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 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 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 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