We’ve curated a selection of our books on the history and culture of Cuba, from early colonial years to the 1959 Revolution to daily life today, for those wanting to learn more about the island nation.
Havana Hardball
Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and The Cuban League
César Brioso
Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away
Memories of Early Cuban Exiles
David Powell
Modern Art in 1940s Cuba
Havana's Artists, Critics, and Exhibitions
Alejandro Anreus
Seagull One
The Amazing True Story of Brothers to the Rescue
Lily Prellezo, José Basulto
Operation Pedro Pan, Revised Edition
The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children
Yvonne M. Conde
Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children
Deborah Shnookal
The Mariel Boatlift
A Cuban-American Journey
Victor Andres Triay
Voices from Mariel
Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift
José Manuel García
The Cuban Sandwich
A History in Layers
Andrew T. Huse, Bárbara C. Cruz, Jeff Houck
Modern Cuban
A Contemporary Approach to Classic Recipes
Ana Quincoces, Gloria Estefan
Fleeing Castro
Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program
Victor Andres Triay
Bay of Pigs
An Oral History of Brigade 2506
Victor Andres Triay
Cuban Revelations
Behind the Scenes in Havana
Marc Frank
Revolutionary Cuba
A History
Luis Martínez-Fernández
In the Vortex of the Cyclone
Selected Poems
Excilia Saldaña, Flora González-Mandri, Rosamond Rosenmeier
Portraits of Cuba
Daniel Duncan, Marcela Vásquez-León, Dereka Rushbrook
Picturing Cuba
Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora
Jorge Duany
Embracing Cuba
Byron Motley
Handmade in Cuba
Rolando Estévez and the Beautiful Books of Ediciones Vigía
Ruth Behar, Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, Kristin Schwain
Cuba
A History in Art
Gary R. Libby, Juan A. Mártinez
Delivering Cuba Through the Mail
Cuba’s Presence in Non-Cuban Postage Stamps and Envelopes
Emilio Cueto
Cuba on the Labels
A Selection of Cuba-Themed Cigar Labels Printed Outside of Cuba
Emilio Cueto
Inspired by Cuba
A Survey of Cuba-themed Ceramics
Emilio Cueto, Julio Larramendi
Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves
Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns
Frances Peace Sullivan
The Cuban Revolution and the New Left
Transnational Histories of Gender, Sexuality, and Family
Michelle Chase, Isabella Cosse
Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Raquel Alicia Otheguy
Democracy and Time in Cuban Thought
The Elusive Present
María de los Ángeles Torres
Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art
The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking
Christina M. García
Cuba and Puerto Rico
Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture
Carmen Haydée Rivera, Jorge Duany
Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela
One Hope, Two Realities
Silvia Pedraza, Carlos A. Romero
Cuban Cultural Heritage
A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation
Pablo Alonso González
The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas
Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum
Sandro R. Barros, Rafael Ocasio, Angela L. Willis
Staging Discomfort
Performance and Queerness in Contemporary Cuba
Bretton White
Cuba’s Digital Revolution
Citizen Innovation and State Policy
Ted A. Henken, Sara Garcia Santamaria
Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba
Takkara K. Brunson
Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santería
Speaking a Sacred World
Kristina Wirtz
Afro-Cuban Voices
On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba
Pedro Pérez Sarduy, Jean Stubbs
The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution
Anna Clayfield
Wage-Earning Slaves
Coartación in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Claudia Varella, Manuel Barcia
Key to the New World
A History of Early Colonial Cuba
Luis Martínez-Fernández
Indigenous Passages to Cuba, 1515-1900
Jason M. Yaremko
The Cubalogues
Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana
Todd F. Tietchen
Exile and Revolution
José D. Poyo, Key West, and Cuban Independence
Gerald E. Poyo
Circulating Culture
Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange
Jennifer Cearns