Mexico

[Dream]

My personal faves:

Carlos Fuentes - Aura

Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate

[Heidi]

Also The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel, by Carlos Fuentes

[Ronan Noane]

Pedro Páramo (Paperback)by Juan Rulfo

[Jimmy]

Just finished this Mexican novel: Recollections of Things to Come. Loved it. Highly recommended.

[Mary]

I really liked Los de Abajos, translated as The Underdogs in English, about the Mexican revolution, and the book reads like a screenplay although was written before movie screenplays were common. When I read this my (then) middle school age son read it in Spanish as I was reading it in English, and we compared notes chapter by chapter.

[Ana]

El laberinto de la soledadby Octavio Paz

El Chingonario. Uso, reuso y abuso del chingar

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o las trampas de la fe by Octavio Paz

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo


Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico by Tony Cohan. This book is written by an American describing his life in Mexico.

[Dream]

Who Would Have Thought It? by Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton was the first novel to be written in English by a Mexican living in the United States.

[Shadazz]

I recently read this novel El huésped by Guadalupe Nettel it blew my mind. It's only available in spanish and french though.