The 2019 IndyList

THE ArtsEtc Independence Reading List is now nine 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 ArtsEtc editors Linda M. Deane and Robert Edison Sandiford and contributing editor Racquel Griffith.

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 2019 INDYLIST TITLES

England and Nowhere, Kevin Alan Arthur
Trying to find that higher Caribbean ground

Black Dogs and the Colour Yellow, Christine Barrow
A sharp shard of our mirror image today

My Fishy Stepmom, Shakirah Bourne
There's more than one way to bone a...

History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, Kamau Brathwaite
The sound--and the song! 

When Women Rule, Austin Clarke
Mothers, daughters, sisters, wives

On Being Committed to a Small Place, Annalee Davis
The artist as more than sentinel

Zohara, Geoffrey Drayton
Superstition and religion in Spain

Shadeism, Sharon Hurley Hall
Do you know what you throw?

Unraveling, Karen Lord
There’s still mystery enough in our worlds

Triangular Road, Paule Marshall
Learning to come full circle again

The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology 2017/2018, Various
We may need a bigger net

Nomad, Yvonne Weekes
No here...without there
 

Catch up on your local reading by checking out our previous Lists:

2018: http://artsetcbarbados.com/news/2018-indylist
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/