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