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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 — 37,990 ratings — published 2014
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.95 — 357,645 ratings — published 2016
Here Comes the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 11,780 ratings — published 2016
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.45 — 30,735 ratings — published 2019
Patsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,085 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,053 ratings — published 2009
How to Say Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.43 — 31,102 ratings — published 2023
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 156,703 ratings — published 2019
How to Love a Jamaican (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,806 ratings — published 2018
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.96 — 676,561 ratings — published 2015
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.02 — 37,800 ratings — published 2004
Augustown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,978 ratings — published 2016
The Long Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,363 ratings — published 2010
If I Survive You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,343 ratings — published 2022
These Ghosts Are Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,680 ratings — published 2020
The Pirate's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.50 — 2,795 ratings — published 2007
Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,230 ratings — published 2022
The Lunatic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.00 — 395 ratings — published 1987
The Hills of Hebron (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.31 — 126 ratings — published 1984
Midnight Robber (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,835 ratings — published 2000
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.59 — 106,492 ratings — published 1966
The True History of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.94 — 459 ratings — published 1999
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
The Islands: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.73 — 865 ratings — published 2022
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.08 — 225,263 ratings — published 2022
Frying Plantain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,794 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 — 1,812 ratings — published 1857
Cane Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.87 — 955 ratings — published 2020
Romance in Marseille (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,624 ratings — published 2002
Gardening in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.00 — 183 ratings — published 1994
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.05 — 285 ratings — published 2016
The Confessions of Frannie Langton (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.56 — 18,958 ratings — published 2019
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.79 — 174,414 ratings — published 2000
Brown Girl in the Ring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,504 ratings — published 1998
Every Light in the House Burnin' (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,521 ratings — published 1994
The Other Side of Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,139 ratings — published 2009
A House for Miss Pauline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.99 — 444 ratings — published 2025
A Tall History of Sugar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.22 — 489 ratings — published 2019
Rainbow Milk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,163 ratings — published 2020
So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,328 ratings — published 2024
A Million Aunties (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.42 — 734 ratings — published 2020
Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories (Longman Caribbean Writers)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.04 — 74 ratings — published 1989
Summer Lightning and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.02 — 225 ratings — published 1986
People Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,218 ratings — published 2022
Amiable with Big Teeth (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.60 — 341 ratings — published 2017
Popisho (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,205 ratings — published 2021
Witches Steeped in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.19 — 6,310 ratings — published 2021
Mary Seacole: Bound for the Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.94 — 97 ratings — published
“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
“Me to corporate when I apply for traditional roles:
Corporate Jamaican people: You write books?
Me: Yeah. I write emails, proposals, white papers, codes, RFPs, RFQ,RFI… I study human behavior, psychology etc. I discuss, I persuade, i insist, argue, negotiate, proselytize and with 200,000 followers. I influence …Best corporate executive cannot be a writer, but the best writers can be anything.
Have you seen the thickness of one of my novels?
Then you understand how committed I am to any process with no surety that it will work out in my favour.
The ability to do boring, tedious, repetitive tasks without supervision or direction for long periods of time with no immediate reward…
Works likes charm every time.”
― Legal Choppings : 100 Business Ideas for Jamaicans
Corporate Jamaican people: You write books?
Me: Yeah. I write emails, proposals, white papers, codes, RFPs, RFQ,RFI… I study human behavior, psychology etc. I discuss, I persuade, i insist, argue, negotiate, proselytize and with 200,000 followers. I influence …Best corporate executive cannot be a writer, but the best writers can be anything.
Have you seen the thickness of one of my novels?
Then you understand how committed I am to any process with no surety that it will work out in my favour.
The ability to do boring, tedious, repetitive tasks without supervision or direction for long periods of time with no immediate reward…
Works likes charm every time.”
― Legal Choppings : 100 Business Ideas for Jamaicans
