In search of books that are set in a particular location? Have a look at this useful list of books based in Jamaica. You'll find the reading material you're looking for here.
Interested in learning more about Jamaica? The books below are great but some were published a while ago. Some other resources to learn about Jamaica include
the Crowdsourced Explorer and
Wikipedia.
| Title |
Author |
Publishing Year |
Genre |
| A High Wind in Jamaica |
Richard Hughes |
1929 |
Novel, Fiction
|
| Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King |
Lloyd Bradley |
2000 |
Music criticism |
| Black Heart of Jamaica |
Julia Golding |
2008 |
Young adult fiction, Adventure fiction |
| Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood |
Rachel Manley |
1996 |
Biography |
| Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica |
Matthew Parker |
2014 |
Biography |
| History of Jamaica |
Clinton Vane de Brosse Black |
1961 |
History |
| How to Love a Jamaican |
Alexia Arthurs |
2018 |
Coming-of-age story |
| Jamaica Me Dead |
Bob Morris |
2005 |
Humour, Thriller, Mystery, Humorous Fiction |
| Jamaican Karma: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery |
T.S. Paul |
2019 |
Paranormal, Mystery |
| Journal of a Residence Among the Negroes in the West Indies |
Matthew Lewis |
1806 |
|
| Journey to an Illusion |
Donald Hinds |
1966 |
|
| Katani's Jamaican Holiday |
Annie Bryant |
2007 |
Fiction |
| Lady Nugent’s Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805 |
Maria Nugent |
1907 |
History |
| Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World |
Trevor Burnard |
2004 |
Biography |
| Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley in Jamaica and Beyond |
David Burnett |
2007 |
|
| Stone Haven |
Evan Jones |
1993 |
Domestic Fiction |
| Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica |
Zora Neale Hurston |
1938 |
Literary fiction |
| The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory |
Richard Moore |
2015 |
Biography |
| The Book of Jamaica |
Russell Banks |
1980 |
Fiction, Travel |
| The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica |
Ian Thomson |
2009 |
Nonfiction, History, Travel |
| The Jamaica Station |
Chris Durbin |
2018 |
Historical Fiction, War story, Nautical fiction |
| The Mother of Us All |
Karla Gottlieb |
2000 |
Biography |
| The Story of the Jamaican People |
Philip M. Sherlock, Hazel Bennett |
1997 |
Nonfiction, History |
| The Voice of the Jamaican Ghetto: Incarcerated but not Silenced |
Adidja Palmer, Vybz Kartel, Michael Dawson |
2012 |
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