Reading list: Latin / South America and Caribbean

Created by: Themis-Athena's Garden of Books

Keeping track of the books on my TBR by Latin / South American and Caribbean authors or set in Latin / South America and the Caribbean, by country, for purposes of my "Around the World in 80 Books" reading project.

As in my "Africa" list (http://booklikes.com/apps/reading-lists/974/africa), I have included the books I've already read in 2019, but no books read prior to this year.

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Books: 193

Annie John

by Jamaica Kincaid

Note: Antigua

A Small Place

by Jamaica Kincaid

Note: Antigua

Unburnable

by Marie-Elena John

Note: Antigua

El beso de la mujer araña

by Manuel Puig

Note: Argentina

Boquitas Pintadas

by Manuel Puig

Note: Argentina

Historias de cronopios y de famas

by Julio Cortázar

Note: Argentina

El hacedor

by Jorge Luis Borges

Note: Argentina

Plata Quemada

by Ricardo Piglia

Note: Argentina

Martín Fierro

by José Hernández, Luis Sainz de Medrano

Note: Argentina

10.

El entenado

by Juan José Saer

Note: Argentina

11.

Santa Evita

by Tomás Eloy Martínez

Note: Argentina

12.

Preso sin Nombre, Celda sin Numero

by Arthur Miller, Ariel Dorfman, Jacobo Timerman

Note: Argentina

13.

A Future of Faith: The Path of Change in Politics ... - Dominique Wolton, Pope Francis

A Future of Faith: The Path of Change in Politics and Society

by Dominique Wolton, Pope Francis

Note: Argentina

14.

An evening in Guanima: A treasury of folktales fro... - Patricia Glinton-Meicholas

An evening in Guanima: A treasury of folktales from the Bahamas

by Patricia Glinton-Meicholas

Note: Bahamas

15.

Josephine

by Andrea Stuart

Note: Barbados

16.

Memories Dreams And Nightmares: A Short Story Anth... - Various Authors, Iris Abraham, Gay Wilentz

Memories Dreams And Nightmares: A Short Story Anthology By Belizean Women Writers

by Various Authors, Iris Abraham, Gay Wilentz

Note: Belize

17.

Carmela

by Amalia Decker Márquez

Note: Bolivia

18.

Intimas

by Adela Zamudio

Note: Bolivia

19.

La Pluma de Miguel: Una Aventura En Los Andes

by Isabel Mesa de Inchauste

Note: Bolivia

20.

Das magische Portal

by Isabel Mesa de Inchauste, Simone Tillmann, Roswitha Grisi-Huber

Note: Bolivia

21.

The Seamstress

by Frances de Pontes Peebles

Note: Brazil

22.

Dora Doralina

by Rachel de Queiroz

Note: Brazil

23.

Industrial Park

by Elizabeth Jackson, K. David Jackson, Patrícia Galvão

Note: Brazil

24.

Venha Ver o Pôr-do-Sol e Outros Contos

by Lygia Fagundes Telles

Note: Brazil

25.

Veronika Decide Morir

by Paulo Coelho

Note: Brazil

26.

The Devil and Miss Prym

by Paulo Coelho, Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson

Note: Brazil

27.

The Hour of the Star

by Benjamin Moser, Clarice Lispector, Colm Tóibín

Note: Brazil

28.

Collected Stories

by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Katrina Dodson

Note: Brazil

29.

The Passion According to G.H.

by Clarice Lispector, Idra Novey, Benjamin Moser

Note: Brazil

30.

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

by Jorge Amado, James L. Taylor, William L. Grossman

Note: Brazil

31.

Tent of Miracles

by Jorge Amado, Barbara Shelby Merello, Ilan Stavans

Note: Brazil

32.

Dom Casmurro

by Machado de Assis

Note: Brazil

33.

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

by Machado de Assis

Note: Brazil

34.

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

by João Guimarães Rosa

Note: Brazil

35.

Rebellion in the Backlands

by Euclides da Cunha, Samuel Putnam

Note: Brazil

36.

Brazilian Adventure

by Peter Fleming

Note: Brazil

37.

The Sea and the Jungle

by H.M. Tomlinson

Note: Brazil

38.

Tristes Tropiques

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

Note: Brazil

39.

Cuentos de Eva Luna

by Isabel Allende

Note: Chile

40.

El Zorro

by Isabel Allende

Note: Chile

41.

Hija de la Fortuna

by Isabel Allende

Note: Chile

42.

Paula

by Isabel Allende

Note: Chile

43.

El Plan Infinito

by Isabel Allende

Note: Chile

44.

Mi Pais Inventado: Un Paseo Nostalgico por Chile

by Isabel Allende

Note: Chile

45.

Afrodita: Cuentos, Recetas y Otros Afrodisiacos

by Isabel Allende

Note: Chile

46.

Isabel Allende: Vida y espíritus

by Celia Correas Zapata

Note: Chile

47.

2666

by Roberto Bolaño

Note: Chile

48.

Los detectives salvajes

by Roberto Bolaño

Note: Chile

49.

Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile

by Sara Wheeler

Note: Chile

50.

Hot Sur

by Laura Restrepo, Ernesto Mestre-Reed

Note: Colombia

51.

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

by Gabriel García Márquez

Note: Colombia

52.

El otoño del patriarca

by Gabriel García Márquez

Note: Colombia

53.

El general en su laberinto

by Gabriel García Márquez

Note: Colombia

54.

Del Amor y Otros Demonios

by Gabriel García Márquez

Note: Colombia

55.

Vivir Para Contarla

by Gabriel García Márquez

Note: Colombia

56.

Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero

by Álvaro Mutis

Note: Colombia

57.

Marcos Ramírez

by Carlos Luis Fallas

Note: Costa Rica

58.

Horizons Of Peace: The Costa Rican Contribution To... - Óscar Arias Sánchez

Horizons Of Peace: The Costa Rican Contribution To The Peace Process In Central America

by Óscar Arias Sánchez

Note: Costa Rica

59.

Antes que anochezca

by Reynaldo Arenas

Note: Cuba

60.

El reino de este mundo

by Alejo Carpentier

Note: Cuba

61.

Los Pasos Perdidos

by Alejo Carpentier

Note: Cuba

62.

Tres tristes tigres

by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Note: Cuba

63.

Trilogía sucia de La Habana

by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

Note: Cuba

64.

A Simple Habana Melody

by Oscar Hijuelos

Note: Cuba

65.

Los Reyes del Mambo tocan canciones de amor

by Oscar Hijuelos, Alejandro García Reyes

Note: Cuba

66.

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisi... - Robert F. Kennedy, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

by Robert F. Kennedy, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Note: Cuba

67.

The Night Manager

by John le Carré

Note: Curacao

68.

It Falls into Place

by Phyllis Shand Allfrey

Note: Dominica

69.

Black And White Sands: A Bohemian Life In The Colo... - Elma Napier

Black And White Sands: A Bohemian Life In The Colonial Caribbean

by Elma Napier

Note: Dominica

70.

En el tiempo de las mariposas

by Julia Alvarez

Note: Dominican Republic

71.

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

by Julia Alvarez

Note: Dominican Republic

72.

Song of the Water Saints

by Nelly Rosario

Note: Dominican Republic

73.

La Fiesta del Chivo

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Note: Dominican Republic

74.

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexand... - Andrea Wulf

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

by Andrea Wulf

Note: Ecuador

75.

Bilder-Welten: Die Zeichnungen aus den Amerikanisc... - Ottmar Ette, Alexander von Humboldt, Julia Maier

Bilder-Welten: Die Zeichnungen aus den Amerikanischen Reisetagebüchern

by Ottmar Ette, Alexander von Humboldt, Julia Maier

Note: Ecuador

76.

Das graphische Gesamtwerk

by Alexander von Humboldt, Oliver Lubrich

Note: Ecuador

77.

Roza tumba quema

by Claudia Hernández

Note: El Salvador

78.

The Ladies Are Upstairs

by Merle Collins

Note: Grenada

79.

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala:... - Rigoberta Menchú, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, Ann Wright, Greg Grandin

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

by Rigoberta Menchú, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, Ann Wright, Greg Grandin

Note: Guatemala

80.

Grave Secrets

by Kathy Reichs

Note: Guatemala

81.

The Sugar Planter's Daughter

by Sharon Maas

Note: Guyana

82.

Haiti Noir

by Mark Kurlansky, Edwidge Danticat, Madison Smartt Bell, Evelyne Trouillot, Ibi Zoboi, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Rodney Saint-Eloi, Patrick Sylvain, Katia D. Ulysse, Gary Victor, Yanick Lahens, Various Authors, Kettly Mars, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Josaphat-Robert L

Note: Haiti

83.

The Dew Breaker

by Edwidge Danticat

Note: Haiti

84.

Claire of the Sea Light

by Edwidge Danticat

Note: Haiti

85.

The Comedians

by Graham Greene

Note: Haiti

86.

The Boiling Season

by Christopher Hebert

Note: Haiti

87.

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and t... - Tom Reiss

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

by Tom Reiss

Note: Haiti

88.

Cuentos hondureños

by Various Authors, Argentina Diaz Lozano, Alejandro Carrillo Castro, Arturo Martínez Galindo

Note: Honduras

89.

Wide Sargasso Sea

by Jean Rhys, Angela Smith, Francis Wyndham

Note: Jamaica

90.

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

by Sara Collins

Note: Jamaica

91.

A High Wind In Jamaica

by Richard Hughes

Note: Jamaica

92.

Discours Sur Le Colonialisme

by Aimé Césaire

Note: Martinique

93.

D'une rive à l'autre

by Marie Magdeleine Carbet

Note: Martinique

94.

Mini-poèmes sur trois méridiens

by Marie Magdeleine Carbet

Note: Martinique

95.

Como agua para chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

Note: Mexico

96.

Pierced by the Sun

by Jordi Castells, Laura Esquivel

Note: Mexico

97.

Santitos

by María Amparo Escandón

Note: Mexico

98.

Poems, Protest, and a Dream

by Margaret Sayers Peden, Ilan Stavans, Juana Inés de la Cruz

Note: Mexico

99.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o Las trampas de la fe

by Octavio Paz

Note: Mexico

100.

El Laberinto de la Soledad y Otras Obras

by Octavio Paz

Note: Mexico

101.

Tinisima

by Elena Poniatowska, Katherine Silver

Note: Mexico

102.

Hasta no verte Jesús mío

by Elena Poniatowska

Note: Mexico

103.

Frida: A Novel of Frida Kahlo

by Bárbara Mujica

Note: Mexico

104.

Escrituras

by Frida Kahlo

Note: Mexico

105.

El diario de Frida Kahlo: Un intimo autorretrato

by Frida Kahlo, Carlos Fuentes, Sarah M. Lowe

Note: Mexico

106.

La muerte de Artemio Cruz

by Carlos Fuentes

Note: Mexico

107.

Los años con Laura Diaz

by Carlos Fuentes

Note: Mexico

108.

La Virgen de los Sicarios

by Fernando Vallejo

Note: Mexico

109.

En busca de Klingsor

by Jorge Volpi

Note: Mexico

110.

Los de abajo

by Mariano Azuela

Note: Mexico

111.

The Story of My Teeth

by Valeria Luiselli

Note: Mexico

112.

There Is a World Elsewhere

by Frank González-Crussí

Note: Mexico

113.

Las niñas bien

by Guadalupe Loaeza

Note: Mexico

114.

Gods of Jade and Shadow

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Note: Mexico

115.

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

Note: Mexico

116.

The Border Trilogy

by Cormac McCarthy

Note: Mexico

117.

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

Note: Mexico

118.

Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid

by Malcolm Lowry

Note: Mexico

119.

The Plumed Serpent

by William York, D.H. Lawrence

Note: Mexico

120.

Queer

by William S. Burroughs

Note: Mexico

121.

Woman of a Thousand Secrets

by Barbara Wood

Note: Mexico

122.

Sugar Skull

by Denise Hamilton

Note: Mexico

123.

Mexico Set

by Len Deighton

Note: Mexico

124.

The Mouse in the Mountain

by Norbert Davis

Note: Mexico

125.

History of the Conquest of Mexico

by William H. Prescott, James Lockhart

Note: Mexico

126.

Great River: The Rio Grande in North American Hist... - Paul Horgan

Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History

by Paul Horgan

Note: Mexico

127.

Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs: Selected ... - E.A. Markham

Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs: Selected Short Stories, 1970-2000

by E.A. Markham

Note: Montserrat

128.

El país bajo mi piel

by Gioconda Belli

Note: Nicaragua

129.

Las fiebres de la memoria

by Gioconda Belli

Note: Nicaragua

130.

Azul: Cantos de Vida y Esperanza

by Rubén Darío, José María Martínez

Note: Nicaragua

131.

Come Together, Fall Apart

by Cristina Henriquez

Note: Panama

132.

The Tailor of Panama

by Michael Jayston, John le Carré

Note: Panama

133.

Hijo de hombre

by Augusto Roa Bastos

Note: Paraguay

134.

Conversacion en la Catedral

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Note: Peru

135.

La ciudad y los perros

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Note: Peru

136.

La Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Note: Peru

137.

The Dream of the Celt

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Note: Peru

138.

Letters to a Young Novelist

by Mario Vargas Llosa, Natasha Wimmer

Note: Peru

139.

Making Waves: Essays

by Mario Vargas Llosa, John King

Note: Peru

140.

Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle... - Mario Vargas Llosa, John King

Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society

by Mario Vargas Llosa, John King

Note: Peru

141.

Un mundo para Julius

by Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Note: Peru

142.

El mundo es ancho y ajeno

by Ciro Alegría

Note: Peru

143.

Los ríos profundos

by José María Arguedas, Ricardo Gonzalez Vigil

Note: Peru

144.

The Dancer Upstairs

by Nicholas Shakespeare

Note: Peru

145.

La casa de la laguna

by Rosario Ferré

Note: Puerto Rico

146.

Omeros

by Derek Walcott

Note: Saint Lucia

147.

Tales From The Great Salt Pond

by Esther Gumbs

Note: Saint Martin

148.

The free negress Elisabeth

by Brian Doyle, Cynthia Mc Leod

Note: Suriname

149.

The Enigma of Arrival

by V.S. Naipaul

Note: Trinidad and Tobago

150.

A House For Mr Biswas

by V.S. Naipaul

Note: Trinidad and Tobago

151.

The Muse

by Jessie Burton

Note: Trinidad and Tobago

152.

Crick Crack, Monkey

by Merle Hodge

Note: Trinidad and Tobago

153.

Butterfly in the Wind

by Lakshmi Persaud

Note: Trinidad and Tobago

154.

Bird at My Window

by Sandra Adell, Rosa Guy

Note: Trinidad and Tobago

155.

Difficult Fruit

by Lauren K. Alleyne

Note: Trinidad and Tobago

156.

Beyond A Boundary

by C.L.R. James

Note: Trinidad and Tobago

157.

As Flies to Whatless Boys

by Robert Antoni

Note: Trinidad and Tobago

158.

Trinidad Noir

by Robert Antoni, Earl Lovelace, Various Authors

Note: Trinidad and Tobago

159.

Loose Woman

by Sandra Cisneros

Note: U.S. / Chicano

160.

Caramelo

by Sandra Cisneros

Note: U.S. / Chicano

161.

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A

by Luis J. Rodríguez

Note: U.S. / Chicano

162.

The Republic of East L.A.

by Luis J. Rodríguez

Note: U.S. / Chicano

163.

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compa... - Gregory Boyle

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

by Gregory Boyle

Note: U.S. / Chicano

164.

La Maravilla

by Alfredo Véa

Note: U.S. / Chicano

165.

The Silver Cloud Cafe

by Alfredo Véa

Note: U.S. / Chicano

166.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Un... - Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Note: U.S. / Chicano

167.

The Invisible Mountain

by Carolina De Robertis

Note: Uruguay

168.

El astillero

by Juan Carlos Onetti

Note: Uruguay

169.

Memoria del fuego 1. Los nacimientos

by Eduardo Galeano

Note: Uruguay

170.

Memoria del fuego 2. Las caras y las mascaras

by Eduardo Galeano

Note: Uruguay

171.

Memoria del fuego 3. El siglo del viento

by Eduardo Galeano

Note: Uruguay

172.

Iphigenia

by Teresa de la Parra

Note: Venezuela

173.

Doña Bárbara

by Rómulo Gallegos

Note: Venezuela

174.

Along the Road

by Jennie N. Wheatley

Note: Virgin Islands (British)

175.

Land of Love and Drowning

by Tiphanie Yanique

Note: Virgin Islands (U.S.)

176.

The Voyage Out

by Virginia Woolf

Note: Fictional South American setting

177.

Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord

by Louis de Bernières

Note: Fictional South American setting

178.

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

by Joseph Conrad, Martin Seymour-Smith

Note: Fictional South American setting

179.

The Chosen Place, The Timeless People

by Paule Marshall

Note: Fictional Caribbean setting

180.

Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

Note: Fictional Caribbean setting

181.

The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribb... - Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Note: Various Caribbean settings

182.

The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from t... - Doug Mack

The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA

by Doug Mack

Note: Various Caribbean (and worldwide) settings

183.

New Daughters of Africa: An International Antholog... - Margaret Busby, Various Authors

New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent

by Margaret Busby, Various Authors

Note: Various Caribbean (and international) origins

184.

Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: Francisco de Qu... - Willis Barnstone

Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Antonio Machado, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Hernandez

by Willis Barnstone

Note: Various Latin American (and Spanish) origins

185.

Voices : Poetry and Art from Around the World

by Barbara Brenner, Various Authors

Note: Various Latin American (and internaional) origins

186.

The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

by Aleksandar Hemon, Marina Lewycka, Ariel Dorfman, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Fatima Bhutto, David Bezmozgis, Porochista Khakpour, Vu Tran, Joseph Kertes, Kao Kalia Yang, Dina Nayeri, Maaza Mengiste, Reyna Grande, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Lev Golinkin, Joseph Azam, Thi Bui, Meron Hader

Note: Various Latin American (and international) origins and settings

187.