2022 Summer Reading List

This year’s Summer Reading List has 15 books in honor of Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club’s Quinceaňero!  The list includes a classical novel celebrating its golden anniversary; a love letter to women of color from a Latinx rebel; a compelling memoir about embracing gay Latinx identity; a cookbook with 600+ scrumptious recipes; a children’s book on how to make the world a better place; and a couple of anthologies on migration, survival, and uprootedness.

  1. *Areli is a Dreamer by Areli Morales (Random House)—children’s book
  2. *Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (Penguin Classics)—classic, fiction
  3. Does My Body Offend You? by Mayra Cuevas and Marie Marquardt (Knopf Books)—fiction, YA
  4. For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts by Prisca Dorcas  Mojica Rodriguez (Seal Press)—non fiction
  5. High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez (Soft Skull)—memoir
  6. Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness edited by Anjanette Delgado (University of Florida Press)—nonfiction, anthology
  7. *Just Help!: How to Build a Better World by Sonia Sotomayor (Philomel Books)—children’s books
  8. Lakelore by Anna- Marie McLemore (Feiwel & Friends)—fiction, YA
  9. The Latin American Cookbook by Virgilio Martinez (Phaidon Press)—non fiction, cookbook
  10. Luther, Wyoming by Tomas Alamilla and Mario Acevedo (Five Star Publishing)—fiction, western
  11. More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez (William Morrow)—fiction, thriller
  12. My Book of the Dead by Ana Castillo (High Road Books)—poetry
  13. Somewhere We Are Human edited by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiňansaca (HarperVia)—nonfiction, anthology
  14. You Sound Like a White Girl by Julissa Arce (Flatiron Books)—nonfiction, anthology
  15. Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine (One World)—fiction

* This book is also available in Spanish.

 

Click below for prior Summer Reading Lists

2021 Summer Reading List

2020 Summer Reading List

2019 Summer Reading List

2018 Summer Reading List

2017 Summer Reading List

2016 Summer Reading List

2015 Summer Reading List

 

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive
when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.
Julia Alvarez