Labadee

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

The Caribbean prequel to Jane Eyre — Bertha Mason's story set in the lush, haunted beauty of the West Indies. Gorgeous and devastating.

Don't Stop the Carnival

Herman Wouk

A New Yorker buys a Caribbean hotel — everything goes hilariously wrong. The funniest novel about island life ever written.

An Embarrassment of Mangoes

Ann Vanderhoof

A couple sails the Caribbean for two years — the food, the islands, and the irresistible freedom of life under the trade winds.