Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in South America or the Caribbean

Central & S. America, Mexico, Caribbean

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Soldiers and Kings

Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

by Jason De León

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access

Pink Slime

by Fernanda Trias

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize.

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

A Novel

by Briony Cameron

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history.

The Accidentals

Stories

by Guadalupe Nettel

Hardcover: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the International Booker Shortlisted author of Still Born, a powerful collection of stories about characters coping with estrangement, isolation, and the unknown.

Death in the Jungle

Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

by Candace Fleming

Hardcover: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious ...

America, América

A New History of the New World

by Greg Grandin

Hardcover: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both.

The Wager

A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

by David Grann

Hardcover: Apr 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Winner: BookBrowse Nonfiction Award 2023

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The ...

The Bullet Swallower

A Novel

by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, ...

Where There Was Fire

by John Manuel Arias

Hardcover: Aug 2023 | Paperback: Sep 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias

The Fraud

A Novel

by Zadie Smith

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Jun 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed

Wings in the Wild

by Margarita Engle

Hardcover: Apr 2023 | Paperback: Apr 2024

Critics' Consensus:

This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights.

Hungry Ghosts

A Novel

by Kevin Jared Hosein

Hardcover: Feb 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding in 1940s Trinidad - and a chilling mystery that shows how interconnected their lives truly are.

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