Funeral for Flaca
By: Emilly Prado
4.32
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Funeral for Flaca is an exploration of things lost and found—love, identity, family—and the traumas…
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1. Big Chicas Don't Cry
By: Annette Chavez Macias
4.22
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Four cousins navigate love, loss, and the meaning of family over the course of one memorable year i… read more
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- audiobook
2. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
3. Piñata
By: Leopoldo Gout
3.67
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
A Head Full of Ghosts meets Hereditary in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist… read more
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- audiobook
4. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
By: Melania Luisa Marte
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
5. Loteria
By: Cynthia Pelayo
3.46
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The Mexican board game of Lotería is a game of chance. It is similar to our American bingo. However… read more
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- short stories
- audiobook
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
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- audiobook
7. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- 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
8. 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
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
9. Witches
By: Brenda Lozano
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable novel by one of the most exciting new voices in Latin America today This is the sto… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
10. Crooked Hallelujah
By: Kelli Jo Ford
3.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of t… read more
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- short stories
11. Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
By: Jennifer De Leon
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-wh… read more
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- audiobook
12. The Man Who Could Move Clouds
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the "original, politically daring and passiona… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
13. The Haunting of Alejandra
By: V. Castro
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more
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- audiobook
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra
"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra
14. Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
15. Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A macabre love story in verse about celebrity, loss, and longing following a poet who resurrects po… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"New York is cool because you only start dating someone so that it's easier to pay the rent."-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
"Today, I walked into a coffee shop but no one was there who looked like they could completely fuck up my life and inspire a mediocre poem and a half so I just left."-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
"I want You to keep chasing me and I don’t want you to know how far I would go to find out the truth of something, to scratch an itch that will tear the whole universe open."-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
"You and me are having sex to a movie Or during a move? Or at a move? In a conversation with? At least we're un the dark enough so I don't have to feel bad about my body. At least there's only this li…"-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
16. For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color
By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
4.48
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The founder of Latina Rebels’ “electrifying debut” ( LA Times ) arms women of color with the tools … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"The white people I met were well-meaning, well-read liberal folks who happened to know all the ins and outs of racism and colonialism, but somehow positioned these problems outside of themselves rath…"-Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color
17. Funeral for Flaca
By: Emilly Prado
4.32
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Funeral for Flaca is an exploration of things lost and found—love, identity, family—and the traumas… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
18. Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power
By: Devon Price
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that com… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
19. The Waves Take You Home
By: María Alejandra Barrios Vélez
3.96
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges… read more
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- audiobook
20. 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
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
21. This Is Me Trying
By: Racquel Marie
4.20
Format: None pages, None
Perfect for fans of Nina LaCour, This is Me Trying is a profound and tender YA contemporary novel e… read more
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