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South America Books
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 433 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.12 � 1,051,429 ratings � published 1967
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.94 � 529,819 ratings � published 1985
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.29 � 296,737 ratings � published 1982
Bel Canto (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.94 � 306,617 ratings � published 2001
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.90 � 104,683 ratings � published 2009
State of Wonder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.90 � 195,812 ratings � published 2011
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.97 � 218,228 ratings � published 1981
Daughter of Fortune (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.94 � 136,730 ratings � published 1998
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.79 � 43,376 ratings � published 1992
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.85 � 20,209 ratings � published 2011
A Long Petal of the Sea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 89 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.06 � 107,828 ratings � published 2019
Violeta (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.03 � 98,064 ratings � published 2022
In Patagonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.66 � 18,199 ratings � published 1977
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.31 � 25,606 ratings � published 1971
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.41 � 74,210 ratings � published 1944
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.92 � 3,362,448 ratings � published 1988
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.20 � 73,284 ratings � published 2005
The Last Days of the Incas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.20 � 6,722 ratings � published 2007
Eva Luna (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.00 � 56,648 ratings � published 1987
Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.95 � 19,138 ratings � published 2018
The Hour of the Star (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.11 � 45,152 ratings � published 1977
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.79 � 37,240 ratings � published 1927
Inés of My Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.99 � 31,833 ratings � published 2006
Things We Lost in the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.05 � 52,729 ratings � published 2016
2666 (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.21 � 45,668 ratings � published 2004
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.05 � 91,963 ratings � published 2005
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.72 � 46,197 ratings � published 2014
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.44 � 32,961 ratings � published 1962
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.26 � 35,348 ratings � published 1881
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.58 � 93,705 ratings � published 2004
The General in His Labyrinth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.70 � 24,840 ratings � published 1989
Of Love and Other Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.96 � 82,502 ratings � published 1994
The War of the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.24 � 11,951 ratings � published 1981
The Aleph and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.33 � 45,673 ratings � published 1945
Infinite Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.93 � 48,596 ratings � published 2021
Portrait in Sepia (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.02 � 42,143 ratings � published 2000
The Sound of Things Falling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.84 � 20,204 ratings � published 2011
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.93 � 28,174 ratings � published 1988
The Savage Detectives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.17 � 48,864 ratings � published 1998
Elena Knows (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.07 � 24,049 ratings � published 2007
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.78 � 310,742 ratings � published 2017
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.95 � 22,159 ratings � published 1977
BolÃvar: American Liberator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.20 � 3,409 ratings � published 2013
Marching Powder (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.31 � 28,487 ratings � published 2003
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.14 � 80,264 ratings � published 1974
City of the Beasts (Eagle and Jaguar, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.74 � 43,793 ratings � published 2002
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.34 � 39,510 ratings � published 2000
Cantoras (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as south-america)
avg rating 4.38 � 7,640 ratings � published 2019
Maya's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.88 � 31,560 ratings � published 2011
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as south-america)
avg rating 3.98 � 30,377 ratings � published 1940
“The most heartening response came not from the book pages in the press but from real incidents in the streets. The girl who was quietly reading Open Veins to her companion in a bus in Bogotá, and finally stood up and read it aloud to all the passengers. The woman who fled from Santiago in the days of the Chilean bloodbath with this book wrapped inside her baby's diapers. The student who went from one bookstore to another for a week in Buenos Aires's Calle Corrientes, reading bits of it in each store because he hadn't the money to buy it.
And the most favorable reviews came not from any prestigious critic but from the military dictatorships that praised the book by banning it. For example, Open Veins is unobtainable either in my country, Uruguay, or in Chile; in Argentina the authorities denounced it on TV and in the press as a corrupter of youth, As Blas de Otero remarked, "They don't let people see what I write because I write what I see.”
― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
And the most favorable reviews came not from any prestigious critic but from the military dictatorships that praised the book by banning it. For example, Open Veins is unobtainable either in my country, Uruguay, or in Chile; in Argentina the authorities denounced it on TV and in the press as a corrupter of youth, As Blas de Otero remarked, "They don't let people see what I write because I write what I see.”
― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
“The children of the Indians are saved, to be sold or given away as servants, or rather slaves, for as long a time as the owners can deceive them; but I believe in this respect there is little to complain of.”
― Voyage of the Beagle
― Voyage of the Beagle
