The initial U.S. Southern Command reading list included the following books:

Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail in the 'General' section.

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest in the 'General' section.

La Fiesta Del Chivo/The Feast of the Goat (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition) in the 'Faction and Historical Fiction' section.

The News from Paraguay in the 'Faction and Historical Fiction' section.

Imagining Argentina in the 'Faction and Historical Fiction' section.

A Way in the World: A Novel in the 'Faction and Historical Fiction' section.

The Old Man and the Sea in the 'Faction and Historical Fiction' section.

El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera / Love in the Times of Cholera in the 'Faction and Historical Fiction' section.

The General in His Labyrinth in the 'Faction and Historical Fiction' section.

Men of Maize: The Modernist Epic of the Guatemalan Indians (Pittsburgh Editions of Latin American Literature) in the 'Faction and Historical Fiction' section.

Gabriela, clavo y canela (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition) in the 'Faction and Historical Fiction' section.

Ines of My Soul: A Novel in the 'Faction and Historical Fiction' section.

Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What The U.S. Must Do in the 'Economics and Globalism' section.

Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot in the 'Economics and Globalism' section.

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization in the 'Economics and Globalism' section.

United States and the Americas: A Twenty-First Century View in the 'Economics and Globalism' section.

Doing Business in the New Latin America: A Guide to Cultures, Practices, and Opportunities in the 'Economics and Globalism' section.

The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose in the 'Political and Military Science' section.

The Future of Freedom in the 'Political and Military Science' section.

Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: New Analytical Perspectives in the 'Political and Military Science' section.

The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela in the 'Political and Military Science' section.

Simon Bolivar (Simon Bolivar): A Life in the 'Political and Military Science' section.

In the Eagle's Shadow: The United States and Latin America in the 'Political and Military Science' section.

Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag in the 'Memoirs' section.

My Brother in the 'Memoirs' section.

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy in the 'Memoirs' section.

The Saddest Country: On Assignment In Colombia in the 'Memoirs' section.

The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir in the 'Memoirs' section.

The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier in the 'History' section.

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan in the 'History' section.

Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond, Fifth Edition Rev. in the 'History' section.

Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition in the 'History' section.

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies) in the 'History' section.

History of the Conquest of Peru (Dodo Press) in the 'History' section.

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey in the 'History' section.

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 in the 'History' section.

After Fidel, Updated Edition: Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba's Revolution in the 'History' section.

Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History in the 'History' section.

THE BURIED MIRROR in the 'History' section.

The Conquest of New Spain in the 'History' section.