Booksology I am a famous autumn girl, and this year I welcome the dawn of spring in its iconic glory. The flowers bloom, the sun smashes through the clouds, and my local resume has lots of Cadbury Cream eggs. Maybe I’ve finally been stacked for six months in the armchair where art was hanging in my apartment. Do I actually do these things? Hell if I knew! But Spring means that everything feels a bit possible.
What’s not helping that TBR project is that a great book by a Latin writer is being published this spring. I look forward to the latest from the rich Chilean author Isabel Arende, a historic novel set in 19th century San Francisco. In today’s New Mexico, there is a magnificent family saga that spans the first 100 years of Spanish colonization. There’s a Gothic horror debut. Haunted Mansions are turning the hotel (because they’re always a great idea). We have romance, fantasy, revenge zombies eating the rich. Santa Madre, did my TBR never have a chance?
Let’s go to these Libros.
Spring 2025 Latin Book
Translated by Gloria, Andres Felipe Solano and Wilvanderhiden (4/1)
This novel about a mother and son is told in two timelines. It starts with Gloria in the 1970s, in preparation for attending an actual concert in which Argentine singer Sandro became the first Latin American to perform at Madison Square Garden. Fifty years later, her son reflects on how he spent time in New York City once again reflecting his mother’s experience there. This story takes us from New York to Columbia and Miami, and traces how the choices made in young people will affect future generations.
Influencer by Anna Marie McLemore (4/15)
I can hear this book So Juicy! Mae Iverson, known as the mother, created a big influencer empire that made videos of her and her five mixed race daughters when they were children, just as I have me on her followers (barf). But all those girls are now adults and you will see that your offspring childhood can really come back to bite you. The newlywed in May is dead and her mansion has been torched to hide the crime, but who is responsible? This quest for influencer culture, race, gender, sexuality and class feels on time. It’s hard not to feel like we’re going to see an influx of real-life versions of this type of story.
Related Side Notes: Hulu Documentary Family Devil It’s a very upsetting, yet amazing watch when it comes to influencer Ruby Franke.
Summer I ate rich man by Micah and Maritza Murite (4/22)
Although Briel loves to cook, care for her chronically sick mother prevents her from pursuing her cooking dreams. Then her mom suddenly loses her job and Briel decides to use her skills to help her achieve her goals. The rich and rich family she cooks are obsessed with her cooking, unaware that Briel’s secret ingredient is… human flesh. The story is inspired by Haitian zombie lore (I said there are zombies), and its cover is a kiss from a (zombie) chef.
Rabbits gathered by Alisa Valdes Rodriguez (4/22)
The drought forces the Tewa people of the Pewy city to leave what they call home for 100 generations, and they rebuild and form an Adobe farming village called the Singing Water Village. Here, three generations of Tewa women (blue water, north star, butterfly) live in harmony with the land for years. However, in 1598, the peace they had grown very carefully was destroyed by Spanish invaders, and Northstar was separated from his young daughter during a cruel and brutal attack. Through these three women’s stories and three more generations of Tewa women, we will win the family saga set in the first 100 years of Spanish colonization in today’s New Mexico.
Kiss me according to Kibriella Gamez (5/6)
I added this to my list with just a cover: papel picado, flower crown, beautiful brown female smoothin’ – what do you like? The plot then had nerves beyond my expectations. After posting a video about both Ace and the Slow Bloomer, the librarian goes viral and then uses her new influencer status to organize her first kiss. There are unrequited love, sexy bartenders, and even scavenger hunts. This should be a good time.
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My name is translated by Isabelle Arende by Emilia del Valle and Francis Riddle (5/6)
You will never miss an opportunity to tell you when our Magical Realism Queen comes out with a new book. It opens in 19th century San Francisco. There, a nun gives birth to a baby girl named Emilia Delvare. She grows into a self-sufficient, independent young woman with a passion for writing fiction under male pseudonyms for a while before deciding to pursue a career in journalism. The decision is assigned along with a reporter named Will to eventually take her to Chile, where she will cover the looming civil war. There she meets a Chilean nobleman, an estranged father and who abandoned his mother before her birth, and meets face to face with the violent conflict that tores Chile apart.
Bochika by Carolina Flores Kinchiaro (5/13)
You cannot request a book Mexican gothic meet Shine And hopefully I won’t be wild. In 1923, in Colombia, Antonia and her family settled in a large old mansion above a legendary waterfall. Certainly, it is a ghost, and every night they spend there is plagued by nightmares, but they stay until tragedy strikes and Antonia’s mother falls into the waterfall for her death. Antonia’s father is destroyed by grief (of course) but tries to burn the house Antonia is still in it (Guey, Te Pasas). Three years later, Antonia returns to the house that plagued her dreams when converted into a fashionable hotel. give. that. To. myself.
So many stars: Trans oral history, non-binary, gender care, two spiritual people of color by Caro de Robertis (5/13)
This important work from the author of Cantra is the oral history of the generation of trans and elders of genderless colour. This is a collection of testimonies from 20 elders, characterized by stories of resilience, community, loss, family, and ordinary, extraordinary experiences living fiercely in a world hostile to one’s very existence. The older I get, the more I understand what a privilege it is to have elders to tell their stories, especially in the LGBTQIA+ community, that many marginalized people are not given to them. This is what I’m going to take my time.
If you survived this by Racquel Marie (6/17)
I’m very much in the 3rd season slal Yellow jacketso this ya horror novel piqued my interest when I saw it described as follows Yellow jacket meet the walking dead. Flora is a teenage girl from a suburb of Los Angeles and leads a group of survivors on an apocalyptic journey after a global outbreak of rabies mutations that turn people into highly violent zombies. She and her brothers are still alive, but their mother is dead and their father is missing. They decide that if they can survive, they will head to the Northern California cabin where they were on vacation, hoping to see their father again.
When Habi abandons Mari by Mia Sosa (6/25)
When I saw this book, when I described it as “a fun and frivolous rom-com about an agreement between friends when one of them suddenly decides to get married,” my first reaction was to cry and go. My best friend’s wedding But with a brown guy? ! “It’s not accurate (Julia, girl, your hair was the goal, but your character was the worst!!). It means convinces Mari that the guy she is involved in is not.
