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Amy Kaufman Burk’s Hollywood Pride is a 1970s coming-of-age novel about friendship, self-discovery, allyship, and standing up against injustice. In 1973, teenager Caroline transfers to Hollywood High School, where wealth and poverty collide. Overwhelmed, she tutors a gang leader, witnesses bullying, and rebels against Hollywood’s toxic culture. As her LGBTQ+ friends are targeted and a predator threatens her, Caroline discovers unexpected strength. Buy Hollywood Pride – Kaufman Burk…

Driven by her passion to nurture the connection between poetry and people, Miami-Dade County Poet Laureate Caridad Moro-Gronlier will launch Generation 305: An Intergenerational Poetry Project at Miami Book Fair. Moderated by Moro-Gronlier and Nicole Tallman, poetry ambassador for Miami-Dade County, this event will showcase Generation 305 poems written to promote, develop, and create multigenerational dialogue, as well as preserve the intergenerational stories in our community. Come listen to Generation 305 poems by selected project poets Richard Blanco,…

In Homework: A Memoir, Geoff Dyer recalls his postwar English childhood with comic affection. The son of a sheet-metal worker and local school dinner lady, he wins a coveted grammar school place, sparking a love of literature. From schoolyard scrapes to gig-going misadventures, this witty memoir paints a portrait of an eroded but resilient England, tracing the deep roots of class society. moderated by New York Times Book Review editor Gilbert Cruz. Buy Homework: A Memoir – Dyer…

Larry Baker’s Tell It Slant: A Novel by Nobody is the intimate “memoir” of Emily Sterling, who is dying of breast cancer and determined to keep talking. Remembering her eccentric childhood, a turbulent decade-long love affair, and her late bloom as a novelist, Emily reflects on the women who shaped her life – her mother, friends, rivals, and heirs. In Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler‘s Twice Around a Marriage, Amanda and Howard, an early-septuagenarian couple married for 22 years,…

Each fall, Miami Book Fair invites the authors and translators of 50 National Book Award longlisted titles to gather in Miami following the National Book Awards Ceremony in New York. Join the honorees in fiction – Susan Choi, Angela Flournoy, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Megha Majumdar, Kevin Moffett, Karen Russell, and Ethan Rutherford – as they read from and discuss their books and answer your questions about writing,…

In Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress – and How to Bring It Back, Marc J. Dunkelman delivers a provocative exploration of America’s vetocracy – a system where anyone can block progress. From housing shortages to climate change, government gridlock has paralyzed solutions and eroded trust. Tracing progressivism’s shift from wielding power to fearing “The Establishment,” he argues that reformers must rediscover their roots to restore faith in democracy. In Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy,…

This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. In the pages of MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus, Art Spiegelman revisits the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, which altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust. He probes the questions that Maus most often evokes – Why the Holocaust? Why mice? Why comics? – and gives us a new and essential work about the creative process. Moderated by Emmy Waldman,…

In Deeper than the Ocean: A Novel, Mirta Ojito tells a multigenerational tale that spins out of a chance finding. While on the Canary Islands, Mara Denis learns that her grandmother is among the dead in the shipwreck of the Valbanera, the “poor man’s Titanic.” But that was years before Mara’s mother was born – and suddenly everything Mara thought she knew about her family and herself is now in question. In Shobha Rao‘s Indian Country: A Novel,…

In Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It, pioneering sportswriter and lifelong baseball lover Jane Leavy explores America’s pastime – and why it has faltered. She examines baseball’s decline in the Moneyball era, its enduring magic, and its future place in American culture, speaking with legends like Dusty Baker, Jim Palmer, and Joe Torre along the way. Joining Leavy in conversation is Linda Robertson, sports writer for the Miami Herald.…

José Ignacio Valenzuela y Luis San Vicente participan en un  diálogo entre creadores que han colaborado en varios proyectos sobre el papel de la narrativa verbal y de la visual en los libros para niños. En conversación con Sergio Andricaín.   EN COLABORACIÓN CON…

EN COLABORACIÓN CON…

In Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida, Gilbert King investigates one of America’s most haunting wrongful convictions. In 1987, Leo Schofield was sentenced to life for his wife’s murder, despite flawed evidence and a sloppy investigation. Decades later, King uncovered the case’s corruption and errors, revealing not only chilling injustice but also a powerful story of grace and redemption. Schofield will join King in conversation about the book and case.…

Joaquín Gálvez expone de una manera directa sus puntos de vista sobre los más polémicos temas de Cuba y el mundo en ¡Cuídate, Cuba, de tu propia Cuba! En Relatos que se bifurcan y se pierden en mi memoria, Luis García Fresquet reúne textos que recorren su Cuba natal y su experiencia del exilio. En conversación con el crítico de cine y periodista Alejandro Ríos. Compra ¡Cuídate, Cuba, de tu propia Cuba! – Gálvez Compra Relatos que se bifurcan y se pierden en mi memoria – García Fresquet Compra Cubensis – Ríos…

This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. In The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America, bestselling author Jeffrey Rosen explores the clashing visions of two Founding Fathers on how to balance liberty and power. It’s a tug of war that’s shaped every pivotal moment in American history and still resonates today. Weekend ticketed events are available to Friends of the Fair – who enjoy early access to these programs – exclusively at this time.…

In I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir, Keith McNally – legendary proprietor of Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern, and Morandi – takes us from his gritty London childhood in the 1950s to his arrival in New York, where he founded era-defining establishments including Odeon. Eloquent and opinionated, he writes about being a child actor, his two marriages, his devastating stroke, and his Instagram notoriety. In conversation with Aleksandra Crapanzano, Chocolat: Parisian Desserts and Other Delights. Buy I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir – McNally Buy Chocolat: Parisian Desserts and Other Delights – Crapanzano…

National Poetry Series winner Keith S. Wilson, Games for Children, will be in conversation with the judge who selected his manuscript, Rosalie Moffett, Making a Living. Together they will read poems from their newest books and discuss the lifespan of a poetry collection from manuscript-in-progress to published book. They will also reveal what it’s really like to win – and judge – book prizes while balancing writing, careers, and the rest of life. Moderated by MBF’s Emerging Writer Fellow in Poetry Simone Zapata.…

In The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir, Sarah Kendzior navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on a series of road trips. As the family journeys to the most beautiful, fascinating, and bizarre places in the U.S. during one of its most cataclysmic and tumultuous eras, they watch its landscape – physical, environmental, social, and political – transform through the car window. Maris Kreizman once believed that if she just worked hard and played by the rules,…

In How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir, Camille U. Adams maps the fault lines between mother and child against the backdrop of Trinidad’s colonial violence and her family’s legacy of abandonment. Tormented by her mother’s presence and haunted by her absence, Adams presents an account of survival and self-determination, reimagining the meaning of escape, its cost, and what comes after. In Silence and Resistance: Memoir of a Girlhood in Haiti, Monique Clesca recounts surviving Haiti’s 2010 earthquake while confronting a past marked by state terror,…

Lacey N. Dunham’s The Belles: A Novel is set in 1951 at the secluded Bellerton College, where outsider Deena joins an elite circle of girls anointed “The Belles.” Bound by secrets, cruel pranks, and dangerous games, the group hides a sinister history. And as Deena’s past threatens to expose her, she must risk everything – including her life – to belong. Daniel G. Miller’s The Orphanage by the Lake follows Hazel: 30 years old, single,…

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Leslie Gelrubin Benitah‘s documentary The Last Ones of Auschwitz collects the stories of the last remaining Holocaust survivors, with a focus on those who endured the horrors there. Filmed around the globe over the course of seven years, the project documents more than 200 testimonies and includes more than 30 from Auschwitz survivors and Miami-based Holocaust survivors David Schaecter, Saul Blau, Hedy Fladell, and Irene Zisblatt. In Melting Point: Family,…

Learn how Jax Freeman juggles the spirit summoner tournament with secret side quests from the elders in Jax Freeman and the Tournament of Spirits by Kwame Mbalia. Shannon Messenger returns with the next installment in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Unraveled (Book 9.5), to face mysteries that will change the course of destiny. Dragons clash across planets with motives as unknowable as the night sky in Scott Reintgen’s The Rise of Neptune,…

In Quan Barry’s The Unveiling, Black film scout Striker photographs locations for a big-budget film, only to become stranded with wealthy tourists after a kayaking disaster. Amid desolate Antarctic islands, geothermal vents, and vicious wildlife, survival forces the revelation of the group’s secrets, prejudices, and inner demons, including truths from Striker’s past that could irrevocably shatter her world. Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter follows a vampire haunting the Blackfeet reservation in search of justice.…

When Abe leaves Miami and returns to his former reservation, he undergoes a reluctant healing with his eccentric uncle, sparking a journey that explores family, intimacy, and the enduring power of culture. His story is told by Aaron John Curtis in Old School Indian: A Novel, a coming-of-middle-age novel about a Kanien’kehá:ka man confronting a rare disease, a faltering marriage, and the pull of home. Rob Franklin’s debut Great Black Hope: A Novel tells the story of an upwardly mobile and downwardly spiraling Black man caught between worlds of race and class,…

En Como si nada pasara y otros cuentos Jaime Cabrera González reúne personajes que se rebelan ante un mundo rígido y monótono. Alejandra Ferrazza presenta Asepsia y otras obsesiones, una colección de relatos que transitan lo siniestro con destellos de humor. Los ojos de mi padre, de Isabel Ibáñez de la Calle, es una novela que profundiza en la transformación de las masculinidades en el siglo XXI. En Overworked, Naida Saavedra nos muestra el universo de una mujer inmersa en la búsqueda de un lugar propio que lucha frente la comercialización de la academia.…

Cuban-born writer and journalist Alberto Müller notes in Why Fidel Abandoned Che? that when Che Guevara was captured and executed in Bolivia, his final guerrilla adventure after previous failures in Argentina and Congo, he died bootless, hungry, without his asthma medications, and having lost most of his men, all pointing to his total abandonment by Fidel Castro and his regime. Buy Why Fidel Abandoned Che? – Müller…

Each fall, Miami Book Fair invites the authors and translators of 50 National Book Award longlisted titles to gather in Miami following the National Book Awards Ceremony in New York. Join the honorees in translated literature – including Hamid Ismailov, We Computers: A Ghazal Novel, and Jazmina Barrera, The Queen of Swords – as they read from and discuss their books and answer your questions about writing, reading, and recognition. PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP Buy We Computers: A Ghazal Novel (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) – Ismailov Buy The Queen of Swords –…

Aria Aber’s Good Girl: A Novel is a story of art, family, love, and survival. In Berlin’s underground of raves, art, and drugs, teenage Nila – born to Afghan parents and raised in graffiti-stained public housing – searches for her voice. Drawn into the orbit of Marlowe, a fading American writer, she tastes freedom but risks losing herself. As racial tensions rise, Nila must decide who she wants to be. In Darrow Farr’s The Bombshell: A Novel,…

In Tessa Bailey’s Pitcher Perfect: A Novel, a playboy hockey rookie meets his match in a disciplined softball pitcher immune to his charms. NHL newcomer Robbie lives for flings, until Skylar, a badass Division 1 pitcher, shuts him down. When he agrees to be her fake boyfriend to win another man’s attention, sparks fly – and their pretend romance starts to feel dangerously real.  In Sara Cate’s The Good Girl Effect, Jack St Claire, grieving single father,…

My Drumbeats is a spiritual, reflective memoir from artist, designer, and yogi Anick Vorbe. Sharing a story of loss and grief that led to a self-healing journey through the teachings of ayahuasca, she ultimately reveals an inspiring tale of redemption and purpose. With her work, she found her true self at last and put to rest the childhood ghosts that had never left her. Vorbe will be in conversation with documentarian and filmmaker Naiti Gamez.…

In Jason Mott’s People Like Us: A Novel, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world scarred by gun violence. One is on a global book tour in the wake of a big prize win; the other is to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. As their storylines merge, People Like Us turns wickedly funny and achingly sad. When Zelu, the lead character in Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author: A Novel,…

Lisa F. Rosenberg’s Fine, I’m a Terrible Person is a mother-daughter caper story starring overweight former beauty Aurora and her high-strung daughter, Leyla. Over the course of a weekend in LA, their two separate but intersecting quests will provoke hijinks, chaos, and yes, even some healing. Kate Woodworth‘s Little Great Island illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the power of love. Fleeing from a cult, Mari McGavin takes her 6-year-old son to the tiny Maine island where she grew up – the one she swore she’d never return to.…

Haley Cohen Gilliland’s A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children tells the stunning tale of the kidnapping of hundreds of pregnant women by Argentina’s military junta in 1976. A group of fierce, grief-stricken grandmothers known as the “Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo” rose up against these crimes, defying terror to find their missing loved ones. In Miriam Lewin’s Iosi, the Remorseful Spy,…

In Delivering the Wow: Culture as Catalyst for Lasting Success, Royal Caribbean chairperson Richard Fain shows how the company built the world’s most innovative ships, delighted guests, and created one of the strongest service cultures in the travel industry. Drawing on vivid stories from 33 years at the helm, Fain explains how a remarkable culture was forged through alignment, intentionality, continuous improvement, and response. The secret to success that Laysha Ward reveals in Lead Like You Mean It: Lessons on Integrity and Purpose from the C-Suite sounds deceptively simple.…

Each fall, Miami Book Fair invites the authors and translators of 50 National Book Award longlisted titles to gather in Miami following the National Book Awards Ceremony in New York. Join the honorees in poetry – Gbenga Adesina, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Cathy Linh Che, Tiana Clark, Rickey Laurentiis, Esther Lin, Natalie Shapero, Richard Siken, and Patricia Smith – as they read from and discuss their books and answer your questions about writing,…

In Last Chance Live! by Helena Haywoode Henry, a teenage girl on death row competes on a reality show and must decide what forgiveness, family, and freedom mean when the stakes are literally life or death. In The L.O.V.E. Club by Lio Min, three estranged teens must survive being pulled into a video game created by their missing friend, but can they stay the course when hard truths confront them alongside the game bosses? In the genre-bending novel-in-verse,…

This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. In Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse, Thomas Chatterton Williams details the ideas and events that prompted the recent paradigm shift in social justice. From critical race theory ideology to the crises of COVID-19 and the murder of George Floyd, Williams documents how this transition has altered our world and culture. He’ll be in conversation with historian and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.…

Con ¿Erótico o pornográfico? Ena Columbié nos invita a un viaje fascinante, íntimo e histórico, a través del erotismo en la literatura universal. Soudi Jiménez llega con Ecos migrantes, una colección de relatos periodísticos que retratan con rigor y sensibilidad las luchas y aportes de comunidades migrantes en Estados Unidos. En Hablando de Chago, Santiago Rodríguez presenta una compilación de sus críticas y ensayos sobre pintura, literatura y cine. En conversación con el crítico de cine y periodista Alejandro Ríos.…

In Comedy Samurai: Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter, Emmy-winning writer and director Larry Charles shares behind-the-scenes stories from his legendary career in modern American comedy. From Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm to Borat and Religulous, Charles offers never-before-told anecdotes about iconic shows, films, and performers, giving fans an insider’s look at the humor, chaos, and genius that shaped a generation of comedy. Buy Comedy Samurai: Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter – Charles…