New titles by both local and international writers will be a treat that avid readers look forward to the opening of the sixth Ho Chi Minh Book Fair later this month.

The number of stands will increase by 15 percent over last year to 384 and 31 foreign publishers from the UK, the US, France, China, Germany, Spain and other countries will participate in the event.

Vinabooks, the country’s biggest online bookstore, will introduce Pulitzer-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz, which rankes among top ten works of the decade.

Translations of a three part detective series by Ireland’s Benjamin Black and a cowboy trio by American’s Comac McCarthy will also make their debut at the event by courtesy of Vinabook.

Chibooks, which is taking part in the event for the first time, will showcase two heavyweights including the US’s Rick Riordan’s The Lightning of Thief, which was adapted to become a Holywood blockbuster and Chinese writer Mo Yan’s The Frog, known as China’s best seller.