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Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month with one of these great reads.

Every year,Latinx Heritage Month celebratestheexperiences and cultures of Latinx peopleliving in the United States.

With offerings from a wide range of genres, this list has something for every throw in of reader.

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No, seriously something foreveryone.

Thats not to mention all of the short story collections, speculative fiction, and more included below.

Below, 26 books by Latinx authors to read now and the rest of the year.

‘Clap When You Land’ by Elizabeth Acevedo

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Hola Papi!

The city is expensive, and she has very little money to support herself.

'¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons' by John Paul Brammer

Still, she finds something to hold on to in Martita and Paola, her newfound friends.

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L.A. A first-generation American, Jeanette wants to know more about her heritage, but her mothers lips are sealed.

Determined to find answers, she leaves Miami for her grandmothers house in Cuba.

‘Martita, I Remember You’ by Sandra Cisneros

Shes fat, shes Puerto Rican, and she refuses to apologize for either of those traits.

Along the way, they might find something even more important in one another.

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Lost in the Never Woods

In this modern re-telling of J.M.

‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’ by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

‘What’s Mine and Yours’ by Naima Coster

‘The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina’ by Zoraida Córdova

‘Gordo’ by Jaime Cortez

‘A Lot Like Adiós’ by Alexis Daria

‘The President and the Frog’ by Carolina de Robertis

‘L.A. Weather’ by María Amparo Escandón

‘The Twilight Zone’ by Nona Fernández

‘Mona at Sea’ by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

‘Of Women and Salt’ by Gabriela Garcia

‘The Low, Low Woods’ by Carmen Maria Machado, Dani, and Tamra Bonvillain

‘For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color’ by Prisca Dorc…

‘Fat Chance, Charlie Vega’ by Crystal Maldonado

‘The Mirror Season’ by Anna-Marie McLemore

‘This Is How We Fly’ by Anna Meriano

‘Velvet Was the Night’ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

‘Nocturna’ by Maya Motayne

‘One of the Good Ones’ by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite

‘Las Biuty Queens’ by Iván Monalisa Ojeda

‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’ by Erika L. Sanchez

‘Lost in the Never Woods’ by Aiden Thomas

‘Small Town Monsters’ by Diana Rodriguez Wallach

‘Pride’ by Ibi Zoboi