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In these last few days, I dedicated myself to searching and creating a TBR draft with books I wanted to read for each region. It's a lot of content so I needed a north so I don't wander.
And by exploring the internet, I found 2 more difficulties:
Avoid choosing only books from Brazilian writers, and take space from other countries;
Find books from Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname.
The language and book availability will make a huge difference. I need Portuguese or English books because these are the languages that I read comfortably. I can understand Spanish but not enough for a smooth reading. And that makes the act of reading fatiguing. So, I need to match the book availability in libraries or bookshops (online or not) based on the languages I can read. And Suriname and French Guiana will make me walk an extra mile due to Dutch and French texts. However, without difficulty, would it be a challenge?
TBR - Reading South America
Note: This is a preliminary list of books, but it is important for me to read more texts by women, Afro-Latin people, descendants of indigenous peoples, and voices that throughout history have not had space. Therefore, I indicate such characteristics in the list below.
The more we listen to different voices, the better our perception of the scenario.
Still, I understand that my approach to racializing authors might strike some as wrong. But it proved necessary after the initial difficulty of finding the names of important black and indigenous writers in many countries.
In South America, the racial question has many details and complexities. With the mix of peoples, the attempt to whiten the population and erase ethnic groups, it is possible that I "read" the image of an author as brown/mixed race (pardos/mestizos), for example, and he declares himself as black. Whether due to lack of information, or social reading, we do base on the image. When I notice such errors, I am responsible for updating with the correction.
Subtitle:
👩🏿👨🏿 - black writers
👨🏻 👩🏻 - white writers
🍃👩🏽 🍃👨🏽 - autores de povos originários ou descentes de povos originários
👨🏽 👩🏽 - brown/mixed race writers
?👩?👨 - writers without photos or accurate information
ES - Spanish EN - English PT - Portuguese FR - French NL - Dutch
Last Update: February 2024
Book: Hopscotch (1963) Writer: Júlio Cortázar 👨🏻 ES EN PT | | Book: The Wind the Lays Waste (2015) Writer: Selva Almada 👩🏻 ES EN PT |
Book: Ficciones (1944) Writer: Jorge Luis Borges 👨🏻 ES EN PT | | Book: Eisejuaz (1971) Writer: Sara Gallardo 👩🏻 ES EN PT |
Interesting Writers: Ernesto Sabato 👨🏻 READ ✅, Alfonsina Storni 👩🏻 READ ✅, Marcelo Quispe 🍃👨🏽 READ ✅ , Noka Kani Ticas (Teresita Franzl Moreno) 🍃👩🏽, Adolfo Bioy Casares👨🏻 , Dolores Reyes 👩🏻 |
Book: Dom Casmurro (1899) Writer: Machado de Assis 👨🏿 PT ES EN | | Book: An Invincible Memory (1984) Writer: João Ubaldo Ribeiro 👨🏻 PT ES EN |
Book: Úrsula (1859) READ ✅ Writer: Maria Firmina dos Reis 👩🏿 PT | | Book: Captains of the Sands (1937) Writer: Jorge Amado 👨🏻 PT ES EN |
Interesting Writers: Ailton Krenak🍃👨🏽, Conceição Evaristo 👩🏿 READ ✅, Luis Gama 👨🏿 READ ✅, Graciliano Ramos 👨🏻, Guimarães Rosa 👨🏻, Lélia Gonzalez 👩🏿, Lygia Fagundes e Teles 👩🏻, Djamila Ribeiro 👩🏿, Clarice Lispector 👩🏻, Daniel Munduruku🍃👨🏽, Eliane Potiguar🍃👩🏽 , Davi Kopenawa 🍃👨🏽 , Micheliny Verunschk 👩🏽, Graça Graúna 🍃👩🏽 READ ✅ |
Book: La Chaskañawi (1947) Writer: Carlos Medinacelli 👨🏻 ES | | Book: 98 Segundos Sin Sombra (2014) Writer: Giovanna Rivero 👩🏽 ES PT |
Book: La composición de la sal (2014) Writer: Magela Baudoin 👩🏻 ES | | Book: Manchay Puytu (1977) Writer: Néstor Taboada Terán 👨🏻 ES |
Book: The Bronze Race (1919) Writer: Alcides Arguedas 👨🏽 ES EN | | |
Interesting Writers: Fausto Reinaga🍃👨🏽, Nataniel Aguirre 👨🏻, María Galindo 👩🏻, Adolfo Cárdenas👨🏻 , Adelia Zamudio 👩🏻 READ ✅ |
Book: The House of Spirits (1982) READ ✅ Writer: Isabel Allende 👩🏻 ES EN PT | | Book: The Old Man that Reads Love Stories (1989) Writer: Luis Sepúlveda 👨🏻 ES EN PT |
Book: The Savage Detectives (1998) Writer: Roberto Bolaño 👨🏻 ES EN PT | | Book: Historias divertidas del mundo mapuche en la memoria de Marta Parra Lincopán (2017) Writer: Gabriel Pozo Menares, Margarita Canio Llanquinao 🍃👩🏽 👨🏽 ES |
Interesting Writers: Maribel Mora 🍃👩🏽, Sonia Caicheo Gallado 🍃👩🏽 , Bernardo Copan 🍃👨🏽, Gabriela Mistral 👩🏻, Pablo Neruda 👨🏻 READ ✅ |
Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) READ ✅ Writer: Gabriel García Márquez 👨🏻 ES EN PT | | Book: Afuera Crece un Mundo (2017) Writer: Adelaida Fernández Ochoa 👩🏿 ES PT |
Book: Delirium (2004) Writer: Laura Restrepo 👩🏻 ES EN PT | | Book: The Bitch (2017) READ ✅ Writer: Pilar Quintana 👩🏻 ES EN PT |
Interesting Writers: Amalia Lú Posso Figueroa 👩🏿, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Rafael Pombo 👩🏿, Elcina Valencia Córdoba 👩🏿 READ ✅, Mary Grueso 👩🏿 , Candelario Obeso READ ✅, Hugo Jamioy 🍃 👨🏽 READ ✅ |
Book: When the Guayacans Were in Bloom (1954) Writer: Nelson Estupiñán Bass 👨🏿 ES | | Book: Huasipungo (1934) Writer: Jorge Icaza 👨🏻 ES EN PT |
Book: Cockfight (2021) Writer: María Fernanda Ampuero 👩🏻 ES EN PT | | Book: Jawbone (2018) Writer: Mónica Ojeda 👩🏻 ES EN PT |
Interesting Writers: Maria Virginia Farinango 🍃👩🏽, Antonio Preciado Bedoya 👨🏿, Natalia García Freire 👩🏻, Aleyda Quevedo Rojas 👩🏻 READ ✅, Medardo Ángel Silva READ ✅ |
Book: Palace of the Peacock (1960) Writer: Wilson Harris 👨🏿 EN | | Book: The Far Away Girl (2021) Writer: Sharon Maas 👩🏽 (Desc. Indian) EN |
Book: Frangipani House (1986) Writer: Beryl Gilroy 👩🏿 EN | | Book: Chinese Woman a Novel (2004) READ ✅ Writer: Jan Lowe Shine Bourne 👩🏻 ( Desc.Chinese) EN |
Interesting Writers: Grace Nichols 👩🏿, Walter Rodney 👨🏿, Martin Carter 👨🏿 , John Agard 👨🏿 READ ✅ |
Book: Atipa (1885) Writer: Alfred Parépou ?👨 FR | | Book: Batouala (1921) Writer: René Maran 👨🏿 FR EN |
Book: Le Nègre du Gouverneur (1978) READ ✅ Writer: Serge Patient 👨🏿 FR PT | | Book: Les Terres Noyees (2006) Writer: Eunice Richards-Pillot 👩🏿 FR |
Interesting Writers: Christiane Taubira 👩🏿, Emmelyne Octavie 👩🏿 READING ✅, Micheline Hermine (?👩), Axel May (?👨) |
Book: Manual de esgrima para elefantes (2013) Writer: Javier Viveros 👨🏽 ES | | Book: I, The Supreme (1974) Writer: Augusto Roa Bastos 👨🏻 ES EN PT |
Book: La virgen del carrillo (2021) READ ✅ Writer: Mabel Pedrozo 👩🏽 ES | | Book: La Babosa (1954) Writer: Gabriel Casaccia 👨🏻 ES |
Interesting Writers: Alba Eiragi Duarte 🍃👩🏽 READ ✅, Josefina Plá 👩🏻, Renée Ferrer 👩🏻, Sebastian Ocampos 👨🏻 |
Book: Death in the Andes (1993) READ ✅ Writer: Mário Vargas Llosa 👨🏻 ES EN PT | | Book: Geografia de la oscuridad (2021) Writer: Katya Adaui 👩🏻 ES |
Book: Huaco retrato (2021) READ ✅ Writer: Gabriela Wiener 🍃👩🏽 ES | | Book: The Word of the Speechless (1955) Writer: Julio Ramón Ribeyro 👨🏽 ES EN |
Interesting Writers: Ernesto Verástegui 👨🏿 READ ✅, Pilar Dughi 👩🏽, Jennifer Thorndike 👩🏻, Santiago Roncagliolo 👨🏻, Alfredo Bryce Echenique 👨🏽, Victoria Santa Cruz 👩🏿 READ ✅, Nicomedes Santa Cruz👨🏿 READ ✅ |
Book: The Free Negress Elisabeth (2000) Writer: Cynthia Mcleod 👩🏿 NL EN | | Book: On a Woman's Madness (1982) Writer: Astrid Roemer 👩🏿 NL EN |
Book: The Cost of Sugar (1987) Writer: Cynthia Mcleod 👩🏿 NL EN | | Book: We Slaves of Suriname (1934) Author: Anton de Kom 👨🏿 NL EN |
Interesting Writers: Marylin Simons 👩🏿, Karin Amatmoekrim 👩🏿, Bea Vianen 👩🏿, Rihana Jamaludin, Karin Lachmising, Joanna Werners 👩🏿, Renier Artist 👨🏿, Leo Henri Ferrier 👨🏿, Michael Slory 👨🏿 READ ✅, R. Dobru 👨🏿 READ ✅ |
Book: The Ship of Fools (1984) Writer: Cristina Peri Rossi 👩🏻 ES EN | | Book: Pink Slime (2020) Writer: Fernanda Trías 👩🏻 ES EN PT |
Book: Open Veins of Latin America (1971) Writer: Eduardo Galeano 👨🏻 ES EN PT | | Book: The Truce (1960) READ ✅ Writer: Mario Benedetti 👨🏻 ES EN PT |
Interesting Writers: Virginia Brindis Salas 👩🏿 READ ✅, Juan Carlos Onetti 👨🏻, Jorge Majfud 👨🏻, Juana de Ibarbourou 👩🏻 , Cristina Rodríguez Cabral 👩🏿 , Claudia Amengual 👩🏻 READ ✅ |
Book: Nochebuena Negra (1943) Writer: Juan Pablo Sojo 👨🏿 ES | | Book: Iphigenia (1924) or Mamá Blanca's Souvenirs (1929) Writer: Teresa de la Parra 👩🏻 ES EN PT |
Book: Ana Isabel, A Respectable Girl (1944) Writer: Antonia Palacios 👩🏻 ES EN | | Book: Doña Barbara (1929) Writer: Rómulo Gallego 👨🏽 ES PT |
Interesting Writers: Francisco Suniaga 👨🏽, Francisco Massiani 👨🏻, Ibéyise Pacheco 👩🏽, Julio Garmendia 👨🏻, Rafael Cadenas 👨🏻 , Luis Britto García 👨🏻, Alberto Arvelo Torrealba, Luz Machado 👩🏻 READ ✅ |
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