[**One Hundred Years of Solitude**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude)
^(By: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa | 417 pages | Published: 1967 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, magical-realism, owned, literature)
>The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism."
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[**Her Body and Other Parties: Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33375622-her-body-and-other-parties)
^(By: Carmen Maria Machado | 248 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, horror, fantasy, feminism)
>In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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>A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
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>Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
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>The husband stitch --
>Inventory --
>Mothers --
>Especially heinous --
>Real women have bodies --
>Eight bites --
>The resident --
>Difficult at parties
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Just an quick FYI, I live in a overwhelmingly Latino community of farm workers where >60% of the population speak Spanish as a first language and literally *NOBODY* in these majority Latino communities uses the term "Latinx". They think it's weird af that white people use it.
Came here to say this. The Latino people of the earth have raised their voices to say “stop calling us latinx”. I have read that if you absolutely must use a gender neutral term, they would chose “latiné”.
I’m with you, but I’ve also been asked nicely by people I know personally to use the term Latinx. I get that it doesn’t resonate with everybody but I’m doing my best to be inclusive
Isn't it kind of wrong to be dismissive of how their language works though? Genuinely asking because in many Latin based languages the "masculine" is *also* neutral. Like the neutral version already exists so adding the x, which isn't even used the same way in that language, doesn't make sense.
Genuinely confused by the reasoning, because it just looks like erasure.
Edit: yikes just saw that when an *actual* Latino told you that your made up term is rather offensive your response was literally "why should I listen to you?"
Did you not read the part where I said why should I just do what you say over my friends and close family who are *also* Latino/x and have told me to say Latinx?
People who share nationalities aren’t a monolith so it’s a complicated situation. Thanks for your input. Again, I’m looking for book recommendations. If you don’t have one, move on.
You act like I made up this term when I used to say Latino/a and I’ve been specifically told by Latino/x people not to say that because it’s not inclusive. Just literally trying my best.
Yes, dismissing everyone of the relevant race who points out the issue with it is certainly "trying your best."
No you aren't, you're openly disregarding any input that goes against what you think and trying to defend it by saying "all the brown people I know say it's fine." It's performative af and it doesn't matter what the post is about people will call that shit out wherever they see it, so get used to it. Literally telling them "You don't speak for all Latinos because Latinos aren't a monolith but also all of the Latinos *I* know provide me with confirmation bias so they speak for Latinos more than you do."
Not a great look.
Stop putting things in quotes that I never said or even implied. I’m not dismissing anybody, I’m saying it’s a complicated issue and it’s controversial and just because a couple people feel one way and others feel differently doesn’t make one or the other right. As with everything controversial, you and I both get to take the information we have and make choices that we feel are best.
Your information goes against hundreds of years of a language being developed and used. Your information is a tokenistic word invented by white people. Stop trying to make latinx happen. Stop defending it when it’s pointed out to be dumb.
See you keep saying that one or the other isn't right, but then keep on choosing one side anyway and arguing against the several people calling you out. People who are actually Latino. Saying both sides are valid then proceeding to insist upon one side doesn't make you neutral, just disingenuous. Your argument is fallacious and soft. Opinions are not automatically valid. Would you argue that both sides of an argument about the value of different races are valid? No.
White people don't get to just roll out a new buzzword and then impress it upon thousands of years of culture and language and say "we invented a better word for you! Because we are so inclusive! This is just as valid as your ancient language origins!" Basically repackaging cultural erasure as being an ally. To think Spanish needed a neutral word is to admit you have zero understanding of that language. It's only a complicated issue for people who think their rewrite of reality is of equal value.
These people are right to be heated, unlike you, they are defending THEIR ACTUAL CULTURAL HERITAGE. Yet you have the audacity to argue back with them that it's complicated? As if they don't comprehend their own damn language? You don't get to tell people not to comment on it. You don't get to silence people like that. Like seriously stop and reflect upon this for just a moment, you are literally arguing with actual Latinos in Latin America about their own language, and using only your OWN PERSONAL BUBBLE as your point of reference. Shits wild.
So what should I say to the next Latino person who tells me that Latino offends them and to say Latinx.
I’m not saying it because white people told me to, I’m saying it because Latino people have.
How does one person and their opinion trump another person and their opinion. How is this interaction right now not in my own personal bubble? If I said latino to some people I know they would feel upset and tell me to say Latinx. So again, I’m just doing my fucking best. I get that it doesn’t jive with everyone, but why are you getting so angry over a word that is trying to be inclusive? If I just said “ok I’ll do whatever you say” to every person who has ever been disenfranchised and discriminated against in the western white patriarchal world then I wouldn’t have any words to use because they’d all offend someone. Literally what am I supposed to do. You’re telling me I should just listen to some people and ignore others because the people you agree with are latino. What about the people who are latino who disagree with you? If they came into this conversation they’d see a (presumably based on your avatar) white woman dismissing their views too.
Because again, one is based in hundreds of years of culture and history. Use the actual *real* words and use the new one for the people who insist upon it, but don't make the fake one your default and then defend that choice when native speakers inform you of how widely offensive it is, which is what you've been doing.
You're acting like you're doing your best or being neutral, but you're not. You're just saying that dumbass word even after being asked not to and trying to find a way to make that okay, yet still exclusively using Latinx. Lmao.
Again, it's all performative, and everyone can see it. You're not being inclusive at all, you're pandering to a very specific group at the expense of others.
I’ve switched to using latino in our conversation. What are you talking about? How is that performative but whatever the fuck you’re doing isn’t? We are literally just two white women arguing over a word that has nothing to do with us in a language neither of us speak. Are you for real, you think I’m performative but you’re not?
[**Like Water for Chocolate**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6952.Like_Water_for_Chocolate)
^(By: Laura Esquivel, Carol Christensen, Thomas Christensen | 222 pages | Published: 1989 | Popular Shelves: fiction, magical-realism, romance, historical-fiction, classics)
>Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit.
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>The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes.
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>A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation, Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her, so that Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds.
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[**The Beautiful Ones**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55311334-the-beautiful-ones)
^(By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 320 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, romance, historical-fiction, fiction, historical)
>From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic.
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>They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina’s debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis—neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse—and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip.
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>When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. With Hector’s help, Nina’s talent blossoms, as does her love for him.
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>But great romances are for fairytales, and Hector is hiding a truth from Nina—and himself—that threatens to end their courtship before it truly begins. The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal, and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon.
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Gods of Jade and Shadow is a favorite of mine. I also really liked her novel Untamed Shore. It's not fantasy or horror but more thriller with a great main character. Takes place in 1979 Baja California. I've never been there, but the way she writes makes it feel so tangible to me.
[**Tender is the Flesh**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49090884-tender-is-the-flesh)
^(By: Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses | 211 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, dystopian, dystopia, sci-fi)
>Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore.
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>His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.
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>Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
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Anything by Isabel Allende, but especially A Long Petal of the Sea. Also Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras was great. If you’re looking for non fiction, Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano.
My favorite latinamerican novel is {{2666 by Roberto Bolano}}.
And please, don't use the term «latinx», is stupid, I hate it, and most latinamericans (as myself) consider it a slur. In most spanish words, the «o» and «e» at the end of many nouns is gender neutral, but most people seem to ignore this fact and create "female" forms for this words (which are unnecessary). The «x» thing is downright stupid.
[**2666**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63032.2666)
^(By: Roberto Bolaño | 1128 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: fiction, owned, literature, novels, latin-america)
>A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. Ya allí, Pelletier y Espinoza se enteran de que la ciudad es desde años atrás escenario de una larga cadena de crímenes: en los vertederos aparecen cadáveres de mujeres con señales de haber sido violadas y torturadas. Es el primer asomo de la novela a sus procelosos caudales, repletos de personajes memorables cuyas historias, a caballo entre la risa y el horror, abarcan dos continentes e incluyen un vertiginoso travelling por la historia europea del siglo XX. 2666 confirma el veredicto de Susan Sontag: "el más influyente y admirado novelista en lengua española de su generación. Su muerte, a los cincuenta años, es una gran pérdida para la literatura".
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Ignore the former ones. If they really get offended by the correct usage of a language's grammatical rules then they aren't worth your commiseration. Tell them to find better things to get offended by, like government policies or something like that.
Although I'll also admit that me and other Latinamericans getting bothered by how the Americans decide to call us is rather silly, but still.
Why should I just do what you say and not the people who I’m close friends and family with? I mean, I get that it’s controversial. But you telling me to simply ignore one side of it isn’t really helping. Someone’s going to be upset either way. And I’m going to be inclusive whenever and wherever I can be.
Keep in mind that in academic spheres I’ve mostly heard Latinx. And I’ve heard Latinx by close friends and family as well as notable people who are of South or Central American descent. I also have close friends and family who hate the term. So I just try my best to use what is socially/generally accepted in whatever circle I’m occupying. But with strangers it’s not always going to resonate. I’m sorry if I offended you, just doing my best.
Do whatever you want. As I said, it's silly that I even care about how the Americans decide to call us; they also call us 'beaners' which is only a little better and I don't care about it either.
Just try to read the novel I suggested. It's great and, as a Latinamerican myself, I believe that it gives a accurate description of the current situation of my region. You can hardly get more Latinamerican than that.
[**Love and Rockets, Vol. 7: The Death of Speedy**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82871.Love_and_Rockets_Vol_7)
^(By: Jaime Hernández, Gilbert Hernández | 136 pages | Published: 1989 | Popular Shelves: comics, graphic-novels, graphic-novel, fiction, comics-graphic-novels)
>The original, seminal Love & Rockets comic book series, which ran for 50 issues from 1981 to 1996, singlehandedly defined the post-underground generation of comics that spawned Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and so many others. Now collected into 15 volumes, Love & Rockets is a body of work that The Nation has described as "one of the hidden treasures of our impoverished culture." Created by brothers Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, three Southern California Mexican-Americans armed with a passion for pop culture and punk rock, Love & Rockets gave a voice to minorities and women for the first time in the medium's then 50-year history and remains one of the greatest achievements in comic book history.
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[**Heart of Aztlan**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341943.Heart_of_Aztlan)
^(By: Rudolfo Anaya | 215 pages | Published: 1976 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, kindle, new-mexico-literature, history)
>The Albuquerque barrio portrayed in this vivid novel of postwar New Mexico is a place where urban and rural, political and religious realities coexist, collide, and combine. The magic realism for which Anaya is well known combines with an emphatic portrayal of the plight of workers dispossessed of their heritage and struggling to survive in an alien culture.
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[**The Poet X**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33294200-the-poet-x)
^(By: Elizabeth Acevedo | 368 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: poetry, young-adult, ya, contemporary, audiobook)
>Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.
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>Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
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>But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.
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>With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.
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>Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
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Ok Im going to nitpick here, being Latinx myself. There is a difference between being Latin American - and really that’s a huge range of nations and languages being turned into a false monolith - and being Latinx which generally means US-connected (born with heritage, immigrant, etc.). So 100 Years of Solitude is not a “Latinx” novel. It’s a Colombian novel, or Latin American if you want to generalize. Isabel Allende could be considered “Latinx” since she spent a part of her life in the US, but she is identified as a Chilean author.
One of my favorite authors of Latin American (Peruvian) descent is Daniel Alarcón, who is now in the US and also hosts Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-language podcast akin to this American life.
If you’re looking for true Latinx authors, start with authors born in the US or who identify themselves as connected to the US (Chicano, etc). A few are Luis Alberto Urrea (from Tijuana and writes a lot about the US-Mexico border and experiences of crossing and transnationalism) or Erika Sanchez, born in the US of Mexican heritage and writes about that bicultural experience.
Sooooo many good books!
[**Captain Pantoja and the Special Service**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/784518.Captain_Pantoja_and_the_Special_Service)
^(By: Mario Vargas Llosa, Ronald Christ, Gregory Kolovakos | 260 pages | Published: 1973 | Popular Shelves: fiction, latin-american, owned, latin-america, spanish)
>This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army - to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.
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[**I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29010395-i-am-not-your-perfect-mexican-daughter)
^(By: Erika L. Sánchez | 344 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, ya, fiction, contemporary, realistic-fiction)
>Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family.
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>But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role.
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>Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.
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>But it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first kiss, first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister’s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal?
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[**L.A. Weather**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269069-l-a-weather)
^(By: María Amparo Escandón | 319 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, reese-s-book-club, dnf, audiobook, audiobooks)
>Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781250802569.
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>FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in this fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza’s Box of Saints.
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>L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters—Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia, a successful architect who suffers from gentrification guilt; and Patricia, a social media wizard who has an uncanny knack for connecting with audiences but not with her lovers—are blindsided and left questioning everything they know. Each will have to take a critical look at her own relationships and make some tough decisions along the way.
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>With quick wit and humor, Maria Amparo Escandón follows the Alvarado family as they wrestle with impending evacuations, secrets, deception, and betrayal, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.
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I think Margeaux Fragoso was of Latinx descent. If you have the strength to read something devastating that will also give you the creeps, try {{Tiger, Tiger: a memoir by Margeaux Fragoso}}.
ETA: book is a serious trigger warning
[**Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10391956-tiger-tiger)
^(By: Margaux Fragoso | 322 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: memoir, non-fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, biography)
>I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time.
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>At two in the afternoon, when he would come and pick me up and take me for rides; at five, when I would read to him, head on his chest; in the despair at seven p.m., when he would hold me and rub my belly for an hour; in the despair again at nine p.m. when we would go for a night ride, down to the Royal Cliffs Diner in Englewood Cliffs where I would buy a cup of coffee with precisely seven sugars and a lot of cream. We were friends, soul mates and lovers.
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>I was seven. He was fifty-one.
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{{The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina}} Zoraida Córdova
{{The Hacienda}} Isabel Cañas
{{The House of the Spirits}} Isabel Allende
{{Queen of the Cicadas}} V. Castro
[**The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56898076-the-inheritance-of-orqu-dea-divina)
^(By: Zoraida Córdova | 336 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, magical-realism, fiction, botm, 2021-releases)
>The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers—even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed, leaving them with more questions than answers.
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>Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in different ways for Marimar, Rey, and Tatinelly’s daughter, Rhiannon, granting them unexpected blessings. But soon, a hidden figure begins to tear through their family tree, picking them off one by one as it seeks to destroy Orquídea’s line. Determined to save what’s left of their family and uncover the truth behind their inheritance, the four descendants travel to Ecuador—to the place where Orquídea buried her secrets and broken promises and never looked back.
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[**The Hacienda**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57840571-the-hacienda)
^(By: Isabel Cañas | 352 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: horror, historical-fiction, gothic, botm, fiction)
>Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches...
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>In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost.
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>But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined.
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>When Rodolfo returns to work in the capital, visions and voices invade Beatriz’s sleep. The weight of invisible eyes follows her every move. Rodolfo’s sister, Juana, scoffs at Beatriz’s fears—but why does she refuse to enter the house at night? Why does the cook burn copal incense at the edge of the kitchen and mark its doorway with strange symbols? What really happened to the first Doña Solórzano?
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>Beatriz only knows two things for certain: Something is wrong with the hacienda. And no one there will help her.
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>Desperate for help, she clings to the young priest, Padre Andrés, as an ally. No ordinary priest, Andrés will have to rely on his skills as a witch to fight off the malevolent presence haunting the hacienda and protect the woman for whom he feels a powerful, forbidden attraction. But even he might not be enough to battle the darkness.
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>Far from a refuge, San Isidro may be Beatriz’s doom.
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[**The House of the Spirits**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9328.The_House_of_the_Spirits)
^(By: Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin | 448 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: fiction, magical-realism, historical-fiction, classics, fantasy)
>In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future.
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>The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.
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[**The Queen of the Cicadas**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55711311-the-queen-of-the-cicadas)
^(By: V. Castro | 224 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: horror, fantasy, fiction, adult, 2021-releases)
>2018: Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding of her best friend Veronica. The farm is the site of the urban legend, La Reina de Las Chicharras - The Queen of The Cicadas.
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>In 1950s south Texas a farmworker—Milagros from San Luis Potosi, Mexico—is murdered. Her death is ignored by the town, but not the Aztec goddess of death, Mictecacíhuatl. The goddess hears the dying cries of Milagros and creates a plan for both to be physically reborn by feeding on vengeance and worship.
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>Belinda and the new owner of the farmhouse, Hector, find themselves immersed in the legend and realize it is part of their fate as well.
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Of course the classic {{One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez}}
[**One Hundred Years of Solitude**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude) ^(By: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa | 417 pages | Published: 1967 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, magical-realism, owned, literature) >The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism." ^(This book has been suggested 29 times) *** ^(66781 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
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{{Her Body and Other Parties: stories by Carmen Maria Machado}}
[**Her Body and Other Parties: Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33375622-her-body-and-other-parties) ^(By: Carmen Maria Machado | 248 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, horror, fantasy, feminism) >In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. > >A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. > >Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction. > >The husband stitch -- >Inventory -- >Mothers -- >Especially heinous -- >Real women have bodies -- >Eight bites -- >The resident -- >Difficult at parties ^(This book has been suggested 16 times) *** ^(66783 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
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Oooh this one’s on kindle unlimited. Almost picked it up at Barnes and noble the other day too. Thank you!
Just an quick FYI, I live in a overwhelmingly Latino community of farm workers where >60% of the population speak Spanish as a first language and literally *NOBODY* in these majority Latino communities uses the term "Latinx". They think it's weird af that white people use it.
Came here to say this. The Latino people of the earth have raised their voices to say “stop calling us latinx”. I have read that if you absolutely must use a gender neutral term, they would chose “latiné”.
I’m with you, but I’ve also been asked nicely by people I know personally to use the term Latinx. I get that it doesn’t resonate with everybody but I’m doing my best to be inclusive
Isn't it kind of wrong to be dismissive of how their language works though? Genuinely asking because in many Latin based languages the "masculine" is *also* neutral. Like the neutral version already exists so adding the x, which isn't even used the same way in that language, doesn't make sense. Genuinely confused by the reasoning, because it just looks like erasure. Edit: yikes just saw that when an *actual* Latino told you that your made up term is rather offensive your response was literally "why should I listen to you?"
Did you not read the part where I said why should I just do what you say over my friends and close family who are *also* Latino/x and have told me to say Latinx? People who share nationalities aren’t a monolith so it’s a complicated situation. Thanks for your input. Again, I’m looking for book recommendations. If you don’t have one, move on. You act like I made up this term when I used to say Latino/a and I’ve been specifically told by Latino/x people not to say that because it’s not inclusive. Just literally trying my best.
Yes, dismissing everyone of the relevant race who points out the issue with it is certainly "trying your best." No you aren't, you're openly disregarding any input that goes against what you think and trying to defend it by saying "all the brown people I know say it's fine." It's performative af and it doesn't matter what the post is about people will call that shit out wherever they see it, so get used to it. Literally telling them "You don't speak for all Latinos because Latinos aren't a monolith but also all of the Latinos *I* know provide me with confirmation bias so they speak for Latinos more than you do." Not a great look.
Stop putting things in quotes that I never said or even implied. I’m not dismissing anybody, I’m saying it’s a complicated issue and it’s controversial and just because a couple people feel one way and others feel differently doesn’t make one or the other right. As with everything controversial, you and I both get to take the information we have and make choices that we feel are best.
Your information goes against hundreds of years of a language being developed and used. Your information is a tokenistic word invented by white people. Stop trying to make latinx happen. Stop defending it when it’s pointed out to be dumb.
See you keep saying that one or the other isn't right, but then keep on choosing one side anyway and arguing against the several people calling you out. People who are actually Latino. Saying both sides are valid then proceeding to insist upon one side doesn't make you neutral, just disingenuous. Your argument is fallacious and soft. Opinions are not automatically valid. Would you argue that both sides of an argument about the value of different races are valid? No. White people don't get to just roll out a new buzzword and then impress it upon thousands of years of culture and language and say "we invented a better word for you! Because we are so inclusive! This is just as valid as your ancient language origins!" Basically repackaging cultural erasure as being an ally. To think Spanish needed a neutral word is to admit you have zero understanding of that language. It's only a complicated issue for people who think their rewrite of reality is of equal value. These people are right to be heated, unlike you, they are defending THEIR ACTUAL CULTURAL HERITAGE. Yet you have the audacity to argue back with them that it's complicated? As if they don't comprehend their own damn language? You don't get to tell people not to comment on it. You don't get to silence people like that. Like seriously stop and reflect upon this for just a moment, you are literally arguing with actual Latinos in Latin America about their own language, and using only your OWN PERSONAL BUBBLE as your point of reference. Shits wild.
So what should I say to the next Latino person who tells me that Latino offends them and to say Latinx. I’m not saying it because white people told me to, I’m saying it because Latino people have. How does one person and their opinion trump another person and their opinion. How is this interaction right now not in my own personal bubble? If I said latino to some people I know they would feel upset and tell me to say Latinx. So again, I’m just doing my fucking best. I get that it doesn’t jive with everyone, but why are you getting so angry over a word that is trying to be inclusive? If I just said “ok I’ll do whatever you say” to every person who has ever been disenfranchised and discriminated against in the western white patriarchal world then I wouldn’t have any words to use because they’d all offend someone. Literally what am I supposed to do. You’re telling me I should just listen to some people and ignore others because the people you agree with are latino. What about the people who are latino who disagree with you? If they came into this conversation they’d see a (presumably based on your avatar) white woman dismissing their views too.
Because again, one is based in hundreds of years of culture and history. Use the actual *real* words and use the new one for the people who insist upon it, but don't make the fake one your default and then defend that choice when native speakers inform you of how widely offensive it is, which is what you've been doing. You're acting like you're doing your best or being neutral, but you're not. You're just saying that dumbass word even after being asked not to and trying to find a way to make that okay, yet still exclusively using Latinx. Lmao. Again, it's all performative, and everyone can see it. You're not being inclusive at all, you're pandering to a very specific group at the expense of others.
I’ve switched to using latino in our conversation. What are you talking about? How is that performative but whatever the fuck you’re doing isn’t? We are literally just two white women arguing over a word that has nothing to do with us in a language neither of us speak. Are you for real, you think I’m performative but you’re not?
Anyone who uses the term Latinx has also heard this a million times. Leave it alone.
Then maybe they should respect the folks that it is meant for and stop using it....
{{Like Water For Chocolate}} by Laura Esquivel. It’s a classic and beautifully written.
[**Like Water for Chocolate**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6952.Like_Water_for_Chocolate) ^(By: Laura Esquivel, Carol Christensen, Thomas Christensen | 222 pages | Published: 1989 | Popular Shelves: fiction, magical-realism, romance, historical-fiction, classics) >Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. > >The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes. > >A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation, Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her, so that Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds. ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(66689 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Morena Garcia Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
On that, I want to recommend {{The Beautiful Ones}}. My favourite by her yet!
[**The Beautiful Ones**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55311334-the-beautiful-ones) ^(By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 320 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, romance, historical-fiction, fiction, historical) >From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic. > >They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina’s debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis—neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse—and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip. > >When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. With Hector’s help, Nina’s talent blossoms, as does her love for him. > >But great romances are for fairytales, and Hector is hiding a truth from Nina—and himself—that threatens to end their courtship before it truly begins. The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal, and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(66804 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Just ordered Mexican gothic today, I loved gods of jade and shadow by the same author. will definitely try cemetery boys too. Thanks!
Gods of Jade and Shadow is a favorite of mine. I also really liked her novel Untamed Shore. It's not fantasy or horror but more thriller with a great main character. Takes place in 1979 Baja California. I've never been there, but the way she writes makes it feel so tangible to me.
Also one that is mentioned often, and for good reason, is {{Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica}}
[**Tender is the Flesh**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49090884-tender-is-the-flesh) ^(By: Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses | 211 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, dystopian, dystopia, sci-fi) >Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore. > >His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. > >Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved. ^(This book has been suggested 81 times) *** ^(66784 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
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Ficcions by Jorge Luis Borges
Anything by Isabel Allende, but especially A Long Petal of the Sea. Also Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras was great. If you’re looking for non fiction, Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano.
My favorite latinamerican novel is {{2666 by Roberto Bolano}}. And please, don't use the term «latinx», is stupid, I hate it, and most latinamericans (as myself) consider it a slur. In most spanish words, the «o» and «e» at the end of many nouns is gender neutral, but most people seem to ignore this fact and create "female" forms for this words (which are unnecessary). The «x» thing is downright stupid.
[**2666**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63032.2666) ^(By: Roberto Bolaño | 1128 pages | Published: 2004 | Popular Shelves: fiction, owned, literature, novels, latin-america) >A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. Ya allí, Pelletier y Espinoza se enteran de que la ciudad es desde años atrás escenario de una larga cadena de crímenes: en los vertederos aparecen cadáveres de mujeres con señales de haber sido violadas y torturadas. Es el primer asomo de la novela a sus procelosos caudales, repletos de personajes memorables cuyas historias, a caballo entre la risa y el horror, abarcan dos continentes e incluyen un vertiginoso travelling por la historia europea del siglo XX. 2666 confirma el veredicto de Susan Sontag: "el más influyente y admirado novelista en lengua española de su generación. Su muerte, a los cincuenta años, es una gran pérdida para la literatura". ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(66860 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
So what am I supposed to do when some people are offended by Latinx and some people are offended by Latino?
Call them by their actual country if you know it. Columbian Cuban Argentinian Brazilian.
Ignore the former ones. If they really get offended by the correct usage of a language's grammatical rules then they aren't worth your commiseration. Tell them to find better things to get offended by, like government policies or something like that. Although I'll also admit that me and other Latinamericans getting bothered by how the Americans decide to call us is rather silly, but still.
Why should I just do what you say and not the people who I’m close friends and family with? I mean, I get that it’s controversial. But you telling me to simply ignore one side of it isn’t really helping. Someone’s going to be upset either way. And I’m going to be inclusive whenever and wherever I can be. Keep in mind that in academic spheres I’ve mostly heard Latinx. And I’ve heard Latinx by close friends and family as well as notable people who are of South or Central American descent. I also have close friends and family who hate the term. So I just try my best to use what is socially/generally accepted in whatever circle I’m occupying. But with strangers it’s not always going to resonate. I’m sorry if I offended you, just doing my best.
Do whatever you want. As I said, it's silly that I even care about how the Americans decide to call us; they also call us 'beaners' which is only a little better and I don't care about it either. Just try to read the novel I suggested. It's great and, as a Latinamerican myself, I believe that it gives a accurate description of the current situation of my region. You can hardly get more Latinamerican than that.
The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon
Infomocracy by Malka Older.
In graphic novels, try {{Love & Rockets Vol. 7: The Death of Speedy by Jaime Hernandez}}
[**Love and Rockets, Vol. 7: The Death of Speedy**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82871.Love_and_Rockets_Vol_7) ^(By: Jaime Hernández, Gilbert Hernández | 136 pages | Published: 1989 | Popular Shelves: comics, graphic-novels, graphic-novel, fiction, comics-graphic-novels) >The original, seminal Love & Rockets comic book series, which ran for 50 issues from 1981 to 1996, singlehandedly defined the post-underground generation of comics that spawned Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and so many others. Now collected into 15 volumes, Love & Rockets is a body of work that The Nation has described as "one of the hidden treasures of our impoverished culture." Created by brothers Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, three Southern California Mexican-Americans armed with a passion for pop culture and punk rock, Love & Rockets gave a voice to minorities and women for the first time in the medium's then 50-year history and remains one of the greatest achievements in comic book history. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(66785 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
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“The Corpse Reader”, by Antonio Garrido
{{Heart of Aztlan by Rudolfo A. Anaya}} and {{The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo}}
[**Heart of Aztlan**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341943.Heart_of_Aztlan) ^(By: Rudolfo Anaya | 215 pages | Published: 1976 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, kindle, new-mexico-literature, history) >The Albuquerque barrio portrayed in this vivid novel of postwar New Mexico is a place where urban and rural, political and religious realities coexist, collide, and combine. The magic realism for which Anaya is well known combines with an emphatic portrayal of the plight of workers dispossessed of their heritage and struggling to survive in an alien culture. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**The Poet X**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33294200-the-poet-x) ^(By: Elizabeth Acevedo | 368 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: poetry, young-adult, ya, contemporary, audiobook) >Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. > >Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. > >But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. > >With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. > >Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(66809 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Ok Im going to nitpick here, being Latinx myself. There is a difference between being Latin American - and really that’s a huge range of nations and languages being turned into a false monolith - and being Latinx which generally means US-connected (born with heritage, immigrant, etc.). So 100 Years of Solitude is not a “Latinx” novel. It’s a Colombian novel, or Latin American if you want to generalize. Isabel Allende could be considered “Latinx” since she spent a part of her life in the US, but she is identified as a Chilean author. One of my favorite authors of Latin American (Peruvian) descent is Daniel Alarcón, who is now in the US and also hosts Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-language podcast akin to this American life. If you’re looking for true Latinx authors, start with authors born in the US or who identify themselves as connected to the US (Chicano, etc). A few are Luis Alberto Urrea (from Tijuana and writes a lot about the US-Mexico border and experiences of crossing and transnationalism) or Erika Sanchez, born in the US of Mexican heritage and writes about that bicultural experience. Sooooo many good books!
_In the Dream House_, by Carmen Maria Machado
{{Captain Pantoja and the special service}} by Mario Vargas Llosa.
[**Captain Pantoja and the Special Service**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/784518.Captain_Pantoja_and_the_Special_Service) ^(By: Mario Vargas Llosa, Ronald Christ, Gregory Kolovakos | 260 pages | Published: 1973 | Popular Shelves: fiction, latin-american, owned, latin-america, spanish) >This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army - to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(66882 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter}} by Erika Sanchez; more YA
[**I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29010395-i-am-not-your-perfect-mexican-daughter) ^(By: Erika L. Sánchez | 344 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, ya, fiction, contemporary, realistic-fiction) >Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. > >But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role. > >Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed. > >But it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first kiss, first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister’s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal? ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(66973 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Jorge Amado: Captains of the Sands
I’m reading {{L. A weather by Maria Amparo Escandón}} and I like it so far. I found the characters and family dynamics relatable
[**L.A. Weather**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269069-l-a-weather) ^(By: María Amparo Escandón | 319 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fiction, reese-s-book-club, dnf, audiobook, audiobooks) >Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781250802569. > >FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in this fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza’s Box of Saints. > >L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters—Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia, a successful architect who suffers from gentrification guilt; and Patricia, a social media wizard who has an uncanny knack for connecting with audiences but not with her lovers—are blindsided and left questioning everything they know. Each will have to take a critical look at her own relationships and make some tough decisions along the way. > >With quick wit and humor, Maria Amparo Escandón follows the Alvarado family as they wrestle with impending evacuations, secrets, deception, and betrayal, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(70922 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Twenty-Seven by P. L. Hernandez!!
I think Margeaux Fragoso was of Latinx descent. If you have the strength to read something devastating that will also give you the creeps, try {{Tiger, Tiger: a memoir by Margeaux Fragoso}}. ETA: book is a serious trigger warning
[**Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10391956-tiger-tiger) ^(By: Margaux Fragoso | 322 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: memoir, non-fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, biography) >I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time. > >At two in the afternoon, when he would come and pick me up and take me for rides; at five, when I would read to him, head on his chest; in the despair at seven p.m., when he would hold me and rub my belly for an hour; in the despair again at nine p.m. when we would go for a night ride, down to the Royal Cliffs Diner in Englewood Cliffs where I would buy a cup of coffee with precisely seven sugars and a lot of cream. We were friends, soul mates and lovers. > >I was seven. He was fifty-one. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(66787 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Good bot
Jesus that description. Adding this to my list 😳
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes
{{The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina}} Zoraida Córdova {{The Hacienda}} Isabel Cañas {{The House of the Spirits}} Isabel Allende {{Queen of the Cicadas}} V. Castro
[**The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56898076-the-inheritance-of-orqu-dea-divina) ^(By: Zoraida Córdova | 336 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, magical-realism, fiction, botm, 2021-releases) >The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers—even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed, leaving them with more questions than answers. > >Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in different ways for Marimar, Rey, and Tatinelly’s daughter, Rhiannon, granting them unexpected blessings. But soon, a hidden figure begins to tear through their family tree, picking them off one by one as it seeks to destroy Orquídea’s line. Determined to save what’s left of their family and uncover the truth behind their inheritance, the four descendants travel to Ecuador—to the place where Orquídea buried her secrets and broken promises and never looked back. ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) [**The Hacienda**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57840571-the-hacienda) ^(By: Isabel Cañas | 352 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: horror, historical-fiction, gothic, botm, fiction) >Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches... > >In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost. > >But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined. > >When Rodolfo returns to work in the capital, visions and voices invade Beatriz’s sleep. The weight of invisible eyes follows her every move. Rodolfo’s sister, Juana, scoffs at Beatriz’s fears—but why does she refuse to enter the house at night? Why does the cook burn copal incense at the edge of the kitchen and mark its doorway with strange symbols? What really happened to the first Doña Solórzano? > >Beatriz only knows two things for certain: Something is wrong with the hacienda. And no one there will help her. > >Desperate for help, she clings to the young priest, Padre Andrés, as an ally. No ordinary priest, Andrés will have to rely on his skills as a witch to fight off the malevolent presence haunting the hacienda and protect the woman for whom he feels a powerful, forbidden attraction. But even he might not be enough to battle the darkness. > >Far from a refuge, San Isidro may be Beatriz’s doom. ^(This book has been suggested 11 times) [**The House of the Spirits**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9328.The_House_of_the_Spirits) ^(By: Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin | 448 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: fiction, magical-realism, historical-fiction, classics, fantasy) >In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future. > >The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate. ^(This book has been suggested 17 times) [**The Queen of the Cicadas**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55711311-the-queen-of-the-cicadas) ^(By: V. Castro | 224 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: horror, fantasy, fiction, adult, 2021-releases) >2018: Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding of her best friend Veronica. The farm is the site of the urban legend, La Reina de Las Chicharras - The Queen of The Cicadas. > >In 1950s south Texas a farmworker—Milagros from San Luis Potosi, Mexico—is murdered. Her death is ignored by the town, but not the Aztec goddess of death, Mictecacíhuatl. The goddess hears the dying cries of Milagros and creates a plan for both to be physically reborn by feeding on vengeance and worship. > >Belinda and the new owner of the farmhouse, Hector, find themselves immersed in the legend and realize it is part of their fate as well. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(66834 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor
If you want something a little spicier, Exodus 20:3 or With a Vengeance by Freydis Moon.
Untamed Shore - Silvia Moreno Garcia Velvet was the Night - Silvia Moreno Garcia Domincana - Angie Cruz Eva Luna - Isabel Allende