THE ArtsEtc Independence Reading List is now eight years old!
The IndyList, as we like to call it, is a selection of 12 Barbadian books to make friends with over the coming year.
The list, which first appeared in 2011, is part of the Editors' ongoing "Mapping Our Literature" mission, which promotes awareness of and celebrates Barbadian books and their authors. Each year, we recommend new, classic, and noteworthy titles in fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children’s literature.
And we encourage you to discover and add your own!
The mapping has expanded to include book reviews, this time by Ronald A. Williams and ArtsEtc's editors, Linda M. Deane and Robert Edison Sandiford.
Watch for: further information on the authors themselves and their wider works, and minute-excerpts from books on the list.
We wish to thank the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment, Days Books and Bajan Reporter for their continued forward thinking and support of the IndyList. We invite schools, reading groups and book clubs interested in learning more about the IndyList to contact us.
Happy Independence—all year long!
THE 2018 INDYLIST TITLES
Why Cats Hate Birds, Thomas Armstrong
Sometimes, the only thing to do is love the one you’re with
Have You Met Nora?, Nicole Blades
How far is too far to keep a secret?
Elegguas, Kamau Brathwaite
Words of grace, tribute and honour
Who Gabby Think He Is?, Barbara Chase w/ Valerie Clarke & Anthony “The Mighty Gabby” Carter
His life in folk song and calypso
Ajani's Wonderful Summer, Akhentoolove Corbin
And Barbados’ National Heroes, too
Full Steam Ahead!, Editha “Nancy” Fergusson-Jacobs
Landship ahoy—keep the engine going!
Tracing JaJa, Anthony Kellman
Winner of the 2018 Casa de las Américas Prize
So Many Islands, edited by Nicholas Laughlin with Nailah Folami Imoja
Featuring “The Plundering” by Heather Barker
Tell My Mother I Gone to Cuba, Sharon Milagro Marshall
A reminder that a Bajan may be found (almost) everywhere on the planet
Barbados Bu’n Bu’n (vols 1 & 2), Rosemary Parkinson
Where the sweetest taste is found, deep in the pot
Diskordia, Rivenis
A graphic novel that reimagines the surreal
Prickett’s Well, Edison T. Williams
Can you guess who the body is?
Catch up on your local reading by checking out our previous Lists:
2017: http://artsetcbarbados.com/news/2017-indylist
2016: http://artsetcbarbados.com/news/2016-indylist
2015: http://artsetcbarbados.com/news/2015-indylist
2014: http://artsetcbarbados.com/news/2014-indylist
2013: http://artsetcbarbados.com/news/carrying-our-writers-us-artsetc%E2%80%99...
2012: http://artsetcbarbados.com/news/artsetc-champions-bajan-books
2011: http://aestagerightleft.blogspot.com/2011/
