Las Comadres and Friends National Latino Book Club’s mission has always been to connect readers all over the world through literature. We are committed to establishing a connection with readers to educate and motivate them, and to break down racial discrimination in publishing. We believe our 2020 Summer Reading List does just that.
“At a time when our lives are upside down, and we are quarantined in our cocoons,” says Nora De Hoyos Comstock, Founder of Las Comadres Para Las Americas, “reading books is a great way to expand our horizons and learn new things. Now more than ever, our authors need our support and encouragement to preserve and celebrate our Latinidad.”
For 2020, Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club has selected 20 books that will thrill, entertain and inspire readers of all ages. Our classic selection, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, isvery aproposfor this year. We encourageeveryone to add our Summer Reading List to their TBR piles, give copies to family and friends, borrow copies from neighborhood libraries, and enjoy Reading Latino Lit.
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (Ballantine Books) – historical fiction
- Afterlife by Julia Alvarez (Algonquin Books) – fiction
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (Harperteen) – young adult, fiction
- Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt & Co.) – children, poetry, biographies
- How To Love A Country: Poems by Richard Blanco (Beacon Press) – poetry, LGBTQ+
- Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova (Little, Brown Books) – young adult, sci fi
- La Vida Verde: Plant-Based Mexican Cooking with Authentic Flavor by Jocelyn Ramirez (Page Street Publishing) – cookbook, vegan
- LatiNEXT, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4 edited by Felicia Rose Chavez, Josè Olivarez and Willie Perdomo (Haymarket Books) – anthology, poetry, essays, LGBTQ+
- Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic edited by Nick Kolakowski and Steve Weddle (Polis Books) – anthology, horror
- Maňanaland by Pam Muňoz Ryan (Scholastic Press) – children, middle grade, fiction
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (Vintage) – classic, fiction
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) – horror
- My Big Family by Yanitzia Canetti (Reycraft Books) – children, early readers
- Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz (Algonquin Books) – memoir
- The Taste of Sugar by Marisel Vera (Liveright) – fiction
- The Sacred Roots of Ofelia Rosas by Christina Montoya (indie published) – fiction
- Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land by Noè Álvarez (Catapult) – memoir
- What Lane? by Torrey Maldonado (Nancy Paulsen Books) – children, middle grade, fiction
- You Brought Me The Ocean by Alex Sanchez (DC Comics) – graphic novel, young adult, LGBTQ+
- You Had Me At Hola by Alexis Daria (Avon) – romance