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Virgin Islands Books
Books about the (primarly US) Virgin Islands, set in the Virgin Islands, or written by or about Virgin Islanders.
Fiction (including historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism, mystery)
- Anderson, Night of the Silent Drums: A Narrative of Slave Rebellion on the Virgin Islands
- Ball, Mingo's Cave
- Baker, Back, Belly, and Side: True Lies and False Tales
- Barbel, Paradise Rush
- Barbour, Death in the Virgins
- Brown-Comment, A Dawn of Promise
- Buckell, Crystal Rain / Ragamuffin / Sly Mongoose
- Buckell, Hurricane Fever
- Callender, Islands of Blood and Storm: Queen of the Conquered / King of the Rising
- Davis, Back to the Ship
- Douglass, Rebecca's Pride
- Egan, Once, Upon an Island
- Fishman, Paradise
- Gidley, Fireburn / Transfer
- Gill, The Americans Came
- Gill, Buddhoe, the Man Who Shaped the History of St. Croix
- Grilley, Death Dances to a Reggae Beat / Death Lurks in the Bush / Death Rides an Ill Wind
- Hasson, Allawe / Mothers and Other Strangers
- Henry, Dark Paradise
- Heyward, Star Spangled Virgin
- Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
- Johnson, Steve the Penguin / Bianca Reagan: Where the Action Is
- Jones, Edafos: Divine Wind
- Larsen, Quicksand & Passing
- McCaig, The Bamboo Cannon
- McNear, Sugarbird / Caribbean Caper: A Love Story
- Medlicott, Belonging: A Caribbean Love Story
- Myrvang & Jurgich, A Broad Reach / A Close Reach / A Beam Reach
- Philips, Dance of the Mongoose
- Savage, Precipice
- Schiller, Transfer Day
- Schiller, The Lost Diary of Alexander Hamilton
- Schiller, The Unlikely Spy
- Shay-Boschen & Spencer, Floating Away: The Last Thing I Remember.... I Can't Remember
- Turnbull, The Lesson
- Turnbull, No Gods, No Monsters
- Whitney, Columbella
- Wilson, King Christian's Rock: An Illusive Paradise
- Wouk, Don't Stop the Carnival
- Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony
- Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning
- Yanique, Monster in the Middle
Children's and Young Adult
- Adisa, Dance Quadrille and Play Quelbe
- Anderson, The Day the Hurricane Happened
- Anderson, Izzard
- Brown, Henry-Fisherman
- Bryson, Rica & the Tamarind Tree
- Burnier, Sand, Sea and Poetry
- Callender, Felix Ever After
- Callender, Hurricane Child
- Callender, This is Kind of an Epic Love Story
- Fredericks, Mer: A Caribbean Underwater Adventure
- Danet, The Adventures of Jean-Pierre Mongoose
- Esdaille-Richardson, Malcolm & the Money Tree
- Gershator, Caribella
- Gershator, Little Lenty
- Gershator, Someday Cyril / Sugar Cakes Cyril
- Gershator, Sweet, Sweet Fig Banana
- Gershator, Tiny and Bigman
- Gershator & Gershator, Kallaloo!
- Gershator & Gershator, Palampam Day
- Henley, Broo 'Nansi and Sis Iwana
- Hirons, The King of Cool / Cecelia's Story / Enter the Vizsla
- Hollander, Ico and the Sacred Cave
- Jadan, The Adventures of Ivan Environman
- Joseph, The Vienna Cake Mystery
- Jones, Julianne: Queen of the Ruins
- Lewis-Brown, Efa and the Mosquito
- Lewis-Brown, Moko Jumbi Dreams / Promise Of The Pomegranate / The Moko Jumbi Majorette
- O'Dell, My Name Is Not Angelica
- Peters, V is for Virgin Islands
- Picayo, A Caribbean Journey from A to Y (Read and Discover What Happened to the Z)
- Picayo, Four Wishes for Robbie
- Picayo, Fun, Fun, One Crab on the Run
- Roach, The Lesson Box
- Roebuck & Hassell-Habtes, Broo 'Nansi and the Tar Baby: A U.S. Virgin Islands Story
- Stevenson, Treasure Island
- Taylor, The Cay / Timothy of The Cay
- Turnbull, Ti Koko and Kush Kush
- Ulrich, A Beautiful Girl
- Wilson, Up Mountain One Time
- Yanique, I Am the Virgin Islands
Poetry and Plays
- Brown, Callwood, & Harrington, ed., In the Mother Tongue: Poetry in Creole by Students of CAHS and IEKHS
- Bryan, Fireburn The Screenplay
- Connors ed., Ode to St. Croix: An Illustrated Poem by Reverend Henry J. Morton
- Creque, Trade Winds
- Edgecombe, Lady of Parham: A Play in Two Acts, etc.
- Georges, Epiphaneia
- Gidley ed., Mondays at Ten: The Writers' Circle of St Croix 2020 Anthology
- Gimenez, Virgin Islands Folklore and Other Poems
- Jarvis, Bamboula Dance and Other Poems
- Lafond ed., All This is Love: A Collection of Virgin Islands Poetry, Art & Prose
- Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
- McMillan, Writing on Roots
- Richards, Roots ah de Baobab
- Roach, The Blessing of Rain and Other Poems
- Sealey, The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named
- Sealey, Ordinary Beast
- Schiller, On a Moonlit Night in the Antilles
- Schrader, 1878: Queen Mary and Dem
- Schrader, Like a Flower Blooming / This Little Island Mine / No Words Has the Rose / Haiku: This Other Joy / If the Gobi Tree Could Talk: A Calabash of Poems / Haiku: A Leaf in the Wind
- Schrader, The Madras That Binds All Ahwe: The Inaugural Poem
- Tiwoni, Attacking the Moncada of the Mind
- Tiwoni, Islands of My Mind
- Williams ed., Seasoning for the Mortar
- Williams ed., Yellow Cedars Blooming
- Yanique, Wife
History, Sociology, Memoirs, and Biography
- Adams, The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy
- Andrew, The Hanging of Arthur Hodge: A Caribbean Anti-Slavery Milestone
- Barber, Musings of an Island Girl: A Collection of Articles on Life, Love & Family Originally Published in the Virgin Islands Daily News 1999-2006
- Belardo-Cerni, Donkey Years Ago
- Benjamin, Me and My Beloved Virgin
- Boyer, America's Virgin Islands: A History of Human Rights and Wrongs
- Bryan, James and the Fireburn
- Burton, Before Our Time: An Oral History of St. John
- Caron, The Amerindians & their Legacy in the Virgin Islands, etc.
- Cawley, See the Man with No Legs Dance
- Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
- Cerni, Journeying to Paradise
- Cohen, Through the Sands of Time
- Corneiro, Virgin Islands Storytellers
- Dawson, Down Street, Saint Thomas and Beyond
- deBooy & Faris, The Virgin Islands, Our New Possessions, and the British Islands
- deJongh Woods, The 3 Quarters of the Town of Charlotte Amalie
- Dookhan, A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States
- Farrell, Foxy and Jost Van Dyke: A Man and His Island
- Gidley, Crucian Fusion: Essays, Tales, Conversations
- Goodlander, St. John People: Stories about St. John residents by St. John residents
- Gore, Garrote
- Guirty, Harlem's Danish-American West Indians 1899-1964
- Guirty, Sixtonian: Vignettes 'Bout Amalia
- Guirty, The Tappus Event
- Hall, Slave Society in the Danish West Indies
- Hansen, From These Shores
- Harrison, The Negro and the Nation
- Harrison, When Africa Awakes
- Hall & Sewar, Journey Untold: My Mother's Struggle with Mental Illnesses
- Highfield, The Cultural History of the American Virgin Islands and the Danish West Indies: A Companion Guide
- Highfield, St. Croix 1493: An Encounter of Two Worlds, etc.
- Highfield, Time Longa' Dan Twine / Sea Grapes and Kennips / Crucian Recollections: From the Compelling Past of a Storied Island
- Highfield & Tyson, Negotiating Enslavement
- Highfield, ed., Emancipation in the U.S. Virgin Islands: 150 Years
- Hill, A Golden Jubilee: Virgin Islands on the Go under the American Flag
- Hirons, Hurricane Drinking
- Hutchinson, In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line
- Jarvis & Martin, Virgin Islands Picture Book
- Jarvis, Brief History of the Virgin Islands
- Jarvis, The Virgin Islands and Their People
- Jones, The Eighth Flag: Cannibals. Conquistadors. Buccaneers. Pirates.
- Jones, Irma Was Here: Surviving the Eye of History's Strongest Atlantic Hurricane
- Joseph, ed., Common Differences: Conflicts in Black and White Feminist Perspectives
- Joseph, The Wind is Sprit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde
- Knight Sr., Cruz Bay from Conquest to Exploitation, A Forgotten History
- Knight Sr., The Enigmatic History of Water Island
- Knight Sr., Understanding Annaberg: A Brief History of Estate Annaberg on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Knight Sr. & Prime, ed., Virgin Islands Exodus: The US Citizen's Identification Card System of 1918
- Knox, A Historical Account of St. Thomas, W.I.
- Kohls, ed., Resource Guide to the Culture of the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Krigger, Race Relations in the US Virgin Islands: St. Thomas - A Centennial Retrospective
- Lawaetz, Emancipation: The Virgin Islands of the United States Celebrates Its 150 Year Anniversary 1849 July 3 1998
- Lawaetz, St. Croix: 500 Years Pre-Columbus to 1990
- Leary, ed., United States Virgin Islands Major Political Documents 1671-1991
- Lewis, The Virgin Islands: A Caribbean Lilliput
- Lewisohn, St. Croix under Seven Flags
- Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography
- Low & Valls, ed., St. John Backtime / St. John Voices
- McCully, Grandma Raised the Roof: How I Built My Virgin Island Home
- Mawson, Persecuted and Prosecuted
- Melchior, Sr Thoughts along the Way: An Anthology of Editorials from the Virgin Islands Daily News 1930-1978
- Merwin, The Bartered Virgins
- Moolenaar, Profiles of Outstanding Virgin Islanders
- Moorhead, Crucian Dialogues: Defining the Problem (He and Me / It and Me / She and Me / Dem and Me)
- Moorhead, Redemption
- Oldendorp, A Caribbean Mission: History of the Mission of the Evangelical Brethren on the Caribbean Islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John
- O'Neill, Rape of the American Virgins
- Ottley, The Hardball Years: A Chronicle of Politics, Progress, and Pain in the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Ottley, Trials and Triumphs: The Long Road to a Middle-Class Society in the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Paiewonsky, Memoirs of a Governor: A Man for the People
- Perry, ed., A Hubert Harrison Reader
- Perry, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
- Sims, Vintage St. John / Vintage Norman Island
- Rhymer, Life in "Paradise"
- Thomas, Home Is Where the Boat Is / Life in the Left Lane / A Most Unlikely Story
- Thurland, The Neighborhoods of Christiansted
- Thurland, The Sugar Industry on St. Croix
- Thurland, Tradesmen of St. Croix
- Turnbull & Lewis, Casper A. Holstein, Unusual Humanitarian
- Walter, The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920-1970
- Walters, A Political History of the United States Virgin Islands, 1917 to 1967
- Watkins, Frits E. Lawaetz: The Bull of Annaly
- Westergaard, The Danish West Indies under Company Rule 1671-1754
- White, Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars
- Willocks, The Umbilical Cord: History of the United States Virgin Islands from Pre-Colombian Era to the Present
- Wilson, Glassbottom Days
- York, Our Danish Connection (Vore Danske Band): St Croix This Week Features, 2009-2019
- York, trans, Islands of Beauty and Bounty: A Historical Profile of the Danish West Indies (Dansk Vestindien af en Naturforskers Dabog)
- Zabriskie, The Virgin Islands of the United States of America
Language, Folktales, and Culture
- Graves, The Present State of the Dutch Creole of the Virgin Islands
- Ellis, Domino: Traditional Children's Songs, Proverbs, and Culture from the American Virgin Islands
- Emanuel, Surviving Africanisms in Virgin Islands English Usage
- Foy-Fisher, As de Old People Would Say
- Highfield, The French Dialect of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Highfield & Valdman, ed., Historicity and Variation in Creole Studies
- Medlicott & Sasso, Virgin Islands Tales of Ghosts, Hauntings, and Jumbees
- Medlicott, Virgin Islands Tales of Olden Days
- Petersen, Food & Folklore of the Virgin Islands
- Petersen, Herbs & Proverbs of the Virgin Islands
- Petersen, Crucian Tales: The Trials and Tribulations of Jimbo
- Seaman, Virgin Islands Dictionary
- Schrader, Kallaloo: A Collection of Crucian Stories, etc.
- Sterns, Say It in Crucian! A Complete Guide to Today's Crucian for Speakers of Standard English
- Singer, Tales of St. John and the Caribbean
- Valls, Ole Time Sayin's: Proverb of the West Indies
- Valls, What a Pistarckle!
- White, Meet Meh undah deh Bongolo & Tark like We No: A Case for Virgin Islands Creole Den an' Now
Art, Architecture, and Photography
- Brettell, Pissarro's People
- deJongh Woods, The 3 Quarters of the Town of Charlotte Amalie
- Gjessing & MacLean, Historic Buildings of St. Thomas and St. John
- Hansen, NYPL's Austin Hansen Collection
- Joyce, Portraits of a Time Past: Virgin Islands, Short Stories, Novella and Visual Arts
- Lawaetz, Modular Triangular System
- Pissarro, Camille Pissarro
- Rezende & Walbom, St. Croix: Historic Photos 1855-1917 / St. Thomas and St. John: Historic Photos 1855-1917
- Richards, Their Eyes Were Watching St. John
Cookbooks
- Mackay, Le Awe Cook: A Collection of Authentic Crucian Recipes
- Morgan, The Sugar Mill Caribbean Cookbook
- Jadan & Jadan, A Virgin Island Cookpot Calypso
- Robinson, Famous Virgin Islands Recipes
- Spenceley, A Taste of the Virgin Islands / A Taste of the British Virgin Islands
- UVI, Native Recipes
Nature and Nautical
- Gibney, Native Trees & Plants of East End, St. John
- Karlsson, Learning about Trees and Plants
- MacLean, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Virgin Islands
- Raffaele et al, Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
- Rogers, The Mysterious, Magical Mangroves of St. John, US Virgin Islands
- Sarjim Enterprises LLC, US Virgin Islands Snorkeling Guide
- Scheiner & Scheiner, Diving British Virgin Islands
- Scott & Scott, Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands
- Thomas, Traditional Medicinal Plants of St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John
- UVI, Tropical Fruits of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Their Nutrional Values
- Williams, The Guide to Diving and Snorkeling in the British Virgin Islands
- Wood, The Dive Sites of the Virgin Islands / Dive the Virgin Islands: Complete Guide to Diving and Snorkelling
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