Hispanic Heritage Month: Books for Adults

Updated August 22, 2025
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Decoding "Despacito" : an oral history of Latin music
Cobo, Leila
Paper Book
A behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard's VP of Latin Music and the world's ultimate authority on popular Latin music. Decoding "Despacito" tracks the stories behind the biggest...
America, América : a new history of the New World
Grandin, Greg
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller * A finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize, 2025 Cundill History Prize, and 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction "An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great...
Daughters of Latin America : an international anthology of writing by Latine women
Guzman, Sandra
Paper Book
"Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres."--World Literature Today Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140...
Latinoland : a portrait of America's largest and least understood minority
Arana, Marie (Writer)
Paper Book
"A perfect representation of Latino diversity" (The Washington Post), LatinoLand draws from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research to give us both a vibrant portrait and the little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority, in "a work of prophecy, sympathy,...
Finding Latinx : in search of the voices redefining Latino identity
Ramos, Paola
Paper Book
Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many-Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns-are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the...
Life of Che : an impressionistic biography
Oesterheld, H. G.
Paper Book
Life Of Che was originally released as part of a graphic biography series in January 1969, it came out in Argentina only a year after Ernesto 'Che' Guevara had died and reached an audience beyond comics readers. In the 1970s, the military government raided its publisher, destroying the means to...

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