Read Around South America Challenge

Read at least one book by an author from each country in South America.

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Best books from South America (558)



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Lord of the Fly Fest by Goldy Moldavsky EN

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Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
Description:
New York Times-bestselling author Goldy Moldasky delivers a darkly funny, twisty YA thriller about influencer culture that's Lord of the Flies meets Karen McManus.Rafi Francisco needs a splashy case to put her true crime podcast on the map. She sets her sights on River Stone, the hearthrob musician who rose to stardom after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend. Rafi somehow scores a ticket to the exclusive Fly Fest, where River will be the headliner--and her starmaking interview.But when Rafi arrives on the Caribbean island location of Fly Fest with hundreds of other influencers, the... continue

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Ice for Martians : Hielo Para Marcianos by Claudia Ulloa Donoso EN

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Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
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Claudia Ulloa Donoso is an expert at writing gently alienated characters. Sometimes, their dislocation is the result of geography. Occasionally, it stems from their social conditions: consider "Alarm," in which every sound and moment is skewed by the narrator's terror of her abusive partner, or "The Transfiguration of Melina," whose religious teenage heroine starts the story detached from her sexuality, and ends it anything but. More often, though, Claudia's characters are simply Martians: their perspective on the world is singular, whether they want it to be or not.
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The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
Description:
An apocalyptic prophet in the Brazilian backlands creates the state of Canudos. In it there is no money, property, marriage, income tax, decimal system, or census.

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Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
Description:
In the tradition of Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet," Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers, revealing in the process his deepest beliefs about the world of letters. A literary apprenticeship in eleven letters, by the internationally acclaimed master of the novel In the tradition of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers, revealing in the process his deepest beliefs about our common literary endeavor. ... continue

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Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar EN

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Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
Description:
Debut novel by Peruvian author viscerally revisits Peru's recent, traumatic history through the eyes of three women


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The Cost of Sugar by Cynthia McLeod EN

Rating: 2 (3 votes)
Description:
The Cost of Sugar is an intriguing history of those rabid times in Dutch Surinam between 1765-1779 when sugar was king.Told through the eyes of two Jewish step sisters, Eliza and Sarith, descendants of the settlers of 'New Jerusalem of the River' know today as Jodensvanne. The Cost of Sugar is a frank expose of the tragic toll on the lives of colonists and slaves alike.
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