The Caribbean Blog

Jamaica Kincaid – A small place, The autobiography of my mother, etc.
Joanne C. Hillhouse – The boy from willow bend, Dancing nude in the moonlight, oh Gad!
Marie-Elena John – Unburnable

Patricia J. Adams – Blue beans, Yellow dad
Montague Kobbe – The night of the rambler, On the way back.

Callie Browning – The girl with the hazel eyes
Jasmine Sealy – The island of forgetting
Paula Marshall – The fisher king
Karen Lord – Redemption in Indigo, Unravelling
Edward Brathwaite – Rights of Passage
George Lamming – In the castle of my skin
Geoffrey Drayton – The hill of fire glows red

Julien Ignacio – Hotel Atlantis (stageplay), Kus & Goudjakhals
Nydia Exury – Song for mother earth

Brooks Tessier – The girls from St. Barts and other tales

Wycliffe Smith – A voice from Windward
Beverly Whitefield – The island remembers

S. L. Sheppard – The left over daughters
Ernestia Fraser – Carnival of love
David Santos Donaldson – Greenland
Robert Antoni – As flies to whatless boys

Karla Suarez – Havana Year Zero
Mayra Montero – Captain of the sleepers
Gabriela Garcia – Of women and salt
Chanel Cleeton – Next year in Havana, When we left Cuba, The last train to key west
Meg Medina – The girl who could silence the wind
Daniel Jose Older – The book of lost saints
Daina Chaviano – The island of eternal love
Yoss – A planet for rent
Agustin de Rojas – The year 200
Mario Picayo – A very smart cat (children’s book)
Enrique Perez Diaz – The mysterious stones
Alejo Carpentier – Explosion in a cathedral

Frank Martinus Arion – Double Play, Farewell to the queen, Noble savages, The last freedom, The deserters, The eternal dog
Elis Juliana – Haiku in Papiamentu

Johanna Fernandez – The young lords: A radical history
Angie Cruz – Dominicana
Damien Shillingford – I am king
Alick Lazare – Pharcel: a runaway slave
Lennox Honychurch – Resistance, refuge, revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica
Jean Rhys – Postures, Wide Sargasso Sea

Elizabeth Acevedo – Family lore
Julia Alvarez – In the time of the butterflies, The cemetery of untold stories
Rita Indiana – Tentacle
Jean Oneli Blaise – Kushobi Origins (graphic novel)

Jacob Ross – The bone readers
Tobias S. Buckell – Crystal Rain
Audre Lorde – Sistser outsider, Zami: a new spelling of my name, Poetry is not a luxury

Maryse Conde – I, Tituba, Black witch of Salem, Victoire: My mother’s mother
Simone Schwarz-Bart – The bridge of beyond

Edwidge Danticat – The farming of bones
Myriam J. A. Chancy – What storm, What thunder & village weavers
Evelyne Trouillot – The infamous Rosalie
Jacques Roumain – Masters of the dew
Jean Oneli Blaise – Kushobi Origins (graphic novel)

Marlon James – The book of night women, Black leopard, red wolf
Nalo Hopkinson – Brown girl in the ring, Midnight robber
Donna Hemans – River woman
Kei Miller – Augustown
Courttia Newland – A river called time
Maisy Card – These ghosts are family
Diana McCaulay – Daylight come
Erna Brodber – Northing’s Mat and Mya!
Joan Rilet – The unbelonging
Roger Mais – Face and other stories, Most of all man
V. S. Reid – New Day
Orlando Patterson – The children of Sisyphus
Andrea Levy – Small island
Alvin Bennet God – The stonebreaker
John Hearne – Voices under the window
H. D. Delisser – Jane: a story of Jamaica, The white witch of risehall
Vernella Fuller – Unlike normal women
Kerry Young – Pao
Safiya Sunclair – How to say babylon
Lorna Goodison – From Harvey river
Curdella Forbes – A tall history of sugar
Jacqueline Crooks – Fire Rush
Jason Allen-Paisant – The possibility of tenderness: A Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams

Bertram Roach – Only god can make a tree
Carol Ottley-Mitchell – Adventure at Brimstone Hill (children’s fiction)
Caryl Phillips – Crossing the river, Higher Ground
Tregenza A. Roach – The lesson box
Rick Grant – Cobra Flight

Kathleen Bodden-Harris – Quest on the marl road
Joshua J. Dilbert – Vanilla & Vinegar: A memoir, The prodigal Caymanian

Eleanor Shearer – River sing me home
Glissant Garth St. Omer – Syrop, Room on the hill
Derek Walcott – In a green night: poems 1948-1960

Lsana M. Sekou – Born here, Hurricane Protocol, Brotherhood of the spurs
Ruby Bute – Golden voioces of S’maatin (poetry collection), Floral bouquets to the daughters of eve (poetry collection)
Deborah Jack – The rainy season (poetry collection), Skin (poetry collection)
Jean Oneli Blaise – Kushobi Origins (graphic novel)

Patrick Chamoiseau – Texaco, Creole Folktales
Frantz Fanon – The wretched of the earth, Black skin white masks
Joseph Zobel – La Rue Cases-Negres (Black shack alley or sugar cane alley)

Yvonne Weekes – Volcano
E. A. Markham – Human rites, Living in disguise, Towards the end of a century, Letter from Ultster & the Hugo Poems, Misapprehensions, A rough climate (poetry), Something unusual, Ten stories (short story collections), Marking time (novel)
Dorine S. O’Garro – Montserrate on my mind: tales of Montserrat, Miss Tillie
Sharmen Greenaway – Hope: compilation for Montserrat Twenty-five years after volcanic eruptions & Sabaka folk tales

Marisel Vera – The taste of sugar
Pedro Cabiya – Wicked weeds: a zombie novel
Cynthia Pelayo – We came from an island
Rafel Ocasio (editor) – Folk stories from the hills of Puerto Rico
Jorell Hellendez-Badillo – Puerto Rico: A natural history

Wycliffe Smith – Mind Adrift: The development of poetry in the Dutch windward islands, Nature, I love you
Charles Borromeo-Hodge – The rock ( a poem), Songs & images for St Martin

Debby-Lee V. Mills – The Turks and Caicos Islands: our heritage, our history
Tammarra Forbes (children’s fiction author) – Myiah’s Rainbow dress, Dear Miss Forbes, GiGi’s rainbow dress
Sabrina Green – Cracking the code: raising royalty: a new legacy memoir, The emotional storm: poems of love, loss & healing, Building wealth through homeownership

Vanessa Riley – Island queen, Sister mother warrior, Queen of exiles
Ayanna Lloud Banwo – When we were birds
Elizabeth Nunez – When rocks dance
Ira Mathur – Love the dark days
Brenda Flanagan – Allah in the islands
Dionne Brand – A map to the door of no return
Celeste Mohammed – Pleasantview
Jennifer Rahim – Ground level
C. L. R. James – Minty Alley
Michael Anthony – The year in San Fernando, The games were coming
Ingrid Persaud – The lost love songs of Boysie Singh
Andre Alexis – Pastoral
Marlene NourbeSe Philip – Zong!
Kevin Baldeosingh – The ten incarnations of adam avatar
Merle Hodge – Crick Crack Monkey, For the life of Laetitia
Samuel Selvon – The lonely Londoners
V. S. Naipaul – A house for Mr Biswas
Earl Lovelace – While Gods are falling
Suzan Palumbo – Countess

Merle Collins – Angel
H. Nigel Thomas – Spirits in the dark, No safeguards, Easily Fooled
Peggy Carr – Shape of a warrior
Phillip Nanton – Island voices, Canouan suite and other pieces, Frontiers of the Caribbean, The Shake Keane story
Cecil Browne – Feather your tingaling, And the earth drank deep & other stories, The moon is following me
Cecil “Blazer” Williams – When the water dried up, The crowd, In the mind, I can fly again, The man who came back
Shake Keane – The angel horn: collected poems
Alexis Keir – Windward family

Jennie N. Wheatley – Pass it on!: a treasury of virgin island tales
Richard Georges – Epiphaneia, Makes us all islands & giants

Cadwell Turnball – No Gods, no monsters, The lesson, We are the crisis
Tipahnie Yanique – The land of love and drowning, Monster in the middle
Barbara Christian – Wild women in the whirlwind, Black women novelist: the development of a tradition
Karrine Steffans – The vixen diaries
Kacen Callender – Hurricane child, King and the dragon flies, Moonflower (children’s fiction), This is kind of an epic love story, Felix ever after, Lark & Kasim start a revolution, Infinity alchemist, We are villians (young adult fiction), Queen of the conquered (fantasy), King of the rising, Sunset springs, Stars in your eyes
Alscess Lewis-Brown – Moko Jumbi Dreams, Promise of the pomegranate
Ector Roebuck & Lois Hassell-Habtes – Broo ‘Nansi and the tar baby: a U.S. Virgin islands story
Charlene Abramson Joseph – The vienna cake mystery
Ashley-Ruth Moolenaar Bernier – Sand, sea and poetry