Twelve months ago, I suggested resolving to read more books in 2014 (http://blogs.nvcc.edu/espanol/2014/01/11/resolve-to-read-more-libros-in-2014/). This year I thought I would write a follow-up post with some suggested titles for 2015. Please look for them in NOVA’s libraries. If you can, consider buying one or more of them from a bookstore. A local independent bookstore, such as Busboys and Poets, Politics and Prose or Kramer Books and Afterwards, would especially appreciate your business.
The following list is a compilation of books that I have mentioned in one class or another, many more than once. Some were originally written in English, some in Spanish. Hopefully there is something for everyone. Here they are, in no particular order:
Non-fiction
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond
1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus, Charles C Mann
My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayor
Diaries of Christopher Columbus
Illustrated Diary of Frida Kahlo
Fiction
Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, Elena Poniatowska
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Sandra Cisneros
Don Quixote por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (For a good English translation, read Edith Grossman’s.)
Como agua para chocolate, Laura Esquivel
La vida es sueño, Calderón de la Barca
Cien años de soledad, Gabriel García Márquez (his novellas and short stories are great too)
La casa de los espíritus, Isabel Allende
El cuarto de atrás, Carmen Martín Gaite
Poets
Richard Blanco
Antonio Machado
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Federico García Lorca (Don’t miss his famous plays: La casa de Bernarda Alba, Yerma, and Bodas de Sangre.)
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