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Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in South America or the Caribbean

Central & S. America, Mexico, Caribbean

Recommended books found: 136

The Bewitching

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

America, América

A New History of the New World

by Greg Grandin

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both.

Only a Little While Here

A Novel

by María Ospina

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

This prizewinning novel interweaves four animal odysseys in a gripping, adventurous meditation on migration and displacement in the inextricable human and natural worlds.

El Paso

Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory

by Jazmine Ulloa

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town.

Autobiography of Cotton

A Novel

by Cristina Rivera Garza

Paperback: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers' strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel Human Mourning.

Cécé

by Emmelie Prophète

Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An astonishing novel of raw beauty about gang life, sex work, and social media in Haiti.

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

A Novel

by Kiran Desai

Hardcover: Sep 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss.

Good and Evil and Other Stories

by Samanta Schweblin

Hardcover: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A haunting, unforgettable collection of tales by Samanta Schweblin, winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature and three-time Booker Prize finalist.

Amity

A Novel

by Nathan Harris

Hardcover: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A gripping story about a brother and sister, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom, and their odyssey across the deserts of Mexico to finally reunite, all while escaping a former master still intent on their bondage.

Soldiers and Kings

Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

by Jason De León

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access

Fonseca

A Novel

by Jessica Francis Kane

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The story acclaimed English author Penelope Fitzgerald never wrote, of her real-life journey to Mexico with her son in search of a much-needed inheritance, by Jessica Francis Kane, bestselling author of Rules for Visiting.

Pink Slime

by Fernanda Trias

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize.

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