Recs if you like By Night in Chile...

short books around 200 pages or less that you can easily read in one sitting! for those who just want a quick read or those trying to hit their reading goals ! i tried to include a variety of genres including lit fic, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, thriller, etc.

Books to fulfill you reading around the world challenge. Ideally, the author is from the country they are writing about. Bonus points if it’s translated!

Recommended Latino and Hispanic books. Leave other Recs in comments.

Reddit's R/Truelit user voted best books of 2000-2026. They included a full series as one pick, like the Neopolitan novels. I only include the first to keep it at 100.

Some books from known authors from Chile, not necessarily set in the country. Could be useful for reading around the world challenge.

read around the world is a challenge to read from every country in the world. the author could be from that country or the book could be based there (kudos if both!). for me, i try to add in as many translated books and indigenous stories when possible.

note: while horrors such as war and colonization are unavoidbale in many stories due to how people are shaped by them, i try to find stories that do not always reflect suffering.

Read the world! Goal is to read at least one book from each country (the author must be from the country).

Books set in Chile

dads (and uncles, grandfathers, brothers) are hard to shop for. let me help!

1. A work of science fiction or fantasy from before 1980 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
2. A non-fiction book about science or mathematics The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
3. A novel by a Latin American author By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño or The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
4. A novel by an East Asian author Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
5. A classical drama or epic The Epic of Gilgamesh
6. A romance Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
7. A work of 20th-century philosophy Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
8. One of these books that was called a ‘dating red flag’ All about love by Bell Hooks
9. A book about a religion you’ve never been a part of Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
10. A classic children’s book Winnie The Pooh by A. A. Milne
11. A memoir or biography of a woman The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen