Latino Book Review's 2017 Reading Challenge

Inspire your world with the 33 reading suggestions provided by our platform. These readings are aimed to expose you to the Latin American experience: its identity, customs and traditions, vast heritage, dichotomies, desires, underground history, reflections, debates, struggles, joys, among others. 
 
January (borders, Latino identity)
  • Non-fiction: Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm by Álvaro Huerta
  • Fiction: Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Poetry, anthology: The Border Crossed Us by Mark Lipman
 
February (love, passion, desire)
  • Poetry, single author: Versos para no dormir solos by Leticia Sandoval
  • Fiction: El sótano del caracol by Elvia Ardalani
  • Poetry, single author: La noche de los cuerpos by Silvia Favaretto

March (immigration, Borderlands, social justice)
  • Poetry, anthology: Antología 2016 by Rossy Evelin Lima and Eréndira Santillana
  • Poetry, single author: Arcana de los dominios imaginantes by Antonieta Villamil
  • Poetry, single author: Aguacamino/Waterpath by Rossy Evelin Lima
 
April (childhood and adolescent experiences, remembrance, joy, Latin American identity)
  • Poetry, single author: Laughing Out Loud, I Fly by Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate
  • Children's Literature: El torneo de trabalenguas/The Tongue Twister Tournament by Nicolás Kanellos

May (customs and traditions, story-telling, remembrance, love, family)
  • Poetry, single author: Palabras de mediodía/Noon Words by Lucha Corpi
  • Poetry, single author: Twice Told Over by Adela Najarro
  • Poetry, single author: Tengo un cielo en la cocina by Laura Carnovale

June (artistic/poetic destiny or journey, reflection)
  • Poetry, single author: Cumplimiento de la voluntad by Nadia Contreras
  • Fiction: White Light by Vanessa Garcia
  • Poetry, single author: Papeles robados al más allá by Daniel Montoly
 
July (Immigration, South Texas, Mexican-Americans)
  • Young adult: Bloodline by Joe Jiménez
  • Fiction: Road to Llorona Park by Christopher Carmona
 
August (immigration, identity struggles, underground history, populations at risk)
  • Poetry, single author: Trascendental Train Yard by Norma Elia Cantú
  • Fiction: The Dead Will Rise and Save Us by Paul Pedroza 
  • Poetry, single author: Exhumaciones by Samuel Trigueros
 
September (Mexican heritage, Latin American heritage)
  • Children's literature: Noyolkanyolkej / Animals of My Land /Animales de mi tierra by Gerald Padilla and Rossy Evelin Lima   
  • Non-fiction: Latino Americans by Ray Suárez

October (Hispanic heritage, Caribbean identity, historical figures of Latin America)
  • Non-fiction: Estados Unidos Hispano by Luis Alberto Ambroggio
  • Poetry, single author: Poemas en blanco y negro by Leonardo Nin
  • Fiction: El viejo y el man by Carlos Aguasaco
 
November (Day of the Death, Mexican Revolution, Mexico's current struggles)
  • Children's Literature: Remembering the Day by Pat Mora
  • Fiction: La casa de los secretos by María De Lourdes Victoria
  • Poetry, single author: Balacera by Armando Alanís Pulido

December (Wisdom, reflection, sacredness, science versus religion)
  • Fiction: El hombre de dicha perenne by Eligio Coronado
  • Poetry, single author: Stone Poems by Don Cellini (honorary Latino)
  • Fiction: El dios de Darwin by Sabina Berman
Eréndira Santillana
1/4/2017
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