The Ultimate Latin American Literature Bucket List

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Eva Luna (1987) by Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits (1982) by Isabel Allende
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) by Julia Alvarez
In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) by Julia Alvarez
Before Night Falls (1992) by Reinaldo Arenas
The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño
Collected Fictions (1988) by Jorge Luis Borges
The House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros
The Alchemist (1988) by Paulo Coelho
All Fires the Fire (1973) by Julio Cortázar
Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar
Drown (1996) by Junot Díaz
This Is How You Lose Her (2012) by Junot Díaz
Death and the Maiden (1990) by Ariel Dorfman
Like Water for Chocolate (1992) by Laura Esquivel
The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) by Carlos Fuentes
Dreaming in Cuban (1992) by Cristina García
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories (1961) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (1993) by Che Guevara
Dirty Havana Trilogy (1998) by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
The Book of Unknown Americans (2014) by Cristina Henríquez
The Hour of the Star (1986) by Clarice Lispector
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) by Mario Vargas Llosa
Death in the Andes (1993) by Mario Vargas Llosa
La Edad De Oro (1983) by José Martí
Tear This Heart Out (1985) by Ángeles Mastretta
The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950) by Octavio Paz
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976) by Manuel Puig
When I Was Puerto Rican (1994) by Esmerelda Santiago
We the Animals (2011) by Justin Torres
Into the Beautiful North (2009) by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Dirty Girls Social Club: A Novel (2003) by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

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