Books by and about Latinos in 2019
Rigoberto Gonzalez at NBC News provides a top 10 list of books by and for Latinos. The books highlighted as the “best Latino books, according to Latinx writers” are Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Sabrina & Corina,” a debut collection of stories that was named a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction; Angie Cruz’s “Dominicana,” a novel that launched Good Morning America’s Cover to Cover book club, and Carmen Maria Machado’s “In the Dream House,” whose inventive approach to narrative single-handedly reimagined the memoir.
Here is the full list of ten from Gonzalez:
- Where We Come From: A Novel by Oscar Casares
- Kafka in a Skirt: Stories from the Wall by Daniel Chacon
- Queen of Bones by Teresa Dovalpage
- Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family by Anika Fajardo
- The Accidental: Poems by Gina Franco
- Staten Island Stories by Claire Jimenez
- Rattlesnake Allegory by Joe Jimenez
- The King of Adobe: Reies Lopez Tigerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement by Lorena Oropeza
- I Offer My Heart as a Target, by Johanny Vazquez Paz
- Cantoras: A Novel by Carolina de Robertis
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