• Mine Boy - Peter Abrahams
• This Island Now - Peter Abrahams
• GB84 - David Peace
• No Mean City - Mcarthur & Long
• The Aguero Sisters - Christina Garcia
• Petals of Blood - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
• Weep not, child - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
• God's Bits of Wood - Sembene Osmane
• Tar Baby - Toni Morrison
• Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• Union Street - Pat Barker
• Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
• Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
• Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
• Germinal - Emile Zola
• The Iron Heel - Jack London
• Slow Birds - Ian Watson
• Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler
• Parable of the Talents - Octavia E. Butler
• The Inhabited Woman - Gioconda Belli
• Fire on the Mountain - Terry Bisson

Novels about philosophy more generally:

• The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
• The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
• The Cairo Triology - Maguib Mahfouz
• Sugar Street - Maguib Mafouz
• The Unnameable - Samuel Beckett
• Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
• Small Gods - Terry Pratchett

Caribbean Books

• Prospero's Daughter - Elizabeth Nunez
• Cereus Blooms at Night - Shani Mootoo
• Abeng - Michelle Cliff
• Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root - Nalo Hopkinson
• No Telephone to Heaven - Michelle Cliff
• Trinidad Noir - Earl Lovelace
• Crossing the Mangrove - Maryse Conde
• Madam Fate - Marcia Douglas
• Genesis - Eduardo Galeano
• Salt - Earl Lovelace
• Middle Passages - Kamau Brathwaite
• The Marvellous Equations of the Dread - Marcia Douglas
• Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells - Marcia Douglas

Caribbean Books / Theory

• Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture - Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey (essay anthology)
• Creolization as Cultural Creativity - Robert Baron (essay anthology)
• Poetics of Relation - Édouard Glissant
• The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective - Antonio Benítez-Rojo