Another month, another country explored via the Read the World Book Club. For October, we were meant to read something from Trinidad and Tobago. Now, I went with the most obvious book of all (Naipaul), but it was on my TBR. Maybe in a couple months, I’ll be more creative. Maybe. I kinda like snagging things from my TBR.

So, this is it. Some suggestions on what to read when you’re interested in Trinidad and Tobago.

I will add some titles after group. The people at group always give me good ideas.

• A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul (or Guerrillas or Miguel Street)
• Archipelago, Monique Roffey (or The White Woman on the Green Bicycle)
• Fireflies, Shiva Naipaul (or The Chip Chip Gatherers)
• Crick Crack, Monkey, Merle Hodge
• The World Is What It Is, Patrick French
• Sans Souci and Other Stories, Dionne Brand
• Golden Child, Claire Adam (or Love Forms)
• Salt, Earl Lovelace (or The Wine of Astonishment or The Dragon Can’t Dance)
• A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolome de las Casas (nonfiction)
• River Sing Me Home, Eleanor Shearer
• The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon (or Trinidadians in England or The Housing Lark)
• A Naturalist’s Year, Richard French (nonfiction)
• Measures of Expatriation, Vahni Capildeo (poetry)
• The Whale House, Sharon Millar
• History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago, Eric Williams (nonfiction)
• De Rightest Place, Barbara Jenkins
• Ever Since We Small, Celeste Mohammed (or Pleasantview)
• Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo
• The Bread the Devil Kneads, Lisa Allen-Agostini
• Hungry Ghosts, Kevin Jared Hosein
• River Sing Me Home, Eleanor Shearer
• When We Were Birds, Alana Lloyd Banwo
• How to Be Unmothered, Camille U. Adams
• Beyond a Boundary, L. R. James
• Yesterdays, Harold Sonny Ladoo
• Ibis, Justin Haynes
• Till the Well Runs Dry, Lauren Francis-Sharma (or Book of the Little Axe)
• The God of Good Looks, Breanne Mc Ivor
• Pay As You Go, Eskor David Johnson