Our 2017 Summer Reading List offers a “baker’s dozen” with something for everyone –from the glitter of Hollywood to the wall at el Rio Grande to Brooklyn to Puerto Rico. The list covers all genres including fiction, horror, memoirs, poetry and business. Plus, the list includes the classic novel, Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, which celebrates 25 years of publication.Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club.
1. All That Glitters by Liza Treviňo (Koehler Books, women’s fiction)
2. All the Agents and Saints by Stephanie Elizondo Griest (University of North Carolina Press, memoir)
3. Blood’s Echo by Isabella Maldonado (Midnight Ink, mystery)
4. Bravo! Poems About Amazing Hispanics by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt & Co., children‘s book, poetry)
5. Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno–Garcia (Thomas Dunne Books, horror)More….
6. Everything That Could Not Happen Will Happen Now by Alberto Ramirez (Floricanto Press, fiction)
7. History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera (Penguin/SohoTeen, fiction, LGBT)
8. Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova (Sourcebooks Fire, fiction, young adult)
9. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Doubleday, classic, magical realism)
10. Self Made by Nely Galán (Spiegel & Grau, women and business, motivational)
11. The Cruel Country by Judith Ortiz Cofer (University of Georgia Press, memoir)
12. The Enchilada Queen Cookbook by Sylvia Casares (St. Martin’s Griffin, cookbook)
13. With the River on Our Face by Emmy Pérez (University of Arizona Press, poetry