Mexican Literature

The dead do not stay quiet, and neither does the history. Writing from Mexico and its diaspora — Rulfo's ghosts through the violence and dark comedy of the contemporary novel.

On the Place & Period shelf.

Books shelved as Mexican Literature

• The Secret Life of Insects — Bernardo Esquinca
• La cabeza de mi padre — Alma Delia Murillo
• Fury — Clyo Mendoza
• Recollections of Things to Come — Elena Garro
• Silver Nitrate — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• El lugar donde crece la hierba — Luisa Josefina Hernández
• Beginning Middle End: A Novel — Valeria Luiselli
• They Will Dream in the Garden — Gabriela Damián Miravete
• Morras malditas: Apaguemos la luz — Mariano Leyva
• Pandora — Liliana V. Blum
• El libro vacío. Los años falsos — Josefina Vicens
• Witches — Brenda Lozano
• Vampires of El Norte — Isabel Cañas

Related genres

• Historical Fiction
• International Fiction
• American Literature
• East Asian Literary Fiction
• Irish Literature
• Southern Fiction
• French Literature
• Latin American Fiction
• Victorian Fiction
• Spanish Literature
• Japanese Literature
• Western
• Chicano & Latinx Fiction
• Italian Literature
• Medieval
• African American Literature
• Russian Literature
• Appalachian
• Korean Literature
• Scottish Literature
• Caribbean Literature
• Canadian Literature

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