Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 through October 15! To help bookstores and libraries celebrate, we’ve put together this roundup of 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
Material by Ana Maria Caballero
Trio House Press | May 15, 2026
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 978-1-949487-73-2
In this poetry collection, “the unapologetic female speaker explores different ways strength manifests in the roles of artist, wife, daughter, and mother—and how recorded and parsed observation can be a form of both protest and care.”
the past is a jean jacket by Cloud Delfina Cardona
Hub City Press | October 14, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9798885740593
The speaker of these poems “explores their gender through sex and relationships, searches for belonging in their family lineage, and copes with depression using movies, indie bands, cigarettes, and Tumblr.”
Alice James Books | January 20, 2026
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 978-1-949944-87-7
According to Publishers Weekly, this collection “tells the story of a family’s journey through real and imagined landscapes in poems that engage with violent histories, addiction, the natural world, survival, and hope.”
Sundress Publications | January 20, 2026
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 978-1-951979-87-4
“In poems that capture the complexity of life as a transitioning Xicanx in a tumultuous Texas climate,” this poetry collection “balances the intrinsically human need for connection with the struggle to love oneself.”
CavanKerry Press | May 5, 2026
Distributor: Chicago Distribution Center
ISBN: 978-1-960327-20-8
“Painting a vivid and fraught portrait of the North Bronx,” this poetry collection “unflinchingly highlights and confronts the contradictions at the heart of love, divorce, gender, religion, and community.”
Nonfiction
Dique Dominican by Ayendy Bonifacio
Unsolicited Press | January 31, 2026
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 978-1-963115-67-3
“With lyrical precision and emotional honesty,” Bonifacio “reflects on the immigrant experience, identity, language, and belonging” in this debut memoir.
Books as Drinking Buddies: A Book of Re-Readings by Gary Soto
Limberlost Press | May 1, 2026
Distributor: Limberlost Press
ISBN: 979-8-2954-8346-2
In this book of humor essays, Soto “re-reads books by Charles Darwin, Claire Tomalin, Pablo Neruda, Oscar Hijuelos,” and more, and “has literary opinions that might extend beyond his own local 94708 zip code.”
Fiction
Crocodiles at Night by Gisela Heffes
Translated from the Spanish by Grady C. Wray
Deep Vellum | May 20, 2025
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781646053766
Heffes’s novel explores “familial ties, memories and images of places that are no longer the same.”
The Best People by Robert Lopez
Dzanc Books | April 8, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781938603242
Completing Lopez’s novels-in-stories triptych, The Best People “follows a man who made the mistake of being born and is trying to make the best of that mistake.”
the light of your body by ire’ne lara silva
Arte Público Press | March 31, 2026
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 979-8-89375-028-7
The short stories in this collection are “rooted in mythical realism, in liminal spaces that don’t differentiate the voices of the dead from those of the living, that navigate borders and borderless places fearlessly.”
The Road Back by Natalia Treviño
Arte Público Press | March 31, 2026
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 979-8-89375-029-4
“Laying bare the disorienting blend of hope and exploitation many immigrant women experience,” this novel is “both a modern migration odyssey and a meditation on the cost of dreaming across borders.”
