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2025: Book written by an author from/written about Haiti

Book recommendations/suggestions for the Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 book challenge. Find your next book!

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read, seed, water, feed book challenge - about prompt support posts

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All prompt support posts can be found at https://water.ghost.io/bookchallenge/. Click on "about prompt support posts" below to learn more about the 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.

Books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt.

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Book written by an author from/written about Haiti. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Background is dark brown with gray undertones and the text is pale yellow. Text reads: Authors in the diaspora are included. For books written about Haiti, authors not of Haitian origin are allowed. The book can be fiction or nonfiction. Book covers are shown. Nonfiction: Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (2020) by Sudhir Hazareesingh. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938) by C.L.R. James.
Book written by an author from/written about Haiti. Read, Seed, Water, Feed: A 2025 Reading Challenge on Storygraph. Warm golden yellow background with black text. Book covers are shown. Fiction: Krik? Krak! (1995) by Edwidge Danticat. The Salt Roads (2004) by Nalo Hopkinson. Everything Inside: Stories (2019) by Edwidge Danticat. Young adult fiction: Behind the Mountains (2002) by Edwidge Danticat.

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

  • Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti (2024) by Jake Johnston
  • Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (2023) by Marlene L. Daut
  • Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States (2022) by Leslie M. Alexander
  • The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (2025) by Marlene L. Daut
  • Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2013) by Laurent Dubois
  • Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
  • Who Owns Haiti?: People, Power, and Sovereignty (2017) edited by Robert Maguire and Scott Freeman

Memoir

  • Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010) by Edwidge Danticat

Essays

  • We're Alone (2024) by Edwidge Danticat

Poetry

  • Blue Flare: Three Haitian Poets:  Évelyne Trouillot, Marie-Célie Agnant, Maggy de Coster (2024) by Évelyne Trouillot, Marie-Célie Agnant, Maggy de Coste, translated from Haitian Kreyòl and French by Danielle Legros Georges, bilingual edition (Haitian Kreyòl and French with English)

As a list, books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt:

Nonfiction

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (2020) by Sudhir Hazareesingh

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938) by C.L.R. James

Fiction

Krik? Krak! (1995) by Edwidge Danticat

The Salt Roads (2004) by Nalo Hopkinson

Everything Inside: Stories (2019) by Edwidge Danticat

Young adult fiction

Behind the Mountains (2002) by Edwidge Danticat

Get any/all of these books wherever you get your books.

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Please consider purchasing books when they are available from Workshops 4 Gaza's bookstore. When I share books that are available for purchase there at the time of posting, I will list them here after the link.

📚🌱 Books I was reading when I completed this post: Worldmaking After Empire (2019) by Adom Getachew, A Master of Djinn (2021) by P. Djèlí Clark, We're Alone (2024) by Edwidge Danticat, Can't Pay, Won't Pay (2020) by Debt Collective.

Thank you for reading.

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