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Books set in Haiti:
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
The Comedians by Graham Greene
The Serpent and the Rainbow by Edmund Wade Davis
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
Silencing The Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
The Uses of Haiti by Paul Farmer
All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
Divine Horsemen: Living Gods of Haiti by Maya Deren
Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois
The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier by Amy Wilentz
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer
The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora by Edwidge Danticat
Why the Cocks Fight by Michele Wucker
Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat
Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie by Wade Davis
Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer
After the Dance by Edwidge Danticat
Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone
The Haitian Trilogy: Plays by Derek Walcott
Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women by Myriam J.A. Chancy
Bug-Jargal by Victor Hugo
The Haitian Revolution by Toussaint L'ouverture
The Beast of the Haitian Hills by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin
Return by Dany Laferrière
Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle by Kent Annan
An Aroma of Coffee by Dany Laferrière
The Red of His Shadow: A Novel by Mayra Montero
Voodoo in Haiti by Alfred Metraux
Voodoo Fire in Haiti by Richard A. Loederer
The Magic Orange Tree, and Other Haitian Folktales by Diane Wolkstein
Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance by Beverly Bell
Haiti Noir by Edwidge Danticat
Massacre River by René Philoctète
Dining With the Dictator by Dany Laferrière
Down among the dead men by Dany Laferrière
Zombie Curse: A Doctor's 25year Journey by Arthur M. Fournier
The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of Wind by Rosa Guy
Bitter Chocolate by Lesley Lokko
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Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot
Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment by Peter Hallward
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired by Dany Laferrière
Master of the Crossroads by Madison Smartt Bell
The Boiling Season: A Novel by Christopher Hebert
Keep on Keepin' on: Poems by Josaphat-Robert Large
Haiti: The Breached Citadel by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot
In Darkness by Nick Lake
Heading South by Dany Laferrière
A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez
The Festival of the Greasy Pole by René Depestre
Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti by Frances Temple
Ayiti by Roxane Gay
Fresh Girl by Jaira Placide
Tonight, by Sea by Frances Temple
Drums at Dusk by Arna Bontemps
Alphabet of the Night by Jean-Euphele Milce
Reflections of Loko Miwa by Lilas Desquiron
So Spoke the Uncle by Jean Price-Mars
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz
Because We Are - a novel of Haiti by Ted OswaldI really enjoyed this book and gave it 5*. See my review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/782624742
Miracle on Voodoo Mountain: A Young Woman's Remarkable Story of Pushing Back the Darkness for the Children of Haiti by Megan Boudreaux
More books set in Haiti:
Aftershock: A Journey of Faith to Haiti by M.A. Coulter
Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 by Edwidge Danticat
Babouk: Voices of Resistance by Guy Endore
The Cross on the Drum by Hugh B. Cave
Dance on the Volcano by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Drums of Destiny by Peter Bourne
Ebony Wood. Bois D'ébène. Poems by Jacques Roumain
Fado by Kettly Mars
God Loves Haiti by Dimitry Elias Leger
Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois
Happy Talk: A Novel by Richard Melo
Hold Tight, Don't Let Go by Laura Rose Wagner
In a Sun-Scorched Land: A memoir of adoption, faith, and the moving of Haiti's mountains 
Land Of Mountains by Jinx Schwartz
Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Roberts
The Magic Island by William Seabrook
Memory at Bay by Evelyne Trouillot
Monsieur Toussaint: A Play by Édouard Glissant
No Other Life by Brian Moore
On That Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti 
An Ordinary Magic by Jason Thibeault
Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American by Jean-Robert Cadet
Saison de Porcs by Gary Victor
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
Savage Seasons by Kettly Mars
Serafina's Promise by Ann E. Burg
The Stone that the Builder Refused: A Novel by Madison Smartt Bell
Tales from the Heart of Haiti by Patti M. Marxsen
Tap-Tap by Karen Lynn Williams
The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake by Dany Laferrière
Toussaint Louverture: A Biography by Madison Smartt Bell
Voodoo in My Blood: A Healer's Journey from Surgeon to Shaman by Carolle Jean-Murat
When the Tom-Tom Beats: Selected Prose and Poetry by Jacques Roumain
More books set in Haiti:
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Bonjour Blanc: A Journey Through Haiti by Ian Thomson
Cathedral of the August Heat by Pierre Clitandre
Crying Mountain: Crazy Hurricane by Lili Dauphin
Doctor Who: White Darkness by David A. McIntee
The Drum and the Hoe: Life and Lore of the Haitian People by Harold Courlander
Drums of Darkness by Marion Zimmer Bradley
A Girl Named Lovely: One Child's Miraculous Survival and My Journey to the Heart of Haiti by Catherine Porter
Secrets of Voodoo by Milo Rigaud.
Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora by Elizabeth McAlister.
Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti by J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat. 
There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince by Greg Beckett.
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There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince (other topics)Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora (other topics)
Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti (other topics)
Secrets of Voodoo (other topics)
A Girl Named Lovely: One Child's Miraculous Survival and My Journey to the Heart of Haiti (other topics)
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Lili Dauphin (other topics)
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