October 2026 · 31 books
Latinx Authors & Hispanic Cultures
Latinx and Hispanic writers redrawing family, borderlands and belonging.
The month, day by day.

Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado
Stories that slide between horror, fairy tale and desire — and refuse to behave.

Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
An heiress. A rotting mansion. A family with roots in something terrible.

Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
A curandera comes to stay, and a boy's world splits between miracle and myth.

The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Esperanza is inventing who she'll become — one vignette at a time.

The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Three generations of the Trueba family — and the ghosts who never left.

Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
A family drives toward the border as the radio counts the missing children.

The Taiga Syndrome
Cristina Rivera Garza
A detective is hired to find a runaway wife — the forest has other plans.

Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
The Witch is dead in the canal — and a whole village did it.

Furia
Yamile Saied Méndez
In Rosario, girls aren't supposed to play fútbol. Camila plays to win.

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sánchez
Perfect daughters don't die. Julia is done being compared to one.

The Moon Within
Aida Salazar
A first period, a best friend in transition, and a moon ceremony Celi isn't sure she wants.

The Weight of Feathers
Anna-Marie McLemore
Two feuding performer families. One impossible love. Feathers versus scales.
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The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
Manuel Muñoz
Ten stories from the Central Valley, where tenderness and hard work share a fence.

Night at the Fiestas
Kirstin Valdez Quade
New Mexico stories where grace arrives in the strangest costumes.

Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin
A dying woman. A strange boy at her bedside. And one question: where are the worms?

Things We Lost in the Fire
Mariana Enríquez
Buenos Aires burns beautiful in twelve stories of dread.

Undiscovered
Gabriela Wiener
Her ancestor looted thousands of artefacts from Peru. Gabriela Wiener wants a word.

Sabrina & Corina
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Denver's Chicana and Indigenous women, holding each other through everything.

They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera
Death-Cast calls at midnight: today is your last day. Make it count.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Two boys, one desert summer, and the secrets of the universe.

Beneath the Rising
Premee Mohamed
Her best friend just invented clean energy. The elder gods noticed.

Anger Is a Gift
Mark Oshiro
Moss's grief becomes a movement when his school starts to feel like a prison.

Ophelia After All
Racquel Marie
Ophelia has had crushes on boys forever. So why can't she stop thinking about Talia?

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez
Four sisters, two islands, and the accents that carried everything home.
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Drown
Junot Díaz
Ten stories of Nueva Jersey and Santo Domingo, in a voice that changed American fiction.

Bright Dead Things
Ada Limón
Poems for anyone learning to live loudly inside a fragile life.

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Macondo: one town, one family, one hundred years of magic and ruin.

Labyrinth Lost
Zoraida Córdova
Alex hates her magic. Her spell to banish it banishes her family instead.

Shadowshaper
Daniel José Older
Brooklyn's murals are weeping — and Sierra's family magic is the reason.

Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
From a Cuban cigar factory to a Miami detention centre: mothers, daughters, salt.

Olga Dies Dreaming
Xochitl Gonzalez
A wedding planner to the 1%, a revolutionary mother, and a hurricane called home.
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