National Hispanic Heritage Month traditionally honors the cultures and contributions of both Hispanic and Latino Americans as we celebrate heritage rooted in all Latin American countries.
Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from Sept. 15-Oct. 15. Buncombe County Public Libraries’ Branch Services Manager has compiled a reading list that celebrates and shares that heritage. Visit one of our libraries this month to explore these books.
Picture Books
- Alma and How She Got Her Name/Alma y cómo obtuvo su nombre by Juana Martinez-Neal
- Paletero Man by Lucky Diaz
- Sonadores by Yuyi Morales
- My Papi has a Motorcycle/Mi Papi Tiene una Moto by Isabel Quintero
- A Maleta Full of Treasues by Natalia Sylvester
School Age Reading
- Frizzy/Rizos by Claribel Ortega
- Saraí y el significado de lo genial by Saraí González
- Stella Diaz Has Something to Say by Angela Dominguez
- Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Mexikid: a Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martin
Teen Reading
- House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika Sánchez
- Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
- When I was Puerto Rican / Cuando era Puertorriqueña by Esmerelda Santiago
- Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel Quitero
Adult Fiction
- Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
- The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Murmur of Bees / El Murmullo de las Abejas by Sofía Segovia
Adult Non-Fiction
- In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
- SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes and the Women Who Preserve Them by Karla Tatiana Vasquez
- The Man Who Could Move Clouds / El hombre que movía las nubes by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity/ Latinx : en busca de las voces que redefinen la identidad latina by Paola Ramos
- Solito: a memoir by Javier Zamora