Ideal Bookshelf 1128: Latinx!

I asked my dear and lovely friend, bibliophile and bookstagrammer extraordinaire, cofounder & moderator of @litonhst, Lupita Aquino (perhaps better known as @lupita.reads!) to curate a shelf of Latinx books everyone should read.

And then I made them into both a print and a mug.

(There are so many, of course! And I couldn't fit them all, so if you feel something is missing blame me, not Lupita!)

Starting in August 2023, 5% of the revenue from sales of this print will be donated to Latinx in Publishing, a non-profit that works to increase "the number of Latino/a/x in the publishing industry, and [promotes] literature by, for, and about Latino/a/x people." 

• First offered in October 2019
• Archival pigment ink print on fine art paper
• Based on an original painting by Jane Mount

 

BOOKS INCLUDED:

• Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quiñonez
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
• Dominicana by Angie Cruz
• The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
• We the Animals by Justin Torres
• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolf Anaya
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Márquez
• Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
• When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
• The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande
• Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
• Love Poems by Pablo Neruda
• Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquirel
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
• Woman Hollering Creek by Sandro Cisneros