Pablo Medina Books in Order

Pablo Medina has written 11 books, published between 1990 and 2019. The first book is Exiled Memories (1990) and the newest is The Cuban Comedy (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1990–2019
Total pages
1,809 across 11 books
Reading time
30–45 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,809 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute.

Pablo Medina is a Cuban American poet and novelist. Medina is a professor at Emerson College, in its Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing, and directs the MFA program there. The catalogue lists 11 books from Exiled Memories (1990) to The Cuban Comedy (2019), including Arching Into the Afterlife (1991), The Marks of Birth (1994), The Cigar Roller (2005) and Cubop City Blues (2012). Subject headings cover Cuban Americans, immigrants, New York City, childhood and youth, and poetry by one author.

How many Pablo Medina books are there?

Pablo Medina has 11 books, released between 1990 and 2019.

Pablo Medina Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Pablo Medina books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    Exiled Memories1990 · 119 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990119
  2. 2
    Arching Into the Afterlife1991 · 83 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199183
  3. 3
    The Marks of Birth1994 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994288
  4. 4
    The Floating Island1999 · 104 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999104
  5. 5
    The Return of Felix Nogara2000 · 278 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000278
  6. 6
    Points of Balance2005 · 130 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005130
  7. 7
    The Cigar Roller2005 · 178 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005178
  8. 8
    The Man Who Wrote on Water2011 · 102 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011102
  9. 9
    Cubop City Blues2012 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012260
  10. 10
    The Island Kingdom2015 · 75 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201575
  11. 11
    The Cuban Comedy2019 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019192

Pablo Medina books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

11 books

11 Pablo Medina titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Pablo Medina books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 11 Pablo Medina books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Pablo Medina

Start with Exiled Memories (1990), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Pablo Medina book?

The Cuban Comedy (2019) is the newest Pablo Medina book released so far.

Is there a new Pablo Medina book coming?

No next Pablo Medina book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Pablo Medina at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Pablo Medina title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Pablo Medina books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,809 pages across all 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 130 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Pablo Medina books, 4 of 11, were published in the 2010s.

What the Pablo Medina books are about

All 11 Pablo Medina books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: cuban americans is tagged on 4 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Cuban Americans 4 of 11 books
  • Immigrants 3 of 11 books
  • Caribbean Americans 2 of 11 books
  • New York (N.Y.) 2 of 11 books
  • Poetry 2 of 11 books
  • Social life and customs 2 of 11 books