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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Kinzer, Stephen Schlesinger

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala

Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer

330 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson

Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala

Daniel Wilkinson

392 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative slow-paced
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano

317 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz

The Labyrinth of Solitude

Octavio Paz

398 pages • first pub 1950 (editions)

nonfiction essays history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War by Tanya Harmer

Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War

Tanya Harmer

375 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America by Alma Guillermoprieto

Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America

Alma Guillermoprieto

320 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction essays history informative slow-paced
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez

The General in His Labyrinth

Gabriel García Márquez

248 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

fiction classics historical reflective slow-paced
Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America by Penny Lernoux

Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America

Penny Lernoux

551 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America by Óscar Martínez

A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America

Óscar Martínez

278 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction crime history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beloved

Beloved Trilogy #1

Toni Morrison

379 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary magical realism dark emotional sad slow-paced