There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
By: Ruben Reyes Jr.
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, an…
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1. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
2. Oye
By: Melissa Mogollon
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
3. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
4. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
5. Ghostroots: Stories
By: 'Pemi Aguda
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- short story collection
6. Season of the Swamp
By: Yuri Herrera
3.77
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
7. Malas
By: Marcela Fuentes
3.96
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
8. Devil Is Fine
By: John Vercher
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
9. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
10. Hombrecito
By: Santiago Jose Sanchez
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
11. Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning poet Vanessa Angélica Villarreal comes a brilliant, singular collection of essay… read more
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- short stories
- magical realism
- adult
- audiobook
12. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
13. Beautiful Days: Stories
By: Zach Williams
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor and Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams comes a stagg… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
14. The Rich People Have Gone Away
By: Regina Porter
3.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
15. Mystery Lights
By: Lena Valencia
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set against the stark background of the Southwestern desert, Lena Valencia’s Mystery Lights glows w… read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. Yr Dead
By: Sam Sax
4.28
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
17. She Who Knows (She Who Knows #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
4.13
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Part science fiction, part fantasy, and entirely infused with West African culture and spirituality… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
18. The Witches of El Paso
By: Luis Jaramillo
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this richl… read more
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- adult fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
19. Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us
By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, a celebration of the women a… read more
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20. There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
By: Ruben Reyes Jr.
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, an… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- short story collection
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
