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24 titles for readers of Borges A Life by Edwin Williamson, selected for shared themes: Caribbean & Latin American, Literary Figures, Literary Criticism, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

A Small Place — Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Lima Barreto New Critical Perspectives — Lamonte Aidoo

Lima Barreto New Critical Perspectives

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

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Borges, Desire, and Sex

Ariel De la Fuente

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

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Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

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The Autobiography of Alfred H. Mendes 1897-1991

Alfred Hubert Mendes

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

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Stephen M. Hart

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Selected Non-Fictions — Jorge Luis Borges

Selected Non-Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Living to Tell the Tale — Gabriel García Márquez

Living to Tell the Tale — Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Gabriel García Márquez A Life — Gerald Martin

Gabriel García Márquez A Life

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Shame on Me An Anatomy of Race and Belonging — Tessa McWatt

Shame on Me An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha — Rodrigo García

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha

Rodrigo García

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Neruda The Biography of a Poet — Mark Eisner

Neruda The Biography of a Poet

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Biography & Autobiography

My Broken Language A Memoir — Quiara Alegría Hudes

My Broken Language A Memoir

Quiara Alegría Hudes

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Biography & Autobiography

Syncing the Americas José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity — Ryan Anthony Spangler

Syncing the Americas José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity

Ryan Anthony Spangler

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

From Harvey River A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island — Lorna Goodison

From Harvey River A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Communal Feminisms Chicanas, Chilenas, and Cultural Exile — Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs

Communal Feminisms Chicanas, Chilenas, and Cultural Exile

Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Jubana! The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cubana Goddess — Gigi Anders

Jubana! The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cubana Goddess

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

My Bloody Life The Making of a Latin King — Reymundo Sanchez

My Bloody Life The Making of a Latin King

Reymundo Sanchez

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Hunter of Stories — Eduardo Galeano

Hunter of Stories

Eduardo Galeano

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama) — C. S. Lewis

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Genius A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds — Harold Bloom

Genius A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Becoming Virginia Woolf Her Early Diaries & the Diaries She Read — Barbara Lounsberry

Becoming Virginia Woolf Her Early Diaries & the Diaries She Read

Barbara Lounsberry

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Thatcher Stole My Trousers — Alexei Sayle

Thatcher Stole My Trousers

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

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