Celebrating Hispanic Authors: The Big Book List
National Hispanic Heritage Month ended earlier this week, but it’s always a good time to read a novel by a Latino/a author!
Here’s a list of authors and titles. Most are YA, although there are some MG titles, too. I’m sure it’s not complete, so if I have missed anyone, please let me know. I will add them to the list and to my personal to-be-read list. Enjoy and Happy Reading!
Malín Alegría: Estrella’s Quinceñera, Sofi Mendoza’s Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico
Isabel Allende: City of Beasts series
Julia Alvarez: Before We Were Free, Return to Sender, Finding Miracles
Rudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, Ultima
Diane Gonzalez Bertrand: Trino’s Choice
Eduardo F. Calcines: Leaving Glorytown: One Boy’s Struggle Under Castro
Viola Canales: The Tequila Worm
Jennifer Cervantes: Tortilla Sun
Veronica Chambers: Mama’s Girl, Plus, Marisol and Magdalena, Quinceñera Means Sweet 15
Mayra Lazara Dole: Down to the Bone
e.E. Charlton-Trujillo: Prizefighter en Mi Casa, Feels Like Home
Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
Judith Ortiz Cofer: An Island Like You, Stories of the Barrio, Call Me María, If I Could Fly
Zoraida Cordova: The Vicious Deep, The Savage Blue (coming 2013)
Maria Colleen Cruz: Border Crossing
Lulu Delacre: Golden Tales, Salsa Stories, Shake it Morena!
Matt de la Peña: I Will Save You, We Were Here, Ball Don’t Lie, Mexican Whiteboy
Margarita Engle: The Firefly Letters, Hurricane Dancers, The Poet Slave of Cuba, The Surrender Tree, Tropical Secrets, The Wild Book
Caridad Ferrer: When the Stars Go Blue, Adiós to My Old Life, It’s Not About the Accent
Kim Flores: Gamma Glamma
Enrique Flores-Galbis: 90 Miles to Havana
Jack Gantos: Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, Joey Pigza Loses Control, Hole in My Life, Dead End in Norvelt
Cristina Garcia: I Wanna Be Your Shoebox, Dreams of Significant Girls
Guadalupe Garcia-McCall: Under the Mesquite
Iris Gomez: Try to Remember
Christina Diaz Gonzalez: The Red Umbrella, A Thunderous Whisper
Stephanie Guerra: Torn
David Hernandez: Suckerpunch, No More Us for You
Juan Felipe Herrera: CrashBoomLove, Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box, SkateFate
Oscar Hijuelos: Dark Dude
Francisco Jimenez: The Circuit, Reaching Out, Breaking Through
Ofelia Dumas Lachtman: The Trouble with Tessa, Leticia’s Secret, The Truth About Las Mariposas
Diana López: Confetti Girl, Choke
Lorraine Lopez: Call Me Henri
Torrey Maldonado: Secret Saturdays
Agnes Martinez: Poe Park
Claudia Guadalupe Martinez: The Smell of Old Lady Perfume
Manuel Luis Martínez: Drift
Meg Medina: The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, Milagros
Nico Medina: Straight Road to Kylie, Fat Hoochie Prom Queen
Marisa Montes: A Circle of Time
Yxta Maya Murray: What it Takes to Get to Vegas, The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped
Nancy Osa: Cuba 15
Ashley Hope Perez: What Can’t Wait, The Knife and the Butterfly
David Pérez: Wow!
Elena Perez: The Art of Disappearing
Sofia Quintero: Efrain’s Secret
Bettina Restrepo: Illegal
Carmen Rodrigues: Not Anything
Pam Muñoz Ryan: Esperanza Rising, Becoming Naomi Leon, The Dreamer, Riding Freedom, Paint the Wind
Benjamin Alire Sáenz: Last Night I Sang to the Monster, Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
René Saldaña Jr.: The Jumping Tree, The Whole Sky Full of Stars, Finding Our Way, A Good Long Way
Alex Sanchez: Boyfriends with Girlfriends, The God Box, Bait, Rainbow High, Rainbow Road, Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say, Getting It
Jenny Torres Sanchez: The Downside of Being Charlie, Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia
Michele Serros: Honey Blonde Chica, Scandalosa!
Gary Soto: Buried Onions, The Afterlife, Accidental Love, Baseball in April etc.
Francisco X. Stork: Marcelo in the Real World, The Last Summer of the Death Warriors, Irises, Behind the Eyes, The Way of the Jaguar
Gaby Triana: Riding the Universe, Backstage Pass, The Temptress Four, Cubanita
Alisa Valdes: Haters, The Temptation: A Kindred Novel
Diana Rodriguez Wallach: Amor and Summer Secrets, Adios to All the Drama, Amigas and School Scandals
Lila Quintero Weaver: Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White