Carlos Fuentes

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Holy Place

  • Triple Cross

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  • Terra Nostra

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    Fuentes, Carlos. Terra Nostra. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1976. Large Octavo. 778 pages. Original Hardcover in illustrated dustjacket. Very good or better in about very good dust jacket. Carlos Fuentes Macías About this sound audio (help·info)...

  • Burnt Water

    In Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes, the rich and the poor, the noble and the brutish, and street kids and aesthetes find themselves portrayed in twelve short stories examining the life of Mexico City....

  • Change of Skin

    Second printing, 1978 -- different cover, please see my photo. Clean cover and text, square and tight binding. Price pencil-marked on inside cover. Some cover-wear. Nice copy, from my private library....

  • Aura

    Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young wom...

  • The Hydra Head

    Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a he...

  • The Good Conscience

    The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime Ceballos,...

  • Distant Relations

    Translated by Margaret Sayers PedenDuring a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly'...



  • Where the Air Is Clear

    Where the Air Is Clear, Carlos Fuentes'' first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City''s upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and...

  • Myself with Others

    In Myself with Others, Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics. They include his reflections on his beginning as a writer, his celebrated Harvard University c...

  • Christopher Unborn

    The first baby born on the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America narrates the history of his family and that of overpopulated, crime-torn Mexico City, a city about to be destroyed by pollution and fire...

  • Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins

    Renowned as a novelist of unsurpassed invention, Carlos Fuentes here presents his second collection of stories to appear in English. Where his first, Burnt Water, published in 1980, had as its underlying theme Mexico City itself, Constancia and Othe...

  • The Death of Artemio Cruz

    Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes's haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico. Its acknowledged place in Latin American fiction and its appeal to a fresh generation of readers have...

  • The Campaign

    Baltasar Bustos sets out across Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, and Mexico on a public and personal campaign of redemption in a novel set during Spanish America's struggle for independence. By the author of Christopher Unborn. Reprint....

  • The Old Gringo

    "The fate of journalist Ambrose Bierce has intrigued literate Americans since 1914 when he vanished in Mexico. Now Carlos Fuentes has spun an opalescent novel around the mystery."Evan S. Connell, Los Angeles Times...

  • The Orange Tree

    A collection of five novellas follows the story of Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean, the fate of Herna+a7n Cortes's two sons, the destruction of the Spanish city of Numantia by the Romans, and the annihilation of Hollywood by Acapulco. Reprint....

  • The Picador Book of Latin American Stories

  • Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone

    This is an exploration of love, lust and betrayal. The central character is Diana Soren, an elegy for a decade that refused to die. She is a predator set on self-destruction, and a casualty of her own times and beauty. Carlos Fuentes is the author of...



  • La Muerte de Artemio Cruz

  • The Crystal Frontier

    From Mexico’s preeminent man of letters, “a Balzacian novel in nine masterly stories” (Vanity Fair) that explores the “uneven and painful meshing of two North american cultures” (Washington Post Book World). A New York Times Notable Book of...

  • The Buried Mirror

    As the Los Angeles Times said: "Drawing expertly on five centuries of the cultural history of Europe and the Americas, Fuentes seeks to capture the spirit of the new, vibrant, and enduring civilization [in the New World] that began in Spain." Fuentes...

  • The Years with Laura Diaz

    Like Fuentes's masterpiece THE DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ, the action in this new novel begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City. Now the principal figure Fuentes's first female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz. From 1905 to 1978 ...

  • The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories

    In The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single p...

  • Inez

    In this magical story of love and art, life and death, Carlos Fuentes entwines two narratives: one tells of the passion of orchestra conductor Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara for red-haired Mexican diva, Inez Prada; the other of the first encounter in human hi...

  • This I Believe

    In a series of inspired meditations and polemics, Fuentes explores and celebrates subjects as disparate as 'Balzac' and 'Beauty'; 'Reading' and 'Revolution'; 'Sex' and 'Shakespeare'. The essays are woven together with the familiar Fuentes themes of p...

  • The Eagle's Throne

    Here is a true literary event -- the long-awaited new novel by Carlos Fuentes, one of the world's great writers. By turns a tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics, The Eagle's Throne is a seriously entertaini...

  • Happy Families

    The internationally acclaimed author Carlos Fuentes, winner of the Cervantes Prize and the Latin Civilization Award, delivers a stunning work of fiction about family and love across an expanse of Mexican life, reminding us why he has been called "a c...

  • Destiny and Desire

    Carlos Fuentes, one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel -- a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will...



  • Vlad

    Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won't mind a few disappearances? "Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose myth...

  • Adam in Eden

    In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden--but there are snakes in this Eden too. For one thing, Adam's wife Prisci...

  • A New Time for Mexico

    Fuentes discusses the origins and nature of Mexico's political system and the unforeseen, tumultuous events that began in 1994 with the rebellion in Chiapas and continued with a rash of assassinations, the break between presidents Salinas and Zedillo...

  • Nietzsche on His Balcony

    On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below ...

  • Nietzsche on the Balcony

    On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below ...

  • A Very Mexican Christmas

    This seventh installment in our beloved Very Christmas series is a celebration of the Mexican Yuletide spirit. Replete with mouthwatering Nochebuena meals, mysterious felines, multicolored boxes, marvelous sweet rolls, and many a bedside tale, A Very...

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carlos Fuentes has published 36 books.

Carlos Fuentes does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Very Mexican Christmas, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Carlos Fuentes, Holy Place, was published in January 1972.

No. Carlos Fuentes does not write books in series.
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