2021 Summer Reading List

New York, NY—Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club is pleased to announce the release of
its seventh annual Summer Reading List on this the first day of the summer. Our List includes books by a
Literary Icon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Pura Belpré Award Winners, a past Young People’s Poet
Laureate, debut authors and perennial favorites.

“I am thrilled to see our Las Comadres and Friends National Latino Book Club growing by leaps and bounds,”
says Dr. Nora de Hoyos Comstock, the Book Club’s Founding Director. “The pandemic gave many space to fill
their time with books, and we have definitely seen expanded exposure for our Latinx authors. Our annual list of
Latinx authored titles, which will appear in December, will show the growing numbers we can celebrate for 2021!
This Summer Reading List gives you a head start.”

We encourage Readers of all ages to purchase our Summer Reading List selections and add them to their TBR
piles, give copies to family and friends, order copies at your neighborhood library, and enjoy Reading Latino Lit.
Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club 2021 Summer Reading List

1.  AMERICA’S DREAM by Esmeralda Santiago (HarperCollins) – fiction, classic, (25th Anniversary Release)
2.  A CUBAN’S GIRL GUIDE TO TEA AND TOMORROW by Laura Taylor Namey
(Atheneum Books) – fiction, young adult
3.  A GIRL NAMED ROSITA: The Story of Rita Moreno by Anika Aldamuy Denise (HarperCollins) –
children’s picture book
4.  THE CHILEAN KITCHEN by Pilar Hernandez and Eileen Smith (Skyhorse) – cookbook
5.  CHOLA SALVATION by Estella González (Arte Público Press) – fiction, short stories
6.  FAT CHANCE, CHARLIE VEGA by Crystal Maldonado (Holiday House) – fiction, young adult
7.  FEATHERED SERPENTS AND THE FIVE SUNS by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams Books) – children’s
picture book
8.  FURIA by Yamile Saied Mèndez (Algonquin) – fiction, young adult
9.  JUBILEE by Jennifer Givhan (Blackstone Publishing) – fiction, thriller
10. KING ROBIN by R.A. Moss (Beck and Branch Publishers) – historical fiction
11. THE KISSING BUG: A True Story of a Family, an Insect and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by
Daisy Hernández (Tin House Books) – non-fiction

12. LATINITAS: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menèndez (Henry Holt & Co.) –
children’s book, biographies
13. THE LIBRARIAN OF SAINT-MALO by Mario Escobar (Thomas Nelson) – historical fiction
14. LIES WITH MAN: Henry Rios Mystery by Michael Nava (Amble Press) – fiction,
mystery, LGBTQ
15. MERCI SUÁREZ CAN’T DANCE by Meg Medina (Candlewick) – children’s middle grade
16. MY BROKEN LANGUAGE by Quiara Alegría Hudes (One World) – non-fiction, memoir
17. SOMEWHERE BETWEEN BITTER AND SWEET by Laekan Zea Kemp (Little, Brown Books) –
fiction, young adult
18. SOUTH BEACH LOVE by Caridad Pineiro (Hallmark) – fiction, romance
19. THRIVEOLOGY, Volume 1 by Jay Maymi (indie published) – motivational
20. TIGHT KNOTS. LOOSE THREADS. by Eleanor Parker Sapia (Winter Goose Publishing) – poetry
21. YOUR HEART, MY SKY: Love in a Time of Hunger by Margarita Engle (Atheneum Books) – fiction,
young adult