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Carribean Books
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Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,524 ratings — published 1966
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.08 — 235,812 ratings — published 2022
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.89 — 281,933 ratings — published 2007
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,025 ratings — published 2014
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,822 ratings — published 1938
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,542 ratings — published 1988
Washington Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,046 ratings — published 2018
The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,414 ratings — published 2009
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,336 ratings — published 1994
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.22 — 111,354 ratings — published 2020
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,635 ratings — published 2004
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.35 — 44,560 ratings — published 2000
River Sing Me Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,842 ratings — published 2023
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,636 ratings — published 1961
Land of Love and Drowning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.37 — 5,397 ratings — published 2014
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,140 ratings — published 1961
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,413 ratings — published 1990
How to Say Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.43 — 33,517 ratings — published 2023
The Mermaid of Black Conch (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.86 — 20,309 ratings — published 2020
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.68 — 16,757 ratings — published 2021
Augustown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,143 ratings — published 2016
How to Love a Jamaican (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,902 ratings — published 2018
Miguel Street (Vintage International)
by (shelved 7 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,381 ratings — published 1959
Texaco (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,155 ratings — published 1992
Annie John (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,385 ratings — published 1985
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,393 ratings — published 1990
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,328 ratings — published 1956
Patsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,452 ratings — published 2019
Island Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.12 — 47,729 ratings — published 2009
Here Comes the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.85 — 11,957 ratings — published 2016
An Untamed State (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,835 ratings — published 2014
Claire of the Sea Light (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.68 — 11,424 ratings — published 2013
Krik? Krak! (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 6 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,853 ratings — published 1996
Drown (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,613 ratings — published 1995
The Farming of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,070 ratings — published 1998
The Bread the Devil Knead (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,058 ratings — published 2021
When We Were Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.76 — 9,588 ratings — published 2022
Love After Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,215 ratings — published 2020
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,733 ratings — published 2007
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as carribean)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,554 ratings — published 1986
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,472 ratings — published 1994
This Is How You Lose Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.74 — 100,608 ratings — published 2010
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.62 — 33,357 ratings — published 1991
The Mystic Masseur (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.46 — 850 ratings — published 1957
If I Survive You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.67 — 13,711 ratings — published 2022
These Ghosts Are Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,796 ratings — published 2020
The Taste of Sugar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,210 ratings — published 2020
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,062 ratings — published 1979
In the Castle of My Skin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,099 ratings — published 1953
A High Wind in Jamaica (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as carribean)
avg rating 3.76 — 10,732 ratings — published 1929
“If some saw the Indians as living in prelapsarian innocence, there were others who judged them to be savage beasts, devils in the form of men. The discovery of cannibals in the Caribbean did nothing to assuage this opinion. The Spaniards used it as a justification to exploit the natives mercilessly for their own mercantile ends. For if you do not consider the man before you to be human, there are few restraints of conscience on your behavior towards him. It was not until 1537, with the papal bull of Paul III that the Indians were declared to be true men possessing souls.”
― City of Glass
― City of Glass
“After eight days in the sun of the Virgin Islands her skin was
brown enough and her hair was returning to its natural colour. She
walked miles up and down the beaches and ate nothing except
fish and fruit. She slept a lot the first few days.
She looked at her wrist and then remembered that her watch
was in a bag somewhere. She didn't need it here. She woke with
the sun and went to bed after dark. But now she was waiting, so
she had looked at her wrist.
It was almost dark when the taxi stopped at the end of the small
road. He got out, paid the driver and looked at the lights as the car
disappeared back up the road. He had one bag. He could see a
light from the house between the trees at the edge of the beach,
and he walked towards it. He didn't know what to expect. He
knew how he felt about her, but did she feel the same?
She was waiting at the back of the house, looking out to sea,
with a drink in her hand. She smiled at him, put down her drink
and let him come to her.
They kissed for a long minute. 'You're late,' she said.”
― The Racketeer
brown enough and her hair was returning to its natural colour. She
walked miles up and down the beaches and ate nothing except
fish and fruit. She slept a lot the first few days.
She looked at her wrist and then remembered that her watch
was in a bag somewhere. She didn't need it here. She woke with
the sun and went to bed after dark. But now she was waiting, so
she had looked at her wrist.
It was almost dark when the taxi stopped at the end of the small
road. He got out, paid the driver and looked at the lights as the car
disappeared back up the road. He had one bag. He could see a
light from the house between the trees at the edge of the beach,
and he walked towards it. He didn't know what to expect. He
knew how he felt about her, but did she feel the same?
She was waiting at the back of the house, looking out to sea,
with a drink in her hand. She smiled at him, put down her drink
and let him come to her.
They kissed for a long minute. 'You're late,' she said.”
― The Racketeer
