15 Novels by Dominican Authors We're Immediately Adding to Our Fall Reading List

Though it was published in 2015, Sofia Quintero's Show and Prove ($18) takes us all the way back to 1983 in the South Bronx. It's the story of several young people all striving toward different goals as they navigate the challenges of the world around them, rivalries and new love, over the course of a single summer highlighted by the growing hip hop movement and the racial tensions in the city that defined that era.