
Cacau is Brazilian Social Realism novel written by Jorge Amado.

Captains of the Sands is a Brazilian novel written by Jorge Amado in 1937.

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon is a Brazilian modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1958 and published in English in 1962. It is widely considered one of his finest works. A film adaptation of the same name was created in 1983.

The Golden Harvest is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado from 1942–44, published in Portuguese in 1944 and in English in 1992.

Sea of Death is a Brazilian Modernist novel written by Jorge Amado. Amado wrote the novel in response to his first arrest for "being a communist". The novel follows the lives of poor fishermen around Bahia, and their relationship with the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, especially the sea goddess Iemanjá. The novel's style and themes include many traits that characterize Amado's later work.

Sweat is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1934. It has yet to be translated into English.

Tieta is a novel written by the Brazilian author Jorge Amado, published on August 17, 1977. Set in the 1970s, it narrates the return of Tieta to the remote village of Santana do Agreste, 26 years after being beaten and expelled by her father in front of all the town's people.

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell is a 1959 Brazilian modernist novella by Jorge Amado. It was first published in the Brazilian magazine Senhor. In 2012, it was republished in English as The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray.

The War of the End of the World is a 1981 novel written by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. It is a fictionalized account of the War of Canudos conflict in late 19th-century Brazil.