Books Written by Puerto Rican Authors
- Coming of Age, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
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,...
- by Jaquira Díaz
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
- by Mia Sosa
- Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2026
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 . ....
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
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...
- Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
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...
- 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 Sunny Hostin
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
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...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2009
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...
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
“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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....