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Big Chicas Don't Cry
The Grand Paloma Resort
Los abismos
Too Soon for Adiós
Puerto Rico: A National History
Literatura infantil
House of Bone and Rain
The Witches of El Paso
First Gen: A Memoir
Loca
The Volcano Daughters
Las Madres
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color
Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The House on Mango Street
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The House of the Spirits
Love in the Time of Cholera
Like Water for Chocolate
In the Time of the Butterflies
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Mexican Gothic
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
Pedro Páramo
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Esperanza Rising
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Vintage International)
The Poet X
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelPrayers for the Stolen by Jennifer ClementSend More Idiots by Tony Perez-GieseMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Highlander by Zoe Saadia
Books Set in Mexico
479 books — 188 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,013 books — 1,454 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Hispanic Fiction
264 books — 95 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,348 books — 1,589 voters

Julissa  Arce
Why don't you speak English? Why don't you speak Spanish? Being Latino in America means the answer to both of these questions holds us to an impossible standard to prove we're both sufficiently American and authentically Latino. I am tired of the interrogation, the unattainableness, the in-betweenness. I am enough to stand on both sides, fully and completely. ...more
Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

Luis J. Rodríguez
...saying her name the way she did, it felt like being baptized all over again.
Luis J. Rodríguez, The Republic of East L.A.

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