Big Books of 2026

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Between Two Seasons by I.J. BoodhooThe Dragon Can't Dance by Earl LovelaceCaribbean New Voices 1 by Stewart BrownConsolation by Earl G. LongSatellite City by Alecia McKenzie
Longman Caribbean Writers
26 books — 2 voters
Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest by Wayne Gerard TrotmanThe Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei MillerA Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon JamesUnder the Zaboca Tree by Glynis GuevaraThe Girl with the Hazel Eyes by Callie Browning
Contemporary Caribbean Authors
70 books — 6 voters

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysThe Farming of Bones by Edwidge DanticatMiguel Street by V.S. NaipaulThe Lonely Londoners by Sam SelvonIn the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
Caribbean Classics!
77 books — 15 voters
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysKrik? Krak! by Edwidge DanticatIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Caribbean/West Indian Diaspora Literature - Women (fiction)
205 books — 151 voters

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerWild Seed by Octavia E. ButlerHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieParable of the Talents by Octavia E. ButlerDawn by Octavia E. Butler
Books by Black Authors That Don't Feature Slavery, Colonialism, Racism, or Poverty
193 books — 79 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 — 68 voters

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatKaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest by Wayne Gerard TrotmanMiguel Street by V.S. Naipaul
The Caribbean 101
408 books — 120 voters