"Like Water for Chocolate"

These five Latinx literary classics started genres, inspired countless writers, and made it onto reading lists across the nation.

Let’s celebrate Latina-authored books that are getting adapted for the screen – because these seven are all major wins for Latinas in Hollywood!

The literary establishment may ignore Latinas, we saw the door open (just a creak!), thanks to Elizabeth Acevedo’s “The Poet X” and “With the Fire on High.”