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Books set in Colombia:


One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Álvaro Mutis
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Oblivion: A Memoir by Héctor Abad Faciolince
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Dark Bride by Laura Restrepo
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
Delirium by Laura Restrepo
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez
Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle by Marc Gonsalves
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt
No One Writes to the Colonel: and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
A Tale of the Dispossessed by Laura Restrepo
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
Tales from the Town of Widows: And Chronicles Fom the Land of Men by James Cañón
My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind by Silvana Paternostro
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez
Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia by Michael T. Taussig
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez
Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl
Good Offices by Evelio Rosero
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis de Bernières
Rosario Tijeras: A Novel by Jorge Franco
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières
Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez

Colombia:


Until Death Do Us Part: A Memoir by the Woman Now Held Hostage by Colombian Rebels by Ingrid Betancourt

Flora's Suitcase by Dalia Rabinovich

Our Lives Are the Rivers: A Novel by Jaime Manrique

The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vsquez

More Set in Colombia:


Beyond Bogota: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia by Garry Leech
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden
Gabriel García Márquez: a Life by Gerald Martin

After-Dinner Conversation: The Diary of a Decadent by José Asunción Silva

by Caroline Doherty de Novoa

(Part set in Bogotá, Colombia and part set in Northern Ireland)

Another one for the books set in Colombia - this time a memoir by an American woman living in Bogotá.

The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Dreaming of Hope Street by Eder Holguin

Misspelled Paradise: A Year in a Reinvented Colombia by Bryanna Plog

Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman

More books set in Colombia:



The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel
The Angel of Galilea by Laura Restrepo
Angosta by Héctor Abad Faciolince
The Armies by Evelio Rosero
Bandits, Peasants, and Politics: The Case of "La Violencia" in Colombia
Bazaar of the Idiots by Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal
Big Mama’s Funeral by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Bogotá: A Novel by Alan Grostephan
Bon voyage Mr. President and other stories by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Buda Blues by Mario Mendoza
Captive: 2,147 Days of Terror in the Colombian Jungle by Clara Rojas
Caravansary by Álvaro Mutis
Circus Show, El Circo del Emperador by Juan Sebastian Valencia
Coleccionistas de polvos raros/ Collectors of Odd Dusts (La Otra Orilla) by Pilar Quintana
Collected Novellas by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Death Beat: A Colombian Journalist's Life Inside the Cocaine Wars by María Jimena Duzán
El Desbarrancadero/the Edge of the Abyss by Fernando Vallejo
Evil Hour in Colombia by Forrest Hylton
Eyes of a Blue Dog by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Feast of the Innocents by Evelio Rosero
Feel the Heat by Cindy Gerard (4th book in Black Ops series)
The Fragrance Of Guava by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years by Ilan Stavans
The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
A Gringa in Bogotá: Living Colombia's Invisible War by June Carolyn Erlick
Heart of the World by Linda Barnes (11th Carlotta Carlyle Mystery)
In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomás González
The Joy of Being Awake by Héctor Abad Faciolince
Law of the Jungle by John Otis
Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Leopard in the Sun by Laura Restrepo
Liliana by Neva Squires-Rodriguez
Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Childhood by Wendy Ewald
The Mansion of Araucaima by Álvaro Mutis
Maria by Jorge Isaacs
Mothers & Shadows by Marta Traba
My Life As A Revolutionary: Reflections Of A Former Guerrillera
My Mother's Funeral by Adriana Paramo
My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca by Jaime Manrique
Naked Truth by Amy J. Fetzer (1st book of Dragon One series)
Paradise Travel by Jorge Franco
Paranormal Colombia by Mario Mendoza
A Place in the World by Cinda Crabbe MacKinnon
Recipes for Sad Women by Héctor Abad Faciolince
Running from the Devil by Jamie Freveletti (1st book in Emma Caldridge series)
Savage Hunger by Terry Spear (1st book in Heart of the Jaguar series)
Scorpio City by Mario Mendoza
SEAL of Honor by Tonya Burrows (1st book of Hornet series)
The Searchers by Kay David
The Second Time We Met by Leila Cobo
The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Senora Honeycomb by Fanny Buitrago
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Surviving The Volcano by Stanley Williams
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernières
Twilight at the Equator by Jaime Manrique
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia
The Vortex by José Eustasio Rivera

May I mention my novel, A Place in the World, here since it is set in Colombia? It is the story of a young woman—a biologist— on a coffee finca surrounded by by cloud forests. Alicia struggles to make a life there for herself and her son even as guerrilla uprisings begin to threaten the area, and a nearby volcano rumbles to life.
It has won several awards; reviews can be seen here: http://cindamackinnon.wordpress.com; on Amazon.com and of course here on GR.

The Armies (Los Ejércitos) by Evelio Rosero. I love this book.

The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico

Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa

A new one was just published this year that I can't wait to read before my trip to Colombia!

Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Hey guys: My book El Flamingo is set in Colombia where I lived to write the story, has just won a best fiction award in New Zealand!

Would love to offer a giveaway! :)

The Anthill by Julianne Pachico.

House of Beauty by Melba Escobar.

The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

Infinite Country

Contains a good section of sugar industry work, travel, people and general observations 1960s-1980s

https://www.amazon.co.uk/CUT-CRUSHED-...

A Second Chance on Earth

Set in Colombia:
The Waves Take You Home

Bochica

The Waves Take You Home - Contemporary with fantastical elements by María Alejandra Barrios Vélez

The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore - Contemporary Magical Realism by Anika Fajardo

The Night Will Be Long