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Virgin Islands Books
Books about the (primarly US) Virgin Islands, set in the Virgin Islands, and/or written by or about Virgin Islanders.
Fiction (including Historical Fiction, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mysteries)
- Anderson, Night of the Silent Drums: A Narrative of Slave Rebellion on the Virgin Islands
- Bailey, A Lighter Shade of Bleu
- 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 / The Apocalypse Ocean
- Buckell, Hurricane Fever
- Callender, Islands of Blood and Storm: Queen of the Conquered / King of the Rising
- Carr, Finding Maubee
- 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
- Jones-Hendrickson, Death on the Pasture
- Larsen, Quicksand & Passing
- Lordi, Death Rides Bareback
- Lordi, The Jade Keepsake
- Lordi, One If By Land
- Lordi, Towers of the Red Drake: The Fledglings / The Sea Dragons and The Lost Boys: Towers of the Red Drake Vol. 2
- Lisowski, Looking for Lisa
- McCaig, The Bamboo Cannon
- McCord, Santa Anna's Gold in a Pirate Sea
- McCord, Undocumented Visitors in a Pirate Sea: An Investigation of Certain Caribbean Phenomena by Dr. Thayer Harris
- McNear, Sugarbird / Caribbean Caper: A Love Story
- Malone, Salona Travis in the Virgin Islands
- Marne, Sunken Treachery
- 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
- Snow, Getting Greedy: A Doc White Adventure
- Thomas, Hula: A Boat's Story
- Turnbull, The Lesson
- Turnbull, No Gods, No Monsters / We Are the Crisis
- Whitney, Columbella
- Whitney, Secret of the Spotted Shell
- 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
- Adisa, Look! A Moko Jumbie
- 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
- Jacobs, The Hurricane Hat
- 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
- Linzer, Once Upon an Island
- 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, Biographies, and other Non-Fiction
- 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
- Brown, Incidental Architect: William Thornton and the Cultural Life of Early Washington, D.C., 1794-1828
- Bryan, James and the Fireburn
- Burton, Before Our Time: An Oral History of St. John
- Caron, The Amerindians & their Legacy in the Virgin Islands, / The Danish Port of Charlotte Amalia (1790-1803) / The French Intervention in the St. John Slave Revolt of 1733-34 / Sainte Croix & Saint Thomas through French Documents (1629-1737) / The State of the Danish West Indies at the Time of their Transfer to the United States of Ameria / Vying for Santa Cruz & Las Virgenes in the Lesser Antilles (1493-1679)
- Cawley, See the Man with No Legs Dance
- Cerni, Journeying to Paradise
- Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
- Cohen, Through the Sands of Time
- Corneiro, The Coal Women of St. Thomas
- Corneiro, Runaway Virgins: Danish West Indian Slave Ads 1770-1848
- Corneiro, Rescuing Virgins: A Guide To Virgin Islands Sports Collectibles
- Corneiro, Passports From Paradise
- 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
- Donnella, Like Other People's Children: The Danish West Indies Lutheran Mission, A Caribbean Prototype of Liturgical Inculturation
- Donoghue, Black Women/White Men: The Sexual Exploitation of Female Slaves in the Danish West Indies
- Donoghue, Negro Slavery: Slave Society and Slave Life in the Danish West Indies
- 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
- Gladwin, Living in the Changing Caribbean
- Goodlander, St. John People: Stories about St. John residents by St. John residents
- Gøbel, A Guide to Sources for the History of the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands), 1671-1917
- Gøbel, The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition
- 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
- Harris, ed., Papers of William Thornton
- 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
- Jackson, Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
- Jarvis & Martin, Virgin Islands Picture Book
- Jarvis, Brief History of the Virgin Islands
- Jarvis, The Virgin Islands and Their People
- Jensen, For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves, Medicine and Power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848
- Jones, The Eighth Flag: Cannibals. Conquistadors. Buccaneers. Pirates.
- Jones, Irma Was Here: Surviving the Eye of History's Strongest Atlantic Hurricane
- Joseph Gloria, ed., Common Differences: Conflicts in Black and White Feminist Perspectives
- Joseph Gloria, The Wind is Sprit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde
- Joseph Michael, Fountain Valley 1972
- Knie-Andersen, Sukker og Guld (Sugar and Gold): The History of the Danish West Indies and its Goldsmiths until 1917
- 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.
- Krigger, Race Relations in the US Virgin Islands: St. Thomas - A Centennial Retrospective
- Lawaetz Erik, Emancipation: The Virgin Islands of the United States Celebrates Its 150 Year Anniversary 1849 July 3 1998
- Lawaetz Erik, St. Croix: 500 Years Pre-Columbus to 1990
- Lawaetz Eva, Black Education in the Danish West Indies from 1732 to 1853 : the Pioneering Efforts of the Moravian Brethren
- Lawatez Eva, Free Coloured in St. Croix, 1744-1816: The History, Statistics, and Selected Information Concerning the Free Coloured in the Danish West Indies, with Special Reference to St. Croix, from 1744-1816
- 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
- Millin-Young, Because They Dared
- 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
- Muilenburg, Adrift on a Sea of Blue Light
- Navarro, Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands
- Oldendorp, A Caribbean Mission: History of the Mission of the Evangelical Brethren on the Caribbean Islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John
- Oliver, Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean
- Olwig, Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St. John: Three Centuries of Afro-Caribbean Life
- O'Neal Eugenia, From the Field to the Legislature: A History of Women in the Virgin Islands
- O'Neal Michael, et al, Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism: Social Transformations in the British Virgin Islands
- 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, The Burning of a Pirate Ship La Trompeuse in the Harbour of St. Thomas July 31, 1683 and Other Tales
- Paiewonsky, Eyewitness Accounts of Slavery in the Danish West Indies
- 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
- Roopnarine, Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873
- Simonsen, Slave Stories: Law, Representation and Gender in the Danish West Indies
- Sims, Vintage St. John / Vintage Norman Island
- Smith Holt, Not on Any Map: One Virgin Island, Two Catastrophic Hurricanes, and the True Meaning of Paradise
- Rhymer, Life in "Paradise"
- Taylor, An Island of the Sea: Descriptive of the Past and Present of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, with a Few Short Stories about Bluebeard's and Blackbeard's Castles
- Thomas, Home Is Where the Boat Is / Life in the Left Lane / A Most Unlikely Story
- Thurland Karen, The Neighborhoods of Christiansted
- Thurland Karen, The Sugar Industry on St. Croix
- Thurland Karen, 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
- Watlington & Lincoln, ed., Disaster And Disruption in 1867: Hurricane, Earthquake and Tsunami in the Danish West Indies: A ollection of Accounts and Reports
- Westergaard, The Danish West Indies under Company Rule 1671-1754
- Wheatley, Heritage and Hope: Finding my Purpose in Virgin Islands Culture 1938-1963
- 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
- Kohls, ed., Resource Guide to the Culture of the U.S. Virgin Islands
- 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
- Thurland Karen, Masqueraders Musicians and the Old Time St. Croix Christmas Festival
- Valls, Ole Time Sayin's: Proverb of the West Indies
- Valls, What a Pistarckle!
- van Rossem & van der Voort, Die Creol Taal: 250 Years of Negerhollands Texts
- White, Meet Meh undah deh Bongolo & Tark like We No: A Case for Virgin Islands Creole Den an' Now
Art, Architecture, and Photography
- Asfour, Departures: The Illustrated Travel Posters of Alex Asfour
- Brettell, Pissarro's People
- Clarke, Hidden Secrets of St. Croix
- Corneiro, The Danish West Indies In Black And White
- 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
- Henningsen, The Danish West Indies in Old Pictures / Dansk Vestindien I Gamle Billeder
- Hoiland, etc,
- Lawaetz Roy, Modular Triangular System
- Lewis Joyce, Portraits of a Time Past: Virgin Islands, Short Stories, Novella and Visual Arts
- McLaughlin, Time Gone
- Moorehead, When the Spirit Tells Me to Stop
- 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
- Thurland Anne, Jens Larsen Photo Collection: St Croix 1935-1937
- Thurland Anne, Will Thurland's World War II Photo Collection: The Virgin Islands Orchestra of the 873rd Port Company
Cookbooks
- David, et al, Creative Callaloo: Art, Poems, and Recipes Inspired by the Virgin Islands
- 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
- York, Culinary Traditions of St. Croix: A Brief History of Island Lifestyles
- UVI, Native Recipes
Nature and Nautical
- Dammann, & Nellis, A Natural History Atlas to the Cays of the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Glanville, Beaches, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Glanville & Jenik, Diving Guide to the Virgin Islands
- Gibney, Native Trees & Plants of East End, St. John
- Karlsson, Learning about Trees and Plants
- MacLean, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Virgin Islands
- Philibosian & Yntema, Annotated Checklist of the Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, and Amphibians of the Virgin Islands & Puerto Rico
- 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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