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Books Written by Hispanic & Latina/o/x Authors

Leave Your Mess at Home

Leave Your Mess at Home

A debut about the uncomfortable, unbreakable ties of family as four adult siblings come home to confront the state of their own lives and each other. The Longe siblings are...

We Are Green and Trembling

We Are Green and Trembling

Lyrical and swashbuckling, tender and surreal, Gabriela Cabezón Camara’s new novel finds glimmers of hope for the future in the brutal history of colonial Latin America. Deep in the wilds...

Last Night in Brooklyn

Last Night in Brooklyn

A young woman whose life becomes ensnared in her glamorous neighbor’s secret past. SPRING, 2007 At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She’s in a long-distance relationship,...

Autobiography of Cotton

Autobiography of Cotton

In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers’ strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel, Human Mourning. In her...

My Chicano Heart

My Chicano Heart

My Chicano Heart is a collection of author Daniel A. Olivas’s favorite previously published tales about love, along with five new stories, that explore the complex, mysterious, and occasionally absurd...

Chicano Frankenstein

Chicano Frankenstein

A modern retelling of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley classic that addresses issues of belonging and assimilation. An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a...

Vampires of El Norte

Vampires of El Norte

Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda. As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico,...

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom

Demons clash with inheritance claims as secrets unfold and violence is unleashed over twelve harrowing hours trapped in a house with the worst thing imaginable: family. When Papi Ramon, the...

Burn Down, Rise Up

Burn Down, Rise Up

Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. For over a year, the Bronx has been...

We Could Be Anyone

We Could Be Anyone

Two teen con-artists must execute an almost impossible scam at an exclusive mansion in this teen thriller. Lola and I grew up hearing that we could become anything, but our...

If We Never End

If We Never End

An epic romance spanning life and death, from New York Times bestselling author Laura Taylor Namey. Sylvie Castellano is used to goodbyes. Every summer, her friends leave to vacation at...

I Didn’t Do It

I Didn’t Do It

A YA thriller about the daughter of a killer who must prove her innocence after a night of fun turns deadly. Dina Soto is used to laying low. Ever since...

Cursed Ever After

Cursed Ever After

Cursed Ever After is a dazzling romantic fantasy debut brimming with snark, humor, and banter-filled romance. Love is not for cursed girls. Risa is better off without it. Risa Porto...

Estela, Undrowning

Estela, Undrowning

In her raw and resonant debut novel, René Peña-Govea seamlessly interweaves prose and poetry to uplift the power of language, the courage to fight injustice, and the complex beauty of...

Carnival Fantástico

Carnival Fantástico

An unputdownable romantasy following a young woman posing as fortune-teller at a magical traveling carnival, where the handsome boy who once broke her heart resurfaces and warns her that the...

We Don’t Swim Here

We Don’t Swim Here

She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay. Bronwyn is only supposed to be in rural Hillwoods for a year. Her grandmother...

We Came to Welcome You

We Came to Welcome You

A spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated “community” that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread, We...

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, Book 1

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, Book 1

Paris, 1889 The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe…including Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Caña Brava rum empire. Luz Alana set sail from...

The Island Princess Starts a Scandal, Book 2

The Island Princess Starts a Scandal, Book 2

One last summer. For Manuela del Carmen Caceres Galvan, the invitation to show her paintings at the 1889 Exposition Universelle came at the perfect time. Soon to be trapped in...

This Is the Only Kingdom

This Is the Only Kingdom

From the Whiting Award-winning author Jaquira Díaz, an epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tightknit, working-class...

The Starter Ex

The Starter Ex

The best worst girlfriend finally meets her match . . . Vanessa Cordero used to run a profitable side gig: For a reasonable fee, she’d date your crush . ....

A Sea of Lemon Trees

A Sea of Lemon Trees

Based on the true story of Roberto Alvarez and the Lemon Grove Incident, this vivid and uplifting middle grade debut novel in verse about one young child’s courage to stand...

Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2023

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture, home, and belonging. “We, children of plátanos, always gotta learn to play in everyone else’s backyard and somehow...

The Influencers: A Novel

The Influencers: A Novel

A social media influencer’s empire is burned to the ground—literally. The top suspects? The five daughters who made her famous. What do you really know about the people you’ve made...

American Negra

American Negra

Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part...

Somewhere, There Is Someone

Somewhere, There Is Someone

This book explores different achievements, skills, and activities for children to learn about and enjoy. Diversity and differences are celebrated. The story encourages conversation and self-reflection for children. Throughout the...

A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke, Book 3

A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke, Book 3

He’s not like other dukes… Paris, 1889 Physician Aurora Montalban Wright takes risks in her career, but never with her heart. Running an underground women’s clinic exposes her to certain...

A Woman of Endurance

A Woman of Endurance

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear...

Las Madres

Las Madres

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing...

La Hacienda

La Hacienda

A debut supernatural suspense novel by Isabel Cañas, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into...

I Am, Yo Soy

I Am, Yo Soy

A lyrical dual-lingual picture book about the beauty of being part of two cultures. I’m from here y soy de allá. With lyrical text in English and Spanish, this vibrant...

Little Rebels

Little Rebels

Do you know a little rebel? Do you want to be a rebel, too? A powerful new picture book from Caldecott Honoree Yuyi Morales, creator of Dreamers and Bright Star....

Danilo Was Here

Danilo Was Here

From the acclaimed author Tamika Burgess comes a timely coming-of-age story about a young boy’s fight to save his family and his dreams in the aftermath of the US military...

Dreaming of a Quinceañera

Dreaming of a Quinceañera

A warm tale about celebrating sisterly love, family, and quinceañeras by Yamile Saied Méndez. Two sisters, Ellie and Isabella, have been dreaming of Isabella’s quinceañera for months and now the...

I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

The Emmy Award-winning legal journalist and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney...

Once I Was You — Adapted for Young Readers: Finding My Voice and Passing the Mic

Once I Was You — Adapted for Young Readers: Finding My Voice and Passing the Mic

“There is no such thing as an illegal human being.” Maria Hinojosa is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, a bestselling author, and was the first Latina to found a national independent...

For A Girl Becoming

For A Girl Becoming

From United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and Pura Belpré Award–winning illustrator Adriana Garcia: a luminous benediction for a girl’s journey through life, and a celebration of our connections to...

Hades, Argentina

Hades, Argentina

A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love. In 1976, Tomás Orilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where...

Where There Was Fire

Where There Was Fire

A lush and atmospheric novel about three generations of a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias. Costa Rica, 1968. When a...

Daughters of the Stone

Daughters of the Stone

A lyrical powerful novel about a family of Afro-Puerto Rican women spanning five generations, detailing their physical and spiritual journey from the Old World to the New. It is the...

The Volcano Daughters

The Volcano Daughters

A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide—which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco’s Cannery Row—each haunted along the way by the ghosts...

Libertad

Libertad

A queer YA coming-of-age set during the rigged Honduran presidential election.

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Tell It to Me Singing

Tell It to Me Singing

A debut novel about a Cuban American family sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter. Travel from Miami to...

You Glow in the Dark

You Glow in the Dark

Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a nearly radioactive power. The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark...

Soldiers and Kings

Soldiers and Kings

An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur “genius” grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access. Political instability, poverty, climate...

A Sunny Place for Shady People

A Sunny Place for Shady People

On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women....

Catalina

Catalina

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future,...

Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire

Electric, disturbing, and exhilarating, the stories of Things We Lost in the Fire explore multiple dimensions of life and death in contemporary Argentina. Each haunting tale simmers with the nation’s...

American Diva

American Diva

An impassioned homage to the divas who shake up our world and transform it with their bold, dazzling artistry. What does it mean to be a “diva”? A shifting, increasingly...

Death Takes Me

Death Takes Me

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana’s Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence. A city is...

All Friends Are Necessary

All Friends Are Necessary

Efren “Chino” Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. In Washington, he was an adored middle school biology teacher with a...

Woman of Light

Woman of Light

A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of...

Inward

Inward

“i closed my eyes to look inward and found a universe waiting to be explored” From poet, meditator, and speaker Yung Pueblo, comes the first in series, a collection of...

A Proposal They Can’t Refuse, Book 1

A Proposal They Can’t Refuse, Book 1

Natalie Caña turns up the heat, humor and heart in this debut rom-com about a Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller forced into a fake engagement by...

Clarity & Connection

Clarity & Connection

From the celebrated author of Inward comes the second in series, a collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. In Clarity...

Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice

Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice

Creating the world you want to live in takes guts and grace and everything you’ve got. To heal the world, though, you’ve also got to find healing yourself. You’ve got...

The Way Forward

The Way Forward

The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes...

Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

A radically compassionate plan for turning inward and lifting the heaviness that prevents us from healing ourselves and the world, from the New York Times bestselling author of Clarity &...

Trust

Trust

Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the...

Shut Up, This is Serious

Shut Up, This is Serious

An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that the world is brimming with messy complexities, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo...

A Dish Best Served Hot, Book 2

A Dish Best Served Hot, Book 2

Santiago “Saint” Vega gets a second shot at love with Lola León, but when duty to his family forces him to do something she’ll never forgive, will everything he’s built...

Sleeping with the Frenemy, Book 3

Sleeping with the Frenemy, Book 3

The third book in the riotously funny Vega Family Love Stories finds self-assured firefighter Leo Vega trying to reignite a flame that’s gone cold and finally bring his secret love...

Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. “My name is Cristina Rivera Garza,” she...

Tripas: Poems

Tripas: Poems

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2023

With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who...

Oye

Oye

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you won’t want to hang up on. “Yes, hi, Mari. It’s me. I’m over my...

The Great Divide

The Great Divide

A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there. It is said that the canal will be...

Blackouts

Blackouts

“Like no book I have ever read.” ―Ari Shapiro, NPR’s All Things Considered Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying...

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Literary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel...

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious...

Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico

Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico

Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument. Growing up in Yakima, Washington,...

Juliet Takes a Breath

Juliet Takes a Breath

Juliet Milagros Palante is a self-proclaimed closeted Puerto Rican baby dyke from the Bronx. Only, she’s not so closeted anymore. Not after coming out to her family the night before...

Olga Dies Dreaming

Olga Dies Dreaming

It’s 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo, are boldfaced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in...

Family Lore

Family Lore

From National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its women. Flor has a gift: she can predict, to...

Lessons on Expulsion

Lessons on Expulsion

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2017

Poet, novelist, and essayist Erika L. Sánchez’s powerful debut poetry collection explores what it means to live on both sides of the border―the border between countries, languages, despair and possibility,...

Mexican Gothic

Mexican Gothic

An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes...

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

For generations, Brown girls have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism, often feeling alone in the struggle. By founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez...

Crying in the Bathroom

Crying in the Bathroom

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is hilarious. Growing up...

You Sound Like A White Girl

You Sound Like A White Girl

Bestselling author Julissa Arce calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans in this powerful polemic against...

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “stunning” (America Ferrera) YA novel about a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and...

The Poet X

The Poet X

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells...

Inheritance: A Visual Poem

Inheritance: A Visual Poem

They tell me to “fix” my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do you fix this shipwrecked history of hair? In her most famous...

With the Fire on High

With the Fire on High

From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a...

No Filter and Other Lies

No Filter and Other Lies

You should know, right now, that I’m a liar. They’re usually little lies. Tiny lies. Baby lies. Not so much lies as lie adjacent. But they’re still lies… Golden-haired Max...

The Lost Dreamer

The Lost Dreamer

A lush, immersive debut fantasy about a group of women whose way of life is threatened by a new king; a fierce celebration of community, sisterhood, and finding our power....

They Could Have Named Her Anything

They Could Have Named Her Anything

Racism, class, and betrayal collide in this poignant debut novel about restoring the broken bonds of family and friendship. Every morning, seventeen-year-old Maria Anís Rosario takes the subway an hour...

The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the...

Clap When You Land

Clap When You Land

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness,...

Islandborn

Islandborn

Every kid in Lola’s school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when Lola’s teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their...

Dreamers

Dreamers

We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers. Yuyi Morales brought her hopes, her passion, her strength, and her stories with her, when she came to the United States...

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