Books Recs on Latin America

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Big topic I know, but I have decided that, after Eurasia, I should set my travel/language/reading sites on LatAm. Any recs? Generally speaking, politics, history, crime, maybe fiction.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I would think the most obvious answer is The Motorcycle Diaries.

This looks dope.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I don’t know if this is per se the best recommendation, but Days and Nights of Love and War, by Eduardo Galeano, was what got me as into Latin America as I am today. Series of vignettes and reflections from his time in exile in the 60s and 70s. In terms of fiction, you absolutely must read One Hundred Years of Solitude.

These also both look promising, thanks.