Ordinary Girls
By: Jaquira Díaz
4.03
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Jul…
Want to Read $ 11.99"I was there a couple of years ago. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I hadn't been there in a very long time, because everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out knows that you don't go back."-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"I was there a couple of years ago. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I hadn't been there in a very long time, because everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out knows that you don't go back."-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"Every time I leave Miami, I tell myself I'm never coming back, only to end up right back where I started. I leave and come back again and again. Miami, like my family, is a place you learn to love and hate simultaneously. You can find yourself leaving it your whole life but never manage to leave, spend the rest of your life going back to it and never really get there."-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"Every time I leave Miami, I tell myself I'm never coming back, only to end up right back where I started. I leave and come back again and again. Miami, like my family, is a place you learn to love and hate simultaneously. You can find yourself leaving it your whole life but never manage to leave, spend the rest of your life going back to it and never really get there."-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
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1. The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
By: Richard Blanco
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, wh… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
2. Unaccompanied
By: Javier Zamora
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-butto… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
3. When I Was Puerto Rican
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tender… read more
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4. Brutalities: A Love Story
By: Margo Steines
4.16
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bear… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I h…"-Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story
5. Creep: Accusations and Confessions
By: Myriam Gurba
4.37
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- lgbt
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions
6. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
7. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
8. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- 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
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
- feminism
- 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
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
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
11. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
12. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
By: Angie Cruz
3.90
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- audiobook
"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
13. 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
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- 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
14. Everyone Knows You Go Home
By: Natalia Sylvester
4.03
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
An International Latino Book Award winner. The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"He recognized his own fear in them, and now that he knows what it looks like he sees it everywhere — in the man who pumps gas across the street, in the teenage girls who stumble down the sidewalk, in…"-Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home
"there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether it was a burden or a blessing, it was hers to keep. She’d known better than …"-Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home
15. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
By: T Kira Madden
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age … read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"If there are real men, I haven't met them yet."-T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
16. Dominicana
By: Angie Cruz
4.11
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn’t know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it."-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"César picks it up and pulls out a chicken by its neck. Welcome to America, he says. He hands it to me. I look into its glassed-over eyes. . . . I've held plenty of chickens before, plucked, chopped, …"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"When Juan gets mad, it's as if my dependence on him fuels the transformation in his body from concern, to anger, to fury. The veins in his neck swell, his eyes bulge, and he yells, You want trouble f…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"Puffer fish inflate into a ball when they feel threatened as a warning to predators. The males work endlessly on designing their territories to attract a mate. Burrowing diligently with their fins, r…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
17. My Broken Language
By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes tells her lyrical story of coming of age aga… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"God is the opiate of the masses."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"She was made of exclamation points."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"Maybe midnight was the hour of answers."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"Writing's a muscle... it gets stronger."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
18. My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
By: Jennine Capó Crucet
4.16
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In this sharp and candid collection of essays, first-generation American Jennine Capó Crucet explor… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
19. The Taste of Sugar
By: Marisel Vera
3.89
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart- wrenching novel set in … read more
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- audiobook
20. A Woman Of Endurance
By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
21. The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
By: Naomi Klein
4.23
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfoldin… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology
By: Amber McBride
4.26
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Starring thirty-seven poets, with contributions from acclaimed authors, including Kwame Alexander, … read more
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- audiobook
23. Ordinary Girls
By: Jaquira Díaz
4.03
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Jul… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- feminism
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"I was there a couple of years ago. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I hadn't been there in a very long time, because everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out knows that yo…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"Every time I leave Miami, I tell myself I'm never coming back, only to end up right back where I started. I leave and come back again and again. Miami, like my family, is a place you learn to love an…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"All these years later, I'll be back on that dance floor. I will be swaying and the music will fill me and I will be a girl again. My friends will be there, and we'll dance all night, one song after a…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
24. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- mental health
25. Children of the Land
By: Marcelo Hernández Castillo
3.99
Format: 384 pages, ebook
This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United Sta… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It was strange to see that the U.S. still feared the spread of communism. The legacy of that law is what persisted. It assumed that the U.S. was clean, not to be soiled by the ilk of the world."-Marcelo Hernández Castillo, Children of the Land
26. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
27. Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
By: Lars Horn
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lars Horn’s Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven … read more
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- lgbt
- nonfiction
- memoir
- queer
"Where did they go, all the gods and the beasts? The jackals and winged horses, sphinxes and fish, all those creatures that weighed our organs in the afterlife, fed on years ill-lived? What do they to…"-Lars Horn, Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
28. Stepmotherland (Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize)
By: Darrel Alejandro Holnes
3.97
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Stepmotherland is a tour-de-force debut collection about coming of age, coming out, and coming to A… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
29. Velorio
By: Xavier Navarro Aquino
3.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Featured on NPR's WEEKEND EDITION Set in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Xavier Navarro Aquino's un… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Everyone now links hands and sways from side to side like the waves kissing the shore."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"I am naked, and the moon is me and I am it since no one is there with us, we're married and the same"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"When we returned to memoria, the clouds were still thick overhead, pregnant with rain but unwilling to release"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"It is time for you to return to God, goliflón. It is time we send you off because you are a puppet stuffed and made to guard, that is your use"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
30. The Most Famous Girl in the World
By: Iman Hariri-Kia
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Stars―they're just like us! Except much, much worse. Rose Aslani is mid-bikini wax when her phon… read more
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- adult
31. Countess
By: Suzan Palumbo
3.65
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which a… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
- queer
