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Books set in Guatemala:


I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú
Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope
Popol Vuh by Allah
Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice by Dennis Tedlock
The President by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Men of maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Complete Works: And Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso
Mulata by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village by Victor Montejo
The Mirror of Lida Sal by Miguel Ángel Asturias
The Cyclone by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood by Victor Perera
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman
Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala by Victoria Sanford
Weekend in Guatemala by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Antigua and My Life Before: A Novel by Marcela Serrano
Bird of Life Bird of Death by Jonathan Evan Maslow
To Save Her Life by Dan Saxon
Guatemala In My Blood by Elizabeth Desimone
Searching for Everardo: A Story of Love War and the CIA
Love in a Fearful Land: A Guatemalan Story by Henri J.M. Nouwen
Bridge of Courage: Lifestories of Companeros and Companeras
Between Light and Shadow by Jacob R. Wheeler
Rattlesnake by Arturo Arias
The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard
Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope by Jenna Bush
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Kinzer
Robbed of Humanity: Lives of Guatemalan Street Children
The Black Sheep and Other Fables by Augusto Monterroso
Campesino: The Diary of a Guatemalan Indian by Igancio Bizarro Ujpan
Mayan Folktales: Folklore from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala by James D. Sexton

this one is due out this week -

The Long Night of the White Chickens by Francisco Goldman

Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen

story of a teenage girl living through a brutal war in the 1980's

Among the Volcanoes by Omar S. Castaneda

A Mayan Life by Gaspar P. Gonzalez

Family Resemblance by Tanya Maria Barrientos

The Iguana Speaks My Name by Roberto Moulun

You might be interested in Glimpses of Guatemala - a poetry & photography travelogue published in mid 2012. Some of the poems from this book were also published in Spanish in a poetry anthology entitled 'Labios de Arena' which was presented at the 10th International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua in February 2014.

I'd certainly endorse Bitter Fruit, one of the many books suggested by Diana. I spent three months in Guatemala in 2007 and I'm glad I picked this book up at the start of that trip. It really helped me understand the reasons behind Guatemala's awful past and the meddling and misadventures of the USA/CIA and corporations not only in Guatemala but in much of Central America.
Guatemala geographically has to be one of the most beautiful countries in the World. In fact Aldous Huxley said about Guatemala's Lake Atitlan, “It really is too much of a good thing.”
Unfortunately Guatemala's dark shadows of its past have still not fully faded.

More books set in Guatemala:


12.21 by Dustin Thomason
After the Bombs by Arturo Arias
A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala by W. George Lovell
The Beggar's Knife by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Betrayed by Jeanette Windle
Beyond the Mexique Bay by Aldous Huxley
The Bruja's Tale by Timothy A. Madden
Caminar by Skila Brown
Candyman's War by Michael Crump
Carazamba by Virgilio Rodríguez Macal
The Certainty of Spring: Poems by a Guatemalan in Exile by Julia Esquivel
The Clue in the Embers by Franklin W. Dixon (Hardy Boys #35)
Comrades by Marco Antonio Flores
Crossing Borders by Rigoberta Menchú
Crossroads and Other Plays by Carlos Solorzano
Dark Green, Bright Red by Gore Vidal
The Dog Who Spoke and More Mayan Folktales: El perro que habló y más cuentos mayas
Don Joaquin's Pride by Lynne Graham
Doorway in Antigua: A Sojourn in Guatemala by Albert E. Idell
Dust on Her Tongue by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
El Q'anil, Man of Lightning: A Legend of Jacaltenango, Guatemala
Elemental Shaman: One Man's Journey Into the Heart of Humanity, Spirituality & Ecology
The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen
The Good Cripple by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Grab Hands and Run by Frances Temple
Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs (Temperence Brennan #5)
The Green Pope by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemalan Journey by Stephen Connely Benz
Hannah of Santiago by Esther Barbour
The Honey Jar by Rigoberta Menchú
Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley
I am His Mother by Carlos Solorzano
Ignacio: The Diary of a Maya Indian of Guatemala by Ignacio Bizarro Ujpan
Legends of Guatemala by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Lies by Enrique de Hériz
Long Life, Honey in the Heart by Martin Prechtel
Magic Maize by Mary Buff
Monastery by Eduardo Halfon
The Most Beautiful Place in the World by Ann Cameron
The Other Language by Mark Brazaitis
The Pelcari Project by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon
Red Midnight by Ben Mikaelsen
The Reddening Path by Amanda Hale
Rigoberta Menchu Controversy by Arturo Arias
The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala by Mark Brazaitis
The Secret Legacy by Rigoberta Menchú
Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
So Far from God by Ana Castillo
Something More Than Force: Poems for Guatemala 1971-1982 by Zoe Anglesey
Son of Tecun Uman: A Maya Indian Tells His Life Story by Ignacio Bizarro Ujpan
Strong Wind by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Threatened with Resurrection/Amenazado de Resurrección by Julia Esquivel
Truth Poker by Mark Brazaitis
Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy by Victor Perera
Up Above the World by Paul Bowles
Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard
When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep by Sylvia Sellers-García

The Center of the World by Jacqueline Sheehan

More books set in Guatemala:


The Divine Husband by Francisco Goldman
Fiesta of Sunset: The Peace Corps, Guatemala and a Search for Truth
Final Silence by Ronald Flores
For Such a Moment by Marie Wells Coutu
Hidden Glimpses: Guatemalan Costume and Life in the 19th Century
Hollow Bones by C.J. Lyons (3rd Caitlyn Tierney FBI Thriller)
House of Jaguar by Mike Bond
In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle
Jungle Fire by Dana Mentink
Jungle of Stone by William Carlsen
The Lords of Xibalba by Bill Thesken
Luna Park by Luis Cardoza y Aragón
The Mastermind by David Unger
Mourning by Eduardo Halfon
Overthrown By Strangers by Ronan Bennett
Secrets of a Mayan Moon by Paty Jager
Ten Backyard Stories from Panimache by Roberto Moulun
Tomorrow We Never Did Talk About It by Eduardo Halfon
The Unrated Colors of Guatemala by Fabian Hernandez
Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night by Kresley Cole (4th in Immortals After Dark)
Xocomil: The Winds of Atitlan by David Mohrmann

More books set in Guatemala:


A Bad Husband by Alexander Ferrar
Chaos, A Fable by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
The Children of Eve by Tim Bishop
The Coffee Diary by Caroline Kellems
Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun by Martin Prechtel
The Girl from Chimel by Rigoberta Menchú
Human Matter: A Fiction by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Libertad by Alma Fullerton
The Mayan Veil of Death by Daniel Calderwood
Merchant to the Lords of Death by John Swetnam
The Price of Jade by Liz Hastings
Secrets of the Talking Jaguar by Martin Prechtel
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise by Martin Prechtel
Stealing Benefacio's Roses by Martin Prechtel
Stranger by David Bergen
The Toe Bone and the Tooth: An Ancient Mayan Story Relived in Modern Times
Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya by Gabriela Jurosz-Landa
Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes
The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic by Martin Prechtel

Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father's Quest for Justice (Volume 55) by Victoria Sanford.

Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala by Rachel Nolan.

Harsh Times

Set in what is now Guatemala:
Daughter of Fire

Guatemalan Rhapsody