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17 voters
Chicana Books
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,760 ratings — published 1987
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.68 — 244,705 ratings — published 1984
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,379 ratings — published 1991
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,863 ratings — published 1981
Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.18 — 450 ratings — published 1994
Caramelo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,316 ratings — published 2002
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.87 — 79,774 ratings — published 2019
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.24 — 169 ratings — published 1998
The House of Broken Angels (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,429 ratings — published 2018
Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.91 — 222 ratings — published 2016
The Mixquiahuala Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.88 — 992 ratings — published 1986
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.09 — 598 ratings — published 2006
Under the Feet of Jesus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.61 — 4,189 ratings — published 1995
So Far from God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,709 ratings — published 1993
Mother Tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.82 — 678 ratings — published 1990
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,230 ratings — published 1994
Loving in the War Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,072 ratings — published 1983
All's Fair in Love and Field Hockey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.60 — 697 ratings — published 2025
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.66 — 456,251 ratings — published 2020
Goddess of Filth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.57 — 10,046 ratings — published 2021
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,927 ratings — published 2015
Violeta (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.03 — 111,255 ratings — published 2022
More Than You'll Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.72 — 25,925 ratings — published 2022
Street of Too Many Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published
Blood Mountain (Jodi Luna, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,290 ratings — published 2024
The Haunting of Alejandra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.64 — 9,497 ratings — published 2023
The Last Karankawas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,198 ratings — published 2022
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.59 — 279 ratings — published
Through Fences (Latinographix)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.26 — 82 ratings — published
Caballero: A Historical Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.71 — 229 ratings — published 1996
Warrior Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.99 — 404 ratings — published 2022
Frida Kahlo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.95 — 22 ratings — published 2003
House of Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.97 — 38 ratings — published 1997
Frida Kahlo: A Little Golden Book Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.55 — 172 ratings — published
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,970 ratings — published 2004
Tell Me a Riddle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,631 ratings — published 1961
Omega Morales and the Legend of La Lechuza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.21 — 190 ratings — published 2022
Crying in the Bathroom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,788 ratings — published 2022
Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House (Adventures in Art)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.90 — 39 ratings — published 2003
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,986 ratings — published 2022
Dominicana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.11 — 38,422 ratings — published 2019
The Valley: Estampas del valle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.89 — 38 ratings — published 2014
The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.30 — 126 ratings — published 1995
El Mesquite: A Story of the Early Spanish Settlements Between the Nueces and the Rio Grande (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.86 — 115 ratings — published 2000
My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.94 — 189 ratings — published 1994
Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.55 — 260 ratings — published 1995
Dreams of the Centaur (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.07 — 58 ratings — published 1996
Salt of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 1977
Crossing Borders: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.99 — 71 ratings — published 2011
“When the article, "The Woman of La Raza" came out as a result of the 1969 Chicano Conference, I experienced repercussions because I wrote about The Woman. Instead of being intimidated, I felt it necessary to write a whole book on La Mujer.”
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“In challenging traditional gender relations, many Chicana activists were accused of being lesbians, 'white identified,' narcissistic, and antifamily.”
― The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity
― The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity













