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South America Fiction

4/27/2026

At Night We Walk in Circles, Daniel Alarcón
A Long Petal of the Sea, Isabel Allende, trans. Nick Caistor & Amanda Hopkinson
My Name Is Emilia del Valle, Isabel Allende, trans. Frances Riddle
The Third Daughter, Talia Carner
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina, Zoraida Córdova
Cantoras, Caro De Robertis
Infinite Country, Patricia Engel
Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez, trans. Megan McDowell
The Sunflower, Richard Paul Evans
Space Invaders, Nona Fernández, trans. Natasha Wimmer
Cruz, Nicolás Ferraro, trans. Mallory N. Craig-Kuhn
Doña Barbara, Rómulo Gallegos, trans. Robert Malloy
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez, trans. Edith Grossman
Affections, Rodrigo Hasbún, trans. Sophie Hughes
Missionaries, Phil Klay
Hades, Argentina, Daniel Loedel
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
The Bedlam Stacks, Natasha Pulley
The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield
The Seven Sisters, Lucinda Riley
It Would Be Night in Caracas, Karina Sainz Borgo, trans. Beth Bryer
The Neighborhood, Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. Edith Grossman
The Shape of the Ruins, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. Anne McLean
The Sound of Things Falling, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. Anne McLean
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder

Human-Animal Relationships

4/27/2026

Pearly Everlasting, Tammy Armstrong
The Last Gifts of the Universe, Riley August
Nordic and Finn, Peter Brandvold
A Dog's Journey, W. Bruce Cameron
The Country Guesthouse, Robyn Carr
How to Be Human, Paula Cocozza
Say Hello to My Little Friend, Jennine Capó Crucet
The Conjurer’s Bird, Martin Davies
The Loop, Nicholas Evans
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
The Mare, Mary Gaitskill
Hold the Dark, William Giraldi
Hannah’s Dream, Diane Hammond
Animal Stories, Peter & Maria Hoey
Sight Hound, Pam Houston
Murder Past Due, Miranda James
Deception Cove, Owen Laukkanen
White Fang, Jack London
You Lucky Dog, Julia London
The History of Bees, Maja Lunde
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy
The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals, Becky Mandelbaum
Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy
Gathering Mist, Margaret Mizushima
The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
Cat Man, Parari
The Jesus Cow, Michael Perry
Bear, Julia Phillips
Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Summer of the Bear, Bella Pollen
The Right Side, Spencer Quinn
Floreana, Midge Raymond
The Fur Person, May Sarton
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris
The Blanket Cats, Kiyoshi Shigematsu
Cactus Jack, Brad Smith
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, Julia Stuart
An Echo Through the Snow, Andrea Thalasinos
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
The Horse, Willy Vlautin
The Shape of Snakes, Minette Walters
Cold Nose, Warm Heart, Mara Wells

If you Like Sinners

4/27/2026

The Musical Brain, César Aira
The Ranger, Ace Atkins
Anything Goes, Madison Smartt Bell
This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us, Edgar Cantero
Blacktop Wasteland, S.A. Cosby
The Reformatory, Tananarive Due
The Trees, Percival Everett
A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faisal
Light in August, William Faulkner
Cruz, Nicolás Ferraro
Great Black Hope, Rob Franklin
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith
The Scribe, Matthew Guinn
The Unwilling, John Hart
The Quiet Game, Greg Iles
Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
The Carnivorous City, Toni Kan
Lone Woman, Victor LaValle
Long Division, Kiese Laymon
Smoke Kings, Jahmal Mayfield
Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Jazz, Toni Morrison
Trouble Is What I Do, Walter Mosley
Bull Mountain, Brian Panowich
A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The Haunting of Maddy Clare, Simone St. James
Now You Owe Me, Aliah Wright

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