Hispanic Heritage Month: Fiction

Created to share library and web resources for Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month in 2023.

Fiction at the Columbus State Library 

This section includes a sampling of Hispanic American fiction titles available at the Columbus State Library. 

CS Library

Use the Columbus State library catalog to search for books, journals, eBooks, and audio-visual materials owned by Columbus State Community College.

Selection of Fiction

LatiNext

In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad.

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

Alternating between Orquídea's past and her descendants' present, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina is a "spellbinding tale, both timeless and fresh, that will stay with you long after you've turned the last page. 

Dreaming of You

Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You is an absurd yet heartfelt examination of celebrity worship.

Cemetery Boys

When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo.

Citizen Illegal

In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America.

Rudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, Ultima; Tortuga; Alburquerque (LOA #361)

Anaya broke new ground with his 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima, a mythic work that captures the richness and complexity of history, community, and place in the American Southwest.

Sabrina and Corina

Kali Fajardo-Anstine's magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit.

Postcolonial Love Poem

Natalie Diaz's highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure.

The Poet X

Novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.

Woman Hollering Creek

A collection of stories by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

Resistencia

Within this momentous collection, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity, place, and belonging, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion.

The Last Cuentista

Petra wakes to a new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future.

load additional books

Privacy & Confidentiality StatementLibrary Code of Conduct