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The Basics: 100 Fiction Titles You Should Stock

People often ask us to recommend the best titles for a Latino Spanish-and English-language collection. So we spoke to experts to compile a list of 100 titles for our website. Below is the first of this alphabetical selection. This list cannot represent all the richness of titles available by Latino fiction authors but is a good starting point.

Note: This list is organized alphabetically by author.
An asterisk (*) indicates an author whose entire oeuvre we recommend for extensive collections. All bold titles indicate Spanish-language editions. Titles in italics indicate an English-language counterpart or an English language entry. Titles in parenthesis do not denote English-language editons but are translations for your benefit.

Abreu, Juan

Allende, Isabel*

Alvarez, Julia*

Amado, Jorge*

Anaya, Rudolfo

Arenas, Reinaldo*

Bayly, Jaime

Bioy Casares, Adolfo

Bolaño, Roberto

Bombal, María Luisa
La última niebla y la amortajada
Spain/U.S.: Planeta. 1990. ISBN 84-322-3055-3. $8.
House of Mist and the Shrouded Woman: Novels by Maria Luisa Bombal
U.S.: Univ. of Texas Press. 1995. ISBN 0-292-70830-0. $19.95.

Borges, Jorge Luis*

Boullosa, Carmen
Son vacas, somos puercos
Mexico: Ediciones Era.1991. ISBN 968-411-338-2. $NA.
They're Cows, We're Pigs
U.S.: Grove Press. 2001. ISBN 0-8021-3786-5. $12.

Bryce Echenique, Alfredo

Cabrera Infante, Guillermo*
Mea Cuba
Spain/U.S.: Alfaguara: Santillana. 2000. ISBN 84-204-8271-4. $21.95.
Mea Cuba
U.S.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1994. ISBN 0374204977. $12.71.
Tres tristes tigres
Spain/U.S.: Seix Barral: Planeta. 1989. ISBN 8432207446. $30.
Three Trapped Tigers
U.S.: Marlowe & Co. 1997. ISBN 1-56924-713-7. $14.95.

Carpentier, Alejo*

Castillo, Ana*

Chávez, Denise*

Chaviano, Daina
Gata encerrada
(Trapped Cat)
Spain/U.S.: Planeta. 2001. ISBN 84-0-804043-X. $19.95.

Cisneros, Sandra*

Coelho, Paulo*

Cortázar, Julio*

Cruz, Angie

Díaz, Junot

Donoso, José

Dorfman, Ariel*

Eloy Martínez, Tomás

Esquivel, Laura

 

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Como agua para chocolate
U.S.: Anchor Books. 2001. ISBN 0-385-72123-4. $11.95.
Like Water for Chocolate
U.S.: Doubleday. 1994. ISBN 0-385-42017-X. $11.95.
Santa Evita
(Saint Evita)
U.S.: Vintage: Random House. 1996. ISBN 0-679-77629-X. $14.
La muerte y la doncella
U.S.: Seven Stories Press. 2001. ISBN 1-58322-078-X. $14.95.
Death and the Maiden
U.S.: Penguin. 1994. ISBN 0-14-024684-3. $7.50.
Terapia: Una novela
U.S.: Seven Stories Press. 2001. ISBN 1-58322-071-2. $19.95.
Blake's Therapy: A Novel
U.S.: Seven Stories Press. 2001. ISBN 1-58322-070-4. $21.95.
El lugar sin límites
U.S.: Vintage. 1995. ISBN 0-679-76527-1. $12.50.
Hell Has No Limits
U.S.: Consortium Book Sales & Dist. 1999. ISBN 1-892295-14-8. $10.95.
Negocios
U.S.:Vintage Español. 1997. ISBN 0-6797-7657-5. $9
Drown
U.S.: Riverhead Books. 1997. ISBN 1-57322-606-8. $12.
Soledad
U.S.: Simon & Schuster. 2001. ISBN 0-7432-1201-0. $23.
Rayuela
Spain/U.S.: Punto de Lectura: Santillana. 2001. ISBN 84-66304630. $12.99.
Hopscotch
U.S.: Pantheon Books. 1987. ISBN 0-394-75284-8. $16.
El alquimista: Una fábula para seguir tus sueños
U.S.: Rayo: HarperCollins. 2002. ISBN 0-06-251140-8. $12.95.
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
U.S.: HarperCollins. 1995. ISBN 0062502182. $13.
A orillas del rio Piedra me senté y lloré
U.S.: HarperCollins. 1997. ISBN 0062514628. $13.
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
U.S.: HarperCollins. 1997. ISBN 0060977264. $13.
Caramelo
U.S.: Knopf: Random House. 2002. ISBN 0-375-41509-2. $24.
Caramelo
U.S.: Knopf: Random House. 2002. ISBN 0-679-43554-9. $24.
El arroyo de la llorona y otros cuentos
U.S.: Vintage. 1996. ISBN 0-679-76804-1. $11.
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
U.S.: Vintage. 1992. ISBN 0-679-73856-8. $11.
La casa en Mango Street
U.S.:Vintage. 1994. ISBN 0-679-75526-8. $9.95.
The House on Mango Street
U.S.: Vintage: 1991. ISBN 0-679-73477-5. $9.95.
Face of an Angel
U.S.: Warner: 1995. ISBN 0-446-67185-1. $14.95.
Por el amor de Pedro Infante: Una novela
U.S.:Vintage Español: Random House. 2002. ISBN 0-375-72765-5. $14.
Loving Pedro Infante: A Novel
U.S.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2001. ISBN 0-374-19411-4. $24.
Carmen la coja
U.S.: Vintage. 2000. ISBN 0-375-72468-0. $12.
Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel
U.S.: Doubleday. 2000. ISBN 0-385-49677-X. $12.
Tan lejos de Dios
U.S.: Plume. 1999. ISBN 0-452-28004-4. $14.95.
So Far from God
U.S.: Plume. 1994. ISBN 0-452-27209-2. $14.95.
El reino de este mundo
Spain/U.S.: Seix Barral: Planeta. 2000. ISBN 84-322-1542-2.84-322-3015-4. $11.
The Kingdom of this World
U.S.: Ferrar, Straus & Giroux. 1989. ISBN 0-374-52197-2. $11.
El siglo de las luces
(The Century of Light)
Spain/U.S.: Seix Barral: Planeta. 1999. ISBN 84-322-2327-1. $22.58.
Un mundo para Julius
(A World for Julius)
Spain: Ediciones Cátedra: Anaya. 2000. ISBN 84-376-1191-1. $NA.
El libro de arena
Spain: Alianza Editorial.1997. ISBN 84-206-3313-5. $10.97.
The Book of Sand
U.S.: E.P. Dutton. 1997. ISBN 0-5250-6992-5. $14.
Ficciones
Spain: Alianza Editorial.1998. ISBN 84-206-3312-7. $11.95.
Collected Fictions
U.S.:Penguin. 1999. ISBN 0-14-028680-2. $16.95.
Monsieur Pain
Spain: Editorial Anagrama. 1999. ISBN 84-339-2445-1. $17.95.
Nocturno de Chile
(Nocturnal Chile)
Spain: Editorial Anagrama. 2001. ISBN 84-339-2464-8. $17.95.
La invención de Morel
U.S.: Penguin. 1996. ISBN 0140260846. $12.
The Invention of Morel and Other Stories
U.S.: Univ. of Texas Press. $NA. ISBN 0140260846. $30.
La noche es virgen
(The Night is Young)
Spain: Alianza Editorial. 1997. ISBN: 8433966367. $9.95.
Los últimos días de 'La Prensa'
(The Last Days of 'The Press')
Spain/U.S.: Seix Barral: Planeta. 1996. ISBN 84-322-4757-X.. $12.95.
Antes que anochezca
Spain: Tusquets Editores. Dist. by Oceano. 2000. ISBN 84-7223-485-1. $26.95.
Before Night Falls
U.S.: Penguin. 1994. ISBN 0-14-015765-4. $14.
Bendíceme, última
U.S.:Warner.1994. ISBN 0-446-60177-2, $6.50.
Bless Me Ultima
U.S.: Warner. 1995. ISBN 0-446-60025-3. $6.99.
Doña Flor y sus dos maridos
Spain: Alianza Editorial. 1997. ISBN 8420601462. $17.95.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral and Amorous Tale
U.S.: Avon. 1998. ISBN 0380017962. $7.99.
De cómo las chicas García perdieron el acento
Spain: Ediciones B. 1994. ISBN 84-406-4456-6. $NA
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
U.S.:Plume. 1992. ISBN 0-452-26806-0. $14.
En el tiempo de las mariposas
U.S.:Dutton/Plume.1998. ISBN 0-452-27996-8. $13.95.,
In the Time of the Butterflies
U.S.: Dutton/Plume. 1995. ISBN 0-452-27442-7. $14.
La casa de los espíritus
U.S.: HarperCollins. 2001. ISBN 0-06-095130-3. $13.
The House of the Spirits
U.S.: Bantam Books. 1986. ISBN 0-553-27391-4. $8.
Paula
Spain: Plaza & Janés: Random House Mondadori. 2002. ISBN 84-01-37541-X. $21.50.
Paula
U.S.: HarperCollins. 1996. ISBN 0-06-092721-6. $14.
Garbageland
Spain: Mondadori: Random House Mondadori. 2002. ISBN 84-397-0690-1. $21.95.

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