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Hispanic Heritage Month 2026: Recent Fiction for Adults Hispanic Heritage Month 2026: Recent NonFiction for Adults Fresh New Horrors Await Hispanic Heritage Month 2026: Recent Books for Kids Banned Books Week 2026

Hispanic Heritage Month 2026: Recent Fiction for Adults

Prieta Is Dreaming

Anzaldúa, Gloria
We Are Green and Trembling

Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela
The Depopulation

Closs, Marina
The Novel Detective

Dovalpage, Teresa
Now I Surrender

Enrigue, Alvaro
The Summer of the Serpent

Eudave, Cecilia
The Sleeping Sisters

Givhan, Jennifer

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Hispanic Heritage Month 2026: Recent NonFiction for Adults

Visitations

Alvarez, Julia
Devout

Archuleta, David
Até Mais
Compton in My Soul

Camarillo, Albert
The Cost of Being Undocumented

Dick, Alix
Detained

Esperanza, D.
Keeper of My Kin

Ferrer, Ada

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Fresh New Horrors Await

If We Survive The Night

Salazar, Jo
There Are Ghosts Here

Tooley, Adrienne
That Which Feeds Us

Kendall, Keala
When I Was Death

Henderson, Alexis
And the River Drags Her Down

Yun, Jihyun

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Hispanic Heritage Month 2026: Recent Books for Kids

Queer Latine Heroes

Aguilar, Sofia
Sol Goes for Goal!

Anta, Julio
Singing Justice, Singing Peace

Brown, Monica
Don't Eat the Birthday Boy

Higuera, Donna Barba
From the Fields to the Fight

Quezada Padron, Angela
Sing Me A Story
Quetzal's Labyrinth

Valenti, Karla

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Banned Books Week 2026

The 1619 Project
The Handmaid's Tale

Atwood, Margaret
Fun Home

Bechdel, Alison
A Clockwork Orange

Burgess, Anthony
The Perks of Being A Wallflower

Chbosky, Stephen
It's Perfectly Normal

Harris, Robie H.
The Kite Runner

Hosseini, Khaled

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