Suggested Reading
Selected bibliography of books on Haiti (in English only)
- Accilien, Cécile, Jessica Adams & Elmide Méléance (editors). Revolutionary Freedoms: A History of Survival, Strength and imagination in Haiti. Coconut Creek, Florida: Caribbean Studies Press, 2006.
- Armand, Margaret Mitchell. Healing in the Homeland: Haitian Vodou Tradition. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2013
- Arthur, Charles. Haiti in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture. Brooklyn, New York: Interlink Books, 2001
- Arthur, Charles & Dash, Michael J. (editors). Libète: A Haitian Anthology. Princeton: New Jersey: Markus Wiener Publishing, 1999.
- Bell, Martin Smartt. All Souls Rising. Vintage Publishers, 2004
- Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick and Claudine Michel. Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth & Reality. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2006.
- Buss, Terry F. and Gardner, Adam. Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It. Brookings Institute Press. Washington, D.C, 2008.
- Chancy, Myriam. Reframing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
- Danticat, Edwidge. Breath, Eyes, Memory. New York: Soho Press, 1994.
- Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995
- The Farming of Bones. New York: Soho Press, 1998.
- (editor). The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States. New York: Soho Press, 2001
- Dash, Michael J. Haiti and the United States: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination. London: Macmillan, 1988
- Dayan, Joan. Haiti, History and the Gods. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
- Desmangles, Leslie. Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
- Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004
- Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2012
- Dupuy, Alex. Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment since 1700. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1989.
- Girard, Philippe R. Paradise Lost: Haiti’s Tumultuous Journey from Pearl of the Caribbean to Third World Hot Spot. Palgrave Macmillan. New York, NY, 2005.
- McCalister, Elizabeth. Vodou, Power and Performance in Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
- Renda, Mary. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
- Shacochis, Bob. The Immaculate Invasion. New York, New York: Grove Atlantic, 1999.
- Schwartz, Timothy T. Travesty in Haiti: A true Account of Christian Missions, Orphanages, Fraud, Food Aid and Drug Trafficking. (2008) BookSurge Publishing. Charleston, S.C.
- Trouillot, Michel Rolph. State Against nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1990.
- Ulysse, Gina Athena. Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle. Middleton, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2015.
- White, Ashli. Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic: Early America: History, Context and Culture. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Zacaïr, Philippe (editor). Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2010.