Marcela Fuentes, author portrait
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Marcela Fuentes

Marcela Fuentes is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review, Texas Highways, Ploughshares, and other journals. Her debut novel, Malas, was a Good Morning America Book Club pick for June 2024, and was longlisted for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her linked story collection, My Heart Has More Rooms Than a Whorehouse is forthcoming from Viking. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

Books

Malas: A GMA Book Club Pick

What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2024-25

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 340 programs and their title selections from publicly available sources, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this

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2025 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2025! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about science, technology, history, student success, the environment, public health, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages,

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