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Latin American Literature

Description: Books by Latino/Latina writers.
Members: 10 participating members
alex68, thecoroner, FranzK72, longway, mattch45, aulsmith, cej1027, Bretzky1, HumaBird

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,296 members

108 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: longway, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

2

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

10,202 members

227 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: cej1027, mattch45, HumaBird

3

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,230 members

682 reviews

4.2

4 Members: longway, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72,Bretzky1

4

by Roberto Bolaño

6,420 members

174 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, FranzK72

5

Conversation in the Cathedral

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,207 members

24 reviews

4.1

4 Members: longway, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

6

by Julio Cortázar

4,924 members

98 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

7

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

by João Guimarães Rosa

918 members

11 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

8

3,071 members

72 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

9

On Heroes and Tombs

by Ernesto Sábato

940 members

21 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

10

The Invention of Morel

by Adolfo Bioy Casares

2,469 members

76 reviews

3.9

3 Members: longway, thecoroner, alex68

11

by Miguel Ángel Asturias

985 members

17 reviews

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72

12

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

by Pablo Neruda

3,628 members

56 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, mattch45

13

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

13,465 members

233 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72,Bretzky1

14

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

by Mario Vargas Llosa

2,586 members

69 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, FranzK72

15

Kiss of the Spider Woman

2,175 members

32 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, FranzK72

16

The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño

5,153 members

121 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, FranzK72

17

by Pablo Neruda

1,342 members

12 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, FranzK72

18

Like Water for Chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

11,639 members

249 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

19

by Isabel Allende

3,325 members

115 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

20

by Juan Carlos Onetti

373 members

8 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

21

Tereza Batista: Home From the Wars

464 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

22

Collected Fictions

by Jorge Luis Borges

4,940 members

60 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: longway

23

My Invented Country: A Memoir

by Isabel Allende

2,044 members

44 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

24

The Time of the Hero

by Mario Vargas Llosa

1,721 members

33 reviews

3.8

Member: longway

25

Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon

by Pablo Neruda

428 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: mattch45

26

The Origin of Species and Other Poems

by Ernesto Cardenal

13 members

1 review

Member: aulsmith

27

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

by Sandra Cisneros

1,779 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: mattch45

28

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

27,152 members

405 reviews

4

Member: longway

29

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

9,202 members

171 reviews

3.9

Member: longway

30

by Mario Vargas Llosa

275 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: longway

31

The War of the End of the World

by Mario Vargas Llosa

2,241 members

47 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

32

by Ernesto Sábato

2,136 members

73 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

33

A World for Julius

by Alfredo Bryce Echenique

388 members

8 reviews

4

Member: longway

34

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

8,503 members

189 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: FranzK72

35

Água Viva (New Directions Books)

by Clarice Lispector

656 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

36

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

12,887 members

474 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

37

A Breath of Life

by Clarice Lispector

257 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

38

by Paulo Coelho

37,657 members

1,008 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

39

by Machado de Assis

1,930 members

52 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: alex68

40

The Hour of the Star

by Clarice Lispector

1,903 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

41

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

1,432 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

42

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

1,283 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

43

by Horacio Quiroga

84 members

½ 4.3

Member: alex68

44

The Passion According to G.H.

by Clarice Lispector

1,039 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

45

Artificial Respiration

by Ricardo Piglia

245 members

4 reviews

4

Member: alex68

46

Triste, solitario y final

by Osvaldo Soriano

233 members

11 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: alex68

47

Near to the Wild Heart

by Clarice Lispector

809 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

48

The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

by Luis Sepúlveda

1,195 members

36 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

49

Fútbol. Storie di calcio

by Osvaldo Soriano

50 members

3.8

Member: alex68

50

by Laura Esquivel

679 members

26 reviews

2.9

Explanations: aulsmith : I didn't enjoy this.

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Started: sturlington
January 2015
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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