Books by Afro-Latine Authors
Get ready to go on exhilarating adventures with this list of books by Afro-Latine authors which includes chapter books, memoirs, and more. Each work, like each author, offers a multi-faceted and unique perspective.
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Add to BookshelfWhen Javi Dumped Mari
by Mia Sosa
One engagement. Two best friends. Three’s a crowd. On the eve of their college graduation, Javier Báez and Marisol Campos swore never to date someone the other doesn’t approve of. Now, almost a decade later, Mari is engaged, and Javi didn’t get the chance to vet her fiancĂ©. Javi has six weeks to convince Mari that this marriage is a mistake.
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Neruda on the Park
by Cleyvis Natera
An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification.
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Plantains and Our Becoming
by Melania Luisa Marte
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture, home, and belonging — for fans of Jasmine Mans and Fatimah Asghar.
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Everything Inside: Reese’s Book Club
by Edwidge Danticat
Set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, here are eight emotionally absorbing stories, rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity. At once wide in scope and intimate, Everything Inside explores with quiet power and elegance the forces that pull us together or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing instant.
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Running While Black
by Alison Mariella DĂ©sir
A searing exposé on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimagine the industry.
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Aniana del Mar Jumps In
by Jasminne Mendez
A powerful and expertly told novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American swimmer who is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis by an award-winning poet. Aniana del Mar Jumps In is a poignant story about chronic illness and disability, the secrets between mothers and daughters, the harm we do to the ones we love most — and all the triumphs, big and small, that keep up afloat.
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When Trying to Return Home
by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latine life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond — and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms.
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Jackal
by Erin E. Adams
A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white rust belt town. But she’s not the first — and she may not be the last…
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Hands
by Torrey Maldonado
The author of What Lane? and Tight delivers a fast-paced read that packs a punch about a boy figuring out how to best use his hands — to build or to knock down.
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Star Child
by Ibi Zoboi
Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler experienced an American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction storyteller whose novels continue to challenge and delight readers fifteen years after her death.
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Undead Girl Gang
by Lily Anderson
Veronica Mars meets The Craft when a teen girl investigates the suspicious deaths of three classmates and accidentally ends up bringing them back to life to form a hilariously unlikely — and unwilling — vigilante girl gang.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
by Junot DĂaz
Oscar is a sweet nerd who — from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister — dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, find love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú — a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere — and risk it all — in the name of love.
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