Latin America

Latin America refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages (mainly Spanish and Portuguese) are the main languages. The region covers an area that stretches from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego and includes much of the Caribbean. Latin American culture is a mixture of many influences, including indigenous, European, African, and Asian. See Latin American Literature ...more

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
The House of the Spirits
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Like Water for Chocolate
Pedro Páramo
The Savage Detectives
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Ficciones
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Feast of the Goat
Hopscotch
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In the Time of the Butterflies
The Kaleidoscope by Adrian MendozaThe Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrieThanks to Life by Ericka Kim VerbaSilence on the Mountain by Daniel WilkinsonI, Rigoberta Menchú by Rigoberta Menchú
Latin American Studies
256 books — 36 voters
The Kaleidoscope by Adrian MendozaEl Teatro de los Monstruos by Viviana CorderoPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosMemories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
Hispanic Lit
63 books — 46 voters

Sola by Amy  FieldA Year in Provence by Peter MayleOne Thousand White Women by Jim FergusGalileo's Daughter by Dava SobelBarbarian Days by William Finnegan
Travel Passionately with Inspiration
165 books — 37 voters
Fever Dream by Samanta SchweblinTender Is the Flesh by Agustina BazterricaHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaHuman Sacrifices by María Fernanda Ampuero
latin american horror & weirdlit
31 books — 2 voters

Se sabe que el más cuerdo de los sitios es aquel donde todos tienen libertad de cometer sus mejores locuras.
Alfonso Barrera Valverde, El país de Manuelito

Michael Chapman Pincher
Inside, it’s a cauldron of energy with heads swinging in screw-faced joy to percussive Latin rhythms. The Panamanians are a good-looking, loose-hipped race, and they know it.
Michael Chapman Pincher, Long Lost Love: Diary of a Rambling Romeo: Outclassing the Men: Fearless females take the lead on this Epic Voyage

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