Latinx

Latinx-litteratur feirer det rike vevet av latinamerikanske og hispaniske erfaringer, fra magisk realisme vevd gjennom Andesfjellenes landskap til oppveksthistorier satt i innvandrerfellesskap som navigerer identitet mellom kulturer. Disse bøkene utforsker temaer som familie, arv, språk og tilhørighet, samtidig som de viser frem mangfoldige stemmer som spenner over samtidsromantikk, kulturkritikk og transformerende reiser av selvoppdagelse.

Latinx Boksammendrag

We Are Not From Here

av Jenny Torres Sanchez

After witnessing a gang murder, three Guatemalan teens must flee on the freight trains north.

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🚂 Migrant Journey 👻 Ghostly Visions 🖤 Gritty Ya 👥 Found Family 🏜️ Border Crossing

Oppslukende

We Are Not From Here

After witnessing a gang murder, three Guatemalan teens must flee on the freight trains north.

av Jenny Torres Sanchez 2020 344 sider

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🚂 Migrant Journey 👻 Ghostly Visions 🖤 Gritty Ya 👥 Found Family 🏜️ Border Crossing

Furia

av Yamile Saied Méndez • 2020

Camila's fútbol genius must stay hidden. Her famous ex's return threatens the double life she built.

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15 000+

🎭 Sports Drama ⚽ Girls In Sports 💕 Childhood Friends To Lovers 🤫 Secret Life 💔 Abusive Parent

Furia

Camila's fútbol genius must stay hidden. Her famous ex's return threatens the double life she built.

av Yamile Saied Méndez 2020 368 sider

4.14

15 000+ vurderinger

🎭 Sports Drama ⚽ Girls In Sports 💕 Childhood Friends To Lovers 🤫 Secret Life 💔 Abusive Parent

To Selena, With Love

av Chris Pérez • 2012

A hidden romance. A secret wedding. A rising star. And the phone call that ended it all.

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9 000+

🎸 Music Memoirs 💔 Grief And Loss 🎤 Behind The Music 🌟 Cultural Icons 🌎 Latino Memoirs

To Selena, With Love

A hidden romance. A secret wedding. A rising star. And the phone call that ended it all.

av Chris Pérez 2012 304 sider

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9 000+ vurderinger

🎸 Music Memoirs 💔 Grief And Loss 🎤 Behind The Music 🌟 Cultural Icons 🌎 Latino Memoirs

Malinche

av Laura Esquivel • 2006

Born under omens, sold into slavery, a Nahua woman becomes the voice that remakes a world.

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7 000+

🖋️ Feminist Retelling ✨ Magical Realism ⚔️ Colonial Encounter 🙏 Syncretic Faith 🗣️ Language As Power

Malinche

Born under omens, sold into slavery, a Nahua woman becomes the voice that remakes a world.

av Laura Esquivel 2006 191 sider

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🖋️ Feminist Retelling ✨ Magical Realism ⚔️ Colonial Encounter 🙏 Syncretic Faith 🗣️ Language As Power

Mexican WhiteBoy

av Matt de la Peña • 2008

Half-Mexican, can't speak Spanish, he spends a summer in his father's barrio, looking for home.

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🌗 Biracial Identity 👤 Absent Father 🤝 Unlikely Friendship ⚾ Baseball Fiction 🌴 Southern California

Mexican WhiteBoy

Half-Mexican, can't speak Spanish, he spends a summer in his father's barrio, looking for home.

av Matt de la Peña 2008 256 sider

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5 000+ vurderinger

🌗 Biracial Identity 👤 Absent Father 🤝 Unlikely Friendship ⚾ Baseball Fiction 🌴 Southern California

Unbreakable

av Jenni Rivera • 2013

Teen mom, banda queen, and a nine-year pursuit that ended with her abuser sentenced to life.

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🎤 Regional Mexican Music 🎵 Female Musicians 💔 Surviving Abuse ✊ Chicana Feminism 👩‍👧‍👦 Single Mothers

Unbreakable

Teen mom, banda queen, and a nine-year pursuit that ended with her abuser sentenced to life.

av Jenni Rivera 2013 240 sider

4.47

2 000+ vurderinger

🎤 Regional Mexican Music 🎵 Female Musicians 💔 Surviving Abuse ✊ Chicana Feminism 👩‍👧‍👦 Single Mothers

LatinoLand

av Marie Arana • 2024

Thirty-three countries, five centuries of mixing: the real story inside the label 'Latino.'

4.31

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🪪 Latino Identity 🧳 Immigration History 📚 Ethnic Studies 🧬 Racial Formation 🗣️ Immigrant Narratives

LatinoLand

Thirty-three countries, five centuries of mixing: the real story inside the label 'Latino.'

av Marie Arana 2024 573 sider

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500+ vurderinger

🪪 Latino Identity 🧳 Immigration History 📚 Ethnic Studies 🧬 Racial Formation 🗣️ Immigrant Narratives

Rain of Gold

av Victor Villaseñor • 1991

Why your best successes sow your worst defeats, and the one shift that breaks the cycle.

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📖 Business Fables 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 💪 Emotional Resilience 🧗 Managing Setbacks 😌 Ego Management

Rain of Gold

Why your best successes sow your worst defeats, and the one shift that breaks the cycle.

av Victor Villaseñor 1991 576 sider

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📖 Business Fables 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 💪 Emotional Resilience 🧗 Managing Setbacks 😌 Ego Management

Living Beyond Borders

av Margarita Longoria • 2021

Where are you from? Mexican American teens navigate two cultures in search of their own voice.

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🇲🇽 Mexican American 📚 YA Anthology 🎭 Dual Identity 🗣️ Code-Switching 👨‍👩‍👧 Generational Stories

Living Beyond Borders

Where are you from? Mexican American teens navigate two cultures in search of their own voice.

av Margarita Longoria 2021 224 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🇲🇽 Mexican American 📚 YA Anthology 🎭 Dual Identity 🗣️ Code-Switching 👨‍👩‍👧 Generational Stories

Bad Mexicans

av Kelly Lytle Hernández • 2022

The Mexican Revolution began with ink, not gunpowder. The U.S. fought to stop it.

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🪖 Mexican Revolution 🏜️ Borderlands History 🏴 Anarchist Movements ✊ Labor Strikes 🌍 Anti-Colonialism

Bad Mexicans

The Mexican Revolution began with ink, not gunpowder. The U.S. fought to stop it.

av Kelly Lytle Hernández 2022 372 sider

4.18

2 000+ vurderinger

🪖 Mexican Revolution 🏜️ Borderlands History 🏴 Anarchist Movements ✊ Labor Strikes 🌍 Anti-Colonialism

Aftershocks of Disaster

av Yarimar Bonilla • 2019

After Maria, Puerto Ricans found the worst disaster wasn't the storm. It was colonial rule.

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129

🇵🇷 Puerto Rican History 🌴 Caribbean Politics 🌀 Disaster Response 🤝 Mutual Aid 🏚️ Disaster Capitalism

Aftershocks of Disaster

After Maria, Puerto Ricans found the worst disaster wasn't the storm. It was colonial rule.

av Yarimar Bonilla 2019 404 sider

4.29

129 vurderinger

🇵🇷 Puerto Rican History 🌴 Caribbean Politics 🌀 Disaster Response 🤝 Mutual Aid 🏚️ Disaster Capitalism

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez • 2021

Tired of translating yourself for others? Here is the toolkit to reclaim your mind, language, anger.

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🤎 Woc Feminism 🧹 Decolonial Feminism 🧬 Generational Trauma 👔 Respectability Politics 🪶 Cultural Identity

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

Tired of translating yourself for others? Here is the toolkit to reclaim your mind, language, anger.

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez 2021 272 sider

4.46

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🤎 Woc Feminism 🧹 Decolonial Feminism 🧬 Generational Trauma 👔 Respectability Politics 🪶 Cultural Identity

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

av Daisy Hernández • 2014

A childhood translating for her parents gave her everything except a language for her bisexuality.

4.12

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✈️ Immigrant Memoir 🌈 Coming Out Stories 🗣️ Language And Identity 🇺🇸 Assimilation 💰 Class Consciousness

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

A childhood translating for her parents gave her everything except a language for her bisexuality.

av Daisy Hernández 2014 185 sider

4.12

2 000+ vurderinger

✈️ Immigrant Memoir 🌈 Coming Out Stories 🗣️ Language And Identity 🇺🇸 Assimilation 💰 Class Consciousness

Dreaming in Cuban

av Cristina García • 1992

Three generations of Cuban women live in two worlds, bound by dreams and divided by revolution.

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🏝️ Cuban Diaspora 📜 Multi-Generational Saga 👻 Ghostly Visits 🔮 Psychic Bonds ✉️ Unsent Letters

Dreaming in Cuban

Three generations of Cuban women live in two worlds, bound by dreams and divided by revolution.

av Cristina García 1992 274 sider

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🏝️ Cuban Diaspora 📜 Multi-Generational Saga 👻 Ghostly Visits 🔮 Psychic Bonds ✉️ Unsent Letters

My Broken Language

av Quiara Alegría Hudes • 2021

A professor said her Spanish was broken. Write it that way. A playwright found her voice.

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🧒 Coming Of Age Memoir 🌍 Multicultural Memoir 🔀 Code Switching 🤫 Breaking Silence 🎭 Latino Theatre

My Broken Language

A professor said her Spanish was broken. Write it that way. A playwright found her voice.

av Quiara Alegría Hudes 2021 336 sider

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🧒 Coming Of Age Memoir 🌍 Multicultural Memoir 🔀 Code Switching 🤫 Breaking Silence 🎭 Latino Theatre

Big Chicas Don't Cry

av Annette Chavez Macias • 2022

Four Latina cousins swore they'd stay close forever. Adulthood, it turns out, had other plans.

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🏡 Multigenerational Saga 👭 Sisterhood 🇲🇽 Mexican American 💘 Slow Burn Romance 🤝 Family Reconciliation

Big Chicas Don't Cry

Four Latina cousins swore they'd stay close forever. Adulthood, it turns out, had other plans.

av Annette Chavez Macias 2022 367 sider

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🏡 Multigenerational Saga 👭 Sisterhood 🇲🇽 Mexican American 💘 Slow Burn Romance 🤝 Family Reconciliation

Handbook for an Unpredictable Life

av Rosie Pérez • 2014

She survived the Catholic Home for Children. Then she had to survive Hollywood.

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📖 Latina Memoir 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🏠 Foster Care 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 💃 Dancer Memoir

Handbook for an Unpredictable Life

She survived the Catholic Home for Children. Then she had to survive Hollywood.

av Rosie Pérez 2014 320 sider

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📖 Latina Memoir 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🏠 Foster Care 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 💃 Dancer Memoir

Lobizona

av Romina Garber • 2020

Undocumented in Miami, Manu finds a magical school where female werewolves cannot exist. She is one.

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📚 Magical School 📖 Folklore Fantasy 🐺 Female Werewolf 🕶️ Hidden Identity 💚 Found Family

Lobizona

Undocumented in Miami, Manu finds a magical school where female werewolves cannot exist. She is one.

av Romina Garber 2020 400 sider

4.09

8 000+ vurderinger

📚 Magical School 📖 Folklore Fantasy 🐺 Female Werewolf 🕶️ Hidden Identity 💚 Found Family

Tías and Primas

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez • 2024

The women who shaped you are archetypes. A Latina feminist reveals what they teach about survival.

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🌺 Latina Feminism 🎭 Female Archetypes 🪢 Intergenerational Trauma 🪞 Body Policing 🤝 Female Solidarity

Tías and Primas

The women who shaped you are archetypes. A Latina feminist reveals what they teach about survival.

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez 2024 304 sider

4.05

1 000+ vurderinger

🌺 Latina Feminism 🎭 Female Archetypes 🪢 Intergenerational Trauma 🪞 Body Policing 🤝 Female Solidarity

Brown Enough

av Christopher Rivas • 2022

The race conversation is Black and white. One actor discovered he belonged to neither.

4.28

310

🤎 Mixed Race Identity 🌎 Latinx Diaspora 🎨 Colorism 🎬 Hollywood Diversity 🧘 Cultural Appropriation

Brown Enough

The race conversation is Black and white. One actor discovered he belonged to neither.

av Christopher Rivas 2022 240 sider

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310 vurderinger

🤎 Mixed Race Identity 🌎 Latinx Diaspora 🎨 Colorism 🎬 Hollywood Diversity 🧘 Cultural Appropriation

Chica, Why Not?

av Sandra Hinojosa Ludwig • 2021

Get clear, align your energy, take the next right step: manifesting without the grind.

4.01

137

🧿 Manifestation Practices ✨ Law Of Attraction ⚡ Energy Alignment 💖 Self-Compassion 🧱 Limiting Beliefs

Chica, Why Not?

Get clear, align your energy, take the next right step: manifesting without the grind.

av Sandra Hinojosa Ludwig 2021 174 sider

4.01

137 vurderinger

🧿 Manifestation Practices ✨ Law Of Attraction ⚡ Energy Alignment 💖 Self-Compassion 🧱 Limiting Beliefs

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

av Erika L. Sánchez • 2017

Her perfect sister is dead. What the closet hides could break her immigrant family.

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🧬 Generational Trauma 🌎 Immigrant Family 📦 Secret Life Uncovered 🩹 Mental Health Healing 🗣️ Sharp-Tongued Heroine

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Her perfect sister is dead. What the closet hides could break her immigrant family.

av Erika L. Sánchez 2017 344 sider

4.00

84 000+ vurderinger

🧬 Generational Trauma 🌎 Immigrant Family 📦 Secret Life Uncovered 🩹 Mental Health Healing 🗣️ Sharp-Tongued Heroine

The White Hot

av Quiara Alegría Hudes • 2025

Eight years after vanishing, a mother writes her daughter a letter explaining why she had to leave.

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🔥 Inherited Rage 👩‍👧 Disappearing Mother 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌺 Latinx Family Saga ✉️ Epistolary Novel

The White Hot

Eight years after vanishing, a mother writes her daughter a letter explaining why she had to leave.

av Quiara Alegría Hudes 2025 176 sider

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🔥 Inherited Rage 👩‍👧 Disappearing Mother 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌺 Latinx Family Saga ✉️ Epistolary Novel

Aesthetics of Excess

av Jillian Hernandez • 2020

Too much style is how Black and Latina women expose the class politics neoliberalism hides.

4.26

🎨 Art Criticism ✊🏿 Black Feminism 👔 Respectability Politics 🔀 Intersectionality 📚 Cultural Studies

Aesthetics of Excess

Too much style is how Black and Latina women expose the class politics neoliberalism hides.

av Jillian Hernandez 2020 320 sider

4.26

42 vurderinger

🎨 Art Criticism ✊🏿 Black Feminism 👔 Respectability Politics 🔀 Intersectionality 📚 Cultural Studies

You Never Forget Your First

av Millie Perez • 2022

Snowed in with her brother's best friend, she can't outrun the feelings she buried years ago.

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🫣 Brother's Best Friend 💫 Second Chance Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity 🤝 Found Family 💬 Banter Heavy

You Never Forget Your First

Snowed in with her brother's best friend, she can't outrun the feelings she buried years ago.

av Millie Perez 2022 311 sider

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🫣 Brother's Best Friend 💫 Second Chance Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity 🤝 Found Family 💬 Banter Heavy

Racial Innocence

av Tanya Katerí Hernández • 2022

Latinos claim immunity from racism. The evidence on housing, jobs, and violence shows otherwise.

4.32

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🖤 Anti-Blackness 🎨 Colorism 📚 Critical Race Theory 🪪 Latino Identity 🪘 Afro-Latino Experience

Racial Innocence

Latinos claim immunity from racism. The evidence on housing, jobs, and violence shows otherwise.

av Tanya Katerí Hernández 2022 208 sider

4.32

332 vurderinger

🖤 Anti-Blackness 🎨 Colorism 📚 Critical Race Theory 🪪 Latino Identity 🪘 Afro-Latino Experience

My Mother Cursed My Name

av Anamely Salgado Reyes • 2024

A girl who sees spirits must bury her grandmother in Mexico to break their curse of names.

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1 000+

🍂 Generational Saga 🍲 Magical Cooking 👻 Reluctant Psychic ✨ Lyrical Prose 🌵 Texas Borderlands

My Mother Cursed My Name

A girl who sees spirits must bury her grandmother in Mexico to break their curse of names.

av Anamely Salgado Reyes 2024 336 sider

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🍂 Generational Saga 🍲 Magical Cooking 👻 Reluctant Psychic ✨ Lyrical Prose 🌵 Texas Borderlands

Summer of the Mariposas

av Guadalupe Garcia McCall • 2012

Five sisters smuggle a body into Mexico and stumble into a world of living folklore.

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🏛️ Odyssey Retelling 🇲🇽 Mexican Folklore 👯 Sisterly Quest 👻 La Llorona Retelling 🌅 Bittersweet Fantasy

Summer of the Mariposas

Five sisters smuggle a body into Mexico and stumble into a world of living folklore.

av Guadalupe Garcia McCall 2012 352 sider

3.50

3 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Odyssey Retelling 🇲🇽 Mexican Folklore 👯 Sisterly Quest 👻 La Llorona Retelling 🌅 Bittersweet Fantasy

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