Books from Antigua and Barbuda
Recommended books (4)
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around North America Challenge" were written by authors from Antigua and Barbuda.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
1.
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Rating: 5 2 Votes
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
The author of such books as At the Bottom of the River and My Brother returns to Antigua, the ten-by-twelve mile Caribbean island where she grew up, to explore the effects of colonialism. Reprint.
Recommended: 27 Dec 2022
2.
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
The classic coming-of-age story of a precocious young girl's deteriorating relationship with her mother, as she enters adolescence and leaves her childhood behind on the idyllic island of Antigua.
Recommended: 10 Nov 2022
3.
Lucy : A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Rating: 2.5 3 Votes
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.
4.
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Rating: 2.5 13 Votes
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
After her mother dies at birth, Xuela is left by her father with his laundress for the next seven years in a home where she feels no love or affection, so when she moves in with her father's friends, the LaBattes, she finds pleasure however she can. Reprint.
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