Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month by reading these titles written by Hispanic authors. The list covers a wide variety of genres–including memoir, romance, contemporary fiction, and more.
Adult Fiction - Grande
An atmospheric historical romance about a Mexican woman widowed by the Texas Rangers in the fight over the disputed Rio Grande boundary. She is skilled at healing, and eventually joins the Mexican Army where she falls in love with a Yankee deserter.
Adult Fiction - Acevedo
From award-winning YA novelist Acevedo comes her debut book for adults about family, immigration, secrets, and sisterhood. Flor, who can predict when someone will die, decides to hold her own living wake and invites her family. Whose death has she seen? Hers? Someone else's? Find out in this moving, spirited magical realism novel.
Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Morenog
Set during the late 1920s in Mexico, this mythological fairytale-inspired story stars Casiopea Tun. Mistreated by her family, she opens a forbidden box, unleashes a Mayan god, and is compelled into a quest beyond the limits of our mortal world.
306.7662 Gom
With vulnerability and humor, Gomez relates coming of age as a gay, Hispanic man in a culture of machismo. Gomez's story spans from his childhood in Nicaragua to the queer spaces in the United States where he learned the joys of being both gay and Hispanic.
796.52292 Vasquez-Lavado Vas
The inspiring story of a woman returning to her home in Peru, where she begins climbing. Eventually, she gathers a group of young female survivors and leads them to Everest. A true story of resilience.
Ojeda
This unconventional horror novel follows a group of elite school friends as Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love.
Graphic Novels - GN Machado Low Low Woods
In the town of Shudder-to-Think, women regularly lose their memories or go missing. When El and Octavia’s memories become affected, they start to investigate the disturbing and creepy occurrences in their town. Machado’s debut graphic novel addresses misogyny, friendship, and grief, and its eerie and haunting illustrations highlight the horror.
For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family, lacing her world with prophecy and violence. Ingrid traces her lineage back to her indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her family into two camps: those who believe these powers are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse.
Natera
A novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification. A meditation on race, class, and community, this story weaves a rich and vivid tapestry of family, community, and Afro-Hispanic culture.
Gonzale
The character-driven tale of a status-seeking wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots—all in the wake of Hurricane María.
Adult Nonfiction - 921 Zamora Zam
Zamora writes this memoir in the voice of his nine-year-old self and recounts the perilous, desperate journey of his migration from El Salvador to the United States. What was supposed to take two weeks became two months of danger, suspense, and the moving connections he makes with his found family on the journey.
Adult Fiction - Daria
Gina Morales, a professional dancer, wants to finally win a season of The Dance Off. When she’s paired with survival reality show star Stone Nielsen, the two have to figure out how to work together. Of course, they also have to decide whether to keep it professional, or to give into their attraction in this steamy romantic comedy.
Allende
Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
364.1523 Tra
This book analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zerán offers a nuanced reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in favor of dissecting how all four were perpetrators of grievous violent acts at the same time as being victims of another, more insidious kind of violence.
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This 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 more slaves. A tale of triumph through endurance.
Fajardo
When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. This act leads to merging two multi-generational storylines in the Old West in a novel of family love, secrets, and survival.
303.482 Arc
Bestselling author Julissa Arce interweaves her own story with cultural commentary in a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America. Instead, she calls for a celebration of their uniqueness, origins, heritage, and beauty.