Top 20 Latin American Books To Read Before You Die

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About this list

Latin Times has put together a list of 20 Latin American themed books you must read before you die. Think of it as your bucket list of books.

The themes and genres of the books on this list range from classic, to modern to biography. Each book was carefully selected and thought to be great reads.

This list was originally published in 2014 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank	Book	Authors	Year	Country	Language
5	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	1967	Colombian	Spanish
354	The Savage Detectives	Roberto Bolaño	1998	Chilean	Spanish
290	The House of the Spirits	Isabel Allende	1982	Chilean	Spanish
389	The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	1988	Brazilian	Portuguese
17007	Death In Andes	Mario Vargas Llosa	1993	Peruvian	Spanish
6129	Tear This Heart Out	Ángeles Mastreta	1985	Mexican	Spanish
45	Fictions	Jorge Luis Borges	1944	Argentinian	Spanish
14901	The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta	Mario Vargas Llosa	1984	Peruvian	Spanish
353	Hopscotch	Julio Cortazar	1963	Argentinian	Spanish
1995	Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter	Mario Vargas Llosa	1977	Peruvian	Spanish
7552	All Fires The Fire	Julio Cortazar	1966	Argentinian	Spanish
1333	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Manuel Puig	1976	Argentinian	Spanish
3275	Before Night Falls	Reinaldo Arenas	1992	Cuban	Spanish
16647	La edad de oro	José Martí	1889	Cuban	Spanish
1280	The Death of Artemio Cruz	Carlos Fuentes	1962	Mexican	Spanish
17007	Death And The Maiden	Ariel Dorfman	1991	Chilean	Spanish
168	Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel García Márquez	1985	Colombian	Spanish
755	The Labyrinth of Solitude	Octavio Paz	1950	Mexican	Spanish
2176	No One Writes to the Colonel	Gabriel García Márquez	1961	Colombian	Spanish
1366	Like Water For Chocolate	Laura Esquivel	1989	Mexican	Spanish