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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 — 64,522 ratings — published 2017
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,300 ratings — published 2024
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,243 ratings — published 1982
Solito (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.47 — 86,443 ratings — published 2022
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,593 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 — 23,788 ratings — published 1977
Enrique's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,375 ratings — published 2005
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,322 ratings — published 1971
The President (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,178 ratings — published 1946
The Mosquito Coast (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,270 ratings — published 1981
The Great Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.66 — 31,158 ratings — published 2024
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.07 — 540 ratings — published 2021
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.05 — 773 ratings — published 2015
Salvador (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,969 ratings — published 1983
The Bird Hotel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,379 ratings — published 2023
One Day of Life (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,026 ratings — published 1980
The Massacre at El Mozote (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,689 ratings — published 1994
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,621 ratings — published 1994
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,626 ratings — published 2005
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.56 — 2,658 ratings — published 1987
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.66 — 460,406 ratings — published 2020
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
by (shelved 11 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.20 — 571 ratings — published 2002
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 — 4,801 ratings — published
Tiempos recios (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,819 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 — 3,523 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 — 17,805 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 — 2,633 ratings — published 2016
Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.95 — 403,421 ratings — published 1989
Senselessness (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,392 ratings — published 2004
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.36 — 717,277 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 — 2,562 ratings — published 2010
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,494 ratings — published 1955
Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.14 — 383 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 — 3,535 ratings — published 2001
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,212 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 — 1,446 ratings — published 1949
The She-Devil in the Mirror (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.80 — 661 ratings — published 2000
The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.83 — 286 ratings — published 2004
The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Latin America Otherwise)
by (shelved 8 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.80 — 104 ratings — published 2000
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,449 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 — 3,363 ratings — published 2024
La mujer habitada (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,094 ratings — published 1988
The Adventurer's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,974 ratings — published 2020
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.87 — 80,227 ratings — published 2019
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.98 — 209 ratings — published 1991
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,477 ratings — published 2011
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 — 8,709 ratings — published 2012
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as central-america)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,788 ratings — published 2020
The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as central-america)
avg rating 3.71 — 139 ratings — published
“Paradoxically, they needed Indians to be Indians at the same time they needed to define all that was Indian as inferior and in need of Spanish domination.”
― Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
― Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
“Very few US Americans can name a single political leader in Central America. We have the privilege of “forgetting” about these countries.
Yet US political leaders, parties, and policies are the stuff of everyday conversation in Central America. People there don’t have the luxury of ignoring or forgetting what is going on in the United States, because they know that US presidential elections, policy decisions, and economic developments are likely to deeply affect them.”
― Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
Yet US political leaders, parties, and policies are the stuff of everyday conversation in Central America. People there don’t have the luxury of ignoring or forgetting what is going on in the United States, because they know that US presidential elections, policy decisions, and economic developments are likely to deeply affect them.”
― Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
