Track, blog, share, and discuss the 25 books listed below in 2016 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.

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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