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A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,553 ratings — published 2014
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.95 — 364,766 ratings — published 2016
Here Comes the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,035 ratings — published 2016
How to Say Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.42 — 34,363 ratings — published 2023
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.45 — 31,597 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,647 ratings — published 2009
Patsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,588 ratings — published 2019
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.84 — 160,074 ratings — published 2019
How to Love a Jamaican (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,941 ratings — published 2018
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,985 ratings — published 2004
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.96 — 691,191 ratings — published 2015
Augustown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,219 ratings — published 2016
The Long Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,649 ratings — published 2010
If I Survive You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.67 — 13,828 ratings — published 2022
These Ghosts Are Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,870 ratings — published 2020
The Hills of Hebron (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.32 — 139 ratings — published 1984
The Pirate's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.50 — 2,834 ratings — published 2007
A House for Miss Pauline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.97 — 674 ratings — published 2025
Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,490 ratings — published 2022
The Lunatic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.99 — 404 ratings — published 1987
Midnight Robber (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,951 ratings — published 2000
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,276 ratings — published 1966
The True History of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.93 — 468 ratings — published 1999
The Secret Pact: The Battle Ends, the War Continues in Secret (The Secret Pact Series)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.62 — 8 ratings — published 2024
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.08 — 239,413 ratings — published 2022
Frying Plantain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,960 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 — 1,909 ratings — published 1857
Cane Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.86 — 996 ratings — published 2020
Romance in Marseille (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,790 ratings — published 2002
Gardening in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.01 — 189 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 — 291 ratings — published 2016
The Confessions of Frannie Langton (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.56 — 19,542 ratings — published 2019
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.79 — 180,660 ratings — published 2000
Brown Girl in the Ring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,694 ratings — published 1998
Every Light in the House Burnin' (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,572 ratings — published 1994
The Other Side of Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,152 ratings — published 2009
All the Lonely People (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.15 — 35,997 ratings — published 2020
Sweetness in the Skin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,818 ratings — published 2024
River Mumma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,503 ratings — published 2023
A Tall History of Sugar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.22 — 498 ratings — published 2019
Rainbow Milk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,424 ratings — published 2020
So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,002 ratings — published 2024
The Islands: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.72 — 908 ratings — published 2022
A Million Aunties (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.42 — 769 ratings — published 2020
Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories (Longman Caribbean Writers)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.03 — 78 ratings — published 1989
Summer Lightning and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.02 — 234 ratings — published 1986
People Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.68 — 17,974 ratings — published 2022
Amiable with Big Teeth (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.60 — 351 ratings — published 2017
“Writing is my response to my own crazy world. It's often sporadic, ignited by some noteworthy occurrence in my life. Rarely is it reflective, frequently intrusive. You see sometimes I aim for allegory, but there are certain truths about life that one has to paint as it is, there are ideas that cannot be dressed up.
I more than anyone else understands how suffering and personal experiences influences the creative process. My books are nurtured by happiness and despair. Every experience in my everyday life comes with it owns dripping of medicine and or toxins, lessons that only my interactions with others can effectively teach.
My life is entirely influenced by human behavior and my books are about my culture and human nature. My degree is from HardKnock Life University. Who I am is a reflection of the people who shaped my life. I am their reflection. I am novelist. The only doctorate i have is on life. The reality of life is the only thing I know.I’m”
― Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary
I more than anyone else understands how suffering and personal experiences influences the creative process. My books are nurtured by happiness and despair. Every experience in my everyday life comes with it owns dripping of medicine and or toxins, lessons that only my interactions with others can effectively teach.
My life is entirely influenced by human behavior and my books are about my culture and human nature. My degree is from HardKnock Life University. Who I am is a reflection of the people who shaped my life. I am their reflection. I am novelist. The only doctorate i have is on life. The reality of life is the only thing I know.I’m”
― Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary
“So I see people mocking my usage of patois… or Jamaican creole which is a form of pidgin created from Afrikaan, Spanish and English languages. This is a Jamaican page by a Jamaican author. The person in the video is Jamaican. It’s common for people to think English is an indication of intelligence albeit only 20% of the world’s population speaks English and only 5% are native English speakers. I mean English itself is a creole of sorts with words from Celtic, Slavic and Latin languages..
Smartest people in the world are Asians (Chinese, Japanese and Indians) their native languages are Hindi, Mandarin and Creole Cantonese. Swahili and Igbo are big creole languages in Africa.
Linguistic discrimination is not even warranted based on how languages are developed.
Glottophobics are as bad as racist with their linguicism.
English is just a superstrate language due to Anglo- Saxon colonization and the British empire…
English is still a superstrate because of large English speaking populations such as America, England, South Africa, Nigeria and Canada.”
― Jamaican Patois Guide
Smartest people in the world are Asians (Chinese, Japanese and Indians) their native languages are Hindi, Mandarin and Creole Cantonese. Swahili and Igbo are big creole languages in Africa.
Linguistic discrimination is not even warranted based on how languages are developed.
Glottophobics are as bad as racist with their linguicism.
English is just a superstrate language due to Anglo- Saxon colonization and the British empire…
English is still a superstrate because of large English speaking populations such as America, England, South Africa, Nigeria and Canada.”
― Jamaican Patois Guide
