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Pedro Páramo (Paperback)by Juan Rulfo
I really liked Los de Abajos, translated as The Underdogs in English, about the Mexican revolution, and the book reads like a screenplay although was written before movie screenplays were common. When I read this my (then) middle school age son read it in Spanish as I was reading it in English, and we compared notes chapter by chapter.
El laberinto de la soledadby Octavio PazEl Chingonario. Uso, reuso y abuso del chingar
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o las trampas de la fe by Octavio Paz
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico by Tony Cohan. This book is written by an American describing his life in Mexico.
Who Would Have Thought It? by Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton was the first novel to be written in English by a Mexican living in the United States.
I recently read this novel El huésped by Guadalupe Nettel it blew my mind. It's only available in spanish and french though.
NORTH AMERICA Mexico:
Like Water for Chocolate by Mexican author Laura Esquivel is an award-winning story with vivid descriptions, mouth-watering recipes, romance, drama and magical realism. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review
Everyone Knows You Go Home is a dual timeline novel with elements of magical realism by Peruvian author Natalia Sylvester. It is about family secrets and the hardships of immigration, with a ghost who returns on every Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Here is my review
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