Latina Book Club Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Founder of The Latina Book Club. I am on a mission to promote Latino authors and connect with readers. My motto: #ReadLatinoLit. Please join me on my quest.

Comic Cons
Steven Wendell
#BookCoverFriday @alex_segura Secret Identity is right on time for #ComicCon! Talk about secrets! Secret SuperHero. Secret writer. Secret pack. Secret villain. Murder. Betrayal. Revenge. Glee. #LethalLynx @Flatironbooks #ReadLatinoLit #HispanicHeritageMonth2022 https://t.co/Vbv2jg57LJ
Paperback, 2017
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Consequences: Stories
Manuel Muñoz
#BookCoverFriday We love this cover from Manuel Muñoz’ collection of stories set in the 1980s in small towns near Fresno about Mexican American farmworkers who put food on our tables but are regularly and ruthlessly rounded up by the migra. @GraywolfPress #ReadLatinoLit https://t.co/89HaTE0N8M
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Witchlings
Claribel A. Ortega
We’re excited too. Keep us posted @Claribel_Ortega. #Witchlings #Paranormal #ReadLatinoLit https://t.co/Yf1jEgt8xH
Paperback, 2023
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Secret Identity
Alex Segura
#BookCoverFriday @alex_segura Secret Identity is right on time for #ComicCon! Talk about secrets! Secret SuperHero. Secret writer. Secret pack. Secret villain. Murder. Betrayal. Revenge. Glee. #LethalLynx @Flatironbooks #ReadLatinoLit #HispanicHeritageMonth2022 https://t.co/Vbv2jg57LJ
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Big Chicas Don't Cry
Annette Chavez Macias
#BookCoverFriday We love the cover of @theromancechica new #womensfiction book, Big Chicas Don’t Cry. It just screams #Latina. The story is about 4 cousins reconnecting. Personal drama abounds but familia gets you through everything. #ReadLatinoLit #HispanicHeritageMonth2022 https://t.co/BXPHojCJSE
Paperback, 2022
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
When Trying to Return Home: Stories
Jennifer Maritza McCauley
#BookCoverFriday we love this soulful collection of short stories by Jennifer Maritza McCauley @maritzareader47 The stories are about love, trust, betrayal, family, home — in other words, about life. #ReadLatinoLit @CounterpointLLC https://t.co/xQkav9JmbG
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mexican Whiteboy
Matt de la Peña
15 LATINO BOOKS 2 READ DURING BANNED BOOK WEEK ie, Mexican Whiteboy by @mattdelapena & Loverboys by @AnaCastillopoet https://t.co/r9ICjBbEFm
Paperback, 2010
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wind Knows My Name
Isabel Allende
Congrats to author Isabel Allende on her new book, The Wind Knows My Name. Available in English & Spanish. @Ballantine #ReadLatinoLit https://t.co/uIcD6AslIU
Out of stock

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan Diaz
Congratulations to author Hernan Diaz! His book Trust just won @PulitzerPrizes for Fiction. @riverheadbooks #ReadLatinoLit https://t.co/BDuzbFB6HV
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Born in the Wayeb: Book One of The Mayan Chronicles
Lee E. Cart
TGIF! Book Cover Friday! BORN IN THE WAYEB by Lee E. Cart. We’re getting images of the Mel Gibson movie, Apocalypto & the foreign film Embrace of the Serpent. Our hero is in for dark & perilous times. Oops! It’s a girl. Check it out. #ReadLatinoLit. https://t.co/CKVvEl2BL0 https://t.co/a6iVTtn52J
Paperback, 2014
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book