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| Title | Author | Genre | Description | Language(s) | Publisher | Ebook | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Roadside Picnic | Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris | Science Fiction | Stalkers who enter no man's land to find what aliens left behind | English | Chicago Review Press | ReadRead |
 | The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born | Armah, Ayi Kwei | Fiction, Africa | A story of life, corruption, and greater things in Ghana | English | Per Ankh Books | ReadRead |
 | The Futurological Congress | Lem, Stanisław | Science Fiction | The exploits of Ijon Tichyy in a future overpopulated world. | English | Seabury Press | ReadRead |
 | The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years | Aitmatov, Chinghiz | Fiction, Soviet Fiction | Central Asian folk stories meet intergalactic space travel, human stupidity and potential. | English, Spanish | Indiana University Press | ReadRead, LeerLeer |
 | Hayti | Sunday, Kurtis | Historical Fiction | A Florentine nun leads a mission to Haiti, Spain's first American colony. | English | Creative Commons | ReadRead |
 | Ubik | Dick, Philip | Science Fiction | The science fiction version of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, freeze dried bodies and life after death. | English | Doubleday | ReadRead |
 | Revolt of the Cockroach People | Acosta, Oscar Zeta | Fiction | The semi-autobiographical tale of Buffalo Brown, the Chicano movement in LA | English | Straight Arrow Press | ReadRead |
 | Redoble por Rancas | Scorza, Manuel | Historical Fiction | The story of Rancas and the Cerro de Pasco Corporation | Spanish | Planeta | ReadRead |
 | We | Zamyatin, Yevgeny | Science Fiction, Dytopia | One of the first dystopian novels, Yevgeny smuggled it into England. | English | E. P. Dutton | ReadRead |
 | Love is a Dog from Hell | Bukowski, Charles | Poetry | Poems from 1974-1977 | English | Ecco | ReadRead |
 | Cadillac Desert | Reisner, Marc | Non-fiction | The American West and its disappearing water | English | Penguin | ReadRead |
 | Cuentos selectos | Izquierdo Ríos, Francisco | Short Stories | Collected stories from the Peruvian Amazon. | Spanish | Fondo Editorial UNMSM | ReadRead |
 | El sueño del celta | Llosa, Mario Vargas | Historical Fiction | The story of Roger Casement, from exposing exploitation in the Amazon to his eventual execution. | Spanish, English | Alfaguara | LeerLeer, ReadRead |
 | Sangama | Hernández, Arturo D. | Fiction | A classic story of adventure in the jungle, from a renowned Iquitos writer. | Spanish, English | Imprenta Torres Aguirre | LeerLeer, ReadRead |
 | Al pie del acantilado | Ribeyro, Julio Ramón | Short Stories | A short story written in Huamanga, Peru | Spanish | QG Editores | ReadRead |
 | ¡Que viva la música! | Caicedo, Andrés | Fiction | A girl, growing up in Cali, Colombia, falls in love with music | Spanish, English | Colcultura | LeerLeer, ReadRead |
 | Red Line | Bowden, Charles | Fiction | A trip through the desert, in the borderlands between the US and Mexico | English | W. W. Norton | ReadRead |
 | Los geniecillos dominicales | Ribeyro, Julio Ramón | Fiction | Growing up in a well-to-do family that has seen better times, living the good life in Lima. | Spanish | Populibros peruanos | ReadRead |
 | The Suitcase | Dovlatov, Sergei | Short Stories | Written with irony and wit, though simple stories, about life in Soviet Russia. | Russian, English | Counterpoint Press | ЧитатьЧитать, ReadRead |
 | Los ríos profundos | Arguedas, José María | Fiction | Growing up in the Peruvian Andes, a kids in school learns about injustice, life, music... | Spanish, English | Losada S. A. | LeerLeer, ReadRead |
 | Firecracker Boys | O'Neil, Dan | Non-fiction | Alaska Natives, Edward Teller, and trying to build an artificial harbor with atomic bombs. | English | Basic Books | ReadRead |
 | Revenge of the Lawn | Brautigan, Richard | Short Stories | Funny, sometimes surreal, with a singular wit in the the age of hippies. | English | Simon & Schuster | ReadRead |