Publisher's Weekly's 10 Essential 21st-Century Spanish-Language Books

This is a list of books available in translation on the American market, but written originally in Spanish since 2000 by young authors who have already shrugged off the insidious label of "promising" to become the real thing.

They are works of fiction and autofiction, novels and short story collections that I have found stimulating. I have chosen young writers because I feel it would be more interesting for readers to explore new directions than for me to focus on authors who are already part of the literary canon, and so familiar to a great many people.

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