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
Una Navidad en Boquete by Mayra De GraciaJust Business by Mayra De GraciaCuando Te Miro by Nicole SamaniegoLlévame Contigo by Yara ArizaLas últimas flores del verano by E.R. Santana
Novelas de Romance Panameñas
42 books — 2 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

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
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelPurge by Sofi OksanenThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
A year of reading the world
277 books — 51 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoKiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel PuigLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Lit (In Translation)
106 books — 49 voters

Del frío de la madrugada nadie sabe tanto como los ríos. Lo supieron también, por una vez, los tobillos de Manuelito, pero ninguna sensación es mejor que la libertad.
Alfonso Barrera Valverde, El país de Manuelito

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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