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 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 Bleeding Wound = Sangra Por La Herida
Translator(s): Sara E. Cooper
Author: Mirta Yáñez
Original work: Sangra por la herida
Publisher: Cubanabooks
City: Chico, CA
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 401 pp.
ISBN: 9780982786079
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A portrait of an era and of protagonists of the University [of Havana] environment. It places the reader in close contact with the Havana of the 1960s and today, a Havana full of nuances and ruptures. The account presents a… read more

Title: The Body Where I Was Born
Translator(s): Guadalupe Nettel
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: El cuerpo en que nací
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 175 pp.
ISBN: 9781609807511
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood. Born with an abnormality in her eye and a family intent on fixing it, she occupies a world without the time and space for innocence. The narrator… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction

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 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