U.S Latino Writers of Fiction
(Stories and Novels)

A Listing of Major Latino Works

Abella, Alex The Killing of the Saints. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.

---. The Great American. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

---. Dead of Night. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.

Acevedo, Chantel Love and Ghost Letters. New York, Saint Martins, 2005.

Agueros, Jack Dominoes and Other Stories from the Puerto Rican. Willimantic, Ct: Curbstone, 1993.

Alvarez, Aldo Interesting Monsters . St. Paul, MI: Graywolf Press, 2001.

Alvarez, Julia How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Penguin, 1991.

---. In the Time of the Butterflies. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1994.

---. Yo. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1997

---. Nothing to Declare, 1999. Essays

---. In the Name of Salome : A Novel. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2000

Ambert, Alba The Eigth Continent Houston: Arte Publico, 1997.

---. A Perfect Silence Houston: Arte Publico, 1995.

Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless Me, Ultima. Berkeley, CA: Tonatiuuh-Quinto Sol, 1972.

---, and Antonio Márquez, eds. Cuentos Chicanos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.

Arias, Ron Interview. Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interview. Ed. Juan Bruce-Novoa. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1980.

---. The Road to Tamazunchale. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1987.

---. Men Against the Sea. Non-fiction.

---. A Moving Target. A memoir about Arias's father from Bilingual Reveiw Press

Baca, Jimmy Santiago The Importance of a Piece of Paper. New York: Grove, 2004.

Benítez, Sandra A Place Where the Sea Remembers. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1993.

---. Bitter Grounds. New York: Hyperion, 1997.

---. The Weight of All Things New York: Hyperion, 2000.

Bridal, Tessa The Tree of Red Stars. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1997.

Candelaria, Nash Memories of the Alhambra. Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1977.

Carillo, H.G. Loosing My Espanish. New York: Pantheon, 2004.

Castillo, Ana The Mixquiahuala Letters. Binghamton New York: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1986.

---. Peel My Love Like an Onion New York: Doubleday, 1999.

---. Sapogonia. Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1990.

---. So Far From God. New York: Norton, 1993.

---. Loverboys. New York: W.W.Norton, 1998.

---. Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma. New York: Penguin, 1995.

---. Watercolor Women / Opaque Men: A Novel in Verse Willimantic, Curbstone Press, 2005.

Chacon, Daniel Chicano Chicanery Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2000.

---. and the shadows took him. New York: Atria, 2004.

Chávez, Denise The Last of the Menu Girls. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1986.

---. Face of an Angel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1984.

---. Women Hollering Creek and Other Stories. New York: Random, 1991.

---. Caramelo . New York: Random, 2002.

Colon, Jesus . A Puerto Rican in New York . International Publishers, 1961

Corpi, Lucha Delia's Song. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1989.

---. Eulogy for a Brown Angel: A Mystery Novel. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1992.

Cruz, Angie Soledad . New York: Scribner, 2002.

---. Let it Rain Coffee. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

Diaz, Junot Drown.

Duarte, Stella Pope Let Their Spririts Dance . New York: Harper Collins, 2002.

Fernández, Roberta Intaglio. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1990.

---. ed. In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1994.

Fernández, Roberto G. Raining Backwards. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1988.

---. ed. Holy Radishes!. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1995.

Garcia, Guy Obsidian Sky. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

---. Skin Deep

Garcia, Cristina Dreaming in Cuban. New York: Knopf, 1992.

---. The Aguero Sisters. Knopf, 1997.

---. Monkey Hunting. Knopf, 2003.

Gaspar de Alba, Alicia The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories. Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press, 1993.

Gilb, Dagoberto The Magic of Blood. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.

---. The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña. New York: Grove Press, 1994.

---. Woodcuts of WomenNew York: Grove Press, 2001.

Goldman, Francisco The Long Night of the White Chickens. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992.

---. The Ordinary Seaman. New York. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.

---. The Divine Husband. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004.

Gonzalez, Ray The Ghost of John Wayne. Tucson, University of Arizona, 2001.

Hijuellos, Oscar The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.

---. Our House in the Last World. New York. Washington Square Press, 1983.

---. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993.

---. Mr. St. Ives Christmas.

---. Empress of the Splendid Season. Harper Flamingo. 1999.

---. A Simple Havana Melody. Harper Flamingo. 2002.

Hinojosa, Rolando Klail City. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1987.

Islas, Arturo Migrant Souls. New York, Avon Books, 1990.

---. The Rain God. New York, Avon Books, 1984.

---. La Mollie and the King of Tears. 1996 (posthumous)

Jaime-Becerra, Michael Every Night is Ladies Night. New York: Harper Collins, 2004.

Lamazares, Ivonne The Sugar Island. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

López, Diana Sofía's Saints. Tempe, Arizona, Bilingual Press, 2002.

López, Lorraine Soy La Avon Lady. Willimantic, Ct: Curbstone Press 2002.

Martínez, Eliud Voice-Haunted Journey. Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1990.

Martínez, Manuel Luis Crossing. Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1998.

---. Drift . New York: Picador, 2003

Martínez, Nina Marie Caramba: A Tale Told in Turns of the Card. New York, NY: Knoph, 2004.

Martínez, Victor Parrot in the Oven: mi vida. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1996.

Márzan, Julio The BonjourGene. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

Mena, María Cristina The Collected Stories of Mar̀a Cristina Mena. Houston, TX: Arte P™blico Press, 1997

Menéndez, Ana In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. New York: Grove Press,

---. Loving Ché. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003

Medina, Pablo The Return of Felix Nogara New York: Persea Books, 2000,

Mestre, Ernesto The Lazarus Rumba. New York: Picador, 1999.

---. The Second Death of Única Aveyano. New York, Vintage, 2004.

Mohr, Nicholasa El Bronx, Remembered: a Novela and Stories. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1986.

---. In Nueva York. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1988.

---. Rituals of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1986.

Munoz, Manuel Zigzagger: Stories. Evanstone, IL. Northwestern University Press, 2003

Obejas, Achy Days of Awe . New York, Ballantine, 2001

---. We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Can Dress Like This? . Pittsburgh, Cleis Press, 1994

Ortiz Cofer, Judith The Line of the Sun. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1989.

---. The Latin Deli. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1993.

---. Silent Dancing. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1990.

---. An Island Like You: Stories from the Barrio. New York: Orchard Books, 1995.

---. The Year of Our Revolution. Houston, Arte Publico, 1998.

Pérez, Loida Maritza Geographies of Home. New York: Viking, 1999

Pineda, Cecile Face. New York: Viking Penguin, 1985.Reprint: Wingspress, 2003

---. Frieze. New York, Viking Penguin, 1986.

---. The Love Queen of the Amazon. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1992.

---. Bardo99. Texas: Wingspress, 2003

---. Redoubt. Texas: Wingspress, 2003

Piñero, Miguel Short Eyes.

Quinonez, Ernesto Bodega Dreams. New York: Vintage, 2000

---. Chango's Fire. New York: Harper Collins, 2004

Quintana, Leroy La Promesa and Other Stories. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2002

Rechy, John The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1991.

---. The Life and Times of Lyle Clemens New York: Grove, 2003

---. City of Night. New York, Grove, 1963

---. The Fourth Angel New York, Grove, 1972

---. The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens New York, Grove, 2003

Rios, Alberto The Iguana Killer: Twelve Stories of the Heart. New York: Kampmann & Co., Inc., 1984.

---. Pig Cookies and Other Stories. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.

Rivera, Rick Stars Always Shine. Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press, 2001.

---. A Fabricated Mexican . Houston, Arte Publico, 1995.

Rivera, Tomás ...And the Earth did not Devour Him. Trans. Evangelina Vigil-Piñón. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1992.

Robinson, Louie Garcia The Devil, Delfina Varela & the Used Chevy. New York: Anchor Books, 1993.

Rodriguez, Abraham Jr The Boy Without a Flag: Tales of the South Bronx. Minneapolis: Milkweed Edtions, 1992.

---. Spidertown. New York: Hyperion, 1993

---. The Buddha Book: A Novel. New York: Picador, 2001

Rodriguez, Luis J. The Republic of East L.A. . New York, Harper Collins, 2002

Rosario, Nelly Song of the Water Saints . New York, Random House, 2003

Sáenz, Benjamin Alire Carry Me Like Water. New York: Hyperion, 1995.

---. Flowers for the Broken. Seattle: Broken Moon Press, 1992.

---. House of Forgetting

Serros, Michelle Chicana Falsa and other stories of death, identity, and Oxnard Riverhead Books, 1993

Soto, Gary Nickel and Dime. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000

Stork, Francisco X. The Way of the Jaguar. Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press, 2000.

Suárez, Virgil Welcome to the Oasis and Other Stories. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1992.

Tobar, Hétor The Tattooed Soldier. New York: Penguin, 1998

Troncoso, Sergio The Last Tortilla and Other Stories. Tucson: Univeristy of Arizona Press, 1999

---. The Nature of Truth.Norwestern University Press, 2003

Trujillo, carlaWhat Night Brings. Willamantic: Curbstone Press, 2003.

Urrea, Luis Alberto The Devil's Highway New York: Little Brown, 2004

---. In Search of Snow. New York, Harper Collins, 1994

Valdés, Gina There are no Madmen Here. San Diego: Maize Press, 1981.

Vasquez, Diego, Jr. Growing Through the Ugly New York: W.W.Norton, 1997.

Véa, Alfredo Jr La Maravilla. New York: Plume, 1993.

---. The Silver Cloud Cafe.

---. Gods Go Begging New York: Dutton, 1999.

Vega Yunqué, Edgardo Casualty Report. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.

---. The Comeback, Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1987.

---. Mendoza's Dreams. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1985.

---. No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew it Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again . New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2003

Villanueva, Alma Luz The Ultraviolet Sky. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1988.

Viramontes, Helena Maria The Moths. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1985.

---. Under the Feet of Jesus. New York: Dutton, 1995

---. "Miss Clairol" in Hererra-Sobek

---. "Tears on My Pillow" in Tatum

Yañez, Richard El Paso del Norte. Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2003.