An Embarrassment of Mangoes – Ann Vanderhoof (sailing through the Caribbean)
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (Dominica and Jamaica)
Don’t Stop the Carnival – Herman Wouk (the British Virgin Islands)
A House for Mr Biswas – V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad)
A Small Place – Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua)
The Rum Diary – Hunter S. Thompson (Puerto Rico)
The Mermaid of Black Conch – Monique Roffey (the Caribbean)
Island People: The Caribbean and the World – Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (the wider Caribbean)