Hispanic Heritage Month 2025: Recent Fiction for Adults
Hispanic Heritage Month honors the contributions and influence of Hispanic and Latino/a/x Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. Check out these recent releases from authors of Hispanic and Latino/a/x background! Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Created August 2025)
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The Unworthy
Bazterrica’s absorbing feminist literary horror novel (previously available only in Spanish) stars an unnamed narrator who documents her deplorable situation in an illicit diary as a survivor living in a converted monastery. (Booklist)
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
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VHS
While collecting the scattered stories of his parents’ entangled passages to the United States, the narrator begins to record the material onto videocassettes through a series of cutting and grafting, splicing footage of his present dislocation and overlaying on the audio track the polyphonic voices of his inherited exiles.
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The Possession of Alba Díaz
This chilling gothic horror novel from bestseller Ca?as transports readers to 18th-century Mexico, where a plague outbreak in Zacatecas forces Alba Diaz and her devout Catholic family to flee the city. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Anatomy of Magic
After a traumatic event shakes her confidence and magical abilities, gifted OB/GYN Lilian Estrada retreats to her ancestral home in Mexico, where she confronts her unpredictable powers and unresolved feelings for Sam, the first love who reenters her life after years apart.
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?笔ó苍办!
This punk-rock anti-memoir follows Moose, an alienated academic and lead guitarist for Pipebomb!, as he navigates through spaces in and out of South East Los Angeles: punk clubs, college classrooms, family gatherings, street protests and euphoric backyard shows.
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Along Came Amor
A one-night stand leads to a long-term relationship for a schoolteacher and a hotel owner. (Kirkus)
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Bochica
A real-life Latin American haunted mansion. A murky labyrinth of family secrets. A young, aristocratic woman desperate to escape her past. This haunting debut gothic horror novel is perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic and The Shining.
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My Train Leaves at Three
An aspiring Afro-Latina actress in New York City tries to reboot her life after her sister’s sudden death. (Kirkus)
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Loca
In 1999 in New York, when book-loving science nerd Sal finds love at a gay club one night, life for him and his best friend, young mother Charo, unexpectedly opens to a vibrant social circle that pushes them to consider what they owe to themselves and to each other.
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Life Drawing
The exhilarating latest entry in Hernandez’s sprawling Locas saga, first serialized in Love and Rockets, meditates on old regrets and new beginnings. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Graphic Novel
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