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| 2020

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We found this list online compiled by Latina magazine, and it inspired us to send out a challenge for Latino Books Month and the COVID-19 Quarentined Reading Challenge … (eh, why not? You've got a lot of time on your hands)

Are you ready to take this challenge?

Track, blog, share, and discuss the 25 books listed below and through Latino Books Month. Some of you may wish to add some books you feel should be on this list ~ go ahead. If you’ve already read any of the books on the list, give us your opinion or recommendation.

Join us, take the challenge and/or join the discussion, ahora mismo! And be sure to visit this Blog page often to keep the discussion alive.

Here is our 2020 list of books written by Latino authors we recommend you read (Adult & Young Adult):

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Cantoras

Staten Island Stories

Quee of Bones

Thresholds

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Magical Realism

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Where we Com From

The 25 Books Every Latino or Latino Should Read (recommended by Latina magazine)

The House of Spirits ~ Isabel Allende
One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the Time of the Butterflies ~ Julia Alvarez
When I was Puerto Rican ~ Esmeralda Santiago
Don Quixote ~ Miguel de Cervantes
Kiss of the Spider Woman ~ Manuel Puig
Death in the Andes ~ Mario Vargas LLosa
Hopscotch ~ Julio Cortazar
The Labyrinth of Solitude ~ Octavio Paz
La Muerte de Artemio Cruz ~ Carlos Fuentes
Like Water for Chocolate ~ Laura Esquivel
The Alchemist ~ Paulo Coelho
Las Películas de Mi Vida ~ Alberto Fuguet
The House on Mango Street ~ Sandra Cisneros
The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara ~ Jorge G. Castaneda
A People's History of the United States ~ Howard Zinn
The Aleph ~ Jorge Luis Borges
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in the United States ~ Juan Gonzalez
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair ~ Pablo Neruda
The Brief & Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ~ Junot Diaz
Dreaming in Cuban • Soñar en Cubano ~ Cristina Garcia
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories ~ Horacio Quiroga
Pedro Paramo ~ Juan Rulfo
Men of Maize ~ Miguel Angel Asturias

Tags: #LatinoBooks , #LatinoLiterature

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