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The Grand Paloma Resort
Los abismos
Big Chicas Don't Cry
Too Soon for Adiós
The Witches of El Paso
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color
Puerto Rico: A National History
Loca
House of Bone and Rain
First Gen: A Memoir
Chicano Frankenstein
There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: A Collection of Short Stories of Fantasy, Migration, and Central American Identity
Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams
My Mother Cursed My Name
The Volcano Daughters
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
In the Time of the Butterflies
Like Water for Chocolate
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
The Poet X
Moon Called by Patricia BriggsCry Wolf by Patricia BriggsValentine by Julie ManninoLittle Red Riding Hood by Julie ManninoAngel Devil by Julie Mannino
Diverse Genre Romances
278 books — 77 voters
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieMore Happy Than Not by Adam SilveraThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasEverything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
MG/YA/NA #ownvoices
483 books — 437 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
1,307 books — 1,560 voters
Don't Date Rosa Santos by Nina MorenoChilling Effect by Valerie ValdesWoven in Moonlight by Isabel IbañezDealing in Dreams by Lilliam RiveraTeen Titans by Kami Garcia
Books by Latinx to be Released in 2019
108 books — 65 voters

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
474 books — 187 voters
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaGods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-GarciaWith the Fire on High by Elizabeth AcevedoClap When You Land by Elizabeth AcevedoThe Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
[ATY 2022] Latin American Authors
189 books — 103 voters

Julissa  Arce
We live in a country where there are more than 60 million Latinos, making up almost a fifth of the American population. But we aren't the ones narrating our own story; rather we became subjects at the mercy of someone else finding us worthy of taking up space in the world. Until our history, struggles, and unique experiences are unearthed, the whole country will suffer because the American story will remain incomplete. It's incredible what our people have survived in this country, and how little ...more
Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

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

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