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Pleasantview (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as west-indian)
avg rating 4.22 — 951 ratings — published 2021
The Wine of Astonishment (Caribbean Writers Series)
by (shelved 3 times as west-indian)
avg rating 4.00 — 682 ratings — published 1982
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,782 ratings — published 1961
Miguel Street (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,442 ratings — published 1959
Green Days by the River (Caribbean Writers Series)
by (shelved 3 times as west-indian)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,248 ratings — published 1967
The God of Good Looks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,794 ratings — published 2023
The Girl with the Hazel Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.95 — 621 ratings — published 2019
The Bread the Devil Knead (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,123 ratings — published 2021
Ways of Sunlight (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.92 — 295 ratings — published 1957
Jumbie Bird (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.73 — 55 ratings — published 1998
Is Just a Movie (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.71 — 185 ratings — published 2011
The Schoolmaster (Caribbean Writers Series)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.84 — 205 ratings — published 1979
Harriet's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.84 — 443 ratings — published 1988
Beka Lamb (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,148 ratings — published 1982
Annie John (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,708 ratings — published 1985
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,125 ratings — published 1966
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as west-indian)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,447 ratings — published 1990
The Islands: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.72 — 906 ratings — published 2022
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,681 ratings — published 1990
Paradise Once (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.79 — 107 ratings — published
Nelson's West Indian Readers First Primer (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.36 — 28 ratings — published 2000
A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,160 ratings — published 2025
Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad (Latin America Otherwise)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.69 — 16 ratings — published 2004
From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492 - 1969 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.08 — 345 ratings — published 2000
Capone (Season One: Delgato Family, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.62 — 23,436 ratings — published
Ablaze (The Firecracker Cousins, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.98 — 786 ratings — published 2022
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,958 ratings — published 2020
Assembly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.78 — 37,312 ratings — published 2021
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.27 — 432 ratings — published 2022
It Waits in the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.92 — 966 ratings — published 2024
Rise of the Jumbies (The Jumbies, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,065 ratings — published 2017
The Jumbies (The Jumbies, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,879 ratings — published 2015
Love After Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,337 ratings — published 2020
Don't Believe It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.10 — 107,708 ratings — published 2018
Hungry Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,973 ratings — published 2023
A Brighter Sun (Caribbean Contemporary Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.30 — 40 ratings — published 1952
Patsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,578 ratings — published 2019
Bend Foot Bailey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.94 — 16 ratings — published 2010
Sincerely Sicily (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.27 — 287 ratings — published 2023
Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,535 ratings — published 2017
When We Were Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.76 — 9,754 ratings — published 2022
The Island of Forgetting (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,345 ratings — published 2022
The Vanishing Girls (The Vanishing Girls, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.06 — 210 ratings — published 2021
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.08 — 239,112 ratings — published 2022
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.68 — 16,866 ratings — published 2021
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,858 ratings — published 1961
Mr Loverman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,904 ratings — published 2013
Fireflies (Twentieth Century Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.73 — 277 ratings — published 1970
The Games Were Coming (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.95 — 61 ratings — published 1963
The Polished Hoe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as west-indian)
avg rating 3.23 — 1,970 ratings — published 2002
“For isn't it odd that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime is the language of the criminal who committed the crime?”
― A Small Place
― A Small Place
“The word "cannibal," the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and from whom the word "Caribbean" originated. By virtue of being Caribbean, all "West Indian" people are already, in a purely linguistic sense, born savage.”
― Cannibal
― Cannibal
