Welcome to the Book Nook! The weekly thread for all book nerds on The Avocado. This is the place to talk about books you’re currently reading, discuss genres, ask for recommendations, and post serious literary criticism.

This week’s prompt: It’s Hispanic Heritage Month in the US. What are some of your favorite novels, nonfiction books, stories, essays, plays, poems, graphic novels or comic books that were written by a Hispanic writer or an author of Hispanic descent?

Suggestions for prompts are always welcome!

Posting pictures is fine as long as they are book related, but I would like this thread to continue to be a NO GIF/YouTube/social media embed zone. Thanks, and happy commenting!

Today’s literary birthdays:
Horace Walpole (1717), English short story writer, novelist and historian (RIP 1797)
Mary Ann Browne (1812), English poet (RIP 1845)
Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817), Spanish poet and philosopher (RIP 1901)
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Swiss novelist, poet and playwright (RIP 1947)
A. P. Herbert (1890), English novelist and poet (RIP 1971)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), American novelist and short story writer (RIP 1940)
Robert Lewis Taylor (1912), American novelist and biographer (RIP 1998)
Jan Carew (1920), Guyanese-American novelist, poet, and playwright (RIP 2012)
Jack Gaughan (1930), American science fiction illustrator (RIP 1985)
Brian Glanville (1931), English sportswriter, novelist, short story writer and playwright (RIP 2025)
Yves Navarre (1940), French novelist (RIP 1994)
Eavan Boland (1944), Irish poet (RIP 2020)
John Kessel (1950), American science fiction and fantasy short story writer and novelist
Shamim Sarif (1969), English novelist