Caribbean

The Caribbean is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands.

Because of a history of European colonization and immigration, the Atlantic slave trade from Africa, and indentured servitude from Asia, the modern Caribbean is one of the most ethnically diverse regions on the planet.

Wide Sargasso Sea
A Small Place
A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Black Cake
Annie John
Breath, Eyes, Memory
The Book of Night Women
In the Time of the Butterflies
A House for Mr Biswas
Lucy
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
The Mermaid of Black Conch
Here Comes the Sun
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
Sweet Hands by Ramin GaneshramThe Cuban Table by Ana Sofia PeláezThe Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking by Elisabeth Lambert OrtizThe Real Taste of Jamaica by Enid DonaldsonCocina criolla by Empresas Cucuye Inc.
Best Caribbean Cookbooks
111 books — 6 voters

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique RoffeyProspero's Daughter by Elizabeth NunezThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazThe Comedians by Graham GreeneJessamine by Eugenia O'Neal
Love and Politics in the Caribbean
14 books — 11 voters
Africa Risen by Sheree Renée ThomasA Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice CaldwellBlack Panther by Jesse J. HollandNew Daughters of Africa by Margaret BusbySycorax's Daughters by Kinitra Brooks
African Diaspora Anthology
14 books — 3 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonA Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. GainesDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Award-winning Black Fiction
51 books — 67 voters
King Mob by Christopher HibbertThimbles by David WisemanReform or Revolution? by Rosa LuxemburgThe Historical Literature of the Jack Cade Rebellion by Alexander L. KaufmanMidnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
Riotous Assemblies
110 books — 3 voters

People always ask me what is my favourite thing about Trinidad. It is a hard question because ! love the beaches and the music of Trinidad, but... I think the food is the best of all!
Bilqees Mohammed, Juanita : A bilingual children's book set in Trinidad and Tobago

Jamaica Kincaid
The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn't a bird. It is a woman who has removed her skin and is on her way to drink the blood of her secret enemies. It is a woman who has left her skin i a corner of a house made out of wood. It is a woman who is reasonable and admires honeybees in the hibiscus. ...more
Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River

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