This week we started our WWLOR Book Circle with a group of women from all over the world. Our first meeting was full of lively discussion. We all agreed that reading is like travel for the soul so I thought I would just refresh your memory with some great island reads (some of them from our own island girls) about the tropics and/or written by island authors.
Perfect for a beach reading day!
- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
- Adrift on a Sea of Blue Light by Peter Muilenburg
- A Face in the River by Kristine Simelda
- American Street by Ibi Zoboi
- And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi
- An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Ann Vanderhoof
- An Island Away by Daniel Putkowski
- A Sail of Two Idiots by Renee Petrillo
- A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
- A Trip to the Beach by Melinda & Robert Blanchard
- Caribbean Addiction by S.M. Fitzpatrick
- Dancing in the Dining Room by Donna Goring
- Desiring Paradise by Karin W. Schlesinger
- Don’t Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk
- Dragonfruit by Malia Mattoch McManus
- Fay Knowles – Love at Sunset and Sunbeams
- Fireburn by Apple Gidley
- Force Ripe by Cindy McKenzie
- Getting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost
- Glassbottom Days by Willie Wilson
- Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
- How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique
- Hurricanes & Hangovers by Dear Miss Mermaid
- I’m Gonna Live My Life Like a Jimmy Buffet Song by Anthony Bjorklund
- Island in the Clouds by Susan M. Toy
- Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
- Lagoonieville books by Bert Emrich
- Land of Love & Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
- Life as Josephine by Claytine Nisbett
- Life in the Left Lane by Emy Thomas
- Live What You Love by Melinda & Robert Blanchard
- Love’s Sweet Joy (Return to Love) by Nerissa Golden
- One Woman’s Island by Susan M. Toy
- Out Island Doctor by Evans W. Cottman
- Paradise in Black and White by Judith Verity
- Precipice by Tom Savage
- River of Fire by Kristine Simelda
- Roatan Odyssey by Anne Jennings Brown
- The Bounty by Caroline Alexander
- The Captain’s Log series by Melanie Wood
- The Carnival Never Got Started by S. Guy Lovelace
- The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
- The Eye of the Storm by Allison Knights Bramble
- The King of Cool by Lori Watts Hirons
- The Island by Victoria Hislop
- The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
- The Marvellous Equations of the Dread by Marcia Douglas
- The One That Got Away by Zee Monodee
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
- The Wildlife in an Island House by Gail Karlsson
- The Words I Want You to Keep by Gaby Compres
- Turning the Tide by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
- Two on the Isle by Robb White
- Up the Mountain One Time by Willie Wilson
- Vintage St. John: Discover St. John’s History through Seven Generations of Heartfelt Stories by Valerie Sims
- Waltzing with Brando by Bernard Judge
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rys
- Wind from the Carolinas by Robert Wilder
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Current Rock of Residence:
Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands
Island Girl Since:
1994
Originally Hails From:
Canada
Originally from the Great White North of Canada, I am truly blessed to call the Cayman Islands home since 1994. Since here my life has been full with an amazing husband, two pretty fantastic kids (who are actually adults now), great friends from all over the world, a couple of cool dogs, numerous beverages, countless parties, wonderful visitors, various jobs with great coworkers, spectacular sunsets, breathtaking sea and a couple of hurricanes thrown into the mix to keep it all in perspective. I now share my little piece of paradise on one of the “sister islands” with my husband and a “Cayman mutt” from the local Humane Society and the kids when they need to thaw out.
