Recommended articles
- "The Odyssey Years" by David Brooks
- "Planning a Life With Room for Debate" by Lisa Belkin
- "Write Till You Drop" by Annie Dillard
- "Earth Movers" by Anthony DePalma from the Notre Dame Magazine
Writers cited in Santiago's Children
About Chile
- A Nation of Enemies by Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela
- "Reflexiones sobre el barrio" by Steve Reifenberg in El Mercurio (in Spanish)
- My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
- Machuca (2004), a Chilean film about two boys from two different worlds who witness the 1973 military coup, written and directed by Andrés Wood
Recommended books of general interest
- Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
- Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin