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
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelPrayers for the Stolen by Jennifer ClementSend More Idiots by Tony Perez-GieseAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Books Set in Mexico
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Novelas de Romance Panameñas
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From My Mexican Kitchen by Diana KennedyThe Mexican Home Kitchen by Mely MartinezThe Essential Cuisines of Mexico by Diana KennedyYucatán by David SterlingPati's Mexican Table by Pati Jinich
Best Mexican Cookbooks
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National Geographic by Leah Bendavid-ValThe Art Book by Phaidon PressAlways a Traveler, Never a Tourist by Judy BloombergAnsel Adams by Ansel AdamsPortraits by Steve McCurry
Best Coffee Table Books
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Henry Mosquera
I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry of life in their own way, just like writers deal with archetypes. There are only so many stories that you can tell, but an infinite number of storytellers.
Henry Mosquera, Sleeper's Run

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

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