South America

 

 

Library Suggestions (these are guidelines only- you can choose other books)

Cesar Aira - Ghosts

Isabel Allende - City of the Beasts

Bernardo Carvalho - Nine Nights

Julio Cortazar - Hopscotch

Nathan Englander - The Ministry of Special Cases

Marcelo Figueras - Kamchatka

Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza - The Silence of the Rain

Milton Hatoum - The Tree of the Seventh Heaven

Rachael King - The Sound of Butterflies

Mario Vargas Llosa - The Feast of the Goat

Ian McDonald - Brasyl

Pauline Melville - The Ventriloquist's Tale

Santiago Roncagliolo - Red April

Laura Restrepo - The Dark Bride

Alberto Barrera Tyszka - The Sickness

Juan Gabriel Vasquez - The Secret History of Costaguana


Non-fiction

Bruce Chatwin - In Patagonia

Ernesto "Che" Guevara - The Motorcycle Diaries

Greg Grandin - Fordlandia

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - News of a Kidnapping 


Teen Reads

Mal Peet - Exposure

Mal Peet - The Penalty

Tanya Landman - The Goldsmith's Daughter