Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 through October 15! To help bookstores and libraries celebrate, we’ve put together this roundup of 12 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to spotlight all month and year-round. (We publish longer reading lists each month as well—check out our most recent reading list for Hispanic Heritage Month for more ideas!)
Poetry
Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man by Jose Hernandez Diaz
Red Hen Press | May 13, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781636282404
This poetry collection “seeks to celebrate the Mexican American experience while also exploring how surrealism and absurdism can lead to wondrous discoveries about the self, community, and the imagination.”
From the Founding of the Country by Cristina Pérez Díaz
Winter Editions | May 1, 2025
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 9781959708131
This debut poetry collection “tells a fragmentary narrative of two lovers—one languid and liquid, the other sharp as exclamation points—who are also two nations bound in a horrendous love.”
Sea of Broken Mirrors by Pablo Medina
Hanging Loose Press | April 1, 2024
Distributor: Itasca Books
ISBN: 9781934909782
Medina’s new poems “explore how the diminishment of self (indeed, its ultimate disappearance) can be a way of engaging with the world.”
dormilona by Connie Mae Oliver
Burrow Press | April 22, 2025
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 9781941681343
This collection is a “bilingual book of poetry exploring dream states, distance, and the rituals of sleep.”
The Lost Nostalgias by Esteban Rodríguez
CavanKerry Press | May 6, 2025
Distributor: Chicago Distribution Center
ISBN: 9781960327116
According to Felicia Zamora, the narrator of these poems “seeks refuge in undoing youthful lamentations of wielding English as a weapon to reclaim his diasporic lineage and believe his father’s words.”
Nonfiction
The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History by Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones
Rose Metal Press | October 24, 2023
Distributor: Itasca Books
ISBN: 9781941628317
In her debut, Acevedo-Quiñones “pieces together the story of her family and Puerto Rico using a captivating combination of historical facts, poems, maps, overheard conversations, and flash essays.”
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili
LittlePuss Press | October 4, 2022
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
ISBN: 9781736716823
This book is “a rich and moving epistolary memoir about transgender childhood, sexual trauma, motherhood, and a young queer life in 1970s Argentina.”
The Chicano Documentary by Jesús Salvador Treviño
Arte Público Press | April 30, 2025
Distributor: Arte Público Press
ISBN: 9798893750102
In this book, Treviño “examines the history of non-fiction cinema made by Mexican Americans from 1969 to the present.”
Fiction
Treasures in Heaven by Kathleen Alcalá
Raven Chronicles Press | May 5, 2025
Distributor: IngramSpark
ISBN: 9781735478067
In this novel set in nineteenth-century Mexico, the protagonist, Estela, “finds herself swept into a world of politics and entangled in secret relationships.”
American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
Dalkey Archive Press | May 7, 2024
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
ISBN: 9781628975185
Cárdenas’s novel “unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait of how family separations have impacted the minds of Latin American deportees in a technology-bound 21st century.”
Cómo no ahogarse en un vaso de agua by Angie Cruz
Translated to the Spanish by Kianny N. Antigua
Seven Stories Press | June 11, 2024
Distributor: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9781644213810
Cruz’s novel, presented here in a Spanish-language edition, follows “a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story.”
I’ll Give You a Reason by Annell López
Feminist Press | April 16, 2024
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
ISBN: 9781558613126
The characters in these stories “tread the waters of political unrest, sexuality, religion, body image, Blackness, colorism, and gentrification—searching for their identities and a sliver of joy and intimacy.”
