More books from 2011

by Rudy Ch. Garcia

In case you've already read most of the books from Manuel Ramos's La Bloga's Best Reads that was posted yesterday, and are wondering what else you might have missed from 2011, from Chicana scholar and librarian Maria Teresa Marquez, a precursor who inspired La Bloga, comes her own impressive list to complement Ramos's. It includes many of our favorites, some of which we reviewed this year. (To my knowledge, there is no significance to the order in which they're presented.)

Hers is entitled:
El chicle que pega:
Chicana/Chicano Literary Expressions in 2011.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul

Nasario Garcia
An Indelible Imprint: Ruben Cobos, A Multi-Talented Personality

Jessica Helen Lopez
Always Messing With Them Boys

Juan Gilberto Quezada
Terror on the Border

Lucretia Guerrero
Tree of Sighs

Jesus Angel Garcia
Badbadbad

Melinda Palacio
Ocotillo Dreams

Richard Yanez
Cross Over Water

Bonnie K. Rucobo
King Pachuco and Princess Mirasol

Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Under the Mesquite

Rudolfo Anaya
Billy the Kid and Other Plays
Randy Lopez Goes Home

Marisa K. Lopez
Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature

Patrick Lawrence Hamilton
Of Space and Mind: Cognitive Mappings of Contemporary Chicana/o Fiction

Bless Me, Ultima ( A Book Caps Study Guide) Kindle eBook

John Alba Culter
Pochos, Vatos and Other Types of Assimilation: Masculinities in Chicano Literature, 1940-2004

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
A Voice of My Own: Essays and Stories

David A. Sanchez
Don't Forget the Accent Mark: A Memoir

Sergio Troncoso
Crossing Borders: Personal Essays

`Ray Villareal
Don't Call Me Hero

AnaLouise Keating and Gloria Gonzalez
Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldua's Life and Work Transformed Our Own

Gracias, Teresa Marquez
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Marcela Landres update

For those of you who submitted questions for editor Marcela Landres about Chicanos and publishing, her responses will lead off the first Saturday posting of 2012, on January 7th.