Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
By: Paola Ramos
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Debut author and journalist Paola Ramos travels to near and far corners of the country in search of…
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1. 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
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- essays
- lgbt
2. The House of Broken Angels
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, a sprawling and deeply felt portrait of a Mexican-… read more
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- audiobook
"Only selfish people are negative, Angel."-Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels
"Big Angel was late to his own mother's funeral."-Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels
"Men who do good deeds only wish to atone for their sins."-Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels
"Wildflowers after rain the heart breaks open and little bright seeds fall out."-Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels
3. 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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- race
- history
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- 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
4. 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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- nonfiction
- essays
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5. 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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- race
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- 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
6. Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
By: María Hinojosa
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“Maria’s perspective is powerful and vital. Years ago, when In the Heights was just starting off-Br… read more
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- race
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
7. The Horse
By: Willy Vlautin
4.26
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more
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- audiobook
8. 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
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
10. 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
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- race
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- audiobook
11. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
By: Samuel Stein
3.94
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
“This superbly succinct and incisive book” on urban planning and real estate argues gentrification … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
12. Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
By: Saraciea J. Fennell
4.27
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx co… read more
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- audiobook
- race
- essays
- lgbt
13. 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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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- 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
14. An African American and Latinx History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
By: Paul Ortiz
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights S… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
15. High-Risk Homosexual
By: Edgar Gomez
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx id… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
16. House of Bone and Rain
By: Gabino Iglesias
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more
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17. Orgullo prieto
By: Tenoch Huerta
4.47
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
México es un país racista que niega serlo. Con argumentos como "No es racismo, sino clasismo", "Ac… read more
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18. 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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19. Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
By: Paola Ramos
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Debut author and journalist Paola Ramos travels to near and far corners of the country in search of… read more
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- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- sociology
- queer
20. This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1)
By: Hayley Dennings
3.56
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The first book in a decadent fantasy duology set in Jazz Age Harlem, where at night the dance halls… read more
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- queer
21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
