2024 was an incredible year for Latinx authors with many powerful and important reads published. This year is already shaping up to be another fantastic year. Of course, we have more work to do to improve Latinx representation in publishing, especially when it comes to Afro-Latinx, Asian Latinx, and Indigenous Latinx authors. But this year has so many amazing titles that will be coming out over the next few months, so we decided to put together a list of books that will be coming out this year. We also made sure to round up titles in a variety of genres like fantasy, romance, coming-of-age, and horror, so there’s sure to be something for everyone. This is by no means an exhaustive list but a starting place as you curate your TBR lists for the year. Read on to learn more about 19 books by Latinx authors that we’re excited to read in 2025.
This is the Year by Gloria Muñoz
Release Date: January 7, 2025
This is the Year by Gloria Muñoz follows self-proclaimed Goth and aspiring writer Julieta Villarreal. At only 17-years-old, she has lost her twin sister in a hit-and-run while her home in Florida is impacted by climate disaster. When she’s recruited by Cometa, a private space program to enlist select New American teens, she finds herself presented with an opportunity to give back to her adopted country by establishing the first extraterrestrial settlement. Believing Cometa is the chance for her to do something meaningful and win her a taste of freedom, she encounters a year of surprises, new friendships, hope, and first love. But as Earth collapses under the climate crisis, she is forced with the defining decision of carrying her loss together with her community or leaving it all behind. Told through prose and poetry, this is a powerful novel about immigration, climate justice, grief, and the power of communities.
The Broposal by Sonora Reyes
Release Date: January 21, 2025
The Broposal by Sonora Reyes tells the story of Alejandro, nicknamed Han, and Kenny, roommates who close friends and family believe should get married. So of course, they’re overjoyed when the pair finally announce their engagement. The catch? The two are faking the relationship so that Han can get a green card, especially because he’s never been able to put down roots. Meanwhile Kenny is newly single and jumps at the chance to distract himself with a marriage proposal to his best friend. But as their deception continues, he can’t deny or resist their easy chemistry. As their wedding date approaches, the line between fact and fiction begins to blur, and they’ll have to face a meddling ex and immigration officers to make it down the aisle for real.
On the Wings of la Noche by Vanessa L. Torres
Release Date: January 28, 2025
On the Wings of la Noche by Vanessa L. Torres follows Estrella (Noche) Villanueva, a lonely science girl who is still mourning the tragic death of her girlfriend Dante Fuentes, who accidentally drowned in a lake. Desperate to spend more time with her, she visits her every night, seeing how Dante’s soul roams the earth, which threatens to make her spirit fade into the unknown forever. When Jax, a new kid, comes to town, Noche can’t ignore how well they connect or stop fantasizing of a life without Dante. Torn between two people, she finds herself at risk for losing them both, forced to question her purpose as a lechuza and everything she has ever believed in.
The Pink Agave Motel by V. Castro
Release Date: February 11, 2025
The Pink Agave Motel is a short story collection by V. Castro that is influenced by Mexican folklore through a feminist perspective. The story follows the leader of a creature cohort who manages a hotel until she discovers a gruesome death on the property, partnering with the victim’s grieving friend to solve the murder. From there, the stories explore a woman who is a literal fish out of water, a group of trapped guests undergoing sexual liberation, and aliens who find the sexiest of disguises. Alluring and shiverer-inducing, this is a collection that explores lust, violence, terror, and just how deep an unhinged imagination can go.
But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo
Release Date: February 11, 2025
But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo tells the story of Dália, the protégée of the volatile Lady of the Capricious House known as Anatema, who takes the form of an enormous humanoid spider with a taste for laudanum, an opium, and human brides. Following her predecessor’s death, Dália is tasked with taking up her duties, including managing the drawers where the Lady keeps her memories. But she’ll only be able to survive long enough to grow into her new role if she can solve the crime that led to her predecessor’s unlikely execution. Unfortunately, Anatema can’t resist beautiful women or devouring every bride she encounters in her path.
Brother Brontë by Fernando A. Flores
Release Date: February 11, 2025
Brother Brontë by Fernando A. Flores is set in 2038 in Three Rivers, Texas, a formerly bustling town that has turned into a wasteland. Under its tech industrialist mayor, the town has outlawed reading and forced mothers to work as indentured laborers at the local cannery, which poisons the local environment. Amid such devastation, best friends Prosperina and Neftalí have each other. Not to mention that Neftalí, one of the town’s last literate citizens, has hidden and read the works of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, including her last novel Brother Brontë. But when the mayor commits a series of atrocities against his citizens, the friends seek the help of a wounded bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel tías to reclaim their city. This is a powerful and relevant story for our times, exploring dysfunction, tyranny, and disparity.
Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza
Release Date: February 25, 2025
Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza follows the fictional version of Cristina Rivera Garza, a professor who discovers a mutilated corpse and reports it to the police. When she’s shown the crime scene photo, she sees a warning written on the brick wall beside the body: “Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.” Immediately, she becomes the first informant, assisting the lead detective who is newly obsessed with poetry. But as more castrated men are found alongside lines of verse, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems to put a stop to the violence spreading throughout the city.
Malinalli by Veronica Chapa
Release Date: March 11, 2025
Malinalli by Veronica Chapa tells the story a real-life historical figure, the woman known as Malinalli, Malintzin, La Malinche, Doña Marina, and Malinalxochitl who was the Nahua interpreter who helped Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés communicate with the native people of Mexico. Upon arriving in indigenous-led cities, they believed she was a goddess blessed with the power to interpret the Spaniards’ intentions for their land. However she’s since gone down in history as the girl who betrayed her country to colonists with the term “malinchista” used to reference someone disloyal to their homeland. Retelling her life in a fantastical setting, Malinalli becomes a young girl, kidnapped into slavery by age twelve, and fighting to survive the devastation wrought by both the Spanish and Moctezuma’s greed and cruelty. Blessed with magical powers, and supported by a close-knit circle of priestesses, Mali vows to help defend her people’s legacy. Compelling and vivid, this is an epic tale of magic, sisterhood, survival, and resilience.
Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa
Release Date: March 11, 2025
Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa follows Gabriel Piña, a goalkeeper at his college and a future Liga MX or MLS star who is identifies as straight. As he starts his freshman year, he’s determined that nothing will distract him from his path to greatness. But everything falls apart when Vale, his philosophy classmate, begins tutoring him in school, especially since they kissed once at a party to help each other out and whose eyes and smile makes Gabriel swoon. As they spend more time together, Gabi begins to realize that he’s not as straight as he thought he was. But he could never reveal his bisexuality to his teammates or community, not in the sport they play, not if he wants to keep his future from being destroyed. Ultimately, he’s faced with the chance to embrace all those parts of himself – who he is, who he’s allowed to be, and who he wants to be – and forge his own path, one that includes a boyfriend and the game he loves.
My Name is Emilia Del Valle by Isabel Allende
Release Date: May 6, 2025
My Name is Emilia Del Valle is the newest novel from prolific Chilean writer Isabel Allende. Set in 1866 San Francisco, the story follows Emilia del Valle, an Irish nun who was abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. Desperate to be a writer, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man’s pen name, then turns to journalism where she’s paired with Eric Whelan, another reporter at The Daily Examiner. When the opportunity arises to cover a brewing civil war in Chile, both she and Eric seize it. When she returns to Chile, she meets her estranged father and delves into the violent confrontation in the country where her roots lie. And, while she and Eric begin to fall in love, the war escalates and Emilia finds herself in extreme danger, fearing for her life and questioning her identity and her destiny.
Get Real, Chloe Torres by Crystal Maldonado
Release Date: May 13, 2025
Get Real, Chloe Torres by Crystal Maldonado (Fat Chance, Charlie Vega) follows the titular character during the end of summer as she turns 18 and gets ready to leave for her freshman year of art school in the fall. The hard part? It also feels like the end of her adolescence, which means it’s time to leave the past behind, including her two best friends Ramona and Sienna, whom she’s been estranged from ever since Ramona kissed Chloe. Instead, Chloe decides to take one more shot to bring the group back together by inviting them on a two-week-long bucket-list road trip, ending at their favorite boy band’s reunion show in Las Vegas. Once they’re on the road, old feelings begin to resurface and before she knows it, Chloe wants Sienna, Ramona wants Chloe, and everything is on fire between the three girls. The book features fat positivity, sapphic romance, ADHD representation, and diverse Latina representation, this is the type of heartfelt rom-com Maldonado is known for.
Bochica by Carolina Florez-Cerchiard
Release Date: May 23, 2025
Set in 1923 Colombia, Bochica by Carolina Florez-Cerchiard follows Antonia, who moves into a mansion above the legendary Salto del Tequendama waterfall with her family despite their constant nightmares and the house’s malevolent spirit. But then her mother takes a fatal fall and her father tries to burn the house down with Antonia inside. Three years later, Antonia is drawn back to her childhood home when it is converted into a luxurious hotel, haunted still by disturbing dreams and her mother’s cryptic journal entries. As she confronts her past memories and researches the dark history and legacy of the estate, she’s finally forced to question whether her mother’s death was by her own hands or by someone else’s.
If We Survive This by Racquel Marie
Release Date: June 17, 2025
If We Survive This by Racquel Marie follows Flora Braddock Paz, a creative who fears death. But somehow, both she and her brother Cain are still alive six months into the global outbreak of a rabies mutation that transforms people into violent, zombie-like “rabids.” Meanwhile, their mom is dead, their dad is still missing, and their suburb has transformed into a ghost town. Together, they decide to travel to Northern California to reach their secluded cabin, which may be the best chance for safety and seeing their dad again. Unfortunately, their journey upstate is complicated by friends, foes, secrets, and painful memories. And ultimately, Flora must accept that no matter how far you run, death is never far behind.
Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr.
Release Date: July 1, 2025
Set in 2018, Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr. follows Ana and Luis, a couple whose relationship is on the rocks despite their many similarities, including their mothers who both fled El Salvador during the war. In her search for answers, and against her best judgement, Ana uses The Defractor, an experimental device that allows users to peek into alternate versions of their lives. What she sees leads her and Luis on a quest through Havana and San Salvador to uncover the family histories they are desperate to know, eager to learn if what might have been could fix what is. Meanwhile, in 1978 Havana, the Salvadoran war is brewing, and Neto, a young revolutionary with a knack for forging government papers, meets Rafael at a meeting for the People’s Revolutionary Army. The two form an intense and forbidden love, shedding their fake names and revealing themselves to each other inside the covert world of their activism. When their work separates them, they begin to exchange weekly letters, but soon, as the devastating war rages on, forces beyond their control threaten to pull them apart forever. This is a stunning story of displacement and belonging, of loss and love, a daring imagining of what might have been and a powerful reckoning of our past.
My Train Leaves at Three by Natalie Guerrero
Release Date: July 8, 2025
My Train Leaves at Three by Natalie Guerrero follows Xiomara, an Afro-Latina singer and actress born and raised in Washington Heights whose entire life falls apart after her sister Nena’s sudden and tragic death. Now reaching her 30s, Xiomara is still living in a tiny apartment with her ultra-Catholic Puerto Rican mother, working two minimum-wage jobs, and engaging in meaningless sex with a string of men. But when she gets an opportunity to audition for up-and-coming director Manny Santos, it finally feels like a chance to pursue the dream she thought she’d left behind. But nothing is that simple and soon she finds herself facing the ugliest sides of the industry and the powerful men that control it, forced to ask herself if she has what it takes to build a new life without losing the truth of her old one.
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Release Date: July 15, 2025
Set in 1990s Massachusetts, The Bewitching is the latest novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which follows Minerva, a graduate student studying the history of horror literature and researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales. As she assembles her thesis, Minerva discovers that Tremblay’s most famous novel was inspired by a true story from decades earlier during the Great Depression when she became obsessed with her roommate, who then disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Soon, Minerva begins to sense a horrible malign force, enacting events that echo the stories that her great-grandmother Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico, where she had a terrifying encounter with a witch. This same shadow may be putting Minerva’s own life at risk, threatening to turn her academic career into an outright deadly pursuit.
Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan
Release Date: July 22, 2025
Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan follows Malamar Veracruz, who has never left the dust-choked town of El Valle, where she’s raised two children, worked hard, and done er best to forget the unexplained disappearance of her sister Elena. When another local girl goes missing, Mal is desperate to find her, only to become increasingly tangled with inscrutable visions of a horse-headed woman, a local legend who Mal feels compelled to follow. Joined by the voices of her two daughters, she works to uncover the truth about the missing girls in their community before it’s too late. Incorporating elements of Latina and Indigenous culture, family drama, mystery, horror, and magical realism, this is a haunting story of environmental catastrophe, family secrets, and the unrelenting bond between mothers and daughters.
The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas
Release Date: August 19, 2025
Set in 1765, The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas follows Alba, who flees her home in Zacatecas with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family’s isolated mine for refuge. But soon, Alba begins suffering from strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent convulsions. She senses something cold, angry, and wrong lurking beneath her skin. Meanwhile, Carlos’s cousin Elías is haunted by a troubled past and has came to the New World to make his fortune and escape his family’s legacy of greed. But he can’t help but notice Alba every time she enters a room or the growing tension between them and how she deteriorates when the demon’s thirst for blood grows stronger. As Alba fights for her life, the two become entangled with the occult, the Church, long-kept secrets, and one another, not knowing that one of these things will spell their doom.
Island Creatures by Margarita Engle
Island Creatures by Margarita Engle follows Vida, who reads to the creatures at the wildlife rescue center she works at and dreams of her childhood in Cuba, where she and her best friend Adán adventured through the island rescuing animals. Meanwhile, Adán has also moved to Florida and is feeling trapped in his new home, buffeted by the stormy fights between his abuelo and papi. When a chance encounter with a captive fox leads to their reunion, the two are able to again find refuge from the cruelty that surrounds them in their rekindled romance. Soon, they begin working together at a zoo that rescues rare species but realize that this peace is only temporary. Because much like the wildlife they want to protect, they’re are caught in a cycle of distrust and heartlessness. As old family grudges and painful memories come to light, they and their families must learn to heal and forgive each other for a brighter, kinder future.
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