The House on Mango Street in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Mar 14, 2025 Maria rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2025, library, audiobook, classics

A very touching book narrated by the author. Beautiful storytelling that gives a glimpse into lives very unlike my own.

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Oct 15, 2023 Akilah rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2023, 2023-10, global-majority, reread, 59, short-stories, sabbatical, episodic-vignettes

I am reading interlinked short story collections (short story cycles) as part of my sabbatical research.

I read this book a billion years ago in undergrad, and I didn't remember much about the individual vignettes so much as how they made me feel. I remembered Mango Street, sadness, and wanting. I knew it was about the different people Esperanza encountered during her time in the house and that she shared her understanding of the world through these stories. I will say that there is a lot more I ...more

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Sep 27, 2018 Amanda rated it really liked it

I read The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, which is technically a novel, but read a like a series of microstories about a girl named Esperanza who grows up in the titular house in Chicago's Latino section. The writing is beautiful, nearly poetry, and the slim book itself is a delicate gem. ...more

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Mar 23, 2019 Roman Colombo rated it it was amazing

I never read this for school, but always heard how incredible it was, so I got the audiobook where Sandra Cisneros reads it herself. Not only is it as beautiful as people say it is, bit Cisneros is a magnificent reader. To some, saying that the author is great at reading her own work sounds obvious, but many authors are just not good at it. Cisneros is amazing, and brings her book to life in a way only her voice can.

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