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Books set in Barbados:
The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
No Man in the House by Cecil Foster
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
Song of Night by Glenville Lovell
Chosen Place, the Timeless People by Paule Marshall
Caribbee by Thomas Hoover
Inkle and Yarico by Beryl Gilroy
Star-Crossed by Linda Collison
Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit : Rituals of Slave Food: A Barbadian Memoir 
The Man Who Loved Attending Funerals and Other Stories by Frank Collymore
The Parish Behind God's Back: The Changing of Rural Barbados 
Creoleana by J.W. Orderson
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack : A Memoir by Austin Clarke
Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall
Discoveries: Short Stories by John Wickham
Fire in the Canes by Glenville Lovell
Black + Blues by Kamau Brathwaite
The Origin of Waves by Austin Clarke
Note: Redemption in Indigo is written by an author from Barbados, but is actually set in Senegal, Africa.
There Once Was a Little England: A Story about Man's Obsession with 'Colour and Class' by Enrico Downer
My book club recently read Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart -- very helpful in understanding history of the entire New World as well as Barbados. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
More books set in Barbados:
Adrift by Dominica Malcolm
Ancestors by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Antiquity by Adisa Andwele
The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Bad Boys Ahoy! by Sylvia Day
Banished and Forgotten: Irish Slaves in the West Indies
Barbados Heat by Don Bruns
Born in the Briar Patch by Bev Clarke
Born to Slow Horses by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Bound by the Heart by Marsha Canham
Bridgeland by Marc R.D. Gibson
Bridgetown Tales by Matt Buttsworth
Coffee Tea The Caribbean & Me by Caroline James
Collected Poems by Austin Clarke
Creoleana by J.W. Orderson
Death By Honeymoon by Jaden Skye (1st book in Caribbean Murder series)
Easy in the Islands by Bob Shacochis
Eltonsbrody by Edgar Mittelholzer
Emancipation in the West Indies by James A. Thome
The Emigrants by George Lamming
The Empress of the Last Days by Jane Stevenson (3rd book in Astraea series)
Firefly by Malcolm Harding
The Ghost of Bridgetown by Debra Spark
Going Home in Chains by Glenville Obrian Lovell
Hell In Barbados: The True Story Of A Man Imprisoned In Paradise 
House of Shadows by Susan Bowden
The Houses of Alphonso by Anthony Kellman
Island Daze by Maxine Barry
Limestone: An Epic Poem of Barbados by Anthony Kellman
Middle Passages by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
More by Austin Clarke
Murder in Barbados by Penelope Sotheby (Murder in Paradise #4)
Murder in Barbados by Mariann Tadmor
More books set in Barbados:
Natives of My Person by George Lamming
One Dangerous Lady by Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2nd book in Jo Slater series)
Pearl: An Historical Novella by Michelle Athy
Pick Of The Crop: A Novella by Nailah Folami Imoja
Pictures of a Dying Man by Agymah Kamau
Platinum Coast by Lynne Pemberton
Playing the Rake's Game by Bronwyn Scott (1st in Rakes of the Caribbean series)
The Pleasures of Exile by George Lamming
The Price of Freedom by Donna Every
Redlegs by Chris Dolan
Scarface by Andre Norton
Sea change by Richard Armstrong
Season of Adventure by George Lamming
So the Nailhead Bend, So the Story End: an Anthology of Antiguan and Barbudan Writing
South Eastern Stages by Anthony Kellman 
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
Station Break by Winston Mitchell
The Streams of Space by John Rutledge Smith
The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
The Sunshine When She's Gone by Thea Goodman
Tender Savage by Iris Johansen
Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty
To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland by Sean O'Callaghan
Tracing Ja Ja by Anthony Kellman
Trench Town Rock by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
The Turtle Run by Marie Evelyn
A Wanted Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey
Water with Berries by George Lamming
The Weather Family by Edgar Mittelholzer
Wings of a Stranger by Anthony Kellman
Words Need Love Too by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Help! I'm looking for a black romance novel set in Barbados. I think it was published in the late 90s. I remember the cover was almost a seafoam green. Any hints greatly appreciated!
Alicia wrote: "Help! I'm looking for a black romance novel set in Barbados. I think it was published in the late 90s. I remember the cover was almost a seafoam green. Any hints greatly appreciated!"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... ??
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