He's just released the second book in this Dark Star trilogy called Moon Witch, Spider King. After the win, he turned to fantasy, and created his "African Game of Thrones". But sometimes you want to read about the Cannibal Witch, unborn children who leave the womb at night to hunt for food and Son Jara, the original Lion King.Jamaican writer Marlon James won the 2015 Booker for A Brief History of Seven Killings. Grimm’s Fairytales are great, the Icelandic sagas are essential and I’m always here for Grendel. “Epic Traditions of Africa,” Stephen Belcher I sometimes wonder if I’m the only person to realize that the collected Palomar stories, from one half of Los Bros Hernandez, adds up to the finest American novel of the past 30 years? “Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories,” Gilbert Hernandez But this is his most daring novel, and the labyrinthine twists and turns of each sentence demands undivided attention - so perfect for a desert island, then. It’s too easy to just go with the obvious choice(s). Picking a Márquez novel is a near impossible task. “The Autumn of The Patriarch,” Gabriel García Márquez Possible the most brutally, hilariously accurate portrait of post-colonial Jamaica I’ve ever read. Best plot of all time? Maybe not, but too close to the top to merit serious argument. Nude vampires, gun-toting talking black cat, and devil as ultimate party starter aside, the miracle of this novel is that every time you read it, it’s a different book.įirst book I ever read for school that I was sad to see end. “The Master and Margarita,” Mikhail Bulgakov
The entire future of Caribbean prose is mapped out in this collection of stories, and I don’t know a single Caribbean writer who doesn’t reread it often. “Summer Lightning and Other Stories,” Olive Seniorīecause she taught me everything about matching devastation with economy.
(Through May 22, One Grand is hosting a pop-up shop at Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.) The next in the series is the author Marlon James, who shares his list exclusively with T. For his bookshop and website One Grand Books, the editor Aaron Hicklin asked people to name the 10 books they’d take with them if they were marooned on a desert island.
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