Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15 through October 15 and recognizes the achievements and contributions of Hispanic Americans to history, culture, and society.

Hispanic Heritage Month began as Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968, but the observance was expanded into a month-long celebration in 1988 by the U.S. Congress.

During Hispanic Heritage Month, several Latin American countries celebrate the anniversary of their independence, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua on September 15, Mexico on September 16, and Chile on September 18.

Throughout the month and all year long, learn something new about the achievements of Hispanic Americans and the events that shaped history through our library resources.

Call for Artists

Artists of all ages and experience levels are invited to submit original artwork for "Cultura Tallahassee: Together, We Are More," a community art exhibition celebrating Hispanic culture, heritage, and history.

Selected artwork will be displayed at the Leon County Main Library from September 15 through October 15 as part of Leon County's National Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. Whether you're an emerging artist or an experienced creator, we encourage you to share your unique perspective and help tell the story of our diverse community through art.

Artwork submissions will be accepted until Sunday, August 30, at 11:59 p.m.

Events

Exhibits

Resources

Streaming Films

Compelling stories anywhere, anytime, on any device

Explore hispanic heritage month films on Kanopy.

Books for Children

Grow and love

Easy Books

• Family Stories: Ten Stories / Cuentas Familiares: Diez Historias, written and illustrated by ten artists
• Where are you from? by Yamile Saied Méndez
• The Tooth Fairy meets El Raton Perez by Rene Colato Lainez
• Let's Eat! / ¡A comer! by Pat Mora
• Max va en el autobus by Adria F. Klein

Books for Young Adult and Junior Readers

Learn more about hispanic heritage

YA Fiction

• Ophelia after all by Raquel Marie
• Does my body offend you? by Mayra Cueva and Marie Marquardt
• Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher
• I am not your perfect Mexican daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
• They both die at the end by Adam Silvera
• Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
• How Moon Fuentez fell in love with the universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

YA Graphic novels

• Lifetime passes by Terry Blas
• Manuelito: a graphic novel by Elisa Amado

Junior Fiction

• Stella Diaz has something to say by Angela Dominguez
• Julieta and the diamond enigma by Luisana Duarte Armendariz
• Charlie Hernandez series by Ryan Calejo
• The fresh new face of Griselda by Jennifer Torres
• The sleepwalking snowman by Andres Miedoso

Junior Graphic novels

• The dragon slayer: folktales from Latin America by Jaime Hernandez
• Blancaflor: the hero with secret powers by Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez
• Isla to island by Alexis Castellanos

Junior Nonfiction

• Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes by Juan Felipe Herrera
• Turning Pages: My Life Story by Sonia Sotomayor
• The boy who touched the stars / el nino que alcanzo las estrellas by Jose M. Hernandez
• Path to the Stars by Sylvia Acevedo
• Separate is never equal: Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh

Books for Adults

Explore the library's collection on hispanic heritage

Biography

• The sum of our days / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 
• Mi país inventado : un paseo nostálgico por Chile / Isabel Allende. 
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, o, Las trampas de la fe / Octavio Paz. 
• Neruda : the poet's calling / Mark Eisner. 
• My invented country : a nostalgic journey through Chile / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 
• Jane Bowles : un pecadillo original / Millicent Dillon ; traducción de Ángela Pérez. 

Ebooks

• Poemas de amor / Love Poems 
• Umami 
• Escribiendo la nueva historia 
• Eartheater 

Fiction

• Hurricane season / Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes. 
• Retrato en sepia / Isabel Allende. 
• La isla bajo el mar / Isabel Allende. 
• Faces in the crowd / a novel by Valeria Luiselli ; translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney. 
• Sol, piedra y sombras : veinte cuentistas mexicanos de la primera mitad del siglo XX / edición de Jorge F. Hernández. 
• Oficio de tinieblas / Rosario Castellanos. 
• Things we lost in the fire : stories / Mariana Enriquez. 
• Crónica de una muerte anunciada / Gabriel García Márquez. 
• Mouthful of birds : stories / Samanta Schweblin ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. 
• Paradais / Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes. 
• La ley del amor / Laura Esquivel. 
• Lost children archive / a novel by Valeria Luiselli. 
• Páradais / Fernanda Melchor. 
• Doña Barbara / by Rómulo Gallegos, translated by Robert Malloy, with a new foreword by Larry McMurtry. 
• Fever dream : a novel / Samanta Schweblin ; translated by Megan McDowell. 
• Camanchaca / Diego Zúñiga ; translated by Megan McDowell. 
• La casa de los espíritus / Isabel Allende. 
• El enigma de París / Pablo De Santis.
• El pie de mi padre / Zoé Valdés. 
• Salsipuedes / por Ramón Betancourt. 
• El penúltimo sueño / Angela Becerra. 
• Valfierno / Martín Caparrós. 
• La sombra del viento / Carlos Ruiz Zafón. 

Graphic Novels

• Rashomon : a commissioner Heigo Kobayashi case 
• Karmen / story & art Guillem March 

Nonfiction

• Mona and other tales / Reinaldo Arenas ; selected and translated by Dolores M. Koch. 
• Infamy : how one woman brought an international sex trafficking ring to justice / Lydia Cacho ; translation by Cecilia Ross. 
• Anaïs Nin / Bettina L. Knapp. 
• Every day the river changes : four weeks down the Magdalena / Jordan Salama. 
• Cartas / Jane Bowles ; introducción y notas de Millicent Dillon ; traducción de José Manuel Pomares. 
• Versos sencillos = Simple verses / José Martí ; translated, with an introduction, by Manuel A. Tellechea. 
• Figures & figurations / Octavio Paz, Marie José Paz ; translated by Eliot Weinberger ; afterword by Yves Bonnefoy ; translated by Esther Allen. 
• La tentación de lo imposible : Victor Hugo y Los miserables / Mario Vargas Llosa.