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Jamaican Books
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A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.89 — 37,932 ratings — published 2014
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.95 — 357,265 ratings — published 2016
Here Comes the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 11,769 ratings — published 2016
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.45 — 30,685 ratings — published 2019
Patsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,065 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,032 ratings — published 2009
How to Say Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.43 — 30,911 ratings — published 2023
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 156,527 ratings — published 2019
How to Love a Jamaican (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,803 ratings — published 2018
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.96 — 675,630 ratings — published 2015
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,748 ratings — published 2004
Augustown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,967 ratings — published 2016
The Long Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,346 ratings — published 2010
If I Survive You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,318 ratings — published 2022
These Ghosts Are Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,670 ratings — published 2020
The Pirate's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.50 — 2,795 ratings — published 2007
Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,210 ratings — published 2022
The Lunatic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.99 — 394 ratings — published 1987
The Hills of Hebron (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.32 — 125 ratings — published 1984
Midnight Robber (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,827 ratings — published 2000
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.59 — 106,247 ratings — published 1966
The True History of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.94 — 459 ratings — published 1999
The Secret Pact: The Battle Ends, the War Continues in Secret (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.71 — 7 ratings — published 2024
The Islands: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.73 — 865 ratings — published 2022
Black Cake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.08 — 224,539 ratings — published 2022
Frying Plantain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,790 ratings — published 2019
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.44 — 1,806 ratings — published 1857
Cane Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.88 — 952 ratings — published 2020
Romance in Marseille (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,622 ratings — published 2002
Gardening in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.99 — 182 ratings — published 1994
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.04 — 283 ratings — published 2016
The Confessions of Frannie Langton (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.56 — 18,937 ratings — published 2019
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.79 — 174,108 ratings — published 2000
Brown Girl in the Ring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,494 ratings — published 1998
Every Light in the House Burnin' (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,519 ratings — published 1994
The Other Side of Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,137 ratings — published 2009
A House for Miss Pauline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.00 — 429 ratings — published 2025
A Tall History of Sugar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.22 — 488 ratings — published 2019
Rainbow Milk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,142 ratings — published 2020
So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,285 ratings — published 2024
A Million Aunties (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.42 — 731 ratings — published 2020
Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories (Longman Caribbean Writers)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.04 — 74 ratings — published 1989
Summer Lightning and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 4.02 — 224 ratings — published 1986
People Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,189 ratings — published 2022
Amiable with Big Teeth (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.60 — 342 ratings — published 2017
Popisho (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,202 ratings — published 2021
Witches Steeped in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.19 — 6,304 ratings — published 2021
Mary Seacole: Bound for the Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as jamaican)
avg rating 3.94 — 97 ratings — published
“I don't keep women friends for too long largely because i do not trust them and i hate gossip. A lot of times i am on the inside looking out and people say if women are avoiding me then it means something is wrong with me and not with them. I look at these female cliques and the lies, pretense and backbiting that keeps them glued together and decide that i want no part of that.”
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
“There is a marked difference between brilliance and intellectuality.
Some of us use both words interchangeably to describe people who can use big words.
A number of people are grandiloquent but not wise.
A person can be verbose but not esoteric.
Just as literacy does not equate to intelligence.
There are two types of learnt people in the world.
Some persons are scholars and others are alchemist.
Let me further my thesis on intellectuals.
Now you have a scholar and an alchemist.
The scholar passes exams, memorizes words and phrases, the alchemist has the intellectual prowess to start a whole new fundamental truth, discipline and school of thought because they can create concepts from their own minds without no external inputs.
Alchemist pass exams without studying because they just know how things work or they use context clue.
For that reason not every smart person is a genius.
Alchemist use their brains to change or improve the world with ingenuity and originality.
The alchemist has a way with words, when they speak you stop and listen. The alchemist is witty in any language (Creole or patois).
Let’s renounce the colonial concept that using Anglo-Saxon words is a mark of intelligence.
Eg.
Kartel speaks English- Kartel intelligent yuh fawk.”
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
Some of us use both words interchangeably to describe people who can use big words.
A number of people are grandiloquent but not wise.
A person can be verbose but not esoteric.
Just as literacy does not equate to intelligence.
There are two types of learnt people in the world.
Some persons are scholars and others are alchemist.
Let me further my thesis on intellectuals.
Now you have a scholar and an alchemist.
The scholar passes exams, memorizes words and phrases, the alchemist has the intellectual prowess to start a whole new fundamental truth, discipline and school of thought because they can create concepts from their own minds without no external inputs.
Alchemist pass exams without studying because they just know how things work or they use context clue.
For that reason not every smart person is a genius.
Alchemist use their brains to change or improve the world with ingenuity and originality.
The alchemist has a way with words, when they speak you stop and listen. The alchemist is witty in any language (Creole or patois).
Let’s renounce the colonial concept that using Anglo-Saxon words is a mark of intelligence.
Eg.
Kartel speaks English- Kartel intelligent yuh fawk.”
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
