Hispanic Heritage Month 2026: Recent Fiction for Adults
Hispanic Heritage Month honors the contributions and influence of Hispanic and Latino/a/x Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. Check out these recent releases from authors of Hispanic and Latino/a/x background! (Created August 2026)
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Prieta Is Dreaming
This extraordinary posthumous collection from Chicana poet and theorist Anzaldúa (Borderlands) offers a window into a woman’s marginalized yet magical life on the Texas plains. (Publishers Weekly)
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We Are Green and Trembling
Famed Argentinian writer Cabezón Cámara’s third novel published in English, fluidly translated by Myers, is a polyphonic interpretation of the incomparable adventures of an enigmatic, seventeenth-century conquistador-esque figure whose chosen moniker was Antonio de Erauso...Cabezón Cámara creates a seamless, fever-dreamy exposé of inhumane colonialism, religiosity, and genocide while revealing the extreme resilience necessary to claim selfhood outside expected, mandated norms. (Booklist)
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The Depopulation
Argentinian writer Closs tells the story of a Jesuit mission gone awry in this immersive English-language debut set in 17th-century South America. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Novel Detective
2020: Teresa, a Cuban-born mystery writer now living in America, gets an unexpected call from her childhood best friend, Estrella, inviting her to Havana. Estrella is determined to get answers about a case that has haunted them both for decades: the purported dual suicides of a teacher and student at their high school. (NoveList)
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Now I Surrender
This three-part saga of the Apache Wars and the long shadow of imperialism constitutes a major work of historical reclamation from Enrigue. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Summer of the Serpent
Mexican author and scholar Eudave makes her English-language debut with a mysterious and fantastical novella set in 1977 Guadalajara, an “unusual year” when the “world fell apart, or would soon fall apart,” amid punishing weather, nuclear anxiety, Pinochet’s military coup, the death of Elvis, the Son of Sam, and other portents. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Sleeping Sisters
Part page-turning thriller, part lyrical reimagining of Aztec goddess Coatlicue, this gripping tale from Givhan (Salt Bones) explores motherhood, trauma, and women’s place in the world. (Publishers Weekly)
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Muñeca
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. (NoveList)
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Tarantula
In his latest short but powerful autobiographical novel, Halfon continues reflecting on the traumas of the Holocaust while raising the question of whether they are beyond the scope of fiction. (Kirkus)
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The Invisible Years
The incisive latest from Hasbún (Affections) finds a Bolivian American writer reconnecting with the estranged friend whose abortion as a teen inspired his novel in progress. (Publishers Weekly)
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