Las Comadres Book Club’s Summer Reading List offers a “baker’s dozen”with something for everyone – from apocalyptic thrillers to heart–felt poems to political blackmail to memoirs of panic and addiction to historical fiction. The Book Club always includes a children’s book to read as a family and a classical selection. Also, making this year’s List is Snow Falling by the TV character/personality Jane Villanueva portrayed by actress Gina Rodriguez; it’s a suspenseful romance set in Miami 1902.We encourage you to add our Summer Reading List selections to your TBR piles, give copies to family and friends, order copies at your neighborhood library, and enjoy Reading Latino Lit.
1. All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry (young adult fiction) –Algonquin Young Readers
2. Between Breaths by Elizabeth Vargas (memoir) –Grand Central Publishing
3. Dance with Me by Alexis Daria (romance) –Swerve
4. Drift by Chris Campanioni (thriller) –King Shot Press
5. Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig (classical) –Vintage
6. Manteca! An Anthology of Afro Latin@ Poets edited by Melissa Castillo–Garsow (poetry) –Arte Publico Press
7. Snow Falling by Jane Gloriana Villanueva (historical mystery) –Adams Media
8. The Accidental Mistress by Aya de Leon (urban fiction) –Dafina
9. The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa (mystery) –Farrar, Straus and Giroux
10. The Night of the Virgin by Elliott Turner (young adult, LGBT) –Round Ball Media
11. The Vineyard by Maria Dueῆas (historical fiction) –Atria Books
12. There Are No Dead Here by Maria McFarland Sanchez–Moreno (fiction, historical) –Nation Books
13. Ugly Cat and Pablo by Isabel Quintero (children’s book) –Scholastic Press