Wuthering Expectations: A reading list for Brazil - To the victor, the potatoes!

Wuthering Expectations: A reading list for Brazil - To the victor, the potatoes!
Excerpt:
In 1880 or so, Machado de Assis experienced some sort of health crisis and became an entirely different writer. I do not know what happened, but his future fiction would be funnier, stranger, audacious, penetratingly ironic. Everything changed, or almost everything. This is the core set:

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881, also translated for some reason as Epitaph for a Small Winner)
The Psychiatrist (1882, a satirical novella)
Quincas Borbas (1891, also translated, because it describes the book well, as Philosopher or Dog)
Don Casmurro (1899)
Esau and Jacob (1904)
Counselor Ayres’ Memorial (1908)

....The one piece of Brazilian journalistic or historical writing that has caught my eye is Euclides da Cunha’s 1902 Rebellion in the Backlands or Backlands: The Canudo Campaign. An account of the suppression of a provincial rebellion is turned by Euclides into something more complex, much of the complexity coming from the elaborate language of the book. The style of the book has become as important as the subject. Please begin here at Caravanas de Recuerdos for a description and samples.

I was poking around the internet, trying to figure out if Euclides da Cunha should be referred to as “Cunha” or “da Cunha,” only to discover that everyone just calls him Euclides! All right then....