125 Books By Latinx Authors That You Should Own (If You Don’t Already)

It’s Latinx Heritage Month and we’re celebrating by helping you add a few new titles to your shelf!

Fiction

1. Dominicana by Angie Cruz
2. Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis
3. Gods Of Jade And Shadow By Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4. Painting Their Portraits in Winter: Stories by Myriam Gurba
5. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
6. Cockfight by Maria Fernanda Ampuero
7. Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
8. The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
9. Lot by Bryan Washington
10. Big Familia by Tomas Moniz
11. The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zeran
12. Love War Stories by Ivelisse Rodríguez
13. The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
14. Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
15. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
16. The Iliac Crest by Sarah Booker (Translated by), Cristina Rivera Garza
17. Mephisto’s Waltz: Selected Short Stories by Sergio Pitol
18. Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando A. Flores
19. Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel
20. Cars on Fire by Mónica Ramón Ríos (translated by Robin Myers)
21. Natural History by Carlos Fonseca
22. The Taste of Sugar by Marisel Vera         
23. Night at the Fiestas: Stories by Kirstin Valdez Quade
24. The Fallen by Carlos Manuel Álvarez
25. Lovers on All Saints’ Day: Stories by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
26. Locas by Yxta Maya Murray
27. By the Lake of Sleeping Children by Luis Alberto Urrea
28. The Lost Book Of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata
29. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
30. The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
31. Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
32. Where We Come From by Oscar Cásares
33. Lotería by Mario Alberto Zambrano
34. The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older
35. Both Sides: Stories from the Border edited by Gabino Iglesias
36. Mexican Bestiary by David Bowles
37. The Dead Will Rise and Save Us: Stories by Paul Pedroza
38. Serpiente emplumada, corazon del cielo by David Bowles
39. Like This Afternoon Forever by Jaime Manrique
40. Black Sugar by Miguel Bonnefoy
41. The Crossed-Out Notebook by Nicolás Giacobone
42. The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
43. Dahlia Season: stories & a novella by Myriam Gurba
44. It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo
45. Across the Wire by Luis Alberto Urrea
46. Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera
47. Humiliation: Stories by Paulina Flores
48. Jakarta by Rodrigo Marquez Tizano
49. Space Invaders by Nona Fernández
50. Lost Children Archive By Valeria Luiselli  
51. The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
52. Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
53. The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende
54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
55. A Long Petal Of The Sea by Isabel Allende
56. Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
57. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
58. Woman Hollering Creek and other stories by Sandra Cisneros

Graphic Novels

1. Diary Of A Reluctant Dreamer By Alberto Ledesma
2. LEÑADORAS: Todas a Una by Noelle Stevenson

Poetry

1. Bareback Nightfall by Joshua Escobar
2. Citizen Illegal by Jose Olivarez                    
3. Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
4. Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff by Sara Borjas
5. Poetics without Borders edited by A. Geist, A. Sanchez, J.A. Crosby, & B. Vazquez
6. Body of Render: Poems by Felicia Zamora
7. Guillotine by Eduardo Corral
8. Virgin: Poems by Analicia Sotelo
9. Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
10. Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Edited by Christopher Soto
11. Today by Juan Gelman (translated by Lisa Rose Bradford)
12. Post Traumatic Hood Disorder by David Tomas Martinez
13. Peluda by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
14. When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
15. Enfermario by Gabriela Torres Olivares
16. Lima :: Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
17. The Carrying by Ada Limón
18. I’m Alive. It Hurts. I Love It. by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
19. Knitting the Fog by Claudia D. Hernandez
20. Our Lady of the Crossword by Rigoberto Gonzalez
21. This Is Not A Frank Ocean Cover Album by Alan Chazaro
22. The Winter Garden Photograph by Reina Maria Rodriquez
23. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
24. This American Autopsy by José Antonio Rodriguez
25. Refuse by Julian Randall
26. The Easy Body by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
27. Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
28. Bougainvillea by Elizabeth Quiñones-Zaldaña
29. Blue Label by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles
30. Cruel Futures by Carmen Gimenez Smith
31. Be Recorder by Carmen Gimenez Smith
32. Nostalgia for Death by Xavier Villaurrutia and Hieroglyphs of Desire by Octavio Paz
33. Hijito by Carlos Andres Gomez
34. Latinext
35. Dark Times Filled with Light by Juan Gelman
36. After Ruben by Francisco Aragon

Nonfiction

1. My Time to Speak : Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race by Ilia Calderón
2. Mean by Myriam Gurba
3. The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
4. Ordinary Girls: A Memoir by Jaquira Diaz
5. My Time Among the Whites by Jennine Capó Crucet
6. Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza
7. The Boy Kings Of Texas by Domingo Martinez
8. Frida In America By Celia Stahr
9. Light in the Dark by Gloria Anzaldua
10. The Distance Between Us By Reyna Grande
11. Beatriz Allende by Tanya Harmer
12. Children Of The Land By Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
13. How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted? by Eileen Truax
14. A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez
15. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
16. Feminism for the Americas : The Making of an International Human Rights Movement by Katherine M. Marino
17. The Young Lords by Johanna Fernández
18. An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
19. Native Country Of The Heart: A Memoir By Cherríe Moraga
20. Happier as a Woman by Martina Giselle Ramirez and Alicia Partnoy
21. Bruja: A Dreamoir By Wendy C. Ortiz
22. Excavation By Wendy C. Ortiz
23. All the Agents and Saints by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
24. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
25. Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation’s Fight for Their American Dream by Eileen Truax
26. El Jefe: The Stalking of Chapo Guzman by Alan Feuer

Cookbooks

1. ¡Salud! Vegan Mexican Cookbook
2. Made in Mexico: The Cookbook by Danny Mena   
3. Frida’s Fiestas by Marie-Pierre Colle, Guadalupe Rivera