Books for Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month

Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction

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.

A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?

Incisive and timely, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists and revealing the radically different ways people of the diaspora addressed issues still plaguing the United States today.

A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and “illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration” (The New York Times Book Review).

An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of Colombia.

A sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America’s most famous border town.

A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself.

Che Guevara’s definitive account of the Cuban revolutionary war, in an updated edition. Includes photos and new foreword by Aleida Guevara—Che’s eldest daughter who is a physician.