Best Books On and From Latin America

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Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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El olvido que seremos
El olvido que seremos 4.39 avg rating — 21,277 ratings
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El país bajo mi piel: Memorias de amor y guerra
El país bajo mi piel: Memorias de amor y guerra 4.22 avg rating — 3,299 ratings
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Biografía a dos voces
Biografía a dos voces 4.20 avg rating — 3,473 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating — 274,979 ratings
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Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America 3.89 avg rating — 402 ratings
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So I Bought an Air Force: The True Story of a Gritty Midwesterner in Somoza's Nicaragua
So I Bought an Air Force: The True Story of a Gritty Midwesterner in Somoza's Nicaragua 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Victor: The Life and Music of Victor Jara
Victor: The Life and Music of Victor Jara
by: Joan Jara
4.55 avg rating — 379 ratings
7.
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord 4.11 avg rating — 4,950 ratings
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The Risk of Returning, Second Edition: A Novel
The Risk of Returning, Second Edition: A Novel 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela 4.12 avg rating — 979 ratings
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 3.72 avg rating — 4,190 ratings
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Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua 4.40 avg rating — 687 ratings
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
Glaciers: The Politics of Ice 3.56 avg rating — 48 ratings
13.
Condor and Hummingbird
Condor and Hummingbird 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
13.
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America 3.92 avg rating — 2,528 ratings
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent 4.31 avg rating — 26,230 ratings
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? 4.16 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
18.
Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions
Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
21.
Informe contra mi mismo
Informe contra mi mismo 4.37 avg rating — 46 ratings
21.
The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States
The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States 4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Che
Che 4.09 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation
Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation 3.88 avg rating — 194 ratings
25.
Historia de un entusiasmo
Historia de un entusiasmo 4.19 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America
Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America 4.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Our Culture Is Our Resistance: Repression, Refuge, and Healing in Guatemala
Our Culture Is Our Resistance: Repression, Refuge, and Healing in Guatemala 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America
Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America 4.14 avg rating — 1,451 ratings
29.
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America 3.99 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Penguin History of Latin America
The Penguin History of Latin America 3.79 avg rating — 620 ratings
31.
El hombre que amaba a los perros
El hombre que amaba a los perros 4.47 avg rating — 11,676 ratings
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Slavery and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate
Slavery and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama
The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama 3.72 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Salvador
Salvador 3.74 avg rating — 3,680 ratings
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Gifts of Our Lady of Guadalupe: Patroness of Latin America
Gifts of Our Lady of Guadalupe: Patroness of Latin America
by: Demi
4.22 avg rating — 36 ratings
36.
The Conquest of the Incas
The Conquest of the Incas 4.12 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
36.
Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America
Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America 3.87 avg rating — 263 ratings
38.
The Monkey's Paw: New Chronicles from Peru
The Monkey's Paw: New Chronicles from Peru 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
38.
Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820: From Conquest to Independence
Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820: From Conquest to Independence 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
40.
Memorias de un soldado cubano. Vida y muerte de la revolución
Memorias de un soldado cubano. Vida y muerte de la revolución 3.91 avg rating — 45 ratings
40.
The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now
The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now 4.13 avg rating — 456 ratings
42.
More Terrible Than Death: Drugs, Violence, and America's War in Colombia
More Terrible Than Death: Drugs, Violence, and America's War in Colombia 3.92 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
44.
Método práctico de la guerrilla
Método práctico de la guerrilla 3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings
44.
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America 4.05 avg rating — 740 ratings
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Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization
Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization 3.88 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas & Yucatan
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas & Yucatan 4.34 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Rigoberta Menchu And The Story Of All Poor Guatemalans
Rigoberta Menchu And The Story Of All Poor Guatemalans 3.03 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America
Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America 3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance
The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Quisiera que oyeran la canción que escucho cuando escribo esto
Quisiera que oyeran la canción que escucho cuando escribo esto 3.57 avg rating — 285 ratings
52.
Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil 4.01 avg rating — 817 ratings
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What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance 4.42 avg rating — 3,266 ratings
54.
Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power 3.87 avg rating — 279 ratings
54.
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life 4.14 avg rating — 24,225 ratings
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El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil (World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series)
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil (World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Los rendidos: Sobre el don de perdonar
Los rendidos: Sobre el don de perdonar 4.07 avg rating — 306 ratings
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The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon
The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon 4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes 3.98 avg rating — 1,928 ratings
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The Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
The Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest 4.11 avg rating — 188 ratings
61.
Personal Anthology
Personal Anthology 4.36 avg rating — 730 ratings
62.
Borges: A Reader
Borges: A Reader 4.39 avg rating — 64 ratings
63.
Collected Fictions
Collected Fictions 4.56 avg rating — 25,158 ratings
64.
Selected Non-Fictions
Selected Non-Fictions 4.44 avg rating — 2,353 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.34 avg rating — 6,652 ratings
66.
The Aleph and Other Stories
The Aleph and Other Stories 4.33 avg rating — 46,747 ratings
67.
The Book of Sand & Shakespeare's Memory
The Book of Sand & Shakespeare's Memory 4.10 avg rating — 15,974 ratings
68.
Salvador Allende Reader : Chile's Voice of Democracy
Salvador Allende Reader : Chile's Voice of Democracy 4.25 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup Against Salvador Allende, September 11, 1973
Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup Against Salvador Allende, September 11, 1973 3.75 avg rating — 105 ratings
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El Salvador Could Be Like That
El Salvador Could Be Like That 4.15 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications Revised and Expanded Edition
The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications Revised and Expanded Edition 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology
The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology 4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings