Hispanic American Literature Books by BIPOC Authors
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- Family Life, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- by Tomas Moniz
- Family Life, Hispanic American Literature, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- Coming of Age, Fiction, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
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,...
- Hispanic American Literature, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2024
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....
- by Tita Ramírez
- Family Life, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature, Magical Realism
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- by Natalie Caña
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2023
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...
- Family Life, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2023
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...
- by Natalie Caña
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature, Multicultural Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2022
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...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2021
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...
- 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...