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Hispanic Heritage Month Book Recs!
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items As a proud Latina, I love any opportunity to highlight my culture, community and people! Here are a few of my Hispanic Heritage Month MUST READ book recs! These books are moving, relatable, funny, sad, but most importantly REAL. Whether you want to s...
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5 Star Recs!
TBR: My "To Be Read" List
5 Star Recs!
These are my top three 5-star recs! I have read and loved each of these books deeply and hope you enjoy them as much as I did. There's something for everyone in this section: a memoir, fiction, and a self-help book!
As a first-generation Salvadoran, this story meant so much to me. It gave me insight on stories similar to the ones of my family members. It was relatable, touching, painful and most importantly reminded me how important empathy and compassion are, e...
"Solito" Memoir: Boy's Journey from El Salvador
This book felt like a much needed therapy session. It pushed me to look inward and acknowledge my inner child and embrace her. It held my hand while I revisited parts of myself I didn't know were still hurting, and gave me the tools to mend and heal ...
"Badass Bonita" A book of reflection and rebirth.
This book felt like stepping into a time-travel machine and going back to my High School days and re-experiencing life as a high school first-gen Latina. This book perfectly captures some of our realest experiences with teenage angst, coupled with th...
"I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter"
TBR: My "To Be Read" List
I am currently in the first few pages of this book and already love how descriptive and captivating it is. I can already feel myself getting lost in the story! This book weaves 4 different narratives into one story, following a young boy fleeing Nazi...
The Wind Knows My Name
This has been on my list for MONTHS. Just the cover alone catches my attention enough to read it! This story follows the main character Noemi, who is set to save her newly-wed cousin from some mysterious doom. She travels to High Place and unearths s...
"An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes “a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” (Kirkus Reviews) set in g...
“It’s as if a supernatural power compels us to turn the pages of the gripping Mexican Gothic.”—The Washington Post
“Mexican Gothic is the perfect summer horror read, and marks Moreno-Garcia with her hypnotic and engaging prose as one of the genre’s most exciting talents.”—Nerdist
"A period thriller as rich in suspense as it is in lush ’50s atmosphere.”—Entertainment Weekly
"An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes “a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” (Kirkus Reviews) set in g...
“It’s as if a supernatural power compels us to turn the pages of the gripping Mexican Gothic.”—The Washington Post
“Mexican Gothic is the perfect summer horror read, and marks Moreno-Garcia with her hypnotic and engaging prose as one of the genre’s most exciting talents.”—Nerdist
"A period thriller as rich in suspense as it is in lush ’50s atmosphere.”—Entertainment Weekly
Mexican Gothic
Yesika Salgado is a Salvadoran poet who explores topics of love, loss, culture, immigration, strained/complicated familial relationships, fatness, queerness, latinidad, and much more!
Overview: “Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger with another person and finding that sometimes it isn't enough. Salgado creates a world in which the heart can live anywhere; her fat brown ...
Overview: “Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger with another person and finding that sometimes it isn't enough. Salgado creates a world in which the heart can live anywhere; her fat brown ...
Corazón | Poetry
I personally already bought this book, and will be reading it this year! In this memoir, Jessica Hoppe shares her struggles and triumphs through her road to recovery as a queer Latina woman and how all these intersecting identities play a role in her...
Overview: “In First in the Family, Hoppe shares her journey, the first in her family to do so, and takes the reader on a remarkable investigation of her family’s history, the American Dream, and the erasure of BIPOC from recovery institutions and nar...
Overview: “In First in the Family, Hoppe shares her journey, the first in her family to do so, and takes the reader on a remarkable investigation of her family’s history, the American Dream, and the erasure of BIPOC from recovery institutions and nar...
First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream
“One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.”
In this book Karla explores the undocumented identity and sets on a path to change this narrow minded narrative that tends to be the highlight in mainstream media. She shares her personal experience as well as those of others.
“In her incandescent, relentlessly probing voice, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitive reporting and powerful personal narratives to bring to light remarkable stories of resilience, madness, and death. Through these stories we come to under...
In this book Karla explores the undocumented identity and sets on a path to change this narrow minded narrative that tends to be the highlight in mainstream media. She shares her personal experience as well as those of others.
“In her incandescent, relentlessly probing voice, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitive reporting and powerful personal narratives to bring to light remarkable stories of resilience, madness, and death. Through these stories we come to under...
The Undocumented Americans