetry, 2016
- Capildeo, Vahni – “No Traveller Returns”
- Carew, Jan – “Black Midas”
- Carew, Jan – “The Last Barbarian”
- Carpentier, Alejo – “El siglo de las luces (Explosion in a Cathedral)”
- Carpentier, Alejo – “The Kingdom of This World” 1949
- Carpentier, Alejo – “The Lost Steps (Los pasos perdidos)”
- Carrington, Roslyn – “Candy Don’t Come in Gray” – Fiction, 2002
- Carter, Martin – “Poems by Martin Carter” – Poetry, 2006
- Carter, Martin – “University of Hunger: Collected Poems and Selected Prose”
- Carty-Williams, Candice – “Queenie”
- Castro, Fidel – “Che: A Memoir” – Non-fiction, 1994
- Césaire, Aimé – “Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (Return to My Native Land)” – Poetry, 1939
- Césaire, Aimé – “Discourse on Colonialism” – Non-fiction, 1950
- Chamoiseau, Patrick – “Texaco”
- Channer, Colin – “The Girl with the Golden Shoes”
- Chariandy, David – “Soucouyant”
- Chin, Staceyann – “The Other Side of Paradise”
- Clarke, Austin – “Growing up Stupid Under the Union Jack”
- Clarke, Austin – “The Meeting Point: The Toronto Trilogy”
- Clarke, Austin – “The Polished Hoe”
- Clarke, Edith – “My Mother who Fathered Me” – Non-fiction, 1957
- Collins Klobah, Loretta – “The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman”
- Collins, Merle – “Angel”
- Collins, Merle – “The Colour of Forgetting”
- Condé, Maryse – “I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem” – Fiction, 1986
- Condé, Maryse – “Ségou (Segu)” – Fiction, 1996
- Cooper, Carolyn – “Noises in the Blood”
- Cruz, Victor Hernandez – “The Mountain in the Sea”
D
- D’Aguiar, Fred – “Feeding the Ghosts”
- D’Aguiar, Fred – “Mama Dot”
- D’Costa, Jean – “Escape to Last Man Peak”
- D’Costa, Jean – “Sprat Morrison”
- Danticat, Edwidge – “Breath, Eyes, Memory” – Fiction, 1994
- Danticat, Edwidge – “Brother, I’m Dying”
- Danticat, Edwidge – “Krik? Krak!”
- Danticat, Edwidge – “The Dew Breaker”
- Danticat, Edwidge – “The Farming of Bones” – Fiction, 1998
- Das, Mahadai – “A Leaf in His Ear”
- Dawes, Kwame – “Prophets”
- de Boissiere, Ralph – “Rum and Coca-Cola”
- de Lisser, Herbert G. – “Jane’s Career: A Story of Jamaica”
- de Lisser, Herbert G. – “Susan Proudleigh”
- Dennis-Benn, Nicole – “Here Comes the Sun” – Fiction, 2016
- Depestre, René – “Hadriana Dans Tous Mes Rêves (Hadriana In All My Dreams)”
- Diaz, Junot – “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”
- Dicent, Juan – “Winterness (Short stories)” – Fiction, 2012
- Douglas, Marcia – “Madam Fate”
- Douglas, Marcia – “The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: a novel in bass riddim”
- Drayton, Geoffrey – “Christopher”
E
- Edgell, Zee – “Beka Lamb” – Fiction, 1982
- Ellis, Garfield – “For Nothing At All”
- Eniath, Aliyyah – “The Yard” – Fiction, 2016
F
- Fanon, Frantz – “Black Skin, White Masks” – Non-fiction, 1952
- Fanon, Frantz – “The Wretched of the Earth”
- Febres, Mayra Santos – “Anamú y manigua”
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh – “The Violins of Saint-Jacques”
- Forbes, Curdella – “A Tall History of Sugar”
- Foster, Cecil – “No Man in the House”
- Franco, Jennifer – “When the Ti-Marie Closes”
- Frontin, Jeanelle – “The Eld Queen”
G
- Garvey, Marcus – “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”
- Gegele, A-Dziko Simba – “All Over Again”
- Georges, Richard – “Giant” – Poetry, 2018
- Giuseppi, Neville and Undine – “Backfire: A Collection of Caribbean Short Stories”
- Giuseppi, Neville and Undine – “Out for Stars: An Anthology of Poetry for Caribbean Secondary Schools”
- Glissant, Édouard – “Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays” – Non-fiction, 1989
- Glissant, Édouard – “Poetics of Relation”
- Gonsalves, Ralph – “Diary of a Prime Minister: Ten Days Among Benedictine Monks” – Non-fiction, 2010
- Gonsalves, Ralph – “The Making of”The Comrade”: The Political Journey of Ralph Gonsalves : An Autobiographical Sketch of a Caribbean Prime Minister” – Non-fiction, 2010
- Goodison, Lorna – “By Love Possessed: Stories” – Fiction, 2012
- Goodison, Lorna – “Heartease”
- Goodison, Lorna – “I Am Becoming My Mother”
- Goodison, Lorna – “Selected Poems” – Poetry, 1992
- Guillén, Nicolás – “West Indies, Ltd.” – Poetry, 1934
H
- Harold, Gwyneth – “Something Special: A YA Novel”
- Harris, Wilson – “Eternity to Season”
- Harris, Wilson – “Palace of the Peacock” 1960
- Herbert, Angela – “A Short Holiday: A collection of short stories”
- Hill, Errol – “Trinidad Carnival: Mandate for a National Theatre”
- Hippolyte, Kendel – “Wordplanting”
- Hodge, Merle – “Crick Crack, Monkey”
- Hodge, Merle – “For the Life of Laetitia” – Fiction, 1993
- Hopkinson, Nalo – “Brown Girl in the Ring”
- Hopkinson, Nalo – “Midnight Robber ” – Fiction, 2000
- Hopkinson, Nalo – “Skin Folk”
- Hosein, Kevin Jared – “The Beast of Kukuyo” – Fiction, 2018
I
- Indiana, Rita – “Papi” – Fiction, 2016
J
- James, C.L.R. – “Beyond a Boundary” – Non-fiction, 1963
- James, C.L.R. – “Letters from London: Seven Essays”
- James, C.L.R. – “Minty Alley”
- James, C.L.R. – “The Black Jacobins” – Non-fiction, 1938
- James, Marlon – “The Book of Night Women” – Fiction, 2009
- James, Marlon James – “A Brief History of Seven Killings” – Fiction, 2014
- John, Errol – “Moon on a Rainbow Shawl”
- John, Marie-Elena – “Unburnable “
- Jones, Marion Patrick – “Pan Beat”
K
- Keens-Douglas, Paul – “Tanti at de Oval: Selected Works of Paul Keen-Douglas”
- Kempadoo, Oonya – “Buxton Spice”
- Khan, Ismith – “The Jumbie Bird”
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “A Small Place” 1988
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “Annie John” – Fiction, 1985
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “At the Bottom of the River” 1983
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “Lucy”
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel”
L
- Ladoo, Harold Sonny – “No Pain Like This Body”
- Laferriére, Dany – “I Am a Japanese Writer (Je suis un écrivain japonais)”
- Lalla, Barbara – “Uncle Brother” – Fiction, 2014
- Lamming, George – “In the Castle of My Skin” – Fiction, 1953
- Levi, Anna – “Madinah Girl”
- Levy, Andrea – “Every Light in the House Burnin'”
- Levy, Andrea – “Fruit of the Lemon”
- Levy, Andrea – “Never Far Away From Nowhere”
- Levy, Andrea – “Small Island” – Fiction, 2004
- Levy, Andrea – “The Long Song” – Fiction, 2010
- Lewis, Gordon – “The Growth of the Modern West Indies”
- Lewis, Rupert – “Marcus Garvey: Anti-colonial Champion”
- Lord, Karen – “Redemption in Indigo”
- Lord, Karen – “The Best of All Possible Worlds”
- Lord, Shirley – “Golden Hill: A Novel”
- Lorde, Audre – “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name”
- Lovelace, Earl – “A Brief Conversation and other stories”
- Lovelace, Earl – “Is Just A Movie”
- Lovelace, Earl – “Salt”
- Lovelace, Earl – “The Dragon Can’t Dance” – Fiction, 1979
- Lovelace, Earl – “The Schoolmaster” – Fiction, 1979
- Lovelace, Earl – “The Wine of Astonishment ” – Fiction, 1982
- Lovelace, Earl – “While Gods are Falling”
- Lovell, Glenville – “Fire in the Canes”
- Lovell, Glenville – “Going Home in Chains – stories”
- Lubrin, Canisia – “Voodoo Hypothesis” – Fiction, 2019
M
- Mais, Roger – “Brother Man” – Fiction, 1954
- Mais, Roger – “The Hills Were Joyful Together” – Fiction, 1953
- Manley, Rachel – “Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood”
- Manley, Rachel – “Horses in Her Hair: A Granddaughter’s Story”
- Márquez, Gabriel GarcÃa – “Crónica de una muerte anunciada”
- Marshall, Paule – “Brown Girl, Brownstones”
- Marshall, Paule – “Praisesong for the Widow”
- Marshall, Paule – “The Chosen Place, The Timeless People”
- McCallum, Shara – “Madwoman” – Poetry, 2017
- McCaulay, Diana – “Dog-Heart”
- McDonald, Ian – “The Hummingbird Tree” – Fiction, 1969
- McKay, Claude – “Banana Bottom” 1933
- McKay, Claude – “Long Way From Home”
- McLeod, Cynthia – “De Vrije Negerin Elisabeth (The Free Negress Elisabeth)”
- McNeill, Anthony – “Reel from”The Life-Movie””
- McWatt, Mark – “Suspended Sentences” – Fiction, 1988-1993
- Melville, Pauline – “The Ventriloquist’s Tale” – Fiction, 1997
- Millar, Sharon – “The Whale House and Other Stories”
- Miller, Kei – “Augustown” – Fiction, 2016
- Miller, Kei – “The Last Warner Woman” 2010
- Mittelholzer, Edgar – “My Bones and My Flute”
- Mittelholzer, Edgar – “The Kaywana Trilogy”
- Mootoo, Shani – “Cereus Blooms at Night” – Fiction, 1996
- Mootoo, Shani – “He Drown She in the Sea” – Fiction, 2006
- Mootoo, Shani – “Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab”
- Mootoo, Shani – “Valmiki’s Daughter”
- Morris, Mervyn – “The Pond “
- Mutabaruka, (Allan Hope) – “The Book: First Poems / The Next Poems” – Poetry, 2005
N
- Naipaul, V.S. – “A House for Mr Biswas” – Fiction, 1961
- Naipaul, V.S. – “Guerillas”
- Naipaul, V.S. – “Miguel Street ” – Fiction, 1959
- Naipaul, V.S. – “The Enigma of Arrival”
- Naipaul, V.S. – “The Loss of El Dorado”
- Naipaul, V.S. – “The Middle Passage” – Non-fiction, 1963
- Naipaul, V.S. – “The Mimic Men” – Fiction, 1967
- Naipaul, V.S. – “The Mystic Masseur”
- Naipaul, V.S. – “The Return of Eva Peron, with the Killings in Trinidad”
- Nettleford, Rex – “Mirror, Mirror: Identity, Race & Protest in Jamaica”
- Nichols, Grace – “I is a Long Memoried Woman”
- Norat, Vanessa Vilches – “GeografÃas de lo perdido”
- Nunez, Elizabeth – “Bruised Hibiscus”
- Nunez, Elizabeth – “Prospero’s Daughter” – Fiction, 2006
P
- Palmer Adisa, Opal – “4-Headed Woman: Poems”
- Palmer Adisa, Opal – “Bake Face and Other Guava Stories”
- Palmer Adisa, Opal – “It Begins with Tears”
- Palmer Adisa, Opal – “Until Judgement Comes: Stories about Jamaican Men”
- Palmer, C. Everard – “A Cow Called Boy”
- Palmer, C. Everard – “My Father, Sun-Sun Johnson”
- Palmer, C. Everard – “The Wooing of Beppo Tate” – Fiction, 1972
- Patterson, Orlando – “The Children of Sisyphus” – Fiction, 2012
- Persaud, Ingrid – “Love after Love”
- Philip, Marlene Nourbese – “Coups and Calypsos: A Play”
- Philip, Marlene Nourbese – “Harriet’s Daughter” – Fiction, 1988
- Philip, Marlene Nourbese – “Zong!”
- Phillips, Caryl – “Crossing the River”
- Phillips, Lincoln A – “Rising Above and Beyond the Crossbar: The Life Story of Lincoln”Tiger”Phillips”
- Philoctete, Rene – “Massacre River”
- Philogene, Shirla – “Between Two Worlds: A Narrative”
- Powell, Colin – “My American Journey”
- Prado-Núñez, Viviana – “The Art of White Roses” – Fiction, 2018
- Prince, Althea – “Loving this Man”
- Pryce, Ken – “Endless Pressure: A Study of WI life-styles in Bristol”
R
- Rahim, Jennifer – “Ground Level” – Poetry, 2014
- Ramlochan, Shivanee – “Everyone Knows I Am A Haunting”
- Rankine, Claudia – “Citizen: An American Lyric”
- Rankine, Claudia – “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric”
- Reid, V.S. – “The Leopard” – Fiction, 1958
- Reid, V.S. – “The Young Warriors”
- Rhone, Trevor – “Smile Orange”
- Rhys, Jean – “Voyage in the Dark” – Fiction, 1934
- Rhys, Jean – “Wide Sargasso Sea” – Fiction, 1966
- Richards, Sparkle – “Moka”
- Roach, Eric M. – “The Flowering Rock”
- Robinson, Roger – “A Portable Paradise”
- Rodney, Walter – “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” – Non-fiction, 1972
- Rodney, Walter – “The Groundings with My Brother” – Non-fiction, 1971
- Roffey, Monique – “House of Ashes” – Fiction, 2014
- Roffey, Monique – “The White Woman on a Green Bicycle”
- Rohlehr, Gordon – “My Whole Life is Calypso”
- Ross, Jacob – “Pynter Bender” – Fiction, 2008
- Ross, Jacob – “The Bone Readers”
- Roumain, Jacques – “Gouverneurs de la rosée (Masters of the Dew)”
- Rudder, David – “Song Book”
S
- Salkey, Andrew – “Georgetown Journal – A Caribbean Writer’s Journey from London via Port of Spain to Georgetown, Guyana 1970”
- Sánchez, Luis Rafael – “La guaracha del Macho Camacho”
- Santimanitay
- Schwarz-Bart, Simone – “Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle (The bridge of beyond)” – Fiction, 1972
- Scott, Beverley-Ann – “Is America She Gone?”
- Scott, Beverley-Ann – “The Stolen Cascadura”
- Scott, Dennis – “Uncle Time”
- Selvon, Sam – “A Brighter Sun” – Fiction, 1952
- Selvon, Sam – “The Lonely Londoners” 1956
- Selvon, Sam – “Those Who Eat the Cascadura” – Fiction, 1972
- Selvon, Sam – “Turn Again Tiger”
- Selvon, Sam – “Ways of Sunlight” – Fiction, 1957
- Senior, Olive – “Dying to Better Themselves”
- Senior, Olive – “Gardening in the Tropics” – Poetry, 1994
- Senior, Olive – “Summer Lightning and Other Stories”
- Senior, Olive – “The Pain Tree”
- Seymour, A.J. – “Collected Poems ” – Poetry,
- Shah, Ryhaan – “A Silent Life” – Fiction, 2005
- Sherlock, Philip – “West Indian Folk Tales”
- Side by Side We Stand””
- Smith, Keith – “The Best of Keith Smith”
- Sobion, Justin – “The West Indian Lawyer”
- Springer, Pearl Eintou – “Out of the Shadows”
T
- Taghaboni, Nathalie – “Across From Lapeyrouse: The Savanoy Trilogy”
- Thompson, Krista A. – “An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque”
V
- Vega, Ana Lydia – “Encancaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio”
- Vieux-Chauvet, Marie – “Amour, Colère, Folie (Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy)” – Fiction, 1968
- Vieux-Chauvet, Marie – “Dance on the Volcano”
W
- Walcott, Derek – “Another Life”
- Walcott, Derek – “Collected Poems 1948-1984”
- Walcott, Derek – “Dream on Monkey Mountain” – Play, 1970
- Walcott, Derek – “Omeros ” – Poetry, 1990
- Walcott, Derek – “Sea Grapes”
- Walcott, Derek – “The Arkansas Testament”
- Walcott, Derek – “The Star-Apple Kingdom (includes”The Schooner Flight”)” – Poetry, 1979
- Walcott, Derek – “Ti Jean and His Brothers”
- Walcott, Derek – “What the Twilight Says”
- Walcott, Derek – “White Egrets”
- Walcott, Derek Walcott – “Selected Poems (ed. Edward Baugh)” – Poetry, 2007
- Webley-Brown, Carol – “My Mother’s Story, My Story, Our Story”
- Weir Soley, Donna – “First Rain”
- Wiliams, Eric Williams – “From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969” – Non-fiction, 1970
- Williams, Edison T. – “Facing North: Tales from Bathsheba”
- Williams, Eric – “Capitalism and Slavery” – Non-fiction, 1944
- Williams, Eric – “The Negro in the Caribbean”
- Winkler, Anthony C. – “Going Home to Teach” – Non-fiction, 1995
- Wong, Dwayne (Omowale) – “The Political and Intellectual Legacy of Walter Rodney” – Non-fiction, 2016
- Wynter, Sylvia – “The Hills of Hebron” – Fiction, 1962
Y
- Yanique, Tiphanie – “How to Escape from a Leper Colony: A Novella and stories”
- Yanique, Tiphanie – “Land of Love and Drowning”
Z
- Zobel, Joseph – “La rue Cases-Nègres (Black Shack Alley)”