Uruguay, Argentina, & Brazil

Read on for GEEO’s suggestions on books to read before you travel on our Uruguay/Argentina/Brazil program. Our book club is a way for teachers and other participants to learn through literature about the places they will be traveling. Reading books about Uruguay/Argentina/Brazil is the next best thing to being there!

Reading fiction or nonfiction based on a country gives travelers the context needed to have deeper, richer experiences abroad. It is completely up to the participant whether they choose to read them, as the GEEO book club is not a required element of our programs. We hope our participants will enjoy the books we have selected and they will enhance their 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 on the Uruguay/Argentina/Brazil program:

Fiction:

• The Invisible Mountain by Carolina de Robertis
• Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

Nonfiction:

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

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

GEEO utilizes 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!