Jamaica Kincaid Book order (chronological)

Jamaica Kincaid’s poetic and affecting story of an ordinary man attempting to make a home on the island of Antigua.

Originally featured in the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column, these are Jamaica Kincaid’s first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.

Mr. Potter ist Analphabet und verdient seinen Lebensunterhalt als Taxifahrer auf den Straßen Antiguas. Er dreht seine Runden, vorbei an dem Friedhof, auf dem er begraben werden wird. Die Sonne steht direkt über ihm, das Meer umgibt ihn, unterdrückte Leidenschaften erfüllen die Luft. Mr. Potter will mehr erreichen als sein Vater, ein armer Fischer, und seine Mutter, die Selbstmord begangen hat. Er will in besseren Verhältnissen leben, ein Auto besitzen, Freundinnen haben und die Schulden seiner Töchter tilgen. Eine von ihnen wird nach seinem Tod seine Geschichte erzählen – mit ebenso viel Distanz wie Mitgefühl. Mit Mr. Potter lässt Jamaica Kincaid nicht nur eine schillernde literarische Figur entstehen, die so einzigartig wie typisch ist, so real wie fiktiv – im Schreiben nähert sie sich auch jener Person an, die ihr im Leben am meisten fehlt.

Jamaica Kincaid's engrossing account of a three-week trek through the Himalayas with fellow horticulturalists, intertwining mediations on the stunning landscapes with observations on culture, tourism and family.

A story of a marriage, Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then is one of her most emotionally and thematically daring works.

Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who climbed the World Trade Center, and an eighty-three-year-old typewriter repairman whose shop on Fulton Street has drawers full of umlauts. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Like his literary forbears Joseph Mitchell and A.J. Liebling, Frazier, in his bewitching, inimitable voice, makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again, the way he did, arriving as a young man from Hudson, Ohio. In classic evocations of the F train, Canal Street, and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and in his iconic "Bags in Trees" essay, Frazier gives us New York again, in all its vital and human multiplicity.

One of the most important literary voices of the twentieth century on one of her greatest loves - gardening.

Jamaica Kincaid's poweful and moving account of the life and death of her younger brother.

Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the haunting, deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, grows up in a harsh, loveless world after her mother dies in childbirth. Xuela’s narrative provides a rich, vivid exploration of the Caribbean and the pervasive influence of colonialism. The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry.

A classic coming-of-age story from Jamaica Kincaid, following a young woman as she enters adulthood against the backdrop of a strange and unfamiliar country.

Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, this memoir is a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua, by the author of "Annie John."

The first short-story collection from Jamaica Kincaid, this is a stunning evocation of life as a young Afro-Caribbean woman.

For use in schools and libraries only. The theme of lost childhood remains constant in this short fictional narrative of rebellious Annie John's coming of age on the small island of Antigua.