🐯 Princeton Latin American Studies unofficial reading list 2026
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Sophomore level
Art & Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica LAS 267 (fa26)
- The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec by Mary Ellen Miller
Junior level
Colonial Latin America to 1810 LAS 305 (fa26)
- Colonial Latin America by Burkholder & Johnson
- Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History by Mills et al.
The Modern Period LAS 308 (fa26)
- ✔️ A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (my highlights)
- The Fourth World by Diamela Eltit
- The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- The Burrow by Franz Kafka
- Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
Art, Memory & Human Rights in Latin America LAS 316 (fa26)
- Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
- Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh
- Massacre in Mexico by Elena Poniatowska
- Knitting the Fog by Claudia D. Hernández
Graduate level
Contemporary Critical Theories: Marx’s Capital LAS 535 (fa26)
- Capital, v.1 by Karl Marx