Books for Hispanic Heritage Month 2026

This is a promotional graphic for the University Press of Florida's book sale for Hispanic Heritage Month.

Hispanic Heritage Month occurs annually from September 15–October 15. To celebrate, we’re highlighting a collection of our recent and bestselling publications relating to Hispanic and Latinx history and culture. Use discount code 31HHM26 for 30% off through October 15.

For even more recommended books, browse all our books in Latin American & Caribbean Studies.

In addition to the books below, check out our journal Spanish as a Heritage Language.

Bodega Stories

Amaris Castillo

Havana Hardball

Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and The Cuban League

César Brioso

Home in Florida

Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness

Anjanette Delgado

Operation Pedro Pan, Revised Edition

The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children

Yvonne M. Conde

Voices from Mariel

Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift

José Manuel García

The Mariel Boatlift

A Cuban-American Journey

Victor Andres Triay

Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away

Memories of Early Cuban Exiles

David Powell

Bay of Pigs

An Oral History of Brigade 2506

Victor Andres Triay

The Cuban Sandwich

A History in Layers

Andrew T. Huse, Bárbara C. Cruz, Jeff Houck

Modern Cuban

A Contemporary Approach to Classic Recipes

Ana Quincoces, Gloria Estefan

The Versailles Restaurant Cookbook

Ana Quincoces, Nicole Valls, Andy Garcia

Coconuts and Collards

Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South

Von Diaz, Cybelle Codish

Tossed to the Wind

Stories of Hurricane Maria Survivors

Maria T. Padilla, Nancy Rosado

Alive in Their Garden

The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom

Dedé Mirabal, Ana E. Martínez, Heather Hennes, Julia Alvarez

The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez

Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo

Minou Tavárez Mirabal, Heather Hennes, Heather Hennes

In the Vortex of the Cyclone

Selected Poems

Excilia Saldaña, Flora González-Mandri, Rosamond Rosenmeier

The Insistence of Harm

Fernando Valverde, Allen Josephs, Laura Juliet Wood

Tears and Flowers

A Poet of Migration in Old Key West

Feliciano Castro, Joy Castro, Rhi Johnson

Clementina Suárez

Her Life and Poetry

Janet N. Gold

Modern Art in 1940s Cuba

Havana's Artists, Critics, and Exhibitions

Alejandro Anreus

Island Bodies, Second Edition

Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination

Rosamond S. King

Tropical Time Machines

Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean

Emily A. Maguire

Fútbol!

Why Soccer Matters in Latin America

Joshua H. Nadel

Picturing Cuba

Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora

Jorge Duany

Portraits of Cuba

Daniel Duncan, Marcela Vásquez-León, Dereka Rushbrook

Tampa Cigar Workers

A Pictorial History

Robert P. Ingalls, Louis A. Pérez

Cuba and Puerto Rico

Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture

Carmen Haydée Rivera, Jorge Duany

La Florida

Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence

Viviana Díaz Balsera, Rachel A. May

Latino Orlando

Suburban Transformation and Racial Conflict

Simone Delerme

Anthology of Spanish American Thought and Culture

Jorge Aguilar Mora, Josefa Salmón, Barbara C. Ewell

Transnational Hispaniola

New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies

April J. Mayes, Kiran C. Jayaram

Univision, Telemundo, and the Rise of Spanish-Language Television in the United States

Craig Allen

University Press of Florida
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