Memoirs/Autobiographies:
- Waiting for Snow in Havana, by Carlos Eire
- Learning to Die in Miami, by Carlos Eire
- This is Cuba, by Ben Corbett
- Cuban Diaries by Isadora Tattlin
- Havana Real by Yoani Sanchez
- My Lost Cuba by Celso Gonzalez-Falla
- Dancing with Cuba by Alma Guillermoprieto
History:
- The History of Cuba by Clifford Staten
- Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost it to the Revolution by T.J. English
- Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis by Roberto Sergre, Mario Coyula and Joseph L. Scarpaci
- The Sugar King of Havana by John Paul Rathbone
- Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba by Tom Gjelten
- Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s by Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
- Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana by William Leogrande and Peter Kombluh
- Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith
Anthropology/Journalism/Political Science & Other Genres:
- The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Bata Drumming by Ken Schweitzer
- Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy by Richard Feinberg
- Cuba on the Verge by Leila Guerriero
- The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba by Julia Cooke
- Cuba: Castro, Revolution and the End of the Embargo (Lightning Guides)
- Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba by Valerio Simoni
- Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha by L. Kaifa Roland
- Sartre on Cuba, by Jean-Paul Sartre
Novels (and this includes novels that are ridiculous and/or terrible):
- Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia
- The Cuban Affair, by Nelson DeMille
- Cayo Hueso/Cuba Libre, by Michael Ritchie
- Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
- King of Cuba by Cristina Garcia
- Cuba Libre, by Elmore Leonard
- Havana Fever by Leonardo Padura
Other Books
- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- A Corner of the World, Mylene Fernández-Pintado
- Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene
- Mea Cuba, Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- Farewell to the Sea, Reinaldo Arena
- Cuba Confidential, Ann Louise Bardach
- An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, Ruth Behar
“Ruth Behar is a well known anthropologist and writer. I just discovered her webpage on Cuba. She not only had to leave Cuba after the revolution, but has returned and written a book about it. Here is Ruth’s Reading List for Cuba (note it includes Hemingway, and Greene):”