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Central America Books
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The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.93 — 64,018 ratings — published 2017
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.48 — 10,871 ratings — published 2024
Solito (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.48 — 84,143 ratings — published 2022
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,212 ratings — published 1982
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,562 ratings — published 1984
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.22 — 23,613 ratings — published 1977
Enrique's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,316 ratings — published 2005
The President (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,024 ratings — published 1946
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.31 — 28,983 ratings — published 1971
The Mosquito Coast (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,186 ratings — published 1981
The Great Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.66 — 30,527 ratings — published 2024
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.05 — 769 ratings — published 2015
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.07 — 528 ratings — published 2021
Salvador (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,928 ratings — published 1983
The Bird Hotel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,923 ratings — published 2023
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.56 — 2,647 ratings — published 1987
One Day of Life (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,018 ratings — published 1980
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,134 ratings — published 1994
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,010 ratings — published 2005
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.66 — 455,553 ratings — published 2020
The Massacre at El Mozote (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,680 ratings — published 1994
Senselessness (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,364 ratings — published 2004
The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,785 ratings — published
Tiempos recios (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,725 ratings — published 2019
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,495 ratings — published 2019
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.38 — 17,670 ratings — published 2016
Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,608 ratings — published 2016
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.95 — 401,640 ratings — published 1989
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
by (shelved 10 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.19 — 564 ratings — published 2002
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.36 — 709,988 ratings — published 2020
The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,546 ratings — published 2010
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.05 — 106,060 ratings — published 1955
Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.14 — 381 ratings — published 1983
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,520 ratings — published 2001
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,045 ratings — published 1966
Men of Maize: The Modernist Epic of the Guatemalan Indians (Pittsburgh Editions of Latin American Literature)
by (shelved 8 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,418 ratings — published 1949
The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.83 — 284 ratings — published 2004
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.89 — 281,567 ratings — published 2007
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,280 ratings — published 2024
Slash and Burn (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.79 — 597 ratings — published 2017
La mujer habitada (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,955 ratings — published 1988
The Adventurer's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,907 ratings — published 2020
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.87 — 79,680 ratings — published 2019
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.99 — 207 ratings — published 1991
The She-Devil in the Mirror (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.80 — 653 ratings — published 2000
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.65 — 207 ratings — published 2006
Wanderlove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,707 ratings — published 2012
The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Latin America Otherwise)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.80 — 104 ratings — published 2000
Beka Lamb (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,110 ratings — published 1982
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,172 ratings — published 2020
“Loss in Vietnam radicalized a generation of veterans, pushing many into the ranks of white-supremacist groups. Ronald Reagan, as the standard bearer of an ascendant New Right, effectively tapped into this radicalization, which helped lift him to victory in his 1980 presidential campaign. Once he was in office, Reagan's re-escalation of the Cold War allowed him to contain the radicalization, preventing it from spilling over (too much) into domestic politics. Anti-communist campaigns in Central America—a region Reagan called "our southern frontier"—were especially helpful in focusing militancy outward. But Reagan's Central American wars (which comprised support for the Contras in Nicaragua and death squads in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) generated millions of refugees, many, perhaps most, of whom fled to the United States. As they came over the border, they inflamed the same constituencies that Reagan had mobilized to wage the wars that had turned them into refugees in the first place.”
― The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
― The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
“One of the conceits of forgetting in the United States is the idea that colonialism ended in 1776 when the new country declared independence. Central American countries, too, celebrate their independence heroes and wars as historical milestones. But in both regions, the colonial roots ran deep and profoundly shaped the new countries. In the United States, independence meant a surge of settler colonial expansion that incorporated Central America into its sights. In Central America, colonial racial hierarchies shaped the new nations even as the United States imposed new forms of neocolonial rule.”
― Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
― Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
