Hispanic Heritage Month Reading Recommendations

Picture Books:

●      If Dominican Were a Color by Sili Recio

●      Bright Star by Yuyi Morales

●      Dinner on Domingos by Alexandra Katona

●      My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Qunitero

Middle Grade Chapter Books:

●      The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

●      Loteria by Karla Arenas Valenti

●      Santiago's Road Home by Alexandra Diaz

Young Adult Books:

●      Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

●      We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez

●      The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

●      I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

Non-Fiction for Kids & Young Adults:

●      Nuestra America: 30 Inspiring Latinas/Latinos Who Have Shaped the United States by Sabrina Vourvoulias

●      Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menendez

●      Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States by Warren Binford

General Fiction:

●      Dominicana by Angie Cruz

●      Gordo by Jaime Cortez

●      Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

●      Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

General Non-Fiction:

●      ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer

●      The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

●      Postcolonial Love Poems: Poems by Natalie Diaz

●      Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History by Elizabeth Ferrer

●      An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz