The Girls in Queens
By: Christine Kandic Torres
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A writer brimming with talent makes her exciting literary debut with a tale of two Latinx women com…
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1. Loose Woman
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects … read more
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- race
- fiction
2. Last Summer on State Street
By: Toya Wolfe
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, c… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
3. 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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- new york
- race
- contemporary
- adult
- 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
4. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
5. 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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- adult
- audiobook
6. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- 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
7. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- 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
8. 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
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- race
- audiobook
9. Flores and Miss Paula
By: Melissa Rivero
3.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
10. Borderless
By: Jennifer De Leon
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Caught in the crosshairs of gang violence, a teen girl and her mother set off on a perilous journey… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
11. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By: Claire Jiménez
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
12. The Two Lives of Sara
By: Catherine Adel West
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A young mother finds refuge and friendship at a boardinghouse in 1960s Memphis, Tennessee, where fa… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"There's no such thing as a perfect so make peace with that now. Save yourself a lot of tears later."-Catherine Adel West, The Two Lives of Sara
"Will made me say it. Worse, he made me feel it. What will that do to me, to him, to all of us? How dangerous is my love?"-Catherine Adel West, The Two Lives of Sara
13. Big Girl
By: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils―and undeniable be… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
14. Oye
By: Melissa Mogollon
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
15. No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship
By: Sheryl Lister
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Four friends, three struggling relationships, and one final wish: find your happiness. Both heartwa… read more
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- audiobook
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Hell, there are real sisters out there who aren't as close as we are. [...] I know life has thrown us more curveballs than we can catch, but as long as you have each other, you can win this game call…"-Sheryl Lister, No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship
"Over 15 years ago we pledged our Sisterhood. And promised we would always be there for each other. Today, we renew that commitment. Diane continued. To accept each other with all our flaws. Give enco…"-Sheryl Lister, No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship
16. Neruda on the Park
By: Cleyvis Natera
3.68
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radic… read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
17. When Trying to Return Home: Stories
By: Jennifer Maritza McCauley
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Ric… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
18. The Girls in Queens
By: Christine Kandic Torres
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A writer brimming with talent makes her exciting literary debut with a tale of two Latinx women com… read more
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- new york
- literary fiction
- race
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
19. Mother Ocean Father Nation
By: Nishant Batsha
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, tender debut novel, following a brother and sister whose paths diverge--one forced to l… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
20. The Unfortunates
By: J.K. Chukwu
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhau… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
21. First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream
By: Jessica Hoppe
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe, Latinx writer, advocate, and creat… read more
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- audiobook
