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
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
56 books — 16 voters

Dubbelspel by Frank Martinus ArionHoe duur was de suiker? by Cynthia McLeodThe Free Negress Elisabeth by Cynthia McLeodAmor ontdekt Aruba by Albert HelmanTweemaal Mariënburg by Cynthia McLeod
Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles
68 books — 11 voters
Heat of Paris by Peter BreyerOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelAztec by Gary Jennings
Historical Fiction set in Latin America
162 books — 134 voters

Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz RyanGods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-GarciaSilver People by Margarita EngleTreasure of the World by Tara  SullivanCity of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
YA/Children's Books in Latin America
217 books — 29 voters
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
596 books — 294 voters

Abhijit Naskar
LATINO means Loud, Loving And Tenacious, Ingenious in Obscurity.
Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

No sabía hasta aquel instante que las cascadas y las cataratas son fundamentalmente eso: ruidos enormes que están cayendo sobre sí mismos, sobre el agua y el tiempo, sobre los minutos y los segundos, sobre los siglos, sobre pedazos grandes y pequeños de eternidad.
Alfonso Barrera Valverde, El país de Manuelito

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