18 must-read fiction books like Puro Amor (Quarternote Chapbook Series) by Sandra Cisneros

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Puro Amor (Quarternote Chapbook Series)

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.02

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Sandra Cisneros has a fondness for animals and this little gem of a story makes that abundantly cle…

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1. Wishtree

By: Katherine Applegate , Charles Santoso

4.29

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Trees can't tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. . . . Red is an oak tree who is man… read more

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  • fiction
"Here's an idea for you: ideas are a bad idea"

-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

"I'm not just a tree. I'm a home. A community. - Red"

-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

"Hollows are proof that something bad can become something good with enough time and care and hope."

-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

"My point," Bongo continued, "is that the world's a tough place. Doesn't matter if you're a bunny or a lizard or a kid."

-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

Cover of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Cristina García

2. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction
"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Cover of The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

3. The Poet X

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New … read more

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  • fiction
"Pero, tú no eres fácil."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"I close my eyes and let myself find in music what I've always searched for: a way away."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

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4. Stitches

By: David Small

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transfo… read more

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5. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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6. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

By: Laura Joffe Numeroff , Felicia Bond

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you giv… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

By: Oscar Wilde

4.30

Format: None pages,

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  • short stories

8. Bloodchild and Other Stories

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more

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9. The Last of the Menu Girls

By: Denise Chávez

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rocio Esquibel is a girl growing up in a Southern New Mexico town with her mother and sister. She d… read more

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10. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

By: Audre Lorde

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more

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11. Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more

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12. i love this part

By: Tillie Walden

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at s… read more

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13. Bonsai

By: Alejandro Zambra

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel" Now a Major Motion Picture Hailed as a g… read more

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14. A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir

By: Daisy Hernández

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer… read more

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15. The Hole

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.49

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more

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  • fiction
"I moved out here with my husband."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

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16. 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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  • fiction
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17. Vampires of El Norte

By: Isabel Cañas

3.90

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the aut… read more

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  • fiction
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18. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

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  • fiction
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

Cover of Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

19. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more

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  • spanish literature
"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

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20. Still Born

By: Guadalupe Nettel

4.13

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction
"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

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21. 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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  • fiction
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22. 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

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23. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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24. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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25. 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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  • fiction
"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

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26. The Bullet Swallower

By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more

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  • fiction
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27. Gordo

By: Jaime Cortez

4.25

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller

28. Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All

By: Chanel Miller

4.48

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and artist Chanel Miller tells a fun, funny, and poignant story o… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

29. How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe

By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A romance starring a Mexican American teen who discovers love and profound truths about the univers… read more

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  • fiction
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30. Malas

By: Marcela Fuentes

3.96

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Puro Amor (Quarternote Chapbook Series)

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.02

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Sandra Cisneros has a fondness for animals and this little gem of a story makes that abundantly cle… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • latino
  • short stories

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Andrea Wang

3.88

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Kate DiCamillo

4.30

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