Discover GEEO’s recommended books to read before you travel to Chile & Argentina. Our book club is a way for travelers to learn through literature about the places they’ll be visiting.

These are some of our favorites about Chile & Argentina, so if you’re visiting, 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 Chile & Argentina:

Fiction:

• The House of the Spirits: A Novel by Isabel Allende (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)
• Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile by Sara Wheeler (Bookshop.org | Amazon)

More book suggestions:

• Ten Women by Marcela Serrano (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• The Invisible Mountain by Carolina de Robertis (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra (Bookshop.org | Amazon)

Recommended films and videos to watch before traveling to Chile & Argentina:

GEEO travelers can register with SIMA Academy for free using a unique access code that we provide after our programs end. Feel free to contact us if you would like to receive the access code early. For this program, we recommend watching Green Gold and Voices from the Sea. SIMA Academy utilizes the storytelling power of award-winning global short documentaries to nurture globally competent and socially active learners worldwide.

Other films and videos:

• Evita (1997)
• Argentina, 1985 (2022)
• Chile ’76 (2023)
• Our Last Tango (2016)
• Gaucho (2017)
• The Wild Andes from the Smithsonian Channel (2018)
• Chile: 50 years after Augusto Pinochet (DW Documentary)

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!