Chicana


Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
The House on Mango Street
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
Caramelo
Gods of Jade and Shadow
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
The House of Broken Angels
Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me
The Mixquiahuala Letters
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Under the Feet of Jesus
So Far from God
Mother Tongue
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelPrayers for the Stolen by Jennifer ClementSend More Idiots by Tony Perez-GieseAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Books Set in Mexico
479 books — 188 voters
Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaJuliet Takes a Breath by Gabby RiveraChicana Lesbians by Carla TrujilloGulf Dreams by Emma PérezThe Last Generation by Cherríe L. Moraga
Chicana/Latina Lesbian Books
87 books — 36 voters

The Kaleidoscope by Adrian MendozaEl Teatro de los Monstruos by Viviana CorderoPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosMemories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
Hispanic Lit
63 books — 46 voters
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée AhdiehThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. JemisinKindred by Octavia E. ButlerWho Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Fantasy Novels by Women of Color
262 books — 194 voters

You have no reason to have depression haunting you. These words are so shapeless. So tasteless. If they were true then, why do I feel like this?
Cynthia Cisneros, Burned Tongues: Poems

Protesting this war, Chicano/as rose to condemn the killing fields with the slogan "Raza Si, Guerra No,” we wanted our young men here fighting for justice instead of in a faraway war. (From The Women of Raza) ...more
Enriqueta Vasquez

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