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Coming-of-age novel following G. in colonial Barbados, exploring the end of colonial rule.

West Indians on a ship to England, exploring the immigrant experience and post-colonial identity.

Coming-of-age story of Annie John in Antigua, from childhood bond with her mother to adolescent rebellion.

Young woman from Antigua works as au pair in American city, confronting colonialism and independence.

Xuela, a woman in Dominica, narrates her life of resistance and solitude after her mother dies in childbirth.

Prequel to Jane Eyre telling the story of the 'madwoman in the attic' as Antoinette Cosway in Jamaica.

Novel giving voice to Tituba, the enslaved woman accused of witchcraft in Salem, exploring slavery and Black womanhood.

Epic novel following a Bambara family in 18th-19th century Mali through Islam's spread and slave trade.

Novel about a Jamaican religious community and its charismatic leader, exploring colonialism and resistance.

A crew push a boat up a Guyanese river in search of a legendary Amerindian settlement, mirroring and reversing the journey of conquest. The crew are simultaneously historical and spiritual doubles, alive and dead, explorer and explored.

A multigenerational story of three Grenadian women spanning the colonial era, independence, and the 1979 Grenadian Revolution. Collins, who participated in the revolution herself, writes with insider political passion and communal voice.

Sophie Caco, raised in Haiti, joins her mother in New York at twelve. The novel explores trauma, the body, Haitian traditions of female testing, and the possibilities of healing across generations and between two worlds.

Whitechapel, the oldest slave on a Virginia plantation, inadvertently causes his own son's death and must live with that knowledge. Told in multiple voices, a spare, devastating exploration of slavery's moral corruption.

A Guyanese engineer working on a sea-wall project in an English village becomes obsessed with his landlady's past, uncovering layers of colonial history and longing, a meditative novel about memory, belonging, and empire's weight on daily life.

Mireille, a Haitian-American lawyer, is kidnapped outside her wealthy father's gate and held for ransom. The novel moves between captivity and aftermath, exploring trauma, class inequality in Haiti, and the long work of survival.

Manuel returns to Haiti after years in Cuba and attempts to bring water — and reconciliation — to his drought-stricken village divided by a blood feud. A lyrical socialist novel rooted in Vodou and peasant life.

Based on the 1937 Parsley Massacre when Trujillo's forces killed tens of thousands of Haitian sugar cane workers in the Dominican Republic. Amabelle survives and must find a way to live.

Four generations of women in Guadeloupe, from slavery to the mid-20th century, told through the voice of Télumée. A lyrical, feminist celebration of Black women's resilience rooted in Creole culture.

Narrated by the elderly Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the novel spans the history of Martinique from slavery through the shantytown of Texaco on the outskirts of Fort-de-France. A polyphonic explosion of Creole language.

Set in a Trinidadian yard in the years before and after independence, the novel follows the people of Calvary Hill as they celebrate Carnival — Aldrick the Dragon Man, Fisheye, Sylvia — and the limits of rebellion.

The story of Caribbean migrants to post-war London — Moses, Galahad, Cap, Big City — navigating racism, poverty, and loneliness. Written in a lyrical Trinidad dialect, it invented a new prose voice.

Set in San Cristobal, a fictional Caribbean island at independence. Fola, a middle-class woman, attends a Vodun ceremony and is transformed, setting off events that culminate in revolution.

In a Haitian village in 1938, a French woman is turned into a zombie on her wedding day and escapes through magic. A delirious mix of Vodou, eroticism, and Carnival set in the backdrop of American occupation.

Fat Charlie Nancy discovers his father was Anansi, the West African spider-trickster god. His long-lost brother arrives with godlike abilities and turns his life upside down. A joyful exploration of West African mythology.

Bita Plant, a Jamaican girl educated in England by missionary patrons, returns to Jamaica and must choose between the Western values she was trained in and her own people. McKay's finest novel.

Emily, an English woman visiting her father's Caribbean plantation in the early 19th century, and Cambridge, an enslaved African man who converted to Christianity, each narrate their experience of the same place.