Puerto Rico


When I Was Puerto Rican
Olga Dies Dreaming
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
The Taste of Sugar
Puerto Rico: A National History
The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
The House on the Lagoon
Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
Conquistadora
Ordinary Girls
The Rum Diary
Las Madres
My Beloved World
Mundo Cruel: Stories (Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Fiction)
Familia
Nefando by Mónica OjedaMandíbula by Mónica OjedaFever Dream by Samanta SchweblinLa desfiguración Silva by Mónica OjedaLos cuerpos del verano by Martín Felipe Castagnet
Bogota 39 - 2017
49 books — 13 voters
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreAnywhen by Beth DukeWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightBlack Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
War History Non Fiction
11 books — 4 voters

La Vida by Oscar LewisOlga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl GonzálezThe House on the Lagoon by Rosario FerréLa Borinqueña #1 by Edgardo Miranda-RodriguezStories from Puerto Rico / Historias de Puerto Rico by Robert Muckley
Books Set in Puerto Rico
47 books — 23 voters
Silver Meadows Summer by Emma OtheguyWhen Carlos Closed the Street by Peggy MannThe Magical Closet Mystery by María Pérez-GómezThe Smell of Old Lady Perfume by Claudia Guadalupe MartinezTurning Pages by Sonia Sotomayor
MG & Puerto Rico
8 books — 3 voters

The Puerto Rican movement of the 1960s and 1970s can be defined by its consistent calls for a radical transformation of U.S. society while simultaneously promoting the independence of Puerto Rico. Known as El Nuevo Despertar, this "New Awakening" of Puerto Rican radicalism was inspired and shaped by the growing militancy abroad and at home. Black Power, youth unrest (particularly against the Vietnam War), the War on Poverty, national liberation struggles in the Third World, Chicano and Native Am ...more
Cristina Beltrán, The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity

Julia de Burgos
Puerto Rico depende de tu vida y tu nombre, colgando en ti van millones de esperanzas para resucitar en lo que nos fue robado y hacer valer de nuevo el honor de la Patria. Puerto Rico depends on your life and your name, resting on you are millions of hopes to be resurrected in what was stolen from us and to renew the worth of the Nation's honor. (Puerto Rico está en tí / Puerto Rico Is in You) ...more
Julia de Burgos

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El Book Club Club de Lectura de para lectores puertorriqueños.
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Lectoras y lectores de literatura puertorriqueña 🇵🇷 Este no es solo un grupo, es un movimiento.📚 Un espacio para quienes creemos —sin duda— que…more
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This group was created for my historical novel, A DECENT WOMAN, set in turn of the century Puert…more
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Q&A with David Martin, author of Puerto Rico City Welcome to Puerto Rico City, a novel. Questions, comments, observations about this recently publ…more
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