Books Set in the Caribbean & Latin America

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Kincaid, Jamaica
- A Small Place

Guevara, Ernesto Che
- The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Parrado, Nando
- Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

Woodard, Colin
- The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

Fitzgerald, Holly
- Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios

Montes, Raphael
- Perfect Days

Patchett, Ann
- State of Wonder

Guevara, Ernesto Che
- The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Skármeta, Antonio
- The Postman

Zambra, Alejandro
- The Private Lives of Trees

Tobar, Héctor
- Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

Rapa Nui

Hunt, Terry and Carl Lipo
- The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

Reyes, Emma
- The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir in Correspondence

Dial, Roman
- The Adventurer’s Son: A Memoir

García, Cristina
- Dreaming in Cuban

Steinbach, Alice
- Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman

Rhys, Jean
- Wide Sargasso Sea

Stevens, Nell
- Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

Guinn, Jeff
- The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Danticat, Edwidge
- Brother, I'm Dying

Preston, Douglas
- The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

Rhys, Jean
- Wide Sargasso Sea

Wilkerson, Charmaine
- Black Cake

Herrera, Yuri
- Signs Preceding the End of the World

McDougall, Christopher
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Sada, Daniel
- One Out of Two

Wariner, Ruth
- The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir

Cristina Henríquez
- The World in Half

Tuck, Lily
- The News from Paraguay

Arana, Marie
- Lima Nights

Fitzgerald, Holly
- Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios

Guevara, Ernesto Che
- The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Wilder, Thornton
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Andrés, José
- We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

Santiago, Esmeralda
- When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir

Nunez, Elizabeth
- Prospero's Daughter

Parrado, Nando
- Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

Hoffman, Alice
- The Marriage of Opposites

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