Recommended Latino and Hispanic books. Leave other Recs in comments.
created by ElissaDM
last updated October, 2025
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Manuel Puig
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
Aiden Thomas
The Five Wounds
Kirstin Valdez Quade
So Far from God
Ana Castillo
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
Sandra Cisneros
City of God
Gil Cuadros
Y No Se Lo Trago La Tierra / ...and the Earth Did Not Devour Him (Spanish and English Edition)
TomĂĄs Rivera
Under the Feet of Jesus
Helena MarĂa Viramontes
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mr. President (Penguin Classics)
Miguel Ăngel Asturias
Desolation: A Bilingual Edition (Spanish and English Edition)
Gabriela Mistral
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Octavio Paz
Almost a Woman
Esmeralda Santiago
Paradiso
José Lezama Lima
How the GarcĂa Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez
Confabulario and Other Inventions (Texas Pan American Series)
Juan José Arreola
By Night in Chile
Roberto Bolaño
Terra Nostra (Latin American Literature)
Carlos Fuentes
Three Trapped Tigers (Latin American Literature)
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. SĂĄnchez
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
When I Was Puerto Rican
In the Time of the Butterflies
In Perfect Light
Benjamin Alire SĂĄenz
Esperanza Rising
Pam Muñoz Ryan
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Gloria E. AnzaldĂșa
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
Living Beyond Borders: Growing up Mexican in America
Margarita Longoria
Love this list! I thought The Kiss of the Spider Woman/El beso de la mujer araña by Manuel Puig was super interesting, it was a mind trip but a cool read
I love those kinds of books. I added it.
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