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    1. Isabelle Allende is the obvious choice for South American magical surealism, particularly House of Spirits.

      Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is very good.

      At play in the field of the lord by Peter Matthiessen is interesting. It’s a moral thriller about a mercenary hired to kill an Amazon tribe and a missionary sent to convert them.

      The teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda might scratch the spiritual itch.

      One River by Wade Davis is a non fiction book by an ethnobotanist about seeking medical plants in remote parts of South America. It reads like an adventure novel.

      Cradle of soil and sea by Bernie Inez Pas is a fantasy book inspired by the Puerto Rican jungle.

      Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a horror set in the 1950s.

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