The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Cuba

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
54 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 American English
452 A Heart So White Javier Marias 1992 Spanish Spanish
655 Stories of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway 1987 American English
672 Three Trapped Tigers Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1965 Cuban Spanish
1215 Explosion In A Cathedral Alejo Carpentier 1962 Cuban Spanish
1311 Our Man In Havana Graham Greene 1958 British English
1832 Paradiso José Lezama Lima 1966 Cuban Spanish
2032 Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt 1845 German German
3132 The Man Who Loved Dogs Leonardo Padura 2009 Cuban Spanish
3268 Sóngoro cosongo Nicolás Guillén 1931 Cuban Spanish
3280 Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas 1992 Cuban Spanish
3637 The Logbook Of Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus 1493 Multiple Spanish
4581 The Autobiography Of A Runaway Slave Miguel Barnet 1966 Cuban Spanish
4899 The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt 1899 American English
4937 Dreaming in Cuban Cristina García 1992 Cuban English
5242 Concierto Barroco Alejo Carpentier 1974 Cuban Spanish
5595 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 American English
6251 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
7120 The Color Of Summer Reinaldo Arenas 1991 Cuban Spanish
7616 Dirty Havana Trilogy Pedro Juan Gutierrez 1998 Cuban Spanish
7624 Arturo, La Estrella Más Brillante Reinaldo Arenas 1984 Cuban Unknown
8386 Ella Cantaba Boleros Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1992 Cuban Spanish
8722 Dancing With Cuba Alma Guillermoprieto 2004 Mexican Spanish
9285 1898 Kate Clarke Lemay, Taína Caragol 2017 Unknown English
9550 Poems Of Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Guillén 1972 Cuban Spanish
9743 View Of Dawn In The Tropics Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1974 Cuban Spanish
10193 Che Guevara Jon Lee Anderson 1997 American English
10308 Episodes Of The Cuban Revolutionary War Che Guevara 1963 Argentinian Spanish
10695 The Faraway World Patricia Engel 2023 American English
10751 The Moor's Account Laila Lalami 2014 American English
11277 The Ill Fated Peregrinations Of Fray Servando Reinaldo Arenas 1987 Cuban Spanish
11417 Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003 Cuban English
11515 The Other Slavery Andrés Reséndez 2016 American English
11612 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11851 Havana Real Yoani Sánchez 2011 Cuban Spanish
13513 The Norton Anthology Of Latino Literature Ilan Stavans 2005 Multiple English
14120 They Flew Carlos Eire 2023 Unknown English
14877 To Have And Have Not Ernest Hemingway 1937 American English
15914 Listen, Yankee C. Wright Mills 1960 American English
15914 A Short Account Of The Destruction Of The Indies Bartolomé de las Casas 1552 Spanish Spanish
15914 None Dare Call It Treason John A. Stormer 1964 American English
15914 The Traveller's Tree Patrick Leigh Fermor 1950 British English
17159 Drum Dream Girl Margarita Engle 2015 Cuban English
16802 La edad de oro José Martí 1889 Cuban Spanish
17159 Cuba Ada Ferrer 2021 American English
17159 Borrowed Finery Paula Fox 2001 American English
17159 Pirate Latitudes Michael Crichton 2009 American English
17159 Havana Black Leonardo Padura 1998 Cuban Spanish
17159 Theodore Rex Edmund Morris 2001 American English
17159 Caribbean James A. Michener 1989 American English
17159 Dollar Sign On The Muscle Kevin Kerrane 1984 American English
17159 Colonel Roosevelt Edmund Morris 2010 American English
17159 Churchill Roy Jenkins 2001 British English
17159 The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins 2020 American English
17159 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17159 The Hinge Factor Erik Durschmied 1999 Unknown English
17159 Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Edmund Morris 1979 American English
17159 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17159 Stokely Speaks Stokely Carmichael 1971 American English
17159 Refugee Alan Gratz 2017 American English
17159 Only The Ball Was White Robert Peterson 1970 Unknown English
17159 Of Women And Salt Gabriela Garcia 2021 Unknown English
17159 Memoirs Pablo Neruda 1974 Chilean Spanish
17159 Ways Of Escape Graham Greene 1971 British English
17159 Voyage Of The Damned Frances White 2024 Unknown English