The Caribbean: A Suggested Reading List

Explore the best books about the Caribbean with our curated reading list. Discover must-read novels, histories, and travel guides to immerse yourself in Caribbean culture, history, and landscapes.

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Masters of the Dew

by Jacques Roumain

This outstanding Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought.
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Krik? Krak!

by Edwidge Danticat

When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In Krik? Krak! In her second novel, Edwidge Danticat establishes herself …
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Breath, Eyes, Memory

by Edwidge Danticat

Oprah's Book Club.
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The Farming of Bones

by Edwidge Danticat

Memorializing the forgotten victims of ethnic cleansing in Haiti in the 1930s, this novel revolves around a Haitian-born servant girl and her lover, an itinerant …
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The Dew Breaker

by Edwidge Danticat

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "brilliant book, undoubtedly the best one yet by an enormously talented writer” (The Washington Post Book World), about love, remorse, and …
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In the Time of the Butterflies

by Julia Alvarez

Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three …
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Texaco

by Patrick Chamoiseau

"Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) …
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The wretched of the earth

 

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