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Books at OPL from Caribbean authors you'll want to add to your reading list

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  • A stinging satire, debut novel, and soon-to-be film adaptation. Look for the author's next book due out in July 2024.
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. — FIC ASKARIPOU
  • Magical realism abounds in this love story set in Trinidad and Tobago.
    BookNew York : Doubleday, 2022. — FIC BANWO
  • It's new for 2024, but if we know Alyssa Cole, it'll be another hard-to-put-down thriller
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — ON ORDER
  • Read this one, but also everything this author writes!
    BookNew York : Editorial Siete Cuentos, 2021. — SPA FIC CRUZ
  • A story of cross-class friendship set in 1940s Port-au-Prince.
    BookPortland, Oregon : Tin House, 2024. — FIC CHANCY
  • If you love a good family saga that spans many years across many locations, this book is for you!
    BookNew York ; Boston Grand Central Publishing, 2021. — FIC COSTER
  • Fiction made up of a collection of linked stories journeying across Jamaica and Florida.
    BookNew York : MCD ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — FIC ESCOFFERY
  • A queer woman reconnects with her estranged sister in Jamaica after the death of their young brother.
    Book[United States] : Catapult, [2024] — FIC COOKE
  • This book is unlike anything I've read before...in a great way! I couldn't stop turning the pages.
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, [2022] — FIC WILKERSON