I like to read books based on the place I am travelling…it can be the author who is from that place or the theme is based on the region, and I already have a list of Caribbean themed books to start the year. First I will finish…
Long Song – Andrea Levy
Voyage into Hell – Steven Siguaw
A few years ago I read “An Embarrassment of Mangoes” by Ann Vanderhoof. Ann, and husband Steve, took a work sabbatical to sail down to the Caribbean. While island-hopping around the Caribbean, Ann indulged her passion for cooking using local produce and each chapter of the book ends with local island recipes. It is a lovely book, and such a pleasant surprise to be moored next to Ann & Steve here in Trinidad!
Miguel Street – V S Naipaul
Caribbean – James A Michener
A Caribbean Mystery – Agatha Christie
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Violins of Saint Jacques – Patrick Leigh Femor
Land of Love and Drowning – Tiphanie Yanique
The Rum Diary – Hunter S Thompson
Oh, the places you’ll go – Dr Seuss
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept – Elizabeth Smart
A Little History of the United States – James West Davidson
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
I read the next six books on the ten day passage between San Juan and Bermuda…..
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Cause of Death – Patricia Cornwell
The Mercy Seat – Elizabeth H Winthrop
If Beale Street Could Talk – James Baldwin
Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Wolfe
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
Rogues & Runners: Bermuda and the American Civil War – Catherine Lynch Deichmann
Breakfast at Tiffany’s -Truman Capote
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
My Dear Hamilton – Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie
The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology – Edited by Don George
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M Pirsig
Last Exit to Brooklyn – Hubert Selby Jr…my 30th book this year, and it’s still only August!
The Last Pirate of New York – Rich Cohen
Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan
You – Caroline Kepnes…as recommended by @literary_dates on Instagram.
The Catcher in the Rye – J D Salinger
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
The Bell Jar – Silvia Plath
No-one is Too Small to Make a Difference – Greta Thunberg
Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
The Cockroach – Ian McEwan
The Girl Who Lived Twice – David Lagercrantz
1776 – David McCullough
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
Rum Punch – Elmore Leonard…..my 43rd and final book of the year!
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