This post is part of the #ReadMoreLatam2021 Challenge. Click here for more info.
The challenge for this month is to read a book from a new-to-you Latin American country.
Never read a book by a Colombian writer? Or a Bolivian one? This is the month to choose a new-to-you country…literarily-speaking, that is. To put it simply: pick a country whose literature you’ve never read before.
I’m particularly excited about this month’s challenge because, while I’ve read books from many Latin American countries at this point, my Mexico bias remains strong and I’m looking forward to the opportunity to go beyond Latin America’s big three (in publishing terms): Mexico, Chile, and Argentina.
For this month’s recommendations, I’ve decided to simply suggest one book for each country (which is why the list is much longer than normal!). As always, my recommendations include books I’ve read or simply books I want to read and review.
Recommendations
Argentina—Las malas by Camila Sosa Villada
Belize—Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell
Bolivia—Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi
Brazil—Amora by Natalia Borges Polesso
Chile—Quiltras by Arelis Uribe
Colombia—Holiday Heart by Margarita García Robayo
Costa Rica—Maybe Managua by Catalina Murillo
Cuba—Las noventa Habanas by Dainerys Machado
Dominican Republic—Papi by Rita Indiana
Ecuador—Cockfight by María Fernanda Ampuero
El Salvador—Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernández
French Guiana—¿? (sorry!)
Guadeloupe—Segu by Marysé Conde
Guatemala—Knitting The Fog by Claudia D Hernández
Guyana—Web of Secrets by Denise Harris
Haiti—Love, Anger, Madness by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Honduras—That’s What You Get by Sheila Maldonado
Martinique—The Dancing Other by Suzanne Dracius
Mexico—Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis
Nicaragua—The Inhabited Woman by Giaconda Belli
Panama—The Go-Between by Veronica Chambers
Paraguay—(lupa) by Lia Colombino
Peru—Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener
Puerto Rico—Sirena Selena by Mayra Santos-Febres
Suriname—Reconstruction by Karin Amatmoekrim
Uruguay—La azotea by Fernanda Trías
Venezuela—Un café con el dictador y otros relatos sin ficción by Milagros Socorro
I’ll be reading: It Would be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo (Venezuela)
Update: Read my review of It Would be Night in Caracas here!
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