Caribbean Fiction


Annie John
Lucy
A House for Mr Biswas
The Farming of Bones
The Dew Breaker (Vintage Contemporaries)
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Wide Sargasso Sea
A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Book of Night Women
Black Cake
Miguel Street (Vintage International)
The Kingdom of This World
Cereus Blooms at Night
The Long Song
Love After Love
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerKindred by Octavia E. ButlerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonRoots by Alex Haley
Best Black Historical Fiction
332 books — 307 voters
Mid Ocean by T. Rafael CiminoZero Defect by Aarohan AtwalOh Happy Day by Michelle Ragoonanan-AliThe Yard by Aliyyah EniathIn the Key of Nira Ghani by Natasha Deen
Indo-Caribbean Fiction
20 books — 15 voters

Next Year in Havana by Chanel CleetonWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysThe Summer Country by Lauren WilligIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezThe Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Historical Fiction - The Caribbean
75 books — 39 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,017 books — 1,458 voters

Monique Roffey
That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret. ...more
Monique Roffey, Archipelago