Haiti Books

Here are some books on Haiti, including books by and about Paul Farmer and Partners in Health. I will be updating this list with general Haiti books that I read and like; if you know of a great Haiti book, please email me about it and I will read it. See also PIH Library and Amazon Haiti Search.

• Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder. This thrilling and important book came out in September 2003; it is now on the New York Times bestseller list and one recent review says this book has "Pulitzer written all over it". This book is dynamite, it covers Paul Farmer's work in Haiti and his quest to cure the third world of infectious disease and to provide dignity to the poorest peoples on Earth.
• The Haiti Files: Decoding the Crisis, by James Ridgeway (Editor)
• The Uses of Haiti, by Paul Farmer
• Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, by Paul Farmer
• Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, by Paul Farmer
• A Haiti Anthology: Libete edited by Charles Arthur and Michael Dash
• All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
• The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier by Amy Wilentz
• Restavec: From Haitian Slave child to Middle-class American by Jean-Robert Cadet
• In the Parish of the Poor: Writings from Haiti by Jean-Bertrand Aristide
• The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States by Edwidge Danticat
• The Immaculate Invasion by Bob Shacochis
• The Neglected and Abused: A Physician's Year in Haiti by Joseph Bentivegna

You can find more complete Haiti book lists by Steve Jones and Charles Arthur. For out of print books, try searching abebooks.