RECOMMENDATIONS: CLASSICAL BOOKS




The Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club recommends the following classical books taken from their Summer Reading Lists.   Read Latino Lit!



Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Vintage
 




In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
Algonquin Books
 


Kiss of the Spiderwoman
by Manuel Puig
Vintage



Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
Doubleday
 



The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
HarperOne
 



When I Was Puerto Rican
by Esmeralda Santiago
Da Capo Press
 



The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
Vintage




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