13 must-read nonfiction books like A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande

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A Dream Called Home

By: Reyna Grande

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and nati…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Most Dangerous Animal of All

By: Gary L. Stewart , Susan D. Mustafa

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller Soon after his birthmother conta… read more

Similar categories in Gary L. Stewart's The Most Dangerous Animal of All book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I know that sometimes things should be left in the past, that knowing isn't always better. Sometimes the truth is so horrible that it must be uncovered in bits and pieces, snippets here and there, ab…"

-Gary L. Stewart, The Most Dangerous Animal of All

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2. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

By: Erika L. Sánchez

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' hou… read more

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  • audiobook

3. The Book of Unknown Americans

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.17

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more

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4. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America

By: None

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Spanning 500 years of Hispanic history, from the first New World colonies to the 19th century westw… read more

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5. Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America

By: Margarita Longoria

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors… read more

Similar categories in Margarita Longoria's Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • latino
Cover of Too Soon for Adiós by Annette Chavez Macias

6. Too Soon for Adiós

By: Annette Chavez Macias

4.26

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

From author Annette Chavez Macias comes a heartfelt novel about a woman who embarks on an emotional… read more

Similar categories in Annette Chavez Macias's Too Soon for Adiós book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Solito

By: Javier Zamora

4.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more

Similar categories in Javier Zamora's Solito book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

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8. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez's My Side of the River book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

By: Julissa Arce

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

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10. Crying in the Bathroom

By: Erika L. Sánchez

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more

Similar categories in Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Undocumented Americans

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's The Undocumented Americans book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."

-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

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12. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Jackson Taffa's Whiskey Tender: A Memoir book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

Cover of Girls with Bad Reputations (The Lillys, #2) by Xio Axelrod

13. Girls with Bad Reputations (The Lillys, #2)

By: Xio Axelrod

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

All her life, Kayla heard the same Don't be so loud. Don't act so wild. Don't take up so much spac… read more

Similar categories in Xio Axelrod's Girls with Bad Reputations (The Lillys, #2) book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

Similar categories in Ijeoma Oluo's Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. First Gen: A Memoir

By: Alejandra Campoverdi

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching memoir about navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina — offering both a rive… read more

Similar categories in Alejandra Campoverdi's First Gen: A Memoir book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

By: Héctor Tobar

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more

Similar categories in Héctor Tobar's Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • latino
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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17. A Dream Called Home

By: Reyna Grande

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and nati… read more

Similar categories in Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • biography
  • memoir
  • the united states of america
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • latino
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice by Treva B. Lindsey

18. America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice

By: Treva B. Lindsey

4.61

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight f… read more

Similar categories in Treva B. Lindsey's America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Sons of El Rey

By: Alex Espinoza

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the American Book Award­–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's The Sons of El Rey book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. ¡Ándale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family

By: Yasmin Ramirez

4.41

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

When I tell people who don't speak Spanish what prieta means--dark or the dark one--their eyes pop … read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Ramirez's ¡Ándale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family book and Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. The Children's Secret

By: Nina Monroe

3.39

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS ASKING. BUT THEY'RE NOT TELLING . . . At a children's party . . . Nothing … read more

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  • audiobook

8 Top adult books like A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande

Transform Your Habits

The Most Dangerous Animal of All

Gary L. Stewart , Susan D. Mustafa

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Too Soon for Adiós

Annette Chavez Macias

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Solito

Javier Zamora

4.48

Transform Your Habits

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

Julissa Arce

4.28

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8 Top adult books like You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce

Transform Your Habits

Big Chicas Don't Cry

Annette Chavez Macias

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Too Soon for Adiós

Annette Chavez Macias

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Solito

Javier Zamora

4.48

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