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Hispanic Fiction Bibliography

Alternate Lifestyle

Donoso, Jose
Hell has no limits (1995)

Chicago

Castillo, Ana
Peel My Love Like an Onion (1999)

Cisneros, Sandra
House on Mango Street (1991)
Didactic (means educational)

Carlson, Lori M
The Sunday Tertulia (2000)

Domestic

Allende, Isabel
The House of the Spirits (1986)

Medina, C. C.
A Little Love (2000)

Historical

Zesch, Scott
*AlamoHeights (1999)

Just…Fiction

Allende, Isabel
City of the Beasts (2002)
The Infinite Plan (1993)
Of Love and Shadows (1987)
Portrait in Sepia (2001)

Duarte, Stella Pope
*Fragile Night (1997)

Gonzalez, Ray
*The Ghost of John Wayne, and Other Stories (2001)

Pena, Terri de la
*Latin satins (1994)

Piercy, Marge
*Woman on the Edge of Time (1997)

Rivera, Beatriz
*Midnight Sandwiches at the Mariposa Express (1997)

Rodriguez, Luis J.
The Republic of East L.A. : stories (2002)

Selby, Hubert
*The Willow Tree (1998)

Ybarra, Ricardo Means
*Brotherhood of Dolphins (1997)

Love Stories

Allende, Isabel
Daughter of Fortune (1999)

Alvarez, Gloria(Encanto Series)
* Miracle of Love

Carvajal, Lourdes
*Only a Kiss Away (2001)

Escalera, Diane (Encanto Series)
*Dangerous Heat (2000)

Fuentes, Erica
*First Love (2000)

Gomez, Leticia
*Sweet Destiny (2001)

Marquez, Victoria
*Wild For You (2001)

Rios, Lara (Encanto Series)
*Conquest (2000)

Vargas, Dalia
*Blue Moon (2001)

Mystery

Allyn, Douglas
*Welcome to Wolf Country (2001)

Villatoro, Marcos McPeek
Home killings (2001)

Wishnia, K. J. A. (FilomenaBuscarsela mysteries)
*23 shades of black (1997)
The Glass Factory (2000)
*Red House (2001)
Soft Money (1999)

Pioneers of modern U.S. Hispanic literature (series)
Paredes, Americo
*The Shadow (1998)

Yglesias, Jose
Double Double (1974)
*A Wake in YborCity (1963)

Political

Diamond, Diana
The babysitter (2001)

Psychological/Suspense

Koster, R. M.
GlassMountain (2001)

Yglesias, Jose
*Break-In (1996)

Short Stories

(Multiple authors)
Iguana Dreams (1992)

Rodriguez, Luis J
The Republic of East L.A. (2002)

Skinner, Jose
*Flight and Other Stories (2001)

Western

Steinbeck, John
Tortilla Flat (1935, 1997)

Left off with #100, keyword Hispanic and Fiction, limited to book, all SLS libraries.

Written in Spanish

Latin American Fiction Writers

Alcala, Kathleen Spirit of the Ordinary: A Tale of CasasGrandes(1997)

Allende, Isabel Daughter of Fortune(1999); House of the Spirits (1985); The Infinite Plan (1993); Of Love and Shadows (1987)

Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991); In the Name of Salome (2000); In the Time of the Butterflies (1994); Yo!(1997)

Amado, Jorge DonaFlor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral and Amorous Tale (1969)

Anaya, Rudolfo Bless Me Ultima (1972); The Farolitos of Christmas (1995); Rio Grande Fall (1996)

Arenas, Reinaldo The Assault (1994)

Argueta, Manlio A Place Called Milagro de la Paz (2000)

Borges, Jorge Luis Collected Fictions (1998)

Castillo, Ana So Far From God (1994)

Cisneros, Sandra Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1992)

Donoso, Jose Hell Has No Limit (1995)

Fuentes, Carlos Christopher Unborn (1989); The Crystal Frontier (1997); Diana, the Goddess Who Hunts Alone (1995)

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Autumn of the Patriarch (1976); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1982); Collected Stories (1984); The General in his Labyrinth (1990); Love in the Time of Cholera (1988); Of Love and Other Demons (1995); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970)

Garcia, Cristina TheAguero Sisters (1997)

Goldman, Francisco The Ordinary Seaman (1997)

Hijuelos, Oscar Empress of the Splendid Season (1999); The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien (1993);

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989)

Nava, Michael The Death of Friends (1996)

Ortiz Cofer, Judith AnIsland Like You: Stories of the Barrio (1995)

Pineda, Cecile The Love Queen of the Amazon (1992)

Poey, Delia and Virgil Suarez, ed. Iguana Dreams (1992)

Rechy, John The Miraculous Day of Amelia Gomez (1991)

Rios, Alberto Alvaro The Curtain of Trees: Stories (1999)

Rivera, Oswald Fire and Rain (1990)

Sabato, Ernesto On Heroes and Tombs (1981)

Soto, Gary Buried Onions (1997); Jesse (1994); Petty Crimes (1998)

Steinbeck, John Grapes of wrath; Cannery row; Of mice and men; Tortilla flat

Vargas Llosa, Mario Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982); Conversation in the Cathedral (1975); The Storyteller (1990)

Villasenor, Victor Rain of Gold (1991)

Yglesias, Jose DoubleDouble (1997); An Ordinary Life (1968); The Truth About Them (1999)

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