Books Like The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros | Suggesting Reading

The House on Mango Street What Do I Read Next?

My Wicked Wicked Ways, published as a book in 1987 by Sandra Cisneros, is an adaptation of her master's thesis from the University of Iowa. This collection of poems expresses various themes of the writer's early career.

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is Cisneros's 1991 collection of stories characterizing Mexican Americans living in San Antonio, Texas. The book explores the process of socialization and cultural assimilation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans into American society.

Bad Boys is a short collection of poems by Sandra Cisneros published in 1980. Like The House on Mango Street, the poems in Bad Boys revolve around stones from Hispanic neighborhoods and are characterized by short, vivid phrases that evoke impressionistic images of her characters.

The Rodrigo Poems, another collection of poetry by Sandra Cisneros published in 1985, reflects a more mature voice that characterizes Cisneros's work after The House on Mango...
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