Discover GEEO’s recommended books to read before you travel to Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. Our book club is a way for travelers to learn about the places they’ll visit through literature.

These are some of our favorites about Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, so if you’re heading there, take a look (the GEEO book club is not a required element of our programs, just a bit of added fun)! We hope you will enjoy the books we have selected and they will enhance your experience.

You should be able to find most of our selections through the links below and in your local library system as well. Do you have any feedback on our selections or suggestions for additions? Contact us and let us know!

Recommended books to read before traveling to Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil:

Fiction:

• The Invisible Mountain by Carolina de Robertis (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (Bookshop.org | Amazon)

Nonfiction:

• The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• And the Money Kept Rolling in (And Out), Wall Street, the IMF, and the bankrupting of Argentina by Paul Blustein (Bookshop.org | Amazon)

For those looking for more suggestions, here are some other books you may want to consider:

• The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Argentina 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsin by David Rock (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• San Martin: Argentine Soldier, American HeroS by John Lynch (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Invisibles by Ed Siegle (Amazon)
• Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amada (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• City of God: A Novel by Paulo Lins (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb (Amazon)
• Brazil by Errol Lincoln Uys (Amazon)
• The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir by Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Brazil: Five Centuries of Change by Thomas Skidmore (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed by Larry Rohter (Bookshop.org | Amazon)

GEEO utilizes both Bookshop.org and Amazon Associates links for the above-suggested books. If you purchase a book through one of the links above, you’re supporting us as a nonprofit and helping more teachers travel through GEEO!