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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,733 ratings — published 1987
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.68 — 243,619 ratings — published 1984
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,373 ratings — published 1991
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,853 ratings — published 1981
Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.18 — 448 ratings — published 1994
Caramelo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,299 ratings — published 2002
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.87 — 79,608 ratings — published 2019
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.23 — 168 ratings — published 1998
The House of Broken Angels (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,411 ratings — published 2018
Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.91 — 222 ratings — published 2016
The Mixquiahuala Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.88 — 992 ratings — published 1986
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.09 — 596 ratings — published 2006
Under the Feet of Jesus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.61 — 4,179 ratings — published 1995
So Far from God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,677 ratings — published 1993
Mother Tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.83 — 677 ratings — published 1990
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,077 ratings — published
Loving in the War Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,072 ratings — published 1983
All's Fair in Love and Field Hockey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.59 — 681 ratings — published 2025
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.66 — 454,999 ratings — published 2020
Goddess of Filth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.57 — 9,988 ratings — published 2021
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,923 ratings — published 2015
Violeta (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.03 — 110,903 ratings — published 2022
More Than You'll Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.72 — 25,866 ratings — published 2022
Street of Too Many Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published
Blood Mountain (Jodi Luna, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,286 ratings — published 2024
The Haunting of Alejandra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.64 — 9,456 ratings — published 2023
The Last Karankawas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,192 ratings — published 2022
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.59 — 278 ratings — published
Through Fences (Latinographix)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.26 — 82 ratings — published
Caballero: A Historical Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.71 — 229 ratings — published 1996
Warrior Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.99 — 404 ratings — published 2022
Frida Kahlo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.95 — 22 ratings — published 2003
House of Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.97 — 38 ratings — published 1997
Frida Kahlo: A Little Golden Book Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.54 — 169 ratings — published
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,936 ratings — published 2004
Tell Me a Riddle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,629 ratings — published 1961
Omega Morales and the Legend of La Lechuza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.21 — 190 ratings — published 2022
Crying in the Bathroom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,771 ratings — published 2022
Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House (Adventures in Art)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.90 — 39 ratings — published 2003
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,820 ratings — published 2022
Dominicana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.11 — 38,362 ratings — published 2019
The Valley: Estampas del valle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.89 — 38 ratings — published 2014
The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.30 — 126 ratings — published 1995
El Mesquite: A Story of the Early Spanish Settlements Between the Nueces and the Rio Grande (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.86 — 115 ratings — published 2000
My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.94 — 189 ratings — published 1994
Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.55 — 261 ratings — published 1995
Dreams of the Centaur (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.07 — 58 ratings — published 1996
Salt of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 1977
Crossing Borders: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.99 — 71 ratings — published 2011
“We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be “real” Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience.”
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“The either/or proposition that forces you to choose between your community and, say, your country has never been true. The very skills we learn to cross borders within ourselves help us to cross borders toward others outside our community.”
― Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds
― Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds
