Las Comadres & Friends Book Club is happy to launch its first Summer Reading List.
The Book Club’s Summer Reading List has something for everyone. It’s comprised of five fiction books, three young adult books, three memoirs, two classics, one bilingual children’s book and one cookbook. Authors include Marjorie Agosin, the 2015 Pura Belpré Award Author Winner; Richard Blanco, the 2013 Inaugural Poet; Sonia Manzano of Sesame Street fame; and legendary authors Sandra Cisneros and Oscar Hijuelos.
1. A Decent Woman by Eleanor Parker Sapia (fiction) – Booktrope Editions
2. Ana of California: A Novel by Andi Teran (YA) – Penguin Books
3. Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx by Sonia Manzano (memoir) – Scholastic Press
4. The Distant Marvels by Chantel Acevedo (fiction) – Europa Editions
5. The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Cristina Garcia (fiction) – Scribner (Simon & Schuster)
6. Empanadas: The Hand-Held Pies of Latin America by Sandra Gutierrez (cookbook) – Stewart, Tabori and Chang (Abrams)
7. The Heart Has Its Reasons by Maria Dueñas (fiction) – Atria Books
8. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (classic) – Vintage (Knopf Doubleday)
9. I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin (YA) – Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Simon & Schuster)
10. Just One Night by Caridad Pineiro (romance fiction) – CreateSpace
11. Letters From Heaven/ Cartas del Cielo by Lydia Gil (children, bilingual) – Arte Publico
12. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (classic) – Hachette Book Group
13. The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood by Richard Blanco (memoir) – Ecco (HarperCollins)
14. Shutter by Courtney Alameda (YA thriller) – Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan)
15. Stepdog by Mireya Navarro (memoir) – G.P. Putnam’s Sons (Penguin)