Books like Cuba

Loved Cuba by Conner Gorry? Here are 8 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

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1Before Night Falls
Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas
A memoir of growing up and living as a writer in Cuba under Castro, written from exile.
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2Three Trapped Tigers
Three Trapped Tigers
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A playful, wordplay-heavy novel about Havana nightlife and urban life before the revolution.
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3The Lost Steps.
The Lost Steps.
Alejo Carpentier
A novel about a musicologist's journey through Latin American jungles and cities that questions the modern world.
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4Havana Blue (Mario Conde Mystery 3)
Havana Blue (Mario Conde Mystery 3)
Leonardo Padura
A detective novel set in contemporary Havana, following a police investigator through the city's streets and social life.
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5Cuba and Its Music
Cuba and Its Music
Ned Sublette
A history of Cuban music and its links to the wider Americas, written for readers curious about the island's culture.
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6Trading With the Enemy
Trading With the Enemy
Tom Miller
A travel book about the United States' long, tense relationship with Cuba, based on the author's trips to the island.
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7Islands in the Stream
Islands in the Stream
Ernest Hemingway
A novel whose later section is set in Havana, showing the city through the eyes of a painter in the years before the revolution.
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8Memory Mambo
Memory Mambo
Achy Obejas
A novel about a Cuban-American woman in Chicago who travels back to Havana, exploring family history and identity.
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