Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by Reading Great Books
Perfect time to diversify our reading and discover a new favorite author
Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15th and ends on October 15th. Yes, it’s kind of strange that it’s not a traditional month, but it overlaps between two months. The reason for that is that five Latin American countries celebrate their independence day during this time.
For us as writers and readers, it can be a great time to diversify our reading and try books written by Latino authors, and we have so many to choose from.
It brings me a lot of pleasure to say that because when I started publishing, most of the Latino authors who were available to read were literary authors, and they were not easy to find.
At the time, I had read Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me Ulitma. Victor Villasenor’s Rain of Gold, Richard Rodriguez’s non-fiction book The Education of Richard Rodriguez, Luis Rodriguez had published a few poems and a couple of novels that I had not read yet. And the only Latina I’d read was Sandra Cisneros, who had about five publications when my first novel was released in 2000.
So, when I was an unpublished writer, or even earlier when I was a young teen looking for books that might reflect my life as a Hispanic kid…
