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A LATINO NATIONAL CONVERSATION --- RECOMMENDED READING FOR ADULTS PABLO NERUDA ISABEL ALLENDE
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This list was inspired by and based on the prospectus for "A Latino National Conversation," a program of the Great Books Foundation. It was compiled by Tom Healy, Seattle Public Library librarian; author Kathleen Alcala; members of Los Nortenos writing group; and the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library. There is also a list for children and young adults.
| Alcala, Kathleen | Treasures in Heaven |
| Allende, Isabel | The House of the Spirits |
| Alvarez, Julia | How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent |
| Alvarez, Julia | In the Time of the Butterflies |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless Me, Ultima |
| Anzaldua, Gloria | Borderlands |
| Arana, Marie | American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood |
| Azuela, Mariano | The Underdogs (Los de abaja) |
| Barrios, Flor Fernandez | Blessed by Thunder |
| Benitez, Sandra | A Place Where the Sea Remembers |
| Castillo, Ana | So Far from God |
| Chavez, Denise | Last of the Menu Girls |
| Cisneros, Sandra | The House on Mango Street |
| Coelho, Paulo | The Alchemist |
| Cruz, Angie | Soledad |
| Diaz, Junot | Drown |
| Escandon, Maria Amparo | Esperanza's Box of Saints |
| Esquivel, Laura | Like Water for Chocolate |
| Garcia, Cristina | Dreaming in Cuban |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | Love in the Time of Cholera |
| Gonzales, Rigoberto | So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Before it Breaks |
| Lopez-Medina, Sylvia | Cantora |
| Machado, Antonio | Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado |
| Menendez, Ana | In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd |
| Neruda, Pablo | The Yellow Heart |
| Obejas, Achy | Days of Awe |
| Ortiz Cofer, Judith | Line of the Sun |
| Paz, Octavio | The Labyrinth of Solitude |
| Poniatowska, Elena | Here's to You, Jesusa (Hasta no verte Jesus mio) |
| Sanchez, Ricaedo | Canto y grito mi liberacion |
| Santiago, Esmerelda | When I Was Puerto Rican |
| Santos, John Phillip | Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation |
| Vargas Llosa, Mario | Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter |
| Vea, Alfredo | Gods Go Begging |
| Villasenor, Victor | Macho! |
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