Recs if you like This Is the Only Kingdom...

book club book picks

Puerto Rican and Hispanic Storytellers A little bit of the homeland

All kinds of fiction stories written by Boricua authors

Mix of genres by queer authors from nations in North America and the Caribbean, set in (or partially in) the nation. Not every nation is represented yet—I'm still researching them! Keeping it at maximum 3 books per nation.

Antigua & Barbuda: Annie John Bahamas: If I Had Wings Canada: A Minor Chorus; Mohawk Trail Costa Rica: Crocodilopolis Cuba: Call Me Cassandra Dominican Republic: Tentacle Greenland: Last Night in Nuuk Honduras: Libertad Jamaica: Broughtupsy; Things I Have Withheld Mexico: How We Named the Stars* Panama: Stepmotherland Puerto Rico: This is the Only Kingdom; Bad Seed Trinidad and Tobago: Cereus Blooms at Night; The Dreaming United States: The Color Purple; Jonny Appleseed

(*) diaspora author

This is one of a few lists I'm making to help me organize my ideas for HRCYED 3.0. Feel free to take inspiration or comment with more ideas.

A combination of fiction and non-fiction reads that may or may not be classics, but the diaspora should have the pulse on.