Books Written by Mexican Authors
- Fiction, Immigration Fiction, Political Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
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...
- Action & Adventure Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- by Isabel Cañas
- Fiction, Gothic Fiction, Horror Fiction, Suspense Thriller, Thrillers & Suspense, Vampire
- Publication Year: 2023
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,...
- Teen LGBTQ+ Romance, Teen Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
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...
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
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...
- Teen Coming of Age, Teen Fiction on Depression & Mental Health, Teen Prejudice and Racism, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
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...
- Family Life, Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
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...
- by Isabel Cañas
- Fiction, Gothic Fiction, Suspense Thriller, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2022
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...
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
- by Yuyi Morales
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2025
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....
- Biographies, Memoir and Biography, Young Adult Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
“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...
- Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Crime & Mystery
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
- Inspiration and Personal Growth, Memoir, Nonfiction, Religion
- Publication Year: 2022
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...
- Teen Coming of Age, Teen Friendship Fiction, Teen Prejudice and Racism, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
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...
- by Brandon Som
- 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...
- Coming of Age
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- by Noé Álvarez
- Biographies, Immigrant Stories, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
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,...
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
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...
- 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,...
- Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism
- Publication Year: 2020
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...
- Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
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...
- by Julissa Arce
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, Race and Ethnic Relations
- Publication Year: 2022
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...
- Siblings, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2017
#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...
- by Lizz Huerta
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
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....
- Coming of Age, Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 1991
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...
- by Junot Diaz
- Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2018
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...
- by Yuyi Morales
- Graphic Novels, Immigrant Stories, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2018
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...