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2026 Reading Challenge: A Book Written by an Author With Hispanic Heritage
Are you participating in the 2026 Reading Challenge? We have 12 challenges to complete throughout the year. Listed below are just a few books that fit the prompt “A Book Written by an Author With Hispanic Heritage”, but there are plenty of other books you can pick up!
Adult Fiction
Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia / My Name Is Emilia del Valle / When Javi dumped Mari / The anatomy of magic/ The house on Mango Street
Victim / Here in Berlin /Woman of light / Oye / The seventh veil of Salome
YA
Aniana del Mar jumps in / I am not your perfect Mexican daughter / Lucha of the night forest / Hearts of fire and snow / Up in flames
MG
Lola / Paola Santiago and the River of Tears / Mexikid / Tumble / Merci Suárez Changes Gears
August 2026: New Fiction
| The little liar | F ALBOM, MITCH |
| How to Find a Romance in a Bookshop | F ALEXANDER, POPPY |
| You had me at Bigfoot | F ALLEN, NANCY |
| The Queen’s Bodyguard | F BLACKWOOD, LAUREN |
| The amateur | F BOHJALIAN, CHRIS |
| Appraisals | F BOYLES, CLAIRE |
| Immortal Rose | F BRACKEN , ALEXANDRA |
| The Boy with the Butterfly Mind | F BRUSH, LORELEI |
| A murderer’s guide to Mardi Gras | F BYRON, ELLEN |
| A neighbor’s guide to murder | F CANDLISH, LOUISE |
| A dark path | F CASTILLO, LINDA |
| Hocus pocus | F CHARRY, BRINDA |
| An infinite love story | F CLEETON, CHANEL |
| Miss Bates : | F CLIFF, CATHERINE |
| Promise me never | F CONSTANTINE, LIV |
| Take what you can | F COSTER, NAIMA |
| Pretty dead things | F COX, KELSEY |
| World’s okayest oracle (reluctantly) seeks demon | F DADE, OLIVIA |
| The talking bone | F DENFELD, RENE |
| A Mismatch Made In London | F DICKERSON, MELANIE |
| Before the Devil Knows | F DINGLE, R. JOHN |
| Wings of Madness | F DINGLE, R. JOHN |
| Karma Never Sleeps | F DINGLE, R. JOHN |
| If books could kill | F EBERLE, KATE |
| Hello Baby | F EUI-KYUNG, KIM |
| Killer vibes | F FRIDAY, JACK |
| Breathing under water : | F FRIEDLAND, JACQUELINE |
| When Mikan Road Was Ours | F FURUTANI, D.K. |
| Love you more | F GIFFIN, EMILY |
| City of widows | F HASHIMI, NADIA |
| Mad Mabel | F HEPWORTH, SALLY |
| Buyer beware | F HOWARD, CATHERINE |
| Plant lady | F KANG, MINYOUNG |
| God’s country | F KRUEGER, WILLIAM |
| Meet me in the garden | F LACOUR, NINA |
| The romance revival | F LAUREN, CHRISTINA |
| Fishbone Cinderella | F LIM, ELIZABETH |
| Beginning middle end | F LUISELLI, VALERIA |
| Men like us | F MARKLAND, CARSON |
| Country people | F MASON, DANIEL |
| The artful Anna Harris | F MATON, TRACY |
| The subtle pleasures of indiscretion | F MCCALL, ALEXANDER SMITH |
| Brain damage | F MCFADDEN, FREIDA |
| The Cloak and Dagger Club | F MCMAHON, JACKIE |
| Every version of you | F MESSIER, NATALIE |
| Time travel for beginners | F MORIARTY, JACLYN |
| Sunlight finds you | F MORIARTY, LAURA |
| Everything that is beautiful | F NEALON, LOUISE |
| Indie darling | F NOSSETT, LAUREN |
| Sunrise | F OBREHT, TÉA |
| Not With a Bang | F OH, TEMI |
| First Summer | F OKLAP, EKIN |
| For the Love of the Quest | F PARTHUN, ALEXANDRA |
| Whistler | F PATCHETT, ANN |
| Shrink solves murder | F PERRY PHILIPPA |
| A stranger in Corfu | F PRESTON, ALEX |
| Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt | F REEVES, BEN |
| All the Hidden Pieces | F RIDENOUR, DANA |
| The story keeper | F RIMMER, KELLY |
| Dead men don’t play fetch | F ROSENFELT, DAVID |
| Most ardently yours | F SAMPSON, FREYA |
| The great wherever | F SANDERS, SHANNON |
| This changes everything | F SCOTTOLINE, LISA |
| The Blue Moon Café & 24-Hour Occult Emporium | F SHARABIANLOU, LEXIE |
| My sister is going to kill me | F SIMON, NINA |
| The secrets we hide | F SLAUGHTER, KARIN |
| The divine gardener’s handbook : or What to do if your girlfriend accidentally turns off the sun | F SNOW, ELI |
| Should the waters take us | F SOILEAU, STEPHANIE |
| The memory bookshop | F SONG, YU-JEONG |
| The masala chai mystery club | F SONI, MJ |
| Mystery guest | F STOFFELS, MAREN |
| The last soldier of Nava | F SUH, YEJIN |
| The seekers of Deer Creek | F THAI, THAO |
| Moss’d in space | F THORNE, REBECCA |
| Misery’s wife | F TIERNEY, JOAN |
| The new people | F UPTMOR, ANDREA |
| The death row club | F VAZQUEZ, V.A. |
| The spy keeper of Marseille | F WHITE, ROSEANNA |
| Cool machine | F WHITEHEAD, COLSON |
August 2026: New YA
| You only live twice | YA ALLEN, AUTUMN |
| Wings of reverie | YA BRIGHT, ANNA |
| Every reason to stay | YA CLARKE, LANE |
| Our wicked gifts | YA FOXFIELD, KATHRYN |
| Armor for liars | YA GROVE, S.E. |
| Such a witch | YA HENNING, SARAH |
| King of lost dreams | YA HOLNESS, NEVIN |
| How (Not) to Renovate a Haunted House | YA HOWE, JENNY |
| Hell to pay | YA JOHNSON, LORA |
| Deathless | YA KAGAWA, JULIE |
| Hallie’s rules for a recovering romantic | YA LEWIS, JESSICA |
| Ruinous ends | YA MARIE, I.V. |
| Just another dead boy | YA MCCAUGHRAIN, KELLY |
| Rootbound | YA OWEN, MARGARET |
| The assassin’s guide to dating | YA PARKER, NATALIE |
| Lovestuck | YA RISHI, FARAH |
| Buried feelings | YA ROSEWATER, KIT |
| A clash of carnivores | YA SAMBURY, LISELLE |
| Unnamed bones | YA SENF, LORA |
| Black Point | YA WEST, JACQUELINE |
| Evie and her nightmares | YA ZAPPIA, FRANCESCA |
| Once upon a quinceañera | YCD GOMEZ-HIRA, MONICA |
| Wolf’s belly | YGN AUGUST, JOHN |
| Across the widest sea | YGN CREMERS, JEAN |
| My Tokyo summer | YGN DENSON, ABBY |
| Witch’s inheritance | YGN HENDER, PAIGE |
| Coming out perfect | YGN MERCADO, RICHARD |
| To dance the moon and stars | YGN MS, TASIA |
| Salvage | YGN NAULT, RENÉE |