Books for Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month

By Coll Rowe | August 5 2025 | HistorySociology

Penguin Random House Education is proud to celebrate Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month, which runs annually from September 15th through October 15th. We are highlighting the works of our authors from the Hispanic and Latine community.

Find a full collection of titles here.

A History of Latinos in America: Second Revised and Updated Edition
9780143137436
A sweeping history of the Latinx experience in the United States.
$22.00 US
Jun 14, 2022
Paperback
560 Pages
Penguin Books

Stories from My Life
9780345807175

From Chicago to Mexico, the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, a place where she could truly take root, has eluded her. In this jigsaw autobiography, made up of essays and images spanning three decades—and including never-before-published work—Cisneros has come home at last.

$16.00 US
Sep 06, 2016
Paperback
400 Pages
Vintage

A Memoir
9780399590061
The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.
$19.99 US
Jan 11, 2022
Paperback
336 Pages
One World

9780807005934

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights.

$17.00 US
Dec 11, 2018
Paperback
296 Pages
Beacon Press

The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
9781984880826

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate, by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer.

$21.00 US
Jan 21, 2025
Paperback
544 Pages
Penguin Books

9780345806406

When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved.

$16.00 US
Mar 03, 2015
Paperback
304 Pages
Vintage

A Memoir
9780593498088
A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. 
$19.00 US
Jun 06, 2023
Paperback
416 Pages
Hogarth

Four Weeks Down the Magdalena
9781646221615

An exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk, and how a country recovers from conflict. “Richly observed.” —Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review

$16.95 US
Nov 15, 2022
Paperback
224 Pages
Catapult

A Novel
9780593472132

A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of the devil’s bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom.

$19.00 US
Oct 01, 2024
Paperback
288 Pages
Dutton

9780345804839
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.
$17.00 US
Jan 07, 2014
Paperback
432 Pages
Vintage

A Novel
9780593449110

Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel; Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction • Now a senior at an elite college, Catalina faces graduation into a world that has no place for the undocumented. Brash and daring, part campus novel, part hagiography, part pop song, Catalina is unlike any coming-of-age novel you’ve ever read.

$18.00 US
May 13, 2025
Paperback
224 Pages
One World

The Sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries
9781644211007

The sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries, this book is Ernesto Che Guevera’s journal documenting the young Argentine’s second trip through Latin America, revealing the emergence of a committed revolutionary.

$17.95 US
May 06, 2025
Paperback
192 Pages
Seven Stories Press