Reviews and articles about many of the best books written by authors of authors of Latino heritage.
Latinx Authors
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There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
by Ruben Reyes
Hardcover: Aug 2024
Paperback: Jul 2025
An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.
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Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
by Ananda Lima
Hardcover: Jun 2024
Paperback: Jun 2025
Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry―Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima.
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The Accidentals: Stories
by Guadalupe Nettel
Hardcover: Apr 2025
From the International Booker Shortlisted author of Still Born, a powerful collection of stories about characters coping with estrangement, isolation, and the unknown.
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Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel
by Jennine Capó Crucet
Hardcover: Mar 2024
Paperback: Mar 2025
Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy—a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic.
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel
by Xochitl Gonzalez
Hardcover: Mar 2024
Paperback: Mar 2025
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death
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Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays
by Edgar Gomez
Hardcover: Feb 2025
A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual.
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The Bullet Swallower: A Novel
by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, ...
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Dreamover
by Dani Diaz
Paperback: Jan 2025
In this captivating debut YA graphic novel, two best friends becoming more than friends feels like a dream come true. But when one sleepover literally turns into a dream, will they ever want to wake up again?
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Season of the Swamp: A Novel
by Yuri Herrera
Hardcover: Oct 2024
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.
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A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens: A Novel
by Raul Palma
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of the devil's bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom.
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Where There Was Fire
by John Manuel Arias
Hardcover: Aug 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias
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The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
by Lorraine Avila
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: Jul 2024
Elizabeth Acevedo has said that reading Lorraine Avila feels like an "uppercut to the senses." You've never encountered an author with prose of this sensitivity and fire.
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