Reading List
Jazmina Barrera
Mexican Essayist and Novelist
Jazmina Barrera, born in Mexico City in 1988, is a Mexican writer. She studied modern English literature at UNAM and earned an MA in creative writing in Spanish at New York University on a Fulbright scholarship. In 2015 she co-founded the press Ediciones Antílope, and her books have been published in eight countries. Christina MacSweeney translated her novel Cross-Stitch for Two Lines Press. Her picks here, from a Shelf Awareness interview, include Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story, Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, Marcia Bjornerud’s Geopedia and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
The Private Lives of Trees
by Alejandro Zambra · 2023 · Fiction
Recommended via Article, December 2023
Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger · 1961 · Fiction
“I'd like to fall in love with the Glass family all over again.” — via Article, December 2023
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley · 2003 · Fiction
“Lately it's this one, from Mary Shelley's Introduction to Frankenstein: "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."” — via Article, December 2023
The Dark
by Lemony Snicket · 2013 · Children's
“I didn't know it was already a modern classic. I'm a children's books junkie since my son was born.” — via Article, December 2023
Geopedia
by Marcia Bjornerud · 2022 · Nonfiction
“I'm writing a book with my friend Paulina Deschamps about the names of mountains, and that's why I'm reading (and loving) it. Suddenly every stone around me is a precious stone.” — via Article, December 2023
The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende · 1993 · Children's
“It opened my eyes to the ways in which language creates realities. It moved me and filled my mind with a rich and amazing universe.” — via Article, December 2023
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2013 · Nature
“I was planting a vegetable garden for the first time when I read it, and I was obsessed for a while. Everyone should read that.” — via Article, December 2023
