Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juan Rulfo’s Mexico | 1984 | Carlos Fuentes | Buy |
| 2 | The Buried Mirror | 1992 | Carlos Fuentes | Buy |
| 3 | A New Time for Mexico | 1994 | Carlos Fuentes | Buy |
| 4 | The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait | 1995 | Carlos Fuentes | Buy |
| 5 | Voluptuario | 1996 | Carlos Fuentes | Buy |
| 6 | Territories of Time | 2003 | Carlos Fuentes | Buy |
| 7 | This I Believe | 2004 | Carlos Fuentes | Buy |
| 8 | Frida Kahlo: National Homage 1907-2007 | 2008 | Carlos Fuentes | Buy |
| 9 | Fragile Demon: Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935 to 1950 | 2008 | Carlos Fuentes | Buy |
This collection of non-fiction works by Carlos Fuentes spans his career as an essayist and cultural commentator. The Buried Mirror (1992) is his most widely read non-fiction book, offering a sweeping history of Hispanic culture from pre-Columbian civilizations through the late twentieth century. It was published alongside a BBC documentary series that Fuentes narrated.
His other non-fiction ranges from political analysis in A New Time for Mexico to art criticism in works devoted to Frida Kahlo and Juan Soriano. This I Believe (2004) is a more personal work in which Fuentes reflects on the ideas and values that shaped his life and writing. These books complement his fiction by making explicit the historical and cultural concerns that run through his novels in more indirect ways.