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As Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month comes to an end the media will slowly stop enhancing Latinx voices that should be recognized. Although there is an entire month that is dedicated to celebrate this minority group in America, the Latinx impact on this country should be celebrated all year around. Latinidad cannot be captured in one month, so here are 5 Latinx books to continue reading after Latinx Heritage Month.

 

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

Translated from Spanish, Hurricane Season is a novel that will keep anyone at the edge of their seats. Horrifyingly good and extraordinarily truthful, this novel is fearless in every sense. The Guardian reports, “Melchor’s long, snaking sentences make the book almost literally unputdownable, shifting our grasp of key events by continually creeping up on them from new angles.”

 

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Recently chosen as a finalist for The National Book Award in nonfiction, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio book is a masterpiece waiting to reach its audience. With fierce language that grabs its readers right from the introduction, these essays give a voice to the undocumented community in America like nothing else out there. The New York Times calls Villavicencio’s first book “captivating and evocative.”

 

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

This National Book Award winning book is simply glorious. Although written in a verse format this book will break your heart and restore it all over again. A book that follows an endearing protagonist who is trying to find the power behind her voice, this young adult book is one that must be read.

 

In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Brilliantly written and heartbreakingly told, Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir is one that will make your tears run. Tackling the themes of queerness, trauma, and queer love; this memoir will have you highlighting at least two things in every page. NPR calls this book, “the most innovative memoir I’ve ever read.”

 

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The perfect book to get you on a spooky October mood, Mexican Gothic is grotesquely entertaining and terrifying. Set in the 1950s, Mexican Gothic follows Noemí Toboada who after receiving a striking letter from her cousin is pull into something that she thought only existed in Gothic books from her childhood. Mainly set in an isolated mansion, this book will have you grabbing your pillow and never letting it go until you finish reading.