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 Body Where I Was Born
Translator(s): J. T. Lichtenstein
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: El cuerpo en que nací
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 175 pp.
ISBN: 9781609805265
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood--in which she was born… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction

Title: The Book of Anna : (Karenina's Novel)
Translator(s): Samantha Schnee
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Original work: El libro de Ana : (novela karenina)
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895774
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Russia, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: in the almost-living portrait the Tsar intends to acquire and the opium… read more
Literary Genre: Alternative histories (fiction), Fiction, History

Title: The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico
Translator(s): Robert Con Davis
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
City: Norman, OK
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 9780806155845
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Collection of forty-two short stories and vignettes that together paint a portrait of the Mora Valley, the real-life northern New Mexico setting for a group of small nuevomexicano villages. The author partially based his text on… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Book of Conjurations
Translator(s): Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Author: Irizelma Robles Álvarez
Original work: El libro de los conjuros
Publisher: Sundial House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 9798987926444
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Book of Conjurations, Irizelma Robles's fourth poetry collection, transforms poet, reader and language through its conjurations. Among these pages, we find all forms of material existence transmuted. Barbwire, rain, soul,… read more
Literary Genre: Poetry

Title: The Book of Denial
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Ricardo Chávez Castañeda
Original work: El libro de la negación
Publisher: Unruly, an imprint of Enchanted Lion Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9781592703623
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) There are stories so terrible that we tremble to hear even a whisper of them. Even more terrible, some of them are true.This is one such story, a story of our deepest inhumanity--one that confronts the history of violence against… read more
Literary Genre: Horror fiction, Ghost stories, Picture books, Illustrated works, Novels

Title: The Book of Eve
Translator(s): Samantha Schnee
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Original work: El libro de Eva
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 290 pp.
ISBN: 9781646052240
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one chapters, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis:… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Religious fiction

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 Imprudent Flora
Translator(s): David Haughton
Author: Claudio Romo
Original work: El álbum de la flora imprudente, por Lázaro de Sahagún, descubridor y estudioso de la vida vegetal
Publisher: Gingko Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 64 pp.
ISBN: 9781584236948
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Claudio Romo is a revelation. Simply the most exciting discovery to come out of Chile since Roberto Bolaño, Alejandro Zambra or Lina Meruane. Though one finds hints of Italo Calvino and a nod to Jules Verne, he deftly combines… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Diary fiction, Fantasy fiction

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 Bottom of the Sky
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Rodrigo Fresán
Original work: El fondo del cielo
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 266 pp.
ISBN: 9781940953786
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An homage to American science fiction films and novels, The Bottom of the Sky is the story of two boys, a disturbingly beautiful girl, and their joint love for other planets. Their friendship is formed during the heyday of sci-fi… read more

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

Title: The Bride from Odessa
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Edgardo Cozarinsky
Original work: La novia de Odessa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 161 pp.
ISBN: 0374116733
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Set in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest and Odessa, both before and after the Second World War, Edgardo Cozarinsky's stories belong to the spirit of Borges and to a great Argentine cosmopolitan tradition: that of the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Short stories, Romans

Title: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La hermandad de la Sábana Santa
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 656 pp.
ISBN: 9780739327081
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La hermandad de la Sábana Santa
Publisher: Bantam Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 399 pp.
ISBN: 0385339623
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La hermandad de la Sábana Santa
Publisher: Bantam Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 399 pp.
ISBN: 9780385339629
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A fire at the Turin cathedral and the discovery of a mutilated corpse are the latest in a disturbing series of events surrounding the mysterious cloth millions believe to be the authentic burial shroud of Jesus Christ. Those… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La hermandad de la Sábana Santa
Publisher: Dell
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 546 pp.
ISBN: 9780440243021
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Brothers Corona
Translator(s): Peter G. Broad
Author: Rogelio Guedea
Original work: Conducir un tráiler
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
City: Lubbock, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 153 pp.
ISBN: 9780896728639
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A modern-day picaresque novel by one of Mexico's best The Brothers Corona is a novel that unfolds like a Sam Shepard story made into a Wim Wenders road movie. It is the first Mexican detective novel that reflects rural Mexican… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Picaresque literature

Title: The Brush
Translator(s): Robin Myers
Author: Eliana Hernández-Pachón
Original work: La mata
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 61 pp.
ISBN: 9781953861863
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Brush is a tangled grove, a thicket of vines, an orchid pummeled with rain. Told from the voices Pablo, Ester, and the Brush itself, Hernández Pachón’s poem is an astounding response to a traumatic event in recent Colombian… read more
Literary Genre: Poetry