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
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
The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Women Around the World
1,177 books — 437 voters

La Capital by Jonathan KandellThe Mongrel by Connie Carmona FisherThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorAztec by Gary JenningsYou Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
Five Superb Mexico City Reads
7 books — 3 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

Eduardo Galeano
Bolivar prophesied shrewdly that the United States seemed fated by Providence to plague America with woes in the name of liberty. General Motors or IBM will not step graciously into our shoes and raise the old banners of unity and emancipation which fell in battle; nor can heroes betrayed yesterday be redeemed by the traitors of today. It is a big load of rottenness that has to be sent to the bottom of the sea on the march to Latin America's reconstruction. The task lies in the hands of the disp ...more
Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano
The most heartening response came not from the book pages in the press but from real incidents in the streets. The girl who was quietly reading Open Veins to her companion in a bus in Bogotá, and finally stood up and read it aloud to all the passengers. The woman who fled from Santiago in the days of the Chilean bloodbath with this book wrapped inside her baby's diapers. The student who went from one bookstore to another for a week in Buenos Aires's Calle Corrientes, reading bits of it in each s ...more
Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

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