Some books that I have read or come across (on my bookshelf) . Sorry not many from the USA and Africa as my focus was on Caribbean Literature and those have been well documented. Some great books out on loan have been omitted (can’t remember them). I just went through my bookshelf and chose some.
- Die the Long day and Children of Sisyphus by H Orlando Patterson
- Lionheart Gal by The Sistren Theatre Cooperative with Honor Ford-Smith. (one of the most enjoyable plays I ever saw was when the Sistren Theatre Co-operative performed at the Commonwealth Institute back in the 1970s. That was topped by the Fela Kuti musical at Sadler’s Wells, but still beat Julius Caesar at the Barbican and Lion King at the coliseum, and many others.)
- Huracan and Dog Heart by Diana Mccaulay
- God the Stone Breaker by Alvin Bennett
- Escape to Last man peak by Jean D’Costa
- New Daughters of Africa: An international anthology of writing by women of African descent. Edited by Margaret Busby
- The Faber book of contemporary Caribbean Short Stories, Edited by Mervyn Morris
- The Africans by David Lamb
- Keepers of The Flame: saluting 100 Black Authors , compiled by Garfield Robinson
- The Dictionary of Jamaican English, by F.G Cassidy and R. B. Le Page
- The history of Jamaica from its discovery by Christopher Columbus to the present time, by William James Gardner 1825-1874.
- Historic Jamaica by Frank Cundall 1915
- The Role of Religion in Caribbean History : From Amerindian Shamanism to Rastafarianism by Patrick C.“Pops” Hylton edited by Klaus May (Pops was supposed to be publishing his PHD dissertation on Reggae Music. You may be able to find some of the tunes he made back in the early days of Reggae)
- The Rise and Fall of Markets Along Bluefields Bay, Jamaica by Nicholas Salvatore Scolaro (good chapter on where many non-invasive Jamaican fruits and plant come from)
- Gloria and Pao by Kerry Young
- Partner Money Stories by Deanne Heron
- The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon
- Rain Darling by Merle Collins
- The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
- The Social Animal by David Brooks
- New Day and Sixty Five by V.S. Reid
- The Groundings with my brothers by Walter Rodney
- West Indian Stories and One Love introduced by Andrew Salkey
- Dub poetry by Christian Habekost
- The Shadow of the Plantation: Caribbean History and Legacy edited by Alvin O. Thompson
- Outliers: The story of success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic by Elaine Bauer and Paul Thompson
- Waking Up in Jamaica by Stephen Foehr
- From Kingston to Brixton Little Jamaica by Von Mozar
- Yardies: The making of the Jamaican Posse by Prince Kofi
- Ruthless: The Global Rise of the Yardies by Geoff Small
- The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
- Abeng by Michelle Cliff
- Women of the Garvey Movement by Nzingha Assata
- Countryman Karl Black by Neville Farki
- A-Z of Jamaican Heritage by Olive Senior
- The How to be Jamaican Handbook by The Jamrite Cultural Dissemination Committee, Ken Robinson, Harclyde Walcott, Trevor Fearon
- Roving with Lalah: Slices of Everyday Jamaican Life, by Robert Lalah
- Augustown by Kei Miller
- Song of Jamaica by Hector Grant
- My Green Hills of Jamaica by Claude McKay
- “I think of my Mother”: Notes on the life and times of Claudia Jones by Buzz Johnson
- Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories, selected by Stewart Brown
- The Arrivants: A New World Anthology by Edward Brathwaite
- Itations of Jamaica and I Rastafari by Millard Faristzaddi
- Tribalism, Mysticism, Primitivism and the rise of Genocide Against the African World. By Batu A. Shakari
- Our Common Interest by Bob Geldof re Commission For Africa
- Men at Risk by Errol Miller
- Ahead of the Curve by Sir Richard Jolly
- How much is Enough: Money and the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky
- Review of African Political Economy . Editors Janet Bujra, Lionel Cliffe, Morris Szeftel, with Rita Abrahamsen and Tunde Zack-Williams
- World Disarmament: An idea whos time has come. Edited by Ron Huzzard, Christopher Meredith
- The Elements of Moral Philosophy by James Rachels and Stuart Rachels
- The Panchatantra attributed to Vishnu Sharma (about 200 BCE).
- Peace is Possible edited by Fredrik S. Heffermehl
- “We the Peoples” The Role of the United nations in the Twenty-first century. Briefing Papers for students, The Millennium Report Briefing Papers f
- The United Nations and Its Future in the 21st Century, Arms no more and The Economics of Killing by Vijay Mehta
- From War to Peace by Caroline Guinard
- Mama Said – There’d be days like these by Val Wilmer
- King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
- When We Ruled, and Everyday Life in an Early West African Empire and several other books by Robin Walker
- Games People Play by Eric Berne
- Harvard Business review Reprints, best articles, must reads
- New Scientists books such as “Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?
- Louise Bennett Books
- Marcus Garvey Books
- Bob Marley Books
- Bishop Wayne Malcolm Books
- Martin Luther King Junior Books
- Victorian Jamaica. Editors Tim Barringer and Wayne Modest
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