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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 — 38,886 ratings — published 2014
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.95 — 362,189 ratings — published 2016
Here Comes the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 11,929 ratings — published 2016
How to Say Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.43 — 33,288 ratings — published 2023
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.45 — 31,277 ratings — published 2019
Patsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,392 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,347 ratings — published 2009
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 158,730 ratings — published 2019
How to Love a Jamaican (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,889 ratings — published 2018
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,548 ratings — published 2004
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.96 — 685,831 ratings — published 2015
Augustown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,115 ratings — published 2016
The Long Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,544 ratings — published 2010
If I Survive You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.67 — 13,660 ratings — published 2022
These Ghosts Are Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,777 ratings — published 2020
The Hills of Hebron (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.32 — 133 ratings — published 1984
The Pirate's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.50 — 2,816 ratings — published 2007
Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,404 ratings — published 2022
The Lunatic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.00 — 401 ratings — published 1987
Midnight Robber (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,922 ratings — published 2000
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,011 ratings — published 1966
The True History of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.94 — 463 ratings — published 1999
A House for Miss Pauline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.97 — 581 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 — 234,754 ratings — published 2022
Frying Plantain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,914 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 — 1,895 ratings — published 1857
Cane Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.87 — 974 ratings — published 2020
Romance in Marseille (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,733 ratings — published 2002
Gardening in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.00 — 186 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 — 19,292 ratings — published 2019
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.79 — 178,089 ratings — published 2000
Brown Girl in the Ring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,634 ratings — published 1998
Every Light in the House Burnin' (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,546 ratings — published 1994
The Other Side of Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,150 ratings — published 2009
River Mumma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,470 ratings — published 2023
A Tall History of Sugar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.22 — 495 ratings — published 2019
Rainbow Milk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,319 ratings — published 2020
So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,760 ratings — published 2024
The Islands: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.72 — 885 ratings — published 2022
A Million Aunties (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.42 — 754 ratings — published 2020
Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories (Longman Caribbean Writers)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.04 — 76 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 3.68 — 17,701 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
Popisho (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,289 ratings — published 2021
Witches Steeped in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.19 — 6,383 ratings — published 2021
“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
“Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float back to the floor from whence it came. Wealth can gray your eyes at the edges, money does not make you hover above human qualities, you are only a flawed being with much material gain.”
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