Canal Alliance Book Recommendation List

Canal Alliance fosters an environment of learning, growth, and understanding for students, staff, volunteers and community members. Our staff are life-long learners who are always excited to share their knowledge and insight on issues facing the Latino and immigrant communities.

In honor of #NationalBookLoversDay, we’d like to share our Book Recommendation List to help our friends, partners, and colleagues join us in learning more about how our communities can support and stand with our immigrant neighbors:

Fiction

• Lucky Boy – Shanthi Sekaran
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter – (YA) Erika L. Sanchez
• Bless Me, Ultima – Rudolfo Anaya
• The Book of Unknown Americans – Cristina Henriquez
• Dreaming in Cuban– Cristina Garcia
• The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
• How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents– Julia Alvarez
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous– Ocean Vuong
• Listen, Slowly- (YA) Thanhha Lai
• The Parking Lot Attendant -Nafkote Tamirat

Non-Fiction

• Bird of Paradise: How I became Latina
• The Distance Between Us  -Reyna Grande
• The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America – Andres Resendez
• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen – Jose Antonio Vargas
• I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala – Elisabeth Burgos-Debray and Rigoberta Menchu
• The Girl Who Smiled Beads:  A Story of War and What Comes After
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood  – Trevor Noah

Please note, this list may be changed, updated or added to occasionally as new titles become available or as recommendations change.