Sandra Cisneros Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The House on Mango Street (1984)
  2. Caramelo (2002)
  3. Martita, I Remember You/Martita, Te Recuerdo (With: ) (2021)

Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. Hairs/Pelitos (1994)
  2. Have You Seen Marie? (2012)

Chapter Books In Publication Order

  1. Puro Amor (2018)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems (1987)
  2. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991)
  3. Loose Woman (1994)
  4. Vintage Cisneros (2004)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Critical Insights: The House on Mango Street (2012)
  2. A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (2015)

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Sandra Cisneros Books Overview

The House on Mango Street

2 cassettes / Approx. 2 1/2 hours
Unabridged, and read by the Author

‘It’s not always that a luscious writer can be a luscious reader of her own work. This must be the voice she hears in her head when she writes her magical prose.’
Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Listen as Sandra Cisneros brings to life The House on Mango Street, her greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming of age classics.

The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and hard beauty. Esperanza doesn’t want to belong not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza’s story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.

This timeless classic is now available, for the first time, unabridged. And what makes this a particularly special audio production is the fact that the author, Sandra Cisneros, reads.

Caramelo

The celebrated author of The House on Mango Street gives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy the very stuff of life. Lala Reyes grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl, makers. The striped Caramelo rebozo is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala’s possession. The novel opens with the Reyes annual car trip a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels from Chicago to the other side : Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family s stories, separating the truth from the healthy lies that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. We travel from the Mexico City that was the Paris of the New World to the music filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties and, finally, to Lala s own difficult adolescence in the not quite promised land of San Antonio, Texas. Caramelo is a romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work destined to become a classic: a major new novel from one of our country s most beloved storytellers.

Hairs/Pelitos

This jewel like vignette from Sandra Cisneros’s bestselling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us. The beautiful descriptions and free spirited illustrations perfectly capture the spontaneous, naive perceptions of a child who finds security within her loving family. In English and Spanish. Full color.

My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems

Hailed as ‘not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one’ The New York Times Book Review, Sandra Cisneros has firmly established herself as an author of electrifying talent. Here are verses, comic and sad, radiantly pure and plainspoken, that reveal why her stories have been praised for their precision and musicality of language.

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

Loose WomanSeductive, earthy, and at times confessional, Sandra Cisneros’s vibrant collection of poetry celebrates the females aspects of love from the reflective to the overtly erotic in a voice recognizable from her powerful works of fiction. These poems offer narratives as formally elegant as they are emotional and accessible. They are bound together by the voice of one woman, whose language spands cultures and continents. With a multiplicity of moods tumbling through its lines joyous and introspective, tender and ruthless, self mocking and sincere, often funny and sometimes wild and ruse Loose Woman offers intoxicating poems of extraordinary insight and vivid imagining. And what makes this particularly special audio is hearing the poems recited in the author’s own voice. Woman Hollering Creek and Other StoriesFrom the author of the widely acclaimed The House on Mango Street comes a story collection whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. From a young girl revealing secrets to a witch woman circling above the village on a predawn flight, the women in these stories offer pure discovery. Woman Hollering Creek confirms Sandra Cisneros’s stature as a writer of electrifying talent and hearing the stories in the author’s own voice makes this audio even more poignant.

Loose Woman

A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. ‘Poignant, sexy…
lyrical, passionate…
cool and delicate…
hot as a chili pepper.’ Boston Globe. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Vintage Cisneros

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. Sandra Cisneros knows both that the heart can be broken and that it can rise and soar like a bird. Whatever story she chooses to tell, we should be listening for a long time to come. The Washington Post Book WorldA winner of the PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction and the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, Sandra Cisneros evokes working class Latino experience with an irresistible mix of realism and lyrical exuberance. Vintage Cisneros features an excerpt from her bestselling novel The House on Mango Street, which has become a favorite in school classrooms across the country. Also included are a chapter from her new novel, Caramelo; a generous selection of poems from My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman; and seven stories from her award winning collection Woman Hollering Creek.

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