Hispanic Heritage Month 2024: Recent Fiction for AdultsLike this list

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• The Cemetery of Untold Stories

  a Novel

  Alvarez, Julia

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  When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cross-stitch

  Barrera Velázquez, Jazmina, 1988-

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  When her childhood friend Citlali dies in a tragic accident, needlecrafter Mila sifts through her old scrapbooks, reflecting on their shared youth for their first time as a new wife and mother, wondering if she missed the signs that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Victim

  a Novel

  Boryga, Andrew

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  A hustler from a family of hustlers, Javier Perez, after college graduation, writes a viral essay embellishing his life story, which lands him a gig at a legendary magazine, but when his childhood best friend is released from prison, Javi…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Abductions

  a Novel

  Cardenas, Mauro Javier

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  Enter a near-future US whose omnipresence of data-harvesting and algorithms has enabled the mass incarceration and deportation of Latin Americans--regardless of citizenship. After their father is abducted by immigration officials and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Immortal Pleasures

  Castro, V.

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  Hundreds of years ago, she was known as La Malinche: a Nahua woman who translated for the conquistador Cortés. In the centuries since, her name has gone down in infamy as a traitor. But no one ever found out what happened to La Malinche…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Catalina

  a Novel

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla

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  Harvard student Catalina Ituralde, who escaped death in Latin America, confronts her mysterious past and uncertain future as she approaches graduation, all while navigating the complexities of love and freedom.

• Say Hello to My Little Friend

  a Novel

  Crucet, Jennine Capó

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  Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael--you can call him Izzy--might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Isabel and the Rogue

  De la Rosa, Liana

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  When a daring Mexican heiress defies Victorian society to protect her country a British war hero makes it his new mission to protect her.

• The Sons of El Rey

  a Novel

  Espinoza, Alex, 1971-

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  A timeless, epic novel about a family of luchadores contending with forbidden love and secrets in Mexico City, Los Angeles and beyond.

• Malas

  Fuentes, Marcela (Fiction writer)

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  When her beloved grandmother passes away, 14-year-old Lulu is drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family and a curse that reverberates across generation as one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anita De Monte Laughs Last

  Gonzalez, Xochitl, 1977-

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  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. Moving back and forth through time and told from the perspectives…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Divide

  a Novel

  Henríquez, Cristina, 1977-

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  A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there.

• House of Bone and Rain

  a Barrio Noir

  Iglesias, Gabino

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  For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. But this time is different. Bimbo's mom has been shot dead. We're gonna kill the guys who killed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oye

  a Novel

  Mogollon, Melissa

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  The baby of her large Colombian American family, Luciana, when her eccentric grandmother, Abue, moves into her bedroom, finds her wild demands, unpredictable antics and devastating secrets a welcome distraction, putting her on center…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Friends Are Necessary

  a Novel

  Moniz, Tomas

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  Chino Flores, a queer Latino in his late thirties, was a beloved middle school biology teacher with an adoring wife and a child on the way until a devastating loss dramatically changed his life and he relies on his coterie of new and old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seventh Veil of Salome

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia

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  In 1950s Hollywood, when an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome, a star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary heroine, she becomes the object of envy of Nancy Hartley, a bit player who will do anything to win the fame…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pages of Mourning

  a Novel

  Morrison, Diego Gerard

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  Pages of Mourning is a stunning achievement, a pioneering and inventive novel that confronts family history, creativity, Magical Realism, and the impact of violence from Mexico's drug war, by a magnificent new talent in Diego Gerard…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How We Named the Stars

  a Novel

  Ordorica, Andrés N. (Andrés Nicolás)

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  Equal parts tender and triumphant, Andrés N. Ordorica's How We Named the Stars is a debut novel of love, heartache, redemption, and learning to honor the dead; a story of finding the strength to figure out who you are--and who you could…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Things We Didn't Know

  Pérez, Elba Iris

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  Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they've known. With no plan and no money, she leaves them with family in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tell It to Me Singing

  a Novel

  Ramírez, Tita

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  Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret: Monica's father is not the man who raised her. But when her mother wakes up and begins…Read moreRead more of this annotation