7 must-read nonfiction books like Madres y Huachos: Alegorias del Mestizaje Chileno by Sonia Montecino

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Madres y Huachos: Alegorias del Mestizaje Chileno

By: Sonia Montecino

4.26

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

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1. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more

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"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

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2. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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3. Frog and Toad Together (Frog and Toad, #2)

By: Arnold Lobel

4.25

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Frog and Toad are best friends—they do everything together. When Toad admires the flowers in Frog's… read more

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"I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,"

-Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Together (Frog and Toad, #2)

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4. La virgen de los sicarios

By: Fernando Vallejo

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

«La Virgen de los Sicarios es una descarnada parodia de la violencia que afectó a Medellín durante … read more

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"Dios no existe y si existe es la gran gonorrea."

-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

"¡Para qué más ruido afuera con el que llevábamos adentro!"

-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

"¡Qué es! ¡Qué és! ¡Qué es! Se ve. Se siente. El pueblo está presente."

-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

"Uno en las comunas sube hacia el cielo pero bajando hacia los infiernos."

-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

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5. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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6. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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7. Baluarte

By: Elvira Sastre

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Elvira Sastre se define a si misma como "resistente de lo imposible y sonadora de lo ingenuo". Voce… read more

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8. El baile

By: Irène Némirovsky , Gemma Moral Bartolomé

3.67

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Autora de la recién descubierta Suite francesa, publicada póstumamente y aclamada por la crítica y … read more

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9. Poesía completa

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu

2.74

Format: None pages,

Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more

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10. The Woman Destroyed

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Format: None pages,

Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more

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11. El lugar sin límites

By: José Donoso

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Un mundo que es el infierno, donde se ponen al descubierto las falsas apariencias, la sordidez, la … read more

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12. The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

By: Richard Howard , Tzvetan Todorov , Anthony Pagden

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

The Conquest of Americais a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with impl… read more

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13. Inés of My Soul

By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard wor… read more

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14. Frog and Toad All Year (Frog and Toad, #3)

By: Arnold Lobel

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Friends all year. In winter, spring, summer, and fall, Frog and Toad are always together. Here is a… read more

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15. Sobredosis

By: Alberto Fuguet

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

A collection of short stories that jolted Chilean literature from a long sieta and gave literary cr… read more

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16. El Roto

By: None

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

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17. The House of the Spirits

By: Isabel Allende , Magda Bogin

4.28

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Alle… read more

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"You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found."

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"...no se fue con Pedro Tercero simplemente porque no le alcanzaba el amor"

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. "

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

"[Der] ziellose Blick eines Menschen, der sich ausschließlich von Gemüse ernährt."

-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

18. Flush

By: Virginia Woolf , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more

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19. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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20. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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21. Poeta chileno

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.39

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more

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"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

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22. Tema libre

By: Alejandro Zambra

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Tema libre agrega un impensado capítulo a la celebrada obra de Alejandro Zambra, un autor a estas a… read more

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"Hoy más que nunca el escritor es alguien que construye sentido juntando pedazos. Cortando, pegando y borrando."

-Alejandro Zambra, Tema libre

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23. Panza de burro

By: Andrea Abreu López

3.80

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

«Reconozco que al principio, cuando Panza de burro solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que s… read more

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"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

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24. The Soul of a Woman

By: Isabel Allende

4.03

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspir… read more

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"I was a voracious reader and what I had learned in books confirmed that the world changes constantly and humanity evolves, but the changes are only obtained after much struggle."

-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman

"This is what women want: to be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved."

-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman

"Since my daughter died I am perfectly aware of death's proximity; and now, in my seventies, death is my friend. It's not true that she looks like a skeleton armed with a scythe and trailed by a rotte…"

-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman

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25. When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold

By: Alia Trabucco Zerán

3.91

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Novelist Alia Trabucco Zerán has long been fascinated not only with the root causes of violence aga… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici

26. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

By: Silvia Federici

4.14

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, incl… read more

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"In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the m…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[W]omen were those most likely to be victimized because they were the most 'disempowered' by these changes, especially older women, who often rebelled against their impoverishment and social exclusio…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

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27. El loco y la triste

By: Juan Radrigán

3.82

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

El loco con su sensación de soledad trata de encontrar un camino para llegar a la mente y al corazó… read more

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28. Madres y Huachos: Alegorias del Mestizaje Chileno

By: Sonia Montecino

4.26

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

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29. Contra-pedagogias de la crueldad

By: Rita Segato

4.43

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Llamamos "contra-pedagogias de la crueldad" a todos los actos y practicas que enseñan, habituan y p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. En agosto nos vemos

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.63

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez   Cada mes de a… read more

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"Do you know how old I am?"

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

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31. Clean

By: Alia Trabucco Zerán

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sh… read more

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"Yo jamás me comí las uñas. Tampoco mi mamá. Para eso, me imagino, hay que tener las manos desocupadas."

-Alia Trabucco Zerán, Clean

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