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Hispanic Heritage - Nonfiction

Explore the experiences and perspectives of Hispanic and Latinx Americans through works of nonfiction, including scholarship and memoir. National Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 to October 15, but these titles are worth reading throughout the year.

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  • Latinas/os in New Jersey

    Histories, Communities, and Cultures

    Book, 2025New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2025. — History 974.9 Lat
  • My (half) Latinx Kitchen

    Half Recipes, Half Stories, All Latin American

    Wright-Ruiz, Kiera,
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow, 2025. — Cooking 641.598 Wri
  • Latino Poetry

    the Library of America Anthology

    Book, 2024New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, 2024. — Poetry 808.819 Lat
  • Latinoland

    un retrato de la mayor minoría de Estados Unidos

    Arana, Marie (Writer),
    Book, 2025Nueva York : Primero Sueño Press/Atria, 2025. — Spanish 973.046 Ara
  • Latinoland

    a Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

    Arana, Marie (Writer),
    Book, 2024New York : Simon and Schuster, 2024. — History 973.046 Ara
  • Magical/realism

    Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

    Villarreal, Vanessa Angélica,
    Book, 2024New York : Tiny Reparations Books, 2024. — Literature 814.6 Vil
  • Latinísimo

    Home Recipes From the Twenty-one Countries of Latin America

    Gutierrez, Sandra A.,
    Book, 2023New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — Cooking 641.598 Gut
  • Diasporican

    a Puerto Rican Cookbook

    Maisonet, Illyanna,
    Book, 2022New York : Ten Speed Press, [2022] — Cooking 641.598 Mai
  • Book, 2015New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. — Biography B Cis
  • Jorge Luis Borges

    the Last Interview and Other Conversations

    Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986,
    Book, 2013Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, 2013. — Biography B Bor
  • Our Migrant Souls

    a Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"

    Tobar, Héctor, 1963-
    From the publisher: " Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive and personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the United States right now."Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race…
    Book, 2023New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — History 305.868 Tob
  • From Goodreads: "Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and…
    Book, 2014Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014] — Education 378.198 Gar
  • Inventing Latinos

    a New Story of American Racism

    Gómez, Laura E., 1964-
    From Goodreads: "A groundbreaking examination of how Latinos' new collective racial identity upends the way Americans understand race In an unprecedented demographic shift, Latinos will comprise a third of the American population in just a matter of…
    Book, 2022New York : The New Press, 2022. — History 305.868 Gom
  • Our America

    a Hispanic History of the United States

    Fernández-Armesto, Felipe,
    From Goodreads: "The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic…
    Book, 2015New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. — History 973.0468 Fer
  • From Goodreads: "Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the…
    Book, 2018New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. — Literature 864 Var
  • Harvest of Empire

    a History of Latinos in America

    González, Juan, 1947-
    From Goodreads: "Spanning 500 years of Hispanic history, from the first New World colonies to the 19th century westward expansion in America, this narrative features family portraits of real-life immigrants along with sketches of the political…
    Book, 2011New York : Penguin Books, [2011] — History 973.0468 Gon