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Jamaican Books
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A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.89 — 38,539 ratings — published 2014
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.95 — 360,918 ratings — published 2016
Here Comes the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 11,886 ratings — published 2016
How to Say Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.43 — 32,635 ratings — published 2023
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.45 — 31,125 ratings — published 2019
Patsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,294 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,268 ratings — published 2009
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 158,177 ratings — published 2019
How to Love a Jamaican (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,862 ratings — published 2018
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.96 — 683,193 ratings — published 2015
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,341 ratings — published 2004
Augustown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,076 ratings — published 2016
The Long Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,495 ratings — published 2010
If I Survive You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.67 — 13,554 ratings — published 2022
These Ghosts Are Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,747 ratings — published 2020
The Hills of Hebron (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.31 — 131 ratings — published 1984
The Pirate's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.50 — 2,811 ratings — published 2007
Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,347 ratings — published 2022
The Lunatic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.99 — 397 ratings — published 1987
Midnight Robber (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,893 ratings — published 2000
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.59 — 108,874 ratings — published 1966
The True History of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.93 — 459 ratings — published 1999
A House for Miss Pauline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.97 — 545 ratings — published 2025
The Secret Pact: The Battle Ends, the War Continues in Secret (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.71 — 7 ratings — published 2024
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.08 — 232,480 ratings — published 2022
Frying Plantain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,885 ratings — published 2019
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.44 — 1,870 ratings — published 1857
Cane Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.87 — 968 ratings — published 2020
Romance in Marseille (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,697 ratings — published 2002
Gardening in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.00 — 184 ratings — published 1994
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.03 — 287 ratings — published 2016
The Confessions of Frannie Langton (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.56 — 19,198 ratings — published 2019
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.79 — 176,922 ratings — published 2000
Brown Girl in the Ring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,598 ratings — published 1998
Every Light in the House Burnin' (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,536 ratings — published 1994
The Other Side of Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,147 ratings — published 2009
River Mumma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,453 ratings — published 2023
A Tall History of Sugar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.22 — 493 ratings — published 2019
Rainbow Milk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,273 ratings — published 2020
So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,657 ratings — published 2024
The Islands: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.72 — 881 ratings — published 2022
A Million Aunties (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.42 — 751 ratings — published 2020
Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories (Longman Caribbean Writers)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.05 — 75 ratings — published 1989
Summer Lightning and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.02 — 228 ratings — published 1986
People Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,540 ratings — published 2022
Amiable with Big Teeth (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.60 — 349 ratings — published 2017
Popisho (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,271 ratings — published 2021
Witches Steeped in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.19 — 6,353 ratings — published 2021
“Nobody love a black girl. Not even herself”
― Here Comes the Sun
― Here Comes the Sun
“The burden is not my experiences it is my intellect. The way my brain works. My experiences are very similar to most if not all of us born into unfavorable circumstances. We survive and excel. It’s my purview that makes me think something is wrong wid it: for most people. That’s just life.”
― Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary
― Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary
