Stories can’t be featured unless they are available to read. We all need to share our stories…. – Lisa Guerrero, Journalist, Latina, Leader.
We can’t
believe how quickly this year has gone by.
We were happy to discover new authors and new stories – stories that
made us laugh, cry, cringe, scream and fall in love. We’ve put together an easy reference list of
our books of 2017 for readers everywhere.
Remember
that books make great gifts all year around, and the best way to support an
author is by buying their books, reading their stories and telling your friends
and their friends and so on.
We wish
you the very best for the New Year, and we look forward to discovering new
stories and new authors.
Happy
Reading. Happy 2018! --- mcf
BOOKS OF
THE YEAR 2017
A Tongue
in the Mouth of the Dying by Laurie Ann Guerrero (University of Notre Dame
Press) – poetry
All that
Glitters by Liza Treviño (Koehler Books) -- fiction
All the
Agents and Saints by Stephanie Elizondo Griest (University of North Carolina
Press) – memoir, travel
All the
Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry (Algonquin Young Readers) – fiction
Answered
by Silence by Theresa Varela -- poetry
Anthology
2016 edited by Thelma T. Reyna (Altadena Poetry Review) -- poetry
Before
Snowfall, After Rain by Ariel Francisco (Glass Poetry Press) -- poetry
Bravo! Poems
About Amazing Hispanics by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt and Co.) – children
books
Break My
Heart by Esther M. Soto (Sunny Girl Publishing) – fiction, paranormal, romance
Cantos
Del Alma y Del Corazon by Dr. Maria Alma González Pérez – poetry, Spanish
Captain
Mama’s Surprise / La Sorpresa de Capitan Mama by Graciela Tiscareño-Sato
(Gracefully Global Group) – children book
Citywalker
by Orlando Ferrand -- poetry
Codex of
Journeys: Bendito Camino by Liliana Valenzuela (Mouthfeel Press) – poetry
Diaspora:
Selected and New Poems by Frank Varela (Arte Publico Press) -- poetry
Dust Unto
Shadow by Linda LaRoche – fiction
Dysfunctional
Males by Fernando Sdrigotti (La Casita Grande) – fiction, short stories
Hispanicus:
The Apostate Life of Antonio Pintero by Eddie Cisneros – fiction
I Got
This: To Gold and Beyond by Laurie Hernandez (Harper Collins) – memoir, young
adult
Imagining:
Beyond Purpose & Creativity by Carlos Aleman – inspirational
In the
Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende (Atria Books) – fiction
It
Concerns The Madness by Nancy Mercado (Long Shot Productions) – poetry
Las
Estrellas De Los Reyes Magos by Tere Rodríguez-Nora (Ediciones Norte) –
children books, Spanish
Radical
Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times edited by Carolina de
Robertis (Vintage Books) – essays
Rising,
Falling, All of Us by Thelma T. Reyna (Golden Foothills Press) – poetry
SanTana’s
Fairy Tales by Sarah Rafael Garcia (Raspa Press) – fiction, short stories,
bilingual
Self Made
by Nely Galán (Spiegel & Grau) – self-help
Sonnets to
the Japim by Yolanda A. Reid -- poetry
Spanish
Coffee: Black, No Sugar by A.B. Lugo (La Casita Grande) – poetry
The Boss
by Aya de Leon (Dafina Books) – urban fiction
The Case
of the Three Kings: The Flaca Files by Alidis Vicente (Piñata Books) – children
books
The
Legacy by Ed Cárdenas -- young adult, Spanish and English
This
River Here by Carmen Tafolla (Wings Press) – poetry
Torrent
Tragedy by Raquel Zepeda Fitzgerald – fiction, thriller, horror
Trained
to Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots Against Castro, Kennedy & Che by Carlos
Harrison -- memoir
Tristiana
by Jonathan Marcantoni (La Casita Grande) – fiction, Spanish only
When the
Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore (Thomas Dunne Books) – fiction, paranormal,
young adult
Wicked
Remnants by Manuel A. Meléndez – thriller, horror
With the
River on Our Face by Emmy Pérez (University of Arizona Press) – poetry
Read
Latino.
Happy
Reading.
Happy New
Year !