2025: Book by a Caribbean author
Book recommendations/suggestions for the Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 book challenge. Find your next book!
read, seed, water, feed book challenge - about prompt support posts
about prompt support posts
All of the prompt support posts (those that begin with "2025: Book written by...", for example) are organized similar to each other.
Each of these posts was created to support the Read, Seed, Water Feed book challenge on Storygraph that I am hosting. They were also created to support learning outside of the university, collective educational efforts, finding new authors to read, finding books, and more.
For each book challenge prompt, I will share the following sections:
- one or more slides with books I have read or am currently reading that I recommend for the prompt
- a list of additional books from my TBR (to-be-read) list for the prompt
- a text listing of the books that I shared in the slides
I might share one or more of the following in addition, depending on capacity and other factors:
- other supportive text as appropriate, such as countries included
- some quotes, notes, and/or reflections about one or more of the books
- links to other posts on the site where I discuss the books or prompt in more detail
I did many things to minimize hierarchy within these posts, and there will still be some things that might feel odd, such as split galleries of slides, which was a choice made to address current limitations in how the galleries work.
If interested, find bingo cards, more background on the prompts, and other reflections, on the Reading Challenge page and if on Storygraph, join the challenge.
Mostly, my goal for prompt support posts is to share books for each prompt, as suggestions and as examples. This section will be first on every post and may be skipped.
Thank you for reading.
Recommended Books
Books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt.
Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 reading challenge prompt and description, showing books recommended that I have read or am currently reading. All recommended books are listed lower in the post in the section “Recommended Books in a List.”
More Books from my TBR List
For some prompts, I’m trying to diversify what I read; for others, deepening my knowledge while also growing my perspective. For some prompts, there are definitely more books on my to-be-read (TBR) list than the ones I share that I have read or am currently reading. Here are some of those books:
Nonfiction
- Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (2019) by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón
- Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh (2013) by Thomas Glave
- Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics and Revolution (rev. 2022) by Ernesto Che Guevara, edited by David Deutschmann and Maria del Carmen Ariet Garcia
- Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution (2022) by Walter Rodney
- Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (2020) by Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez
- Global Justice: Three Essays on Liberation and Socialism (2024) by Ernesto Che Guevara, Introduction by María del Carmen Ariet García
- A History of Pan-African Revolt (2012) by C.L.R. James
- Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2007) by Carole Boyce Davies
- A Map to the Door of No Return (2001) by Dionne Brand
- Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015) by Yarimar Bonilla
- A Small Place (1988) by Jamaica Kincaid
- Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (2014) edited by Katherine McKittrick
- Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (2022) by Lorgia García Peña
Memoirs
- Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010) by Edwidge Danticat
- Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (2019) by Hazel V. Carby
- The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (rev. 2021) by Ernesto Che Guevara
Poetry
- Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems (2022) by Dionne Brand
- Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (1939) by Aimé Césaire, translated by Annette Smith and Clayton Eshleman
- Zong! As told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng (2008, new edition 2024) by M. NourbeSe Philip
Fiction
- At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999) by Dionne Brand
- Augustown (2016) by Kei Miller
- Redemption in Indigo (2010) by Karen Lord
Further notes
Countries and Territories of the Caribbean region include the islands of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent, Sint Maarten, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands, and the mainland countries (included here and in the prompt for Central & South America) of Belize, Guyana, Suriname.
Recommended Books in a List
As a list, books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt:
Novels
Blackheart Man (2024) by Nalo Hopkinson
The Bread the Devil Knead (2021) by Lisa Allen-Agostini
Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) by Nalo Hopkinson
Midnight Robber (2000) by Nalo Hopkinson
The New Moon's Arms (2007) by Nalo Hopkinson
Of Women and Salt (2021) by Gabriela Garcia
The Salt Roads (2004) by Nalo Hopkinson
Sister Mine (2013) by Nalo Hopkinson
These Ghosts are Family (2020) by Maisy Card
Untwine (2015) by Edwidge Danticat
Young adult novel
Behind the Mountains (2002) by Edwidge Danticat
Poetry
Crossfire: A Litany for Survival (2019) by Staceyann Chin
x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación/poems for the nation (2021) by raquel salas rivera
Short stories
The Angel of Khan el-Khalili (2017) by P. Djèlí Clark (single short story set in the Dead Djinn universe, read online at tor.com).
Everything Inside (2019) by Edwidge Danticat
Falling in Love with Hominids (2015) by Nalo Hopkinson
Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions (2024) by Nalo Hopkinson
Krik? Krak! (1995) by Edwidge Danticat
Nonfiction
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938) by C.L.R. James
Black Skin, White Masks (1952) by Frantz Fanon
Capitalism and Slavery (1994) by Eric Williams
Discourse on Colonialism (1955) by Aimé Césaire
A Dying Colonialism (1959) by Frantz Fanon
The Groundings with My Brothers (1971) by Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) by Walter Rodney
The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye (2020) by Andaiye, Alissa Trotz
The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon
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Please consider purchasing books when they are available from Workshops 4 Gaza's bookstore: Discourse on Colonialism (1955) by Aimé Césaire, A Dying Colonialism (1959) by Frantz Fanon, Aftershocks of Disaster (2019) by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón. When I share books that are available for purchase there at the time of posting, I will list them here after the link.
Thank you for reading.
