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What to read after The Forge by Arturo Barea: 24 titles sharing themes of Hispanic & Latino, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, and Biography & Autobiography, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to The Forge.

De Campesino a Astronauta — José M. Hernández

De Campesino a Astronauta

José M. Hernández

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Sí, Se Puede The Latino Heroes Who Changed the United States — Julio Anta

Sí, Se Puede The Latino Heroes Who Changed the United States

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Embrace the Power of You Owning Your Identity at Work — Tricia Montalvo Timm

Embrace the Power of You Owning Your Identity at Work

Tricia Montalvo Timm

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Clemente! The Enduring Legacy — Kal Wagenheim

Clemente! The Enduring Legacy

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

100 Hispanic-Americans who Shaped American History — Rick Laezman

100 Hispanic-Americans who Shaped American History

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Some New Kind of Kick A Memoir — Kid Congo Powers

Some New Kind of Kick A Memoir

Kid Congo Powers

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

American Son My Story — Oscar De La Hoya

American Son My Story

Oscar De La Hoya

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Famous Mexican Americans — Janet N. Morey

Famous Mexican Americans

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

A Place to Anchor: Journalism, Cancer, and Rewriting Mi Vida as a Latina on the Border — Estela Casas

A Place to Anchor: Journalism, Cancer, and Rewriting Mi Vida as a Latina on the Border

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Crux A Cross-Border Memoir — Jean Guerrero

Crux A Cross-Border Memoir

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways A Memoir — Brittany Means

Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways A Memoir

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

The Noise of Infinite Longing A Memoir of a Family–and an Island — Luisita Lopez Torregrosa

The Noise of Infinite Longing A Memoir of a Family–and an Island

Luisita Lopez Torregrosa

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Transform Su Vida 10 Principios De Abundancia Y Prosperidad — Chris Lee

Transform Su Vida 10 Principios De Abundancia Y Prosperidad

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Solito: A Read with Jenna Pick A Memoir — Javier Zamora

Solito: A Read with Jenna Pick A Memoir

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Rolando Masferrer en el pais de los mitos mitos en la historia de cuba — Roberto Luque Escalona

Rolando Masferrer en el pais de los mitos mitos en la historia de cuba

Roberto Luque Escalona

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Henry Darrow Lightning in the Bottle — Jan Pippins

Henry Darrow Lightning in the Bottle

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Latinos: A Biography of the People — Earl Shorris

Latinos: A Biography of the People

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Trejo My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood — Danny Trejo

Trejo My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Sonia Sotomayor — Christine Juarez

Sonia Sotomayor

Christine Juarez

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Chipped Writing From a Skateboarder’s Lens — José Vadi

Chipped Writing From a Skateboarder’s Lens

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Feels Like Home A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands — Linda Ronstadt

Feels Like Home A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Ordinary Girls Muchachas Ordinarias (Spanish Edition) Memorias — Jaquira Díaz

Ordinary Girls Muchachas Ordinarias (Spanish Edition) Memorias

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

High-Risk Homosexual A Memoir — Edgar Gomez

High-Risk Homosexual A Memoir

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

Gringo on a Chicken Bus — David Koons

Gringo on a Chicken Bus

Themes: Hispanic & Latino • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Biography & Autobiography

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Hispanic & Latino, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Biography & Autobiography — the same threads that run through The Forge by Arturo Barea. Among the authors featured: José M. Hernández, Julio Anta, Tricia Montalvo Timm, Kal Wagenheim, and others.

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