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Virgin Islands Books
Books about the (primary US) VI, set in the VI, or written by or about Virgin Islanders.
Fiction (including historical fiction, mystery, sci-fi)
- Anderson, Night of the Silent Drums: A Narrative of Slave Rebellion on the Virgin Islands
- Ball, Mingo's Cave
- Barbel, Paradise Rush
- Barbour, Death in the Virgins
- Buckell, Crystal Rain
- Buckell, Ragamuffin
- Buckell, Sly Mongoose
- Davis, Back to the Ship
- Douglass, Rebecca's Pride
- Fishman, Paradise
- Gill, Buddhoe, the Man Who Shaped the History of St. Croix
- Grilley, Death Dances to a Reggae Beat
- Grilley, Death Lurks in the Bush
- Grilley, Death Rides an Ill Wind
- Heyward, Star Spangled Virgin
- Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
- Larsen, Quicksand & Passing
- McCaig, The Bamboo Cannon
- Medlicott, Belonging: A Caribbean Love Story
- Philips, Dance of the Mongoose
- Savage, Precipice
- Schiller, Transfer Day
- Turnbull, The Lesson
- Whitney, Columbella
- Wouk, Don't Stop the Carnival
- Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony
- Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning
Children and Young Adult
- Adisa, Dance Quadrille and Play Quelbe
- Anderson, The Day the Hurricane Happened
- Anderson, Izzard
- Brown, Henry-Fisherman
- Callender, Felix Ever After
- Callender, Hurricane Child
- Danet, The Adventures of Jean-Pierre Mongoose
- O'Dell, My Name Is Not Angelica
- Roebuck & Hassell-Habtes, Broo 'Nansi and the Tar Baby: A U.S. Virgin Islands Story
- Stevenson, Treasure Island
- Taylor, The Cay
- Taylor, Timothy of The Cay
- Turnbull, Ti Koko and Kush Kush
- Wilson, Up Mountain One Time
- Yanique, I Am the Virgin Islands
Poetry
- Brown, Callwood, & Harrington, ed, In the Mother Tongue: Poetry in Creole by Students of CAHS and IEKHS
- Creque, Trade Winds
- Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
- Richards, Roots ah de Baobab
- Tiwoni, Attacking the Moncada of the Mind
- Tiwoni, Islands of My Mind
- 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<
- Benjamin, Me and My Beloved Virgin
- Boyer, America's Virgin Islands: A History of Human Rights and Wrongs
- Burton, Before Our Time: An Oral History of St. John
- Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
- Cohen, Through the Sands of Time
- Dawson, Down Street, Saint Thomas and Beyond
- deBooy & Faris, The Virign 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
- 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
- Highfield, Sea Grapes and Kennips
- Highfield & Tyson, Negotiating Enslavement
- Hill, A Golden Jubilee: Virgin Islands on the Go under the American Flag
- 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, 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 & 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Rhymer, Life in "Paradise"
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Schrader, 1878: Queen Mary and Dem
- 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 and Architecture
- 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
- Pissarro, Camille Pissarro
- Rezende & Walbom, St. Croix: Historic Photos
- Rezende & Walbom, St. Thomas and St. John: Historic Photos
Cookbooks
- Mackay, Le Awe Cook
- Morgan, The Sugar Mill Cookbook
- Spenceley, A Taste of the Virgin Islands Cookbook
Nature and Nautical
- MacLean, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Virgin Islands
- Raffaele, A Guide to the 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 Giude
- Scott & Scott, Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands
- Wood, The Dive Sites of the Virgin Islands