On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Title: The back room
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Carmen Martín Gaite
Original work: El cuarto de atrás
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 0872863719
Literary Genre: History, Political fiction, Psychological fiction

Title: The Bad Girl
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: Travesuras de la niña mala
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 276 pp.
ISBN: 9780374182434
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents the story of a love affair between a Peruvian translator and an adventurous and independent woman, "the bad girl," as it unfolds over the course of forty years, from Lima to London, Paris, Tokyo, and Madrid.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romance fiction, Love stories

Title: The Bad Girl
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: Travesuras de la niña mala
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 276 pp.
ISBN: 9780312427764
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romance fiction, Love stories

Title: The Bandits from Río Frío : A Naturalistic and Humorous Novel of Customs, Crimes, and Horrors
Author: Manuel Payno
Original work: Los bandidos de Rio Frio
Publisher: Wheatmark
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2007
ISBN: 9781587368226
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Novel based on a series of true events centering on the scandalous activities of Colonel Juan Yáñez, associate of Santa Ana, a powerful and influential figure in Mexico (called Relumbrón, who makes his appearance in the second… read more

Title: The Barcelona Brothers
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Carlos Zanón
Original work: Tarde, mal y nunca
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 289 pp.
ISBN: 9781590515181
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A desperate man murders his close friend in a dingy Barcelona bar. The reason for his attack is gradually revealed as he is protected and sought by his brother and the bartender, who, to save him, blame the killing on an innocent… read more
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Barefoot Queen
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra
Original work: La reina descalza
Publisher: Crown Publishers
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 647 pp.
ISBN: 9780804139489
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Facing homelessness after the death of her master, Cuban former slave Caridad becomes a freedom fighter at the side of rebellious gypsy Milagros Carmona, with whom she confronts increasingly hostile elements in mid-eighteenth-… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, History, Romance fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: The Battle of Tomochic : Memoirs of a Second Lieutenant
Translator(s): Barbara Jamison, Antonio Saborit
Author: Heriberto Frías
Original work: Tomóchic
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 159 pp.
ISBN: 9780195117431
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Battle of Tomochic: Memoirs of a Second Lieutenant is the fictional account of the October 1892 military campaign mounted by the Mexican Army that culminated in the massacre of the small but courageous village of Tomochic,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Pablo Tusset
Original work: Lo mejor que le puede pasar a un cruasán
Publisher: Canongate
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 484 pp.
ISBN: 9781841957159
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A best seller in Europe, Pablo Tusset's wickedly funny debut novel follows the hilarious, boozy, libidinous, and occasionally dangerous travails of Pablo Baloo Miralles, the wholeheartedly dissolute thirty-year-old black sheep… read more

Title: The Bible of Clay
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La biblia de barro
Publisher: Bantam Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 691 pp.
ISBN: 9780440243038
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Internationally bestselling author Julia Navarro riveted readers around the world with her provocative novel The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud . Now she goes even further, in this electrifying thriller about a biblical discovery… read more
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: The Bible of Clay
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La biblia de barro
Publisher: Bantam Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 497 pp.
ISBN: 9780385339636
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Among rumors of Iraq's imminent invasion, time is running out for Clara and her husband Ahmed who have put together a ragtag team of renegade archaeologists and inexperienced students to excavate the Bible of Clay from deep… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Julia Navarro ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: The Bible of Clay
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La biblia de barro
Publisher: Bantam Dell
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 497 pp.
ISBN: 0385339631
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When archaeologist Clara Tannenberg announces the discovery of clay tablets from the time of Abraham recounting stories from Genesis, she unleashes a series of plots involving antiquities smugglers, the Iraq War, and her ruthless… read more
Literary Genre: Action and adventure fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: The Bitch
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Pilar Quintana
Original work: La perra
Publisher: World Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9781642860597
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this… read more
Literary Genre: Colombian fiction -- translations into english, Novels, Social problem fiction, Psychological fiction, Animal fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Black Cathedral
Translator(s): Anna Kushner
Author: Marcial Gala
Original work: La catedral de los negros
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 209 pp.
ISBN: 9780374118013
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: The Black Jersey
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Jorge Zepeda Patterson
Original work: Muerte contrarreloj
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 312 pp.
ISBN: 9781984801067
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) There are riders willing to die just to win a single leg of the Tour, careening downhill at a suicidal ninety kilometers per hour; now I know there are also riders ready to kill for it. Marc, a French-Colombian professional… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: The Black Minutes
Translator(s): Aura Estrada, John Pluecker
Author: Martín Solares
Original work: Minutos negros
Publisher: Black Cat
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 436 pp.
ISBN: 9780802170682
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracuán, investigation into his murder reveals missing links in a disturbing multiple homicide case from twenty years… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Martín Solares ; translation by Aura Estrada and John Pluecker.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Detective and mystery stories, Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: The Book of God and Physics : a Novel of the Voynich Mystery
Translator(s): Dolores Koch
Author: Enrique Joven
Original work: El castillo de las estrellas
Publisher: William Morrow
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 347 pp.
ISBN: 9780061456862
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) In his search for truth, a young Jesuit joins a group that has for centuries been trying to decipher the secrets of a mysterious book known as the Voynich Manuscript. When a key to unlocking it is discovered in the church… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Enrique Joven ; translated from the Spanish by Dolores M. Koch.
Literary Genre: Code and cipher stories, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery
Translator(s): Dolores M. Koch
Author: Enrique Joven
Original work: El castillo de las estrellas
Publisher: Harper
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 347 pp.
ISBN: 9780061456879
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In his search for truth, a young Jesuit joins a group that has for centuries been trying to decipher the secrets of a mysterious book known as the Voynich Manuscript. When a key to unlocking it is discovered in the church where… read more
Literary Genre: Code and cipher stories, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Book of Murder
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Guillermo Martínez
Original work: Muerte lenta de Luciana B
Publisher: Viking
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 9780670019946
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An up-and-coming young writer who has little in common with Kloster, a literary giant whose disturbing crime novels dominate the bestseller lists. However, they have both, at one time, employed the secretarial services of the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Guillermo Martínez ; translated from Spanish by Sonia Soto.
Literary Genre: Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: The Book That Kibo Wrote
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Mariana Ruiz Johnson
Original work: El libro que Kibo escribió
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 28 pp.
ISBN: 9780802855893
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One night in the savanna, Kibo the rhino writes a book, and it travels from reader to reader, connecting animals from across the globe.
Literary Genre: Picture books for children, Picture books, Juvenile works, Fiction, Animal fiction, Livres d'images

Title: The Boy in Drawer
Translator(s): Robert N. Munsch
Author: Robert N. Munsch
Original work: El muchacho en la gaveta
Publisher: Annick Press
City: Toronto
Year of Publication: 2001
ISBN: 9781550370973
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Shelley finds a small boy in her drawer who causes a lot of trouble. Robert Munsch's award-winning books have become a staple on the bookshelves of families worldwide. His stories reflect the joys and challenges of everyday… read more