Hispanic Heritage Month has been observed since 1968 from September 15th– through October 15th. It celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Americans whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. This list includes various nonfiction titles, cookbooks, as well as fiction titles written by Latinx authors or featuring Latinx main characters.
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This book list was created by MR and uploaded on 9/11/20
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
A National Book Award Longlist title! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her s
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Elizabeth Acevedo
'A delicious, evocative story' THE GUARDIAN From the author of THE POET X comes a sumptuous prose novel, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas' On the Come Up, Justin Reynolds' Opposite of Always and Nicola Yoon Ever since she got preg
Read More View in CatalogIn the Midst of Winter
Isabel Allende
New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil that offers “a timely message about immigration and the m
Read More View in CatalogPortrait in Sepia
Isabel Allende
Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia is a stunning novel about memory and family secrets Set at the end of the nineteenth century, Portrait in Sepia is a richl
Read More View in CatalogMaya’s Notebook
Isabel Allende
From the author of ‘The House of Spirits’ – teenage Maya is in trouble. She’s an alcoholic, an addict and deeply involved with a criminal gang. How did it all go so wrong?
View in CatalogIn the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not
Read More View in CatalogSaving the World
Julia Alvarez
Suffering from writer's block, Alma finds herself enamored of a story she stumbles upon which involves Isabel, director of La Casa De Expositos, who selected twenty-two orphan boys to be live carriers of the smallpox vaccine in 1803.
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Jon Lee Anderson
“A remarkable accomplishment, one that belongs next to such works of graphical history as the March series and Shigeru Mizuki's Showa books. By foregrounding the tension between myth and truth, Che illuminates the present state of our politics
Read More View in CatalogSilver, Sword and Stone
Marie Arana
SILVER, SWORD AND STONE is a vibrant, sweeping history of Latin America, told through three compelling lenses. The first, precious metal, of which silver is an enormous part, is an obsession that burned brightly in pre-Columbian times, consumed Spain
Read More View in CatalogThe Prince of los Cocuyos
Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco's prismatic and lyrical memoir of growing up in a family of Cuban exiles in Miami during the 1970s and '80s, The Prince of los Cocuyos, is a rich account of how Blanco, the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet of the Un
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Lourdes Castro
A James Beard Foundation associate and high-profile Latin personal chef presents a tribute to traditional Latin-American grilling that shares professional tips on ingredients and techniques, sharing recipes for such fare as Skewered Shrimp With Cocon
Read More View in CatalogHave You Seen Marie?
Sandra Cisneros
Have You Seen Marie? showcases the storytelling magic of Sandra Cisneros, beloved author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2018 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. This lyrically told, richly illustrated fable
Read More View in CatalogThe House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness
View in CatalogThe Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation. “Karla’s book sheds light on people’s personal expe
Read More View in CatalogMake Your Home Among Strangers
Jennine Capó Crucet
Lizet, a daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school, secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college. Her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami, and amid a painful divorce, her father
Read More View in CatalogMy Time Among the Whites
Jennine Capó Crucet
From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on being an “accidental” American—an incisive look at the edges of identity for a woman of color in a society centered on whiteness In this sharp and candid collection of essays, critica
Read More View in CatalogDominicana
Angie Cruz
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 'A story for now, an important story . . . told with incredible freshness' Martha Lane Fox, Chair of Judges, Women's Prize 2020 'The harsh reality of immigration is balanced
Read More View in CatalogClaire of the Sea Light
Edwidge Danticat
Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny fishing town of Ville Rose, Haiti, she and her father are not the only ones to have experienced loss. As the poor townspeople
Read More View in CatalogEverything Inside
Edwidge Danticat
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love. AUGUST 2020 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD W
Read More View in CatalogSpare Parts
Joshua Davis
Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of
Read More View in CatalogThe Invisible Mountain
Carolina De Robertis
On the first day of the year 1900, a small town deep in the Uruguayan countryside gathers to witness a miracle—the mysterious reappearance Pajarita, a lost infant who will grow up to begin a lineage of fiercely independent women. Her daughter, Eva,
Read More View in CatalogThis Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz
Finalist for the 2012 National Book Award A Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012 Finalist for the 2012 Story Prize Chosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Ama
Read More View in CatalogThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Daz
Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. A first novel by the au
Read More View in CatalogLike Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother.
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Laura Esquivel, Margaret Sayers Peden
After one night of passion, Azucena, an astroanalyst in twenty-third-century Mexico City, is separated from her Twin Soul, Rodrigo, and journeys across the galaxy and through past lives to find her lost love, encountering a deadly enemy along the way
View in CatalogOur America: A Hispanic History of the United States
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
“A rich and moving chronicle for our very present.” —Julio Ortega, New York Times Book Review The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English
Read More View in CatalogDestiny and Desire
Carlos Fuentes
The severed head of Josuäae Nadal, floating in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Mexico, remembers his life, friends, enemies, and lovers, and his involvement in the drug trade and the corruption frequently encountered in his country.
View in CatalogCollected Stories
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama's Funeral, and The I
Read More View in CatalogOf Love and Other Demons
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hy
Read More View in CatalogChronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'On the day they were going t
Read More View in CatalogWoven in Moonlight
Isabel Ibañez
A lush tapestry of magic, romance, and revolución, drawing inspiration from Bolivian politics and history. “A vibrant feast of a book.” – Margaret Rogerson, NYT bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens “Pure magic.” – Shelby Mahuri
Read More View in CatalogDefinitely Hispanic
LeJuan James
Perfect for fans of Fresh Off the Boat’s situational humor and Jane the Virgin’s celebration of Latinidad, Definitely Hispanic is a collection of introspective memoiristic essays by social media influencer and viral phenomenon LeJuan James about
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Ray Loriga
From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that “calls to mind The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago” (Alfaguara Prize
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Valeria Luiselli
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE One of The New York Time
Read More View in CatalogBlanca & Roja
Anna-Marie McLemore
The biggest lie of all is the story you think you already know. The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they’re also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old
Read More View in CatalogMidnight Taxi Tango
Daniel Jose Older
"Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York's ghostlier problems. This time it's a string of gruesome paranormal accidents in Brooklyn
Read More View in CatalogAn African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history
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Michael Reid
A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin Am
Read More View in CatalogDealing in Dreams
Lilliam Rivera
“A novel exploration of societal roles, gender, and equality.” —School Library Journal (starred review) The Outsiders meets Mad Max: Fury Road in this “daring and dramatic” (Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling) dystopian novel about si
Read More View in CatalogThe Pregnancy Project
Gaby Rodriguez
The teenager famed for faking a pregnancy as part of a social experiment describes the family and cultural history of teen pregnancy that shaped her life, her observations about how she was treated when she pretended to be pregnant and her feelings a
Read More View in CatalogCocina Latina
Raquel Roque
¡Más de 400 recetas de toda latinoamérica! Dichosa soy yo. Desde que llegue de Cuba hace mas de cuarenta años, he vivido en Miami. Me encanta esta ciudad, mi ciudad, porque siempre he tenido la oportunidad de conocer a primera mano la cultura, la
Read More View in CatalogAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
This Printz Honor Book is a “tender, honest exploration of identity” (Publishers Weekly) that distills lyrical truths about family and friendship. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way
Read More View in CatalogThe Good Immigrant
Nikesh Shukla, Chimene Suleyman
By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of modern America (The Washington Post). From Trump's proposed bor
Read More View in CatalogThe Hummingbird's Daughter
Luis Alberto Urrea
Prizewinning Louis Alberto Urrea's much praised novel of epic mystical drama, in which a young woman is elevated to the status of sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico. 'Dreamy, telegraphic and quietly lyrical. Like a vast mural, the book d
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Luis Alberto Urrea
At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny, Queen of America tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The H
Read More View in CatalogThe Discreet Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa
A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Feast of the Goat.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Returning to her native Domincan Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral, discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called the Goat by the Domincans, still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with brutal
Read More View in CatalogThe Grief Keeper
Alexandra Villasante
After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.
View in CatalogThe Penguin History Of Latin America
Edwin Williamson
Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization
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