Books Read in December 2025

*Book group selection | bolded means favorite

Picture Books

*A-Ztec: A Bilingual Alphabet Book by Emmanuel Valtierra
*Xolo by Donna Barba Higuera and Mariana Ruiz Johnson
*Hopeful Heroes: More Poems About Amazing Latinos by Margarita Engle
and Juliet Menendez

Middle Grade

*The Girl and the Robot by Oz Rodriguez and Claribel A. Ortega
*A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila

Young Adult

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
*Love, Misha: A Graphic Novel by Askel Aden
*Red Flags and Butterflies by Sheryl Azzam
*You and Me on Repeat by Mary Shyne
*Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel

Grownup Fiction

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3 by Beth Brower
Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand

Grownup Nonfiction

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz

I appreciated this analysis of the author’s marriage, especially the section about women changing their last name when they get married. I think we are still far from having truly equal marriages and things seem to be getting better only incrementally. Conversations about the topics raised in this book might help.

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