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Latino/a and Latin American Studies

Recent Acquisitions in Latina/o/x Literature

This year, the library had an opportunity to fill some gaps in our Latina/o/x literature collections.

These recently acquired e-books include a mix of classic and modern titles from a variety of genres written for a wide range of ages. Included are books by well-known authors like Sandra Cisneros and Rudolfo Anaya, and newer celebrated authors such as Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Adam Silvera.

If you have a title to suggest for this collection, please contact Ida Martinez.

Fiction - Novels

At Night We Walk in Circles

Daniel Alarcón
Penguin Publishing Group

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya
Grand Central Publishing

The Book of Unknown Americans

Cristina Henríquez
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Caramelo

Sandra Cisneros
Vintage Books / Random House Publishing

The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

Maceo Montoya
University of New Mexico Press

Dominicana

Angie Cruz and Kianny Antigua
Seven Stories Press

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Erika L. Sánchez
Random House Children's Books

Lost City Radio

Daniel Alarcón
HarperCollins Publishers

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Random House Worlds

They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera
HarperCollins Publishers

Under the Feet of Jesus

Helena María Viramontes
Penguin Publishing Group

The World in Half

Cristina Henriquez
Penguin Publishing Group

Fiction - Short Stories

Along These Highways

Rene Perez
University of Arizona Press

Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul

Bryan Allen Fierro
University of Arizona Press

Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms and Loops

Daniel Chacón
Arte Público Press

How to Leave Hialeah

Jennine Capó Crucet
University of Iowa Press

The King Is Always above the People

Daniel Alarcón
Penguin Publishing Group

Long Stories Cut Short: Stories from the Borderlands

Frederick Luis Aldama
University of Arizona Press

Love War Stories

Ivelisse Rodriguez
Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Sabrina and Corina: Stories

Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Random House Publishing Group

Unending Rooms: Stories

Daniel Chacon
Dzanc Books

Us, in Progress: Short Stories about Young Latinos

Lulu Delacre
HarperCollins Publishers

War by Candlelight: Stories

Daniel Alarcón
HarperCollins Publishers

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

Sandra Cisneros
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Poetry

Loose Woman: Poems

Sandra Cisneros
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems

Sandra Cisneros
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Woman Without Shame: Poems

Sandra Cisneros
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Nonfiction

The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir

Domingo Martinez
Globe Pequot Press

The Distance Between Us: A Memoir

Reyna Grande
Washington Square Press

A House of My Own: Stories from My Life

Sandra Cisneros
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

Cherríe Moraga
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
SUNY Press

When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir

Esmeralda Santiago
Hachette Books