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Celebrate Hispanic Latinx Month by reading some of these recent and classic books by and about members of the Hispanic Latinx community. All the books listed below are available online for free to current members of the USC community. Just click the image of the book cover to go to the online version (USC login required). Enjoy!

Fiction

• A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel / Isabel Allende (2020)

• Afterlife: A Novel / Julia Alvarez (2020)

• Love in the Time of Cholera / Gabriel García Márquez (1985)

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• The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Gregory Rabassa, Enylton de Sa Rego, Gilberty Pinheiro Passos (1997)

• Taína: A Novel / Ernesto Quiñonez (2019)

• Fruit of the Drunken Tree: A Novel / Ingrid Rojas Contreras (2018)

• Little Eyes / Samanta Schweblin (2020)

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Nonfiction

• Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity / Grisel Y. Acosta, editor (2019)

 

• A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out / Luisa Capetillo & Félix V. Matos Rodríguez (2004)

 

• Ordinary Girls: A Memoir / Jaquira Díaz (2019)

 

• Knitting the Fog / Claudia D. Hernández (2019)

 

• Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question / Lazaro Lima (2019)

 

• Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity / Paola Ramos (2020)

 

Poetry

• Tracing the Horse: Poems / Diana Marie Delgado (2019)

 

Found a book at USC that you'd like to add to the list? Just email us at librarysuggestions@law.usc.edu!