The Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club is 10- years- old this year. We
are super excited, and will be giving away prizes (aka free books) at the
monthly book club meetings so do attend and bring reader friends. To celebrate,
we have released our 3rd Annual Summer Reading List; see below.
We want everyone Reading Latino Lit this summer!
1. All
That Glitters by Liza Treviňo (Koehler Books, women's fiction)
2. All
the Agents & Saints by Stephanie Elizondo Griest (University of North
Carolina Press, memoir)
3. Blood’s
Echo by Isabella Maldonado (Midnight Ink, mystery)
4. Bravo!
Poems About Amazing Hispanics by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt & Co.,
children's book, poetry)
5. Certain
Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Thomas Dunne Books, horror)
6. Everything
That Could Not Happen Will Happen Now by Alberto Ramirez (Floricanto Press,
fiction)
7. History
Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera (Penguin/Soho Teen, fiction, LGBT)
8. Labyrinth
Lost by Zoraida Cordova (Sourcebooks Fire, fiction, young adult)
9. Like
Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Doubleday, classic, magical realism)
10. Self
Made by Nely Galán (Spiegel & Grau, women and business, motivational)
11. The
Cruel Country by Judith Ortiz Cofer (University of Georgia Press, memoir)
12. The
Enchilada Queen Cookbook by Sylvia Casares (St. Martin’s Griffin, cookbook)
13. With
the River on Our Face by Emmy Pérez (University of Arizona Press, poetry)
Learn more about the Summer Reading List and the Book Club by visiting www.latinolit.com.
