Fiction

La escritora, actriz y performer Rosie Inguanzo presenta Viene regando flores. Cubicherías y ornitologías, obra que recorre el imaginario cubano a través de estampas costumbristas, referencias musicales, ornitología criolla y humor. El escritor y editor Pablo de Cuba Soria, el ensayista, crítico y narrador José Prats Sariol y el violinista, compositor y ensayista Alfredo Triff presentan ¿Una verdadera patria? Ensayos para un centenario en ruinas, libro que reproduce la conferencia de Jorge Mañach titulada La crisis de la alta cultura en Cuba en 1926.…

Una charla sobre los principales hitos y estereotipos que han definido al género negro y policial. Pondremos el foco en las diferencias entre su evolución en Iberoamérica y la tradición anglosajona. Un recorrido que invita a descubrir cómo, detrás de cada crimen ficticio, se refleja la historia y la identidad de cada lugar. Con Alicia Escardó, Alicia Mercado Harvey, Pablo Brescia y Pedro Medina León. EN COLABORACIÓN CON   Compra A pesar del naufragio – Escardo Compra La muerte no tiene traducción – Mercado Harvey Compra El Blues del Comanche – Medina León…

The 2025 National Book Award-honored authors in young people’s literature – including María Dolores Águila, K. Ancrum, Daniel Nayeri, Hannah V. Sawyerr, Maria van Lieshout, and Ibi Zoboi – visit Miami Book Fair to share from and about their books, and answer questions from Miami-Dade County students. Hosted by Ebony LaDelle, author of You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs and This Could Be Forever. For more information and to RSVP,…

New York Times bestseller and global book world darling Mercedes Ron is making another big splash with the first iteration of her wildly popular Tell Me series, now translated into English. Kamila Hamilton is caught between the two Di Bianco brothers – her best friends and greatest downfall – after they burst back into her life. Thiago got her first kiss; Taylor always protected her. And the secrets they still carry threaten to bring down her fragile walls and expose what happened so many years ago.…

En una noche dedicada a la literatura venezolana, presentamos Salvar la frontera: Muestra de cuentos de autores venezolanos migrantes, una compilación editada por Equidistancias que incluye treinta relatos caracterizados por la multiplicidad temática y estilística de sus textos, así como la diversidad generacional, residencia y trayectoria vital de sus autores. Presentado por Naida Saavedra, Keila Vall de la Ville, Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez y Juan Carlos Chirinos, en conversación con el periodista César Miguel Rondón.   Compra Salvar la frontera: Muestra de cuentos de autores venezolanos migrantes…

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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…

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,…

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,…

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,…

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…

In Lauren Grodstein‘s A Dog in Georgia: A Novel, Amy Webb was a chef. Then she became a wife, a stepmother, and an emergency contact, and the chef in her disappeared, along with her sense of self. Now it’s time to acknowledge her needs and what she really wants, and to find herself – and a missing dog in a former Soviet republic. In Hannah Orenstein’s Maine Characters: A Novel, Vivian Levy and Lucy Webster are half-sisters who meet for the first time at their father’s cabin in Maine after his unexpected death.…

In Jaysea Lynn’s For Whom the Belle Tolls, Lily enters the Afterlife on her own terms and finds it more magical than she imagined. From coffee shops for deities to demons in Hell, she carves out a sassy new role sending souls to their circles. But when a bond with Bel, a demon general, sparks into something more, they must fight like hell to save their world. In Melissa K. Roehrich’s Dawn of Chaos and Fury – the fourth book in The Legacy series – Tessalyn,…

In The Five Seekers, Dr. Rolando M. Ochoa, Ph.D., weaves historical facts into a fictional story. Embodied in five children who migrated alone to the United States through Operación Pedro Pan/Operation Peter Pan, Ochoa portrays the experiences of many families who left Cuba in the early 1960s. It’s a story that traces their journeys from an orphanage to becoming successful, educated men and women. Buy The Five Seekers – Ochoa…

Kate Woodworth‘s Little Great Island illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the power of love. After offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin takes her 6-year-old son and escapes to the tiny Maine island where she grew up – the one she swore she’d never return to. And when she runs into her old friend Harry Richardson, they set off a life-altering chain of events.   Buy Little Great Island – Woodworth…

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…

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,…

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.…

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 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,…

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. In Margie Zable Fisher‘s The Cabernet Club: A Novel, 68-year-old Debbie finally decides to follow her longtime dream of retiring to Florida, but immediately hits a roadblock – helicopter daughter Lori,…

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,…

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,…

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.…

Leire Bilbao (España) sobre lo poético como instrumento para tratar todo tipo de temas en la literatura infantil y juvenil.   EN COLABORACIÓN CON   Compra Aguas Madres – Bilbao…

No. 1 New York Times bestselling author E. Lockhart returns to the world of her TikTok sensation with We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel with all her signature beachy gothic atmosphere, family intrigue, and high-stakes romance! The invitation arrives out of the blue. In it, Matilda discovers a father she’s never met. Kingsley Cello is a visionary, a reclusive artist. And when he asks her to spend the summer at his seaside home, Hidden Beach, Matilda expects to find a part of herself she’s never fully understood.…

In Renée Ahdieh’s Park Avenue: A Novel, Jia, the ambitious daughter of Korean bodega owners, is living her dream as a Manhattan lawyer. But when she’s tasked with managing the famous billionaire Park family, she’s drawn into a whirlwind of scandal and secrets. As she chases truth and success, she must decide what she really wants – and needs. Emily Everett’s All That Life Can Afford: A Novel follows Anna, a young American who longs for the fairy-tale London she envisioned – far and away from the moldy flat she finds herself in – until she’s swept into the dazzling world of the Wilder family.…

In Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars, Peter Godwin longs for his childhood in Zimbabwe, where he was born and where his mother, now dying, was a doctor. He reflects on his time as a war journalist and life in New York with his English wife and transatlantic children, and comes to terms with everything his family was – and wasn’t. In The Emergency: A Novel, George Packer writes a tale about an empire that has collapsed from boredom and loss of faith in itself.…

Everyone Leaves: A Novel de Wendy Guerra sigue a Nieve en la Cuba de 1978 mientras recurre a su diario, su única constante en una vida de pérdida, abuso y agitación. Arrancada de su madre, obligada a vivir en el hogar de su padre abusivo y consagrada como “pionera revolucionaria”, Nieve registra las duras verdades de crecer en la Cuba de Fidel Castro, revelando la traición de la revolución a las mujeres. Acompaña a Guerra en la conversación la periodista y autora Mirta Ojito,…

En El informe sobre Clara. Nochebosque, Juan Carlos Chirinos ofrece un inquietante relato sobre cómo nos movemos y avanzamos en los planos de lo irreal y lo imaginado. Giovanna Rivero presenta Tukzon, donde la migración y la metamorfosis en sus diversas modalidades se entrecruzan para delinear personajes tan raros como humanos. En conversación con la periodista Sarah Moreno. Compra El informe sobre Clara. Nochebosque – Chirinos Compra Tukzon – Rivero…

Join us for a conversation about revolutionary figures and marginalized voices. In The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, Marlene Daut explores a riveting life of a man who was born enslaved and eventually crowned himself King Henry I. This essential biography unravels the enigma of the man who was Haiti’s only sovereign, in a story of geopolitical clashes but also of friendship and loyalty, treachery and betrayal, and heroism and strife in an era of revolutionary upheaval.…

Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness: A Novel is the story of five Black women navigating two decades of friendship, from young adulthood into midlife. Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia move through love, family, ambition, and upheaval amid the increasing volatility of modern American life in an exploration of the profound connections of friendship over a lifetime. Set in the 1960s before Roe, Laney Katz Becker’s In the Family Way: A Novel follows a group of suburban housewives as they navigate marriages,…

In Ivonne Lamazares’ The Tilting House: A Novel, identity, family loyalty, and the scars of political upheaval wreak havoc when teenager Yuri, living in a Havana suburb with her strict and religious aunt, meets Mariela, a glamorous artist from the United States who claims to be her sister – and reveals shocking truths that upend life as she knows it. Set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief: A Novel tells two intertwined stories: Ma’s desperate search for the thief who has stolen long-awaited visas for America for her and her family;…

Perla Suez conversa con Betty Quintero acerca de cómo la literatura infantil se nutre de la historia y de la imaginación para enriquecer la identidad cultural y el gusto por la lectura.   EN COLABORACIÓN CON   Compra La Entrega – Suez…

Harmonia Rosales‘ Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic, her debut book, leads a panel of authors presenting new books rooted in mythic worlds and powers. Chronicles of Ori is an epic that spans the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance. Vividly brought to life by her artwork, Rosales writes of the Orishas, the founding of Yorubaland, and the bond – sometimes fraying – between the Orishas and the humans who worship them.…

En ocasión de la publicación de La costurera de Chanel, de Wendy Guerra, la dramaturga Mayra Marrero y la curadora y crítica de arte Janet Batet, dialogan con la autora sobre la obra, en un debate femenino en el que distintas voces analizarán cómo la novela ilumina la vida de tres mujeres que transformaron radicalmente la cultura de su tiempo, abriendo así una conversación sobre creatividad, resiliencia y el papel de la moda como lenguaje social e histórico.…

It takes a village to raise a critter! Newbery Medal award winner Donna Barba Higuera brings a double feature: Xolo is the exciting tale of the mighty feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl’s twin brother – the dog-headed Xolotl, god of lightning, death, and misfortune; and The Unlikely Adventuras of Ramón and El Cucuy features the friendship of a young boy and the monster assigned to scare him. Join Kon Tan in We’re All Gonna Die-Nosaur!: Escape of the Apes,…

Susan Choi’s Flashlight: A Novel traces the disappearance of Louisa’s father across time, nations, and memory, after a tragic summer night on the breakwater. Spanning decades and through shifting perspectives, Louisa and her mother navigate grief, estrangement, and family secrets – and the invisible currents that shape our lives. In Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: A Novel, two young people first glimpse each other on an overnight train, bound by their grandparents’ failed matchmaking.…

In Kristen Arnett’s  Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: A Novel, Cherry is a down-on-her-luck professional clown who juggles gigs, side jobs, and family drama. Enter Margot the Magnificent, an alluring magician whose mentorship – and attraction – push Cherry to risk it all. Facing some big questions, she’ll have to decide what kind of clown she wants to be underneath her suit. Jade Chang’s What a Time to Be Alive: A Novel follows Lola,…

Jaquira Díaz’s This Is the Only Kingdom: A Novel is the epic story of a mother and daughter, imagining a life beyond their working-class Puerto Rican community and wrestling with the aftermath of a murder. When tragedy shatters their family, Maricarmen and her daughter, Nena, land in the middle of a murder investigation and must navigate generational grief, betrayal, and survival. Quiara Alegría Hudes’ The White Hot: A Novel is the story of a runaway mother’s 10 days of freedom – and the pain,…

Omira Bellizzio, Adriana Carreño, Maylén Domínguez y Carlos Pintado, dialogan sobre cómo, por qué y para qué escribir narrativa y poesía para niños. Un acercamiento a las premisas creativas de autores que crean en Miami. Modero por Antonio Orlando Rodríguez.   EN COLABORACIÓN CON    …

La reconocida autora española Julia Navarro regresa a Miami con El niño que perdió la guerra, novela que sigue a Pablo, un niño exiliado de la España en guerra a la Rusia estalinista, en una historia que explora el impacto de los totalitarismos en la identidad y la resiliencia, mostrando cómo la vida persiste incluso en los momentos más oscuros de la Historia. En conversación con la periodista Arlena Amaro. Compra El niño que perdió la guerra – Navarro This event will be in Spanish with simultaneous translation into English…

Tehila Hakimi’s Hunting in America: A Novel tells the story of an Israeli woman who relocates to the United States on assignment from her tech company. Wanting to leave her past behind and adapt to American culture, she joins her colleagues on a deer hunt. As she takes up hunting, she is drawn into a world of predator, prey, and dark attraction. Lena, the central character in Ivy Pochoda’s Ecstasy: A Novel, wants her life back.…

George O’Connor returns to the Asgardians series to tell the story of Loki, a trickster of epic proportions who worries he has fallen out of favor with his blood brother, Odin. Can he use his wiles to worm his way back in? Or, feeling spurned, will he choose to burn it all down? Maggie Stiefvater revisits her epic series with The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel, the illustrated adaptation of the first book in the No. 1 New York Times bestselling series,…

This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up spans Dave Barry’s life – from his childhood as the son of a Presbyterian minister to his tenure as a humor columnist at the Miami Herald and eventual member of a literary rock band. Class Clown is a vibrant celebration of a life rich with humor, absurdity, joy, and sadness. In Carl Hiaasen’s Fever Beach: A Novel,…

Mercy Besada Velázquez presenta La doña del abanico: La verdad está más cerca de la mentira, una novela donde Susana – una mujer fuerte pero marcada por viejas heridas – empieza a ser acechada por una enigmática figura femenina. Con una trama que funde lo real y lo fantástico, la novela traza un intenso viaje psicológico y espiritual en el que la protagonista deberá enfrentar sus demonios más profundos para reencontrarse consigo misma. En conversación con Luis Alfonso Hoyos.…

Join us as we discuss how Caribbean identity evolves across generations and geographies. Ryan Bachoo’s An Unending Search is a moving tale of self-discovery, resilience, and transformation in 1970s South Trinidad. Following Tar, a teenager laboring in the cane fields under the guidance of his wise Uncle Sundar, the novel confronts racism, classism, and poverty while capturing a powerful journey of hope, ambition, and identity as Tar dreams of life beyond the island. Edwidge Danticat’s Watch Out for Falling Iguanas begins with young Leila setting off for school on a rare chilly day in Miami.…

Islas de calor, de Malu Furche, imagina un futuro de emergencia climática que transforma la vida urbana. La entrega, de Perla Suez, narra una historia de violencia e impunidad donde solo el coraje parental ofrece esperanza de justicia. Mariana Travacio presenta Me verás caer, cuentos irónicos sobre mujeres en momentos decisivos, entre un pasado luminoso y un futuro incierto. En conversación con la poeta, ensayista y editora Kelly Martínez Grandal.…

Dina Aronson’s Midlife Private Parts: Revealing Essays that Will Change the Way You Think About Age, co-edited with Dina Alvarez, is a soulful, revealing collection of essays that explore the transformative experience of midlife. With candor, humor, and heart, contemporary women writers share stories of reinvention, menopause, friendship, dating, and confronting invisibility, while celebrating the power, freedom, and confidence that come with age. In Bunny Gonopolskaya’s Holy Menopause: Adventures of a Middle-Aged Superheroine, executive New York mom Mina is juggling meetings,…

In Emma Knight’s The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, Pen arrives at the University of Edinburgh and is drawn into the orbit of a famous writer tied to her parents’ past. As she uncovers their secret and falls in love for the first time, she faces the shocks of adulthood in this portrait of campus life, sexual awakening, and the many ways women become mothers. In Jessica Soffer‘s This Is a Love Story: A Novel,…

Asha Elias’ The Namaste Club: A Novel is a sly, hilarious beach read about rich people behaving badly. At a luxe Florida yoga retreat, wealthy divorcées, an heiress who’s taken a vow of silence, a tradwife in hiding, and a man-bunned instructor collide during Transcendence Week. Some will be living their best life – and some will get their comeuppance. Nicky Gonzalez’s Mayra: A Novel follows Ingrid as she gets an out-of-the-blue call from her childhood best friend,…

In Bad Influence by Claire Ahn, an aspiring fashion influencer desperately tries to lift her family out of hardship, only to find it may come at a cost higher than any Chanel bag. Ebony Ladelle’s This Could Be Forever pairs two rising college freshmen who find themselves – and each other – while pursuing their passions the summer before college. Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia co-authored On Again, Awkward Again, in which two high school freshmen find themselves drawn to each other,…

Elliot Ackerman’s Sheepdogs: A Novel is the story of a high-stakes heist gone wrong, when ex-CIA operative Skwerl and former Afghan pilot Cheese are recruited on a mission to repossess a multimillion-dollar private jet stranded on a remote African airfield. From Uganda to France, they navigate deception, betrayal, and shifting loyalties in an action-packed thriller where the line between hunters and the hunted is razor thin. In Dan Fesperman’s Pariah: A Novel, Hal, a disgraced comedian-turned-politician,…

The 2025 honorees across all five National Book Award categories – including Gbenga Adesina, María Dolores Águila, K. Ancrum, Jazmina Barrera, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara,  Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Cathy Linh Che, Susan Choi, Tiana Clark, Angela Flournoy, Caleb Gayle, Julia Ioffe,…

Con Negro en la costa, María E. Hernández Caballero se adentra por los subsuelos del mundo cultural cubano de los años ochenta reflejando las relaciones interraciales, la disidencia sexual y el racismo. Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez presenta Cuando vuelva diciembre, novela donde un personaje recurre a las memorias de un plato de su infancia para sobrellevar la soledad y el desmoronamiento de su vida en la España actual. Rasgada obsesión, de Saúl Sosnowski, entrelaza una historia de amor con reflexiones sobre la memoria judía,…

La aclamada narradora española María Dueñas presenta su nueva obra Por si un día volvemos, una historia ambientada en los años 20, donde una joven española llega a una ciudad africana bajo una identidad falsa. Obligada a trabajos duros, lucha por liberarse y su fortaleza la impulsa a rehacerse y ascender durante tres décadas marcadas por retos. Como telón de fondo: el auge colonial y el trágico fin de la Argelia Francesa. En conversación con el periodista Damià Bonmatí.…

In Charlie Jane Anders’ Lessons in Magic and Disaster, a young witch teaches her grieving mother magic with unexpected results. Jamie, a grad student with a powerful secret, helps her mother Serena come out of her shell. But hidden truths from Serena’s past and a mysterious 1749 book threaten to unravel them both – unless Jamie can uncover the scandal it hides and the true nature of magic. Yael and Margot, childhood friends, reunite at a decision time in their lives.…

Join Altie Karper, editorial director of Schocken Books/Penguin Random House for more than 20 years; Todd Portnowitz, senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf; and Rose Waldman, translator of Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters: A Novel, for a discussion centered around the book, held by many as one of the foremost collections of contemporary Yiddish literature. Originally serialized in the 1960s and ’70s in New York–based Yiddish newspapers, the epic Sons and Daughters is a precious glimpse of the rich Yiddish culture of Poland and Lithuania that the Holocaust would eradicate.…

In The Words of Dr. L: & Other Stories, Karen E. Bender explores the nuclear family through adolescence, motherhood, the empty nest, and aging parents. A woman seeks magical words to end a pregnancy, a mother finds a forgotten child, a couple orbits Earth apart from their son, and society flees to Mars. These stories reveal hidden truths of freedom, power, and parent-child bonds. In Allison King’s The Phoenix Pencil Company: A Novel, a hidden magic – the ability to reforge pencils and revive the memories they contain – binds college recluse Monica to her fading grandmother,…

You Must Take Part in Revolution: A Graphic Novel by Badiucao and Melissa Chan is a near-future dystopian tale exploring technology, authoritarianism, and the fight for freedom. In 2035, amid U.S.-China conflict and rising fascism, three youths pursue divergent paths toward change, confronting the personal and societal costs of resistance in a world where freedom is never guaranteed. In conversation with Jose Zamora, regional director for the Americas at the Committee to Protect Journalists.…

Careful what you wish for in Vanessa Montalban’s These Vengeful Wishes, in which a teen girl’s rage is ignited by a vengeful female spirit with a thirst for justice. The Summer I Ate The Rich by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite is a biting modern-day fable inspired by Haitian zombie lore that explores what happens when a Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden abilities to exact revenge on the wealthy elites who have caused her family pain.…

Ada Calhoun’s Crush: A Novel is a sharp, funny, and seductive story of what happens when one-half of a couple urges the other to address the labels of “husband” and “wife” – kicking off a surprising journey of sex, heartbreak, and heart rekindling. In Hannah Pittard’s If You Love It, Let It Kill You: A Novel, a novelist learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominently in her ex-husband’s debut novel. For a week,…

Dan Chaon’s One of Us: A Novel is a macabre and thrilling tale of orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle. In 1915, Bolt and Eleanor find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival of misfits and wonders. But as their bond frays and danger closes in, they must confront terrifying truths that will change their lives forever. Ron Currie’s The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne follows the title character, a grandmother and crime boss in Maine whose empire begins to unravel when her daughter,…

Alex Foster’s Circular Motion is a story of love, despair, and two people’s search for belonging in a world literally spinning out of control. Tanner escapes his tiny Alaskan hometown for a job at CWC, which is revolutionizing global travel, while outcast Winnie joins teen activists blaming CWC for Earth’s acceleration. As days shorten and storms rage, their lives spiral toward each other in a rapidly changing world. Bruce Holsinger’s Culpability: A Novel is a suspenseful family drama about moral responsibility in the age of AI.…

Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s False War: A Novel, translated by Natasha Wimmer, portrays ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country. Álvarez links extraordinary stories of ordinary people from Havana to Berlin – barbers and dissidents, thieves and chess players – each immersed in a fake war waged with little real passion. In Robert  Busby’s Bodock: Stories, an ice storm hits the fictional titular Mississippi town, leaving lives and landscapes fractured. From two siblings surveying their family’s damaged orchard and a cop mourning his son to a divorced slacker aiding in his former father-in-law’s lung transplant surgery,…

Brandon Hobson’s The Devil Is a Southpaw: A Novel is a haunting novel of obsession, pride, and forgiveness. Told through Milton’s darkly comic – and possibly unreliable – account of his friendship and rivalry with gifted Cherokee artist Matthew, the story revisits their harrowing youth in juvenile detention and the lingering traumas of incarceration, pride, and survival, brought to life by Hobson’s visceral prose and original artwork. The stresses of acting on a TV show, the pressures of an elite high school,…

Anjanette Delgado presenta El sexilio, un texto delirante, transgresor e íntimo que conecta la violencia patriarcal con la violencia colonial en Puerto Rico; en conversación con la escritora y editora Dainerys Machado.     Compra El sexilio – Delgado Compra Las noventa Habanas – Machado  …

One summer. Forty-six mountain peaks. A second chance to make things right. In The Trouble with Heroes, Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a seventh grade boy finds his path to healing. The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri is the harrowing true story of two orphans on a treacherous journey across mountains to bring education to isolated children with a chalkboard and a satchel full of textbooks.…

In James Grippando’s Grave Danger: A Jack Swyteck Novel, Jack’s new client fled from Iran to Miami with her daughter and is accused of kidnapping by her husband. To stop him from taking the girl, Jack must build an international case – but everything isn’t what it seems. As secrets, politics, and pressure from Jack’s wife, Andie, threaten the case and their marriage, they both must navigate a web of deceit. In Dwyer Murphy’s The House on Buzzards Bay: A Novel,…

Mark Kurlansky’s Cheesecake: A Novel follows one Manhattan block as an ancient recipe – and a conniving landlord – reshape the Upper West Side. In 1970s New York, a Greek family revives Cato the Elder’s cheesecake recipe to attract more upscale customers to its restaurant, sparking obsession, real estate battles, and neighborhood upheaval. In conversation with Marion Winik, co-editor of I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas.  …

Karen Russell’s The Antidote: A Novel tells the story of the fictional Uz, Nebraska, and begins as a historic dust storm ravages the town. But Uz is already collapsing, not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought, but because of its own violent history. Patricia Lockwood’s Will There Ever Be Another You: A Novel chronicles a young woman’s descent into illness and insanity amid a global pandemic. Struggling with grief and a mystifying disease,…

On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, three authors discuss the challenges of telling the stories of their parents and lovers, examining love, loss, and identity across genres and generations. Becoming Ghost documents Cathy Linh Che’s parents’ experiences as refugees who escaped the Vietnam War and then were cast as extras in Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now, placing them at the margins of their own story. The 14 pieces in Andrew Lam’s Stories from the Edge of the Sea explore love and loss,…

In Jesse Browner’s Sing to Me: A Novel, young, resourceful Hani sets out for the ruins of Troy after his father and sister vanish. With only a brilliant, brooding donkey beside him, Hani must rely on his wit, humor, and spirit to survive civilization’s collapse in this story of loss, resilience, and hope. Megan Giddings’ Meet Me at the Crossroads: A Novel is the story of Black teenage twin sisters in the Midwest, whose world is changed one summer morning by the appearance of seven mysterious doors that seemingly lead to another world.…

El autor colombiano Gilmer Mesa presenta Aranjuez, una novela que, a partir de los recuerdos de un narrador atravesado por la ausencia del padre y el peso de la violencia urbana en Medellín, ofrece un retrato conmovedor de la vida diaria en una comunidad frágil, abordando temas como la memoria, el duelo y la dignidad en medio de un contexto áspero y profundamente humano. En conversación con el escritor Nélson Hincapié.   Compra Aranjuez – Mesa…

In Nadine Gonzalez’s Only Lovers in the Building, Liliane is spending the summer in Miami Beach, Florida, after her legal career comes to a humiliating end. She soon meets university professor-on-sabbatical Benedicto Romero, the resident tortured poet, and they begin to spend their days together reading romance novels by the pool – while trying to make sense of the sizzling chemistry between them. Ebony LaDelle’s You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs celebrates Black love through tender,…

Heather Clark’s The Scrapbook: A Novel begins in the late 1990s with Harvard student Anna, who falls for Christoph, a visiting German student, and follows him to his home country. Their romance unfolds amid family legacies – including those of Anna’s grandfather, an American GI, and Christoph’s, a Nazi soldier. Traumas of the past and the aftershocks of fascism haunt them, reverberating through to the present. In Maggie Stiefvater’s The Listeners: A Novel, it’s January 1942 and the aristocratic owners of the elegant Avallon Hotel &…

Dennard Dayle’s How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel is a satire of the Civil War that follows Anders, a teenage idealist whose shifting roles – from Union flag twirler to Confederate soldier to member of a Black Union regiment – force him to question identity, loyalty, and belonging. Through doomed charges, draft riots, and shifting allegiances, Dayle explores what it meant to be American during the war. In Rickey Fayne’s The Devil Three Times: A Novel,…

These novels-in-verse speak truth into the world. Based on a true story, A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by Mária Dolores Águila is a vivid and uplifting middle-grade novel about one child’s courage to stand up for what is right. Told through searing free-verse, journal entries, and interspersed fill-in-the-blank poetry prompts, Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr reminds readers there is always hope when a teen fights for her right to determine what happens to her body,…

Iddo Gefen’s Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Factory: A Novel, translated by Daniella Zamir, begins with the title character drinking a martini in a crater in the Israeli desert. Her adult son, Eli, navigates handling his wacky mother, a missing hiker, and a possible romance with Tamara, a visitor to their family hostel. Then the Lilienblums build a company around its matriarch’s invention, making comedy out of startup culture and family secrets. In Ed Park’s An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories,…

Reuven Fenton’s Goyhood: A Novel is the story of Mayer Belkin, a devoutly Orthodox man who discovers in middle age that he isn’t, in fact, Jewish. Traumatized and spiritually adrift, Mayer embarks on a surreal road trip through the Deep South with his estranged twin, his mother’s ashes, an Instagram influencer, and a one-eyed dog, while grappling with God, identity, and marriage woes. In Jason Diamond’s Kaplan’s Plot: A Novel, Elijah returns to Chicago broken – his mother Eve is dying and his business has failed.…

In Clémence Michallon’s Our Last Resort: A Novel, Frida and Gabriel have grown apart in recent years after a sudden, unspeakable tragedy, and search for a fresh start at the Ara Hotel in the secluded desert of Escalante, Utah. It all feels like paradise – until a beautiful young woman is murdered, Gabriel is named a suspect, and even Frida can’t ignore the evidence mounting against him. In Dwyer Murphy’s The House on Buzzards Bay: A Novel,…

GRADES 3-7 Three Cuban American authors celebrate the resilient hope of the journeying heart in their newest middle grade novels. In A Raft of Dreams, Jenisbel Acevedo shares the author’s experiences immigrating from Cuba on the boat that both represented the pain of leaving everything behind, and the restoration of her ability to dream and hope. Ruth Behar’s Across So Many Seas retraces five hundred years of Jewish women who moved their families from Spain to Turkey to Cuba and finally Miami to flee persecution and find opportunity.…

María Cristina Fernández presenta En el nombre de la rusa, novela que destaca la importancia de la diversidad frente a la estandarización, intolerable cuando se trata de valorar la humanidad. En Los hijos de Sobek, Denis Fortún cuestiona los límites de la creación literaria, los misterios de la mente humana y las consecuencias de las obsesiones personales. Gastón Virkel llega con Hemos vencido el asco, una colección de cuentos que muestran la fragilidad de lo cotidiano y hacen de esa intemperie materia literaria.…

Jane Hamilton’s The Phoebe Variations: A Novel is a coming-of-age story about girls, mothers, and finding one’s way in the world. On the verge of graduation, Phoebe meets her birth family for the first time – and runs away. With her best friend Luna in tow, she makes an escape to their friend Patrick’s chaotic household, and she begins navigating the tumultuous road out of girlhood. Lily King’s Heart the Lover: A Novel is an intimate story of desire,…

In Javier Fuentes’ Countries of Origin: A Novel, pastry chef Demetrio returns to Spain as an undocumented immigrant, leaving behind his beloved uncle in New York. On the flight, he meets the sensitive, aristocratic Jacobo, sparking a subtle electricity. Amid Madrid’s bars and coastal beaches, they form an intense relationship, navigating identity, class, and intimacy, until a family tragedy forces them to confront their true feelings. In Torrey Peters’ Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories,…

Esther Bendahan presenta Escucha el silencio, una novela sobre memoria, dolor y resiliencia, y el papel de los silencios en la formación de la identidad. En Madre de corazón atómico, Agustín Fernández Mallo reflexiona sobre la condición humana a partir de una trama familiar, planteando la muerte no como cierre de un recorrido, sino como un inicio. En conversación con la periodista Sarah Moreno.   Compra Escucha el silencio – Bendahan Compra Madre de corazón atómico – Fernández Mallo  …

Join us for a special panel highlighting the literary dialogue between Haiti and Jamaica. Edwidge Danticat’s Watch Out for Falling Iguanas begins with young Leila setting off for school on a rare chilly day in Miami. As her day is filled with curious encounters – roaming peacocks, chickens crossing the road – Leila can’t stop thinking about her grandmother’s warning to watch out for falling iguanas, and begins an unexpected adventure to discover why these tropical creatures fall from trees during cold fronts.…

GRADES 9-12 In Kalynn Bayron’s Frankenstein-tinged horror romance, Make Me A Monster, a newly certified mortician’s assistant at her parents’ funeral home discovers that the family business is a bit more complicated than it seems. Don’t miss Fortress of Ambrose, the explosive finale of the New York Times bestselling House of Marionne series by J. Elle, where deadly rivalries and deadlier love tip the scales between freedom and destruction. The Last Vampire by Romina Garber begins in a boarding school where a girl expects to find her own Mr.…

In Rosie Danan’s Fan Service, small-town outcast Alex only fits in on the fan forum she built for her cult werewolf detective show. When its washed-up star Devin wakes up with claws, fangs, and no memory of the previous night, he turns to Alex – who secretly despises him – for help. The reluctant allies team up and lower their guards as they try to wrangle his inner beast. Asher Bennett and Theo Fernandez, the leads in Chip Pons’ Winging It with You,…

In Diana Says Yes: A Dirty Diana Novel, co-authored by Jen Besser and Shana Feste, Diana trades Parisian escapades for therapy with her husband, Oliver – where sex is forbidden. Dating her own husband rekindles passion, but that spark comes just as her secret fantasy website gains attention. From lavish parties to old flames resurfacing, Diana must balance intimacy, her growing business, and what she truly wants. Audrey Ingram’s The Summer We Ran is a story of lost love and buried secrets.…

Esther Chehebar’s Sisters of Fortune: A Novel is the story of three sisters in a Syrian Jewish family: a rebellious – and single – older sister; a middle sister questioning her upcoming marriage; and a baby sister sneaking around with a charming older bachelor. They find themselves caught between tradition and modernity, reckoning with what their tight-knit community wants for them against what they want for themselves. Jeanine Cummins’ Speak to Me of Home: A Novel is a multigenerational story of family and identity.…

La Feria del Libro de Miami celebra la trayectoria del dramaturgo, productor, director de cine y teatro cubano Iván Acosta con la presentación de las nuevas ediciones Fugas de Fuacatapam, Ventanas neoyorquinas con vistas cubanas y El Super. Una conversación imperdible con su editor Luis Leonel León y  el crítico de cine y periodista Alejandro Ríos.   Compra Fuacatapam – Acosta Compra Cubensis – Ríos…

In My Darling Boy: A Novel, John Dufresne tells the story of Olney, whose beloved son Cully collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of South Florida. Aided by his terminally ill girlfriend and the colorful inhabitants of a local motel, Olney sets out to save his son from becoming another fatality of the opioid crisis. In Adam Haslett’s Mothers and Sons: A Novel, an estranged mother and son must confront the shared secret that tore them apart years before.…

ROMINA GARBER’s Castle of the Cursed follows a girl’s supernatural path after her parents’ mysterious deaths. Suffering from survivor’s guilt, she goes to live with her estranged aunt at an ancestral Spanish castle that harbors a trove of family secrets. When she meets a silver-eyed boy that only she can see, they grudgingly team up to find answers, igniting an investigation – and romance. In MARY E. PEARSON’s The Courting of Bristol Keats: A Novel,…

KEREN BLANKFELD’s Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story is a remarkable saga about Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia, who fell in love in Auschwitz, were separated upon liberation, led extraordinary lives apart following the war, and then found each other more than 70 years later. Inspired by historical events, LAUREN GRODSTEIN’s We Must Not Think of Ourselves: A Novel is the story of an underground group of archivists who fought to preserve humanity inside the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.…

RACHEL KHONG’s Real Americans: A Novel spans generations of one family, from early 2000s New York City, where young and broke Lily Chen falls for dashing Matthew, to 2021, when 15-year-old Nick Chen searches for his biological father, a journey that produces more questions than answers. In DINAW MENGESTU’s Someone Like Us: A Novel, after abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush found love and created a family with Hannah,…

In JENNIFER CROFT’s The Extinction of Irena Rey: A Novel, eight translators visit a renowned author in a primeval Polish forest, who then mysteriously vanishes – leaving them to become entangled in a web of paranoia, isolation, and obsession. In A.J. FINN’s End of Story: A Novel, a reclusive mystery novelist sends his longtime correspondent a cryptic message: “I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story. You and I might even solve an old mystery or two.” Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? …

In DONNA HEMANS’ The House of Plain Truth, Pearline receives news about her ailing father and travels to her native Jamaica. After a tense reunion with her sisters and her father’s startling deathbed wish – that she repair their fractured family legacy and find three long-lost siblings – she learns what she must sacrifice in her attempt to find home. In WANDA M. MORRIS’ What You Leave Behind: A Novel, attorney Deena Wood’s life has fallen apart after losing her mother,…

LOUIS BAYARD’s The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts revolves around a fateful summer in the life of famous playwright Oscar Wilde as he was exposed – and eventually imprisoned – for homosexuality. This poignant story is told from various perspectives, including that of his wife, who watches the intensity of Wilde’s relationship with another man threaten the foundation of their family’s life. MARGOT LIVESEY’s The Road from Belhaven: A Novel is the story of a young woman in 19th-century Scotland whose ability to see into the future complicates her coming-of-age.…

Follow the conclusion of TOMI ADEYEMI’s Legacy of Orïsha series with Children of Anguish and Anarchy, in which Zélie overcomes insurmountable odds, stops the conquest of her people, and defies capture by the merciless King Baldyr. The Lightlark trilogy by ALEX ASTER introduces its third showstopping installment with Skyshade, in which Isla Crown’s shattered heart is torn between her love for the ruler of Nightshade and wanting to save Lightlark and its king. In ROMINA GARBER’s Castle of the Cursed,…

NADINE PINEDE’s When the Mapou Sings is set in 1930s Haiti, where elements of magical realism combine with political intrigue. NICOLA YOON’s One of Our Kind is a propulsive satire set in an all-Black gated community; it explores the ways in which freedom is complicated by the presumptions we make about ourselves and each other. Moderated by author ANJANETTE DELGADO.     PRESENTED BY WITH THE SUPPORT OF MEDIA PARTNERS Buy When the Mapou Sings – Pinede Buy One of Our Kind – Yoon…

MESHA MAREN’s Shae: A Novel is the story of a young couple in the heart of West Virginia: the title character, who is pregnant, and Cam, who begins using female pronouns. After the traumatic birth of their child, Shae struggles with opioid addiction while Cam continues to transition, embracing new relationships and facing the reality of being a trans woman in rural America. JENNIFER BELLE’s Swanna in Love: A Novel begins with its 14-year-old protagonist being picked up at summer camp by her mom and her new Russian lover.…

In POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR’s Tehrangeles: A Novel, the Iranian American Milani family has it all – an L.A. mansion, a snack empire, and four spirited daughters: aspiring model Violet, chaotic influencer Roxanna, online overachiever Mina, and impressionable health fanatic Haylee. But on the verge of landing a reality TV show, the family realizes they all have something to hide. GARTH RISK HALLBERG’s The Second Coming: A Novel is the story of a troubled teen, Jolie, and her estranged father,…

TERESA DOVALPAGE presenta un volumen de cuentos en el que los personajes viajan en avión, en transatlántico, por las brumas del plano astral y hasta en el tiempo; PEDRO MEDINA LEÓN ofrece un verdadero noir tropical cuyo protagonista debe resolver un crimen cometido en South Beach, y LUIS ALEJANDRO ORDÓÑEZ llega con una obra polifónica que muestra el carácter elusivo de la verdad y es un rompecabezas donde cada pieza encaja de tal forma que cambia el conjunto.…

With Christmas nearing, two women swap homes. One has been lying to her family about her engagement and just wants to get away; the other is an artist who needs money to hold on to her beachside cottage. In JAYNE ALLEN’s The Most Wonderful Time: A Novel, their stories tangle to combine romance, self-reflection, and a little holiday magic. In TAYLOR HAHN’s A Home for the Holidays: A Novel, Mel loves the celebratory season – a time her mother always made magical,…

JOHN HENDRIX’s Mythmakers dives into the legendary friendship between the fathers of fantasy: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. This biography illustrates how discouraging critics, friendly rivalries, and two world wars changed these two friends and competitors forever – and the world of fantasy along with them. Moderated by DANIEL JONES, the young adult librarian at the Naranja branch of the Miami-Dade Public Library System. Grades 4-8 Buy The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis &…

In Fall: A Detective Harriet Foster Thriller, TRACY CLARK weaves a twisted journey into the underbelly of Chicago as the detective and her team work to unmask a serial killer stalking the city’s aldermen. When two are found dead – one by apparent suicide, one from a brutal stabbing – she must determine who has a debt to pay before the killer strikes again. In JAMES GRIPPANDO’s Goodbye Girl: A Jack Swyteck Novel, the protagonist’s latest legal client,…

DAVID F. WALKER’s Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined, illustrated by MARCUS KWAME ANDERSON, is a graphic novel that proposes a radical retelling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This modern update follows Jim, an enslaved Black man searching for his kidnapped family alongside his sidekick, Huckleberry Finn, while highlighting a bond that transcends the gruesome racism of the Civil War era. In Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation,…

RENATO CISNEROS presenta una novela acerca de los rigores de la migración y el horror de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y que constituye tanto un registro bélico impactante como una reflexión sobre la identidad y el desarraigo. CRISTINA SÁNCHEZ ANDRADE llega con una obra que transcurre en Galicia y relata la vida de tres mujeres marcadas por un naufragio, y que se convierte en una reflexión sobre la memoria en la que intervienen secretos y celos, la culpa colectiva y el deseo femenino.…

MARIE-HELENE BERTINO’s Beautyland: A Novel is a story about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe. Beautyland’s gentle, unforgettable alien possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. As she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. Narrated by an ensemble cast of independent outsiders who have chosen counterculture lives, STEPHEN HUNDLEY’s Bomb Island journeys through the weirds and wilds of coastal Georgia.…

Four young adult authors discuss how love can form under pressure or flare up with passion. The daughter of a proud Cuban family bakery enters a competition to pay the bills with help from the son of a rival Cuban bakery in Guava and Grudges, the slow-burn (or bake) enemies-to-lovers novel by ALEXIS CASTELLANOS. Tensions rise in LAURA TAYLOR NAMEY’s With Love, Echo Park as the two last surviving Cuban family businesses in an L.A.…

XALBADOR GARCÍA presenta una obra que narra los logros y fracasos futbolísticos mexicanos de las últimas décadas como un espejo de la identidad nacional; ALFREDO TRIFF llega con un ensayo-nouvelle sobre el escritor francés Barbey d’Aurevilly, un verdadero dandy que dejó huella en la cultura burguesa; WILEMA WONG ofrece una novela cuya protagonista transita un viaje hacia sí misma y una vida que gira en torno a una trágica muerte. En conversación con el poeta,…

Ghostroots: Stories is ‘PEMI AGUDA’s debut collection set in Lagos, Nigeria. From a teenager who lives in the shadow of a mysterious disease killing local boys to a woman who sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter’s face, these stories map emotional and physical worlds that lay bare the forces of family, myth, tradition, and gender. NICOLA YOON’s One of Our Kind: A Novel follows the Williamses, who move to the Black utopia of Liberty,…

In LAURA VAN DEN BERG’s State of Paradise: A Novel, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author is living in her mother’s small-town Florida home, tracking ominous and eerie changes. Contending with family secrets, spotty memories of her troubled youth, a burgeoning cult in the living room, and her suddenly missing sister, she begins to investigate the emerging connections between a shadowy corporation, her boss, and reality itself. In KENT WASCOM’s The Great State of West Florida,…

Broadway producer SUSAN ROSE and celebrated author SILVIA LÓPEZ present a charming book perfect for young readers just beginning to learn Spanish! José has been selected for the school soccer team and finally gets to be a part of el equipo de fútbol. He starts practicing in his backyard right away, but when he kicks the ball toward the net, his best friend – his dog, Feliz – runs after it! Can José find a way to bring his furry pal to his fútbol games without worrying el perro will chase el balón?…

Believing in yourself is hard enough without saving the whole world on top of it all! Find out how much Amari is willing to sacrifice to stop a war between the Magicians and the Bureau in the action-packed third installment of B. B. ALSTON’s bestselling Supernatural Investigations series, Amari and the Despicable Wonders. RYAN GRAUDIN’s The Girl Who Kept the Castle introduces Faye, a maid for the late Wizard West, who must help him find a successor,…

In ELYSHA CHANG’s A Quitter’s Paradise, a young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother’s death, even as memories surface of her cold, strict upbringing with immigrant parents. How do you love a person who refused to make herself known? In CRYSTAL HANA KIM’s The Stone Home: A Novel, Eunju and her mother are living on the street in South Korea when they’re captured and sent to a state-sanctioned facility – a reformatory hiding a violent reality.…

In JEAN HANFF KORELITZ’s The Sequel: A Novel (The Book Series #2), Anna’s taken care of her bestselling novelist husband, laid to rest the accusations of plagiarism against him, and is now enjoying his royalty checks in perpetuity. But someone knows too much: about her late brother, her husband, and Anna herself. RACHEL KUSHNER’s Creation Lake: A Novel is the story of a secret agent – a seductive, cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France.…

ABRAHAM JIMÉNEZ ENOA presenta unas crónicas que incluyen sus impresiones al llegar a Europa, pero también los recuerdos de sus últimos años en Cuba, donde pasó a ser un apestado social; MARÍA CRISTINA FERNÁNDEZ llega con una novela del pintor y poeta cubano NICOLÁS LARA (La Habana,1943 – New York, 2022), que representa una radiografía de la Cuba de los últimos cincuenta años, desde el Caso Padilla hasta la década del ’90. En conversación con el periodista cultural y crítico de cine ALEJANDRO RÍOS.…

Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir captures ZOË BOSSIERE’s experience as a trans child growing up in an Arizona trailer park. As they reckon with the sexism, racism, substance abuse, and violence endemic to the traditionally masculine, working-class men in their life, they struggle to escape what it means to live in a gendered body. In EMMA COPLEY EISENBERG’s Housemates: A Novel, two new roommates begin an intense friendship. When one woman receives a complicated inheritance from a former professor,…

JOSEPH KANON’s Shanghai: A Novel chronicles one man’s escape to Shanghai during a time when European Jews were desperate to emigrate after the violence of Kristallnacht. Daniel arrives penniless in the tumultuous, nearly lawless city and becomes trapped in Shanghai’s maze of politics and crime, trying to stay one step ahead of murder while outrunning his own past. JEFF SHAARA’s The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis brings to life the war that almost happened between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1962.…

PATXI ZUBIZARRETA ofrece una obra cuyo protagonista habita la Ciudad de la Basura, en la populosa El Cairo. En conversación con la periodista y editora GABRIELA ESQUIVADA.   EL COLABORACIÓN CON Compra Aranjuez – Mesa…

In LAURA DROSDOWECH’s Magical Miami, Zoe and Zen’s awesome adventure begins in Wynwood and takes them through Miami’s most notable neighborhoods. They meet a flamingo driving an ice cream truck, hitch a ride on an alligator, swim with a manatee, take the trolley with a celebrity cucaracha, and meet a famous graffiti artist, all while learning some Miami lingo in both English and Spanish. Grades pre–K to 2…

ALLY CONDIE’s The Unwedding: A Novel begins with a wedding at a beautiful resort – an event that turns tragic when Ellery discovers a dead body the morning of the ceremony. As she grieves the loss of her own marriage – and another guest dies – she realizes she’s not the only one whose future is no longer guaranteed. ASHLEY ELSTON’s First Lie Wins: A Novel follows Evie, shrouded in a fictitious identity crafted by a mysterious boss.…

La Feria del Libro de Miami rinde un merecido homenaje a Armando de Armas, escritor y periodista cubano. En este encuentro, Denis Fortún y Ángel Callejas dialogarán con Alejandro Ríos para recordar y honrar la vida y obra de uno de los más destacados exponentes de la literatura cubana contemporánea, recientemente desaparecido.…

In CRIS ASCUNCE’s My Best Plan: A Novel, Gene has it all – a wonderful daughter, a flourishing career, and the love of her life, Isa. After same-sex marriage is legalized in Spain, Gene has an idea: move there, marry, and finally secure parental rights for her daughter. But Isa refuses, and Gene must make a decision that puts their love to the test. A.J. BERMUDEZ’s Stories No One Hopes Are About Them explores convergences of power,…

In ANDREW BORYGA’s Victim: A Novel, college student Javi is trying to escape a troubled past: a murdered drug dealer father, a struggling mother, and an incarcerated best friend. When a viral essay turns him into a rising star, his best friend, now free from prison, must play along with Javi’s carefully crafted new identity before the truth threatens to ruin everything. ASHA ELIAS’ Pink Glass Houses: A Novel is the story of the elite world of PTA moms at Miami Beach’s most coveted elementary school.…

Dynamic duo DAVE BARRY and RIDLEY PEARSON reunite to spill the tea on their latest projects – including the theatrical adaptation of their iconic Peter Pan prequel series, Peter and the Starcatchers; Barry’s hilarious caper Swamp Story: A Novel (with more twists and turns through the Everglades than a snake slithering away from a gator); and Pearson’s latest Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance sequel, Villains’ Realm, in which Cinderella’s own Fairy Godmother – the notorious FGM – must help our young heroes stop Ursula from taking over for good.…

Join authors T.J. ALEXANDER, Triple Sec; J.J. ARIAS, Guava Flavored Lies: A Lesbian Romance;  LIANA DE LA ROSA, Isabel and The Rogue; ADRIANA HERRERA, An Island Princess Starts a Scandal; K. ARSENAULT RIVERA, Oath of Fire; and ANALEIGH SBRANA, Lore of the Wilds, as they explore how inclusive storytelling and diverse perspectives and experiences enrich the romance genre, the beauty of love in all its forms.…

SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO presenta un thriller sobre una mujer exitosa, profesional y madre que está en la cárcel, y cuya vida aparentemente perfecta en las altas esferas de la sociedad se desmorona. En conversación con el periodista JUAN CAMILO GÓMEZ.   Compra El accidente – Roncagliolo…

In CLAIRE LOMBARDO’s Same As It Ever Was: A Novel, after years of emotional turbulence, 57-year-old Julia finally feels that she has a firm handle on things. But an announcement from her son, an impending separation from her teenage daughter, and a resurgence of the past bring back the threat of life on a razor’s edge. In ROXANA ROBINSON’s Leaving: A Novel, college lovers Sarah and Warren reconnect after a chance meeting and embark on an intense affair.…

KATHIE KLARREICH founded the Miami-based prison writing nonprofit Exchange for Change in 2014, after a 24-year career as a journalist. Don’t Shake the Spoon: A Journal of Prison Writing is a collection of Exchange for Change students’ stories, poems, and essays. Joining Klarreich are contributors to the anthology, JORGE CUESTA, WENDY HINSHAW, and MARIE PETIT-LOUIS.…

ALEJANDRO ROBLES llega con una colección de cuentos breves y microrrelatos, fábulas y divertimentos literarios. En conversación con el poeta, narrador y editor RODOLFO MARTÍNEZ SOTOMAYOR. EL COLABORACIÓN CON   Compra El cuchillo de Lichtenberg – Robles…

Join us to celebrate 75 years of the National Book Awards and be a part of Team Book history! For more than a decade, the Miami Book Fair and National Book Foundation have joined together to present the biggest in-person showcase of National Book Award honorees anywhere in the country. 2024 honored authors across all five National Book Award categories (Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature) will share rapid-fire readings from their recognized works and be interviewed by the National Book Foundation’s executive director,…

LAUREN APPELBAUM’s Rachel Weiss’s Group Chat is a romantic comedy about feeling stuck, friendship, and being open to love. Rachel relies on her juicy group chat for entertainment – until her circle of friends begins falling apart. But when she meets the millionaire next door, she realizes he may be the one person who truly sees her. In SIDNEY HALSTON’s Love Lessons: A Novel, two kindergarten co-teachers have a one-night stand with a surprising consequence: a baby.…

La periodista española SONSOLES ÓNEGA presenta la obra ganadora del Premio Planeta 2023, una historia mágica y realista al mismo tiempo, en una Galicia extraordinaria, sobre hombres y mujeres que se rebelan contra su propio destino en busca de la verdad. En conversación con la periodista y escritora GINA MONTANER. Compra Las Hijas de la Criada. Premio Planeta 2023 – Ónega Compra Deseénme un buen viaje: Memorias de una despedida – Montaner…

In PRESTON L. ALLEN’s I Disappeared Them: A Novel, serial murderer “The Periwinkle Killer” hides in plain sight as an affable family man with children and a loving wife. But at night he roams Miami’s streets, adhering to a twisted moral code. Buy I Disappeared Them: A Novel – Allen…

In ACE ATKINS’ Don’t Let the Devil Ride: A Novel, a woman hires a P.I. to find her missing husband, only to discover truths that upend all she’d believed about their life. In BEN MEZRICH’s The Mistress and the Key: A Thriller, a card shark and an ex-con immerse themselves in the history of Ben Franklin and Paul Revere after uncovering one of the biggest secrets of the Revolutionary War. And in ALEX SEGURA’s Alter Ego: A Novel,…

R.O. KWON’s Exhibit: A Novel is the story of two women – one a brilliant young photographer, one a world-class ballerina mysteriously on hiatus – drawn to each other by their intense artistic drives. After one exposes the lifelong secret of an old family curse, the women become more entangled, and begin to explore hidden desires. In SUSAN MINOT’s Don’t Be A Stranger: A Novel, Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming, 20 years her junior,…