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ⓘ About Sandra Cisneros
Winning many awards and nominations for her work, Cisneros has written on a diverse range of subjects over the years. Looking at subjects such as coming-of-age, which would inform her debut novel, she always delivers in a manner that’s honest and true. Translated worldwide, her work has found readers from all over the world far and wide, which is largely due to the universality of her writing. Making her work accessible and genuine, she also manages to maintain a core strength to it that sets it apart from everything else. A dual citizen of both America and Mexico, Cisneros writes from her own perspective, saying something new and interesting in the process. This has ensured that her work has become wholly singular, setting her apart as a writer with something different to say.
All Book Series by Sandra Cisneros
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, Te Recuerdo
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2021 Co-authored · Liliana Valenzuela
Critical Insights: The House on Mango Street
Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 2012
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 2015
San Francisco Stories
Series opener · book 1 of 12 · published 1990 Anthology · John Miller
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question
Book 3 of 12 · published 1992 Anthology · William Shakespeare,Virginia Woolf,Ambrose Bierce,Leo Tolstoy,Graham Greene,Langston Hughes,Emily Dickinson,John Donne,Plato,Jorge Luis Borges,Gustave Flaubert,Robert Coles,Walker Percy,Albert Camus,Cynthia Ozick,William Styron,Dorothy Parker,Sylvia Plath,Primo Levi,Phillip Lopate,John Miller,Genevieve Anderson,Alfred Alvarez,Émile Durkheim,Howard I. Kushner
New Orleans Stories
Book 4 of 12 · published 1992 Anthology · John Miller,Genevieve Anderson
Chicago Stories
Book 5 of 12 · published 1993 Anthology · Stuart Dybek,John Miller
Southwest Stories
Book 6 of 12 · published 1993 Co-authored · D.H. Lawrence,Alison Moore,Barry Gifford,Larry McMurtry,Sam Shepard,Leslie Marmon Silko,C.G. Jung,John Miller,Georgia O'Keefe
Florida Stories
Book 7 of 12 · published 1993 Anthology · Dave Barry,Elmore Leonard,Ernest Hemingway,John D. MacDonald,Damon Runyon,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Stephen Crane,Zora Neale Hurston,Elizabeth Bishop,Tennessee Williams,Alison Lurie,Wallace Stevens,John Sayles,John James Audubon,Joy Williams,Joan Didion,John Miller,KirstenMiller,William Bartram
Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems
Book 8 of 12 · published 1994 Anthology · John Miller,KirstenMiller
Alaska Stories
Book 9 of 12 · published 1995 Anthology · John Miller,KirstenMiller
Texas Stories
Book 10 of 12 · published 1995 Anthology · John Miller,KirstenMiller
San Francisco Thrillers
Book 11 of 12 · published 1995 Anthology · Tim Smith,John Miller
Cape Cod Stories
Latest in the series · book 12 of 12 · published 2002 Anthology · Tim Smith,John Miller
A Simple Justice
Series opener · book 1 of 32 · published 2000 Anthology · William Ayers,Therese Quinn
The Public Assault on America's Children
Book 2 of 32 · published 2000 Anthology · William Ayers,Therese Quinn
The White Architects of Black Education
Book 3 of 32 · published 2001 Anthology · William Ayers,Therese Quinn
Refusing Racism
Book 4 of 32 · published 2002 Anthology · William Ayers,Therese Quinn,Cynthia Stokes Brown
Teaching Science for Social Justice
Book 5 of 32 · published 2003 Anthology · Angela Calabrese Barton
Teaching the Personal and the Political
Book 6 of 32 · published 2004 Anthology · William Ayers
See You When We Get There
Book 7 of 32 · published 2004 Anthology · Gloria Ladson-Billings
Social Studies for Social Justice: Teaching Strategies for the Elementary Classroom
Book 9 of 32 · published 2007 Anthology · William Ayers,Therese Quinn
Teach Freedom
Book 10 of 32 · published 2008 Anthology · William Ayers,Therese Quinn
The Seduction of Common Sense
Book 11 of 32 · published 2008 Anthology · Kevin K. Kumashiro,William Ayers,Therese Quinn
Controversies in the Classroom
Book 12 of 32 · published 2008 Anthology · William Ayers
Holler If You Hear Me
Book 13 of 32 · published 2009 Co-authored · Gregory Michie
Grow Your Own Teachers
Book 15 of 32 · published 2011 Anthology · William Ayers,Therese Quinn
Pedagogy of the Poor
Book 16 of 32 · published 2011 Anthology · William Ayers,Therese Quinn
The Assault on Public Education
Book 17 of 32 · published 2011 Anthology · William H. Watkins
Crossing Boundaries - Teaching and Learning with Urban Youth
Book 18 of 32 · published 2012 Anthology · Valerie Kinloch
Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture
Book 19 of 32 · published 2012 Anthology · Kevin K. Kumashiro,Therese Quinn
Fear and Learning in America―Bad Data, Good Teachers, and the Attack on Public Education
Book 21 of 32 · published 2014 Anthology · William Ayers,Therese Quinn,Diane Ravitch,John Kuhn
Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World
Book 24 of 32 · published 2016 Anthology · William Ayers
What's So Great About Art, Anyway?
Book 25 of 32 · published 2016 Anthology · William Ayers
Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way
Book 26 of 32 · published 2018 Anthology · Carl A. Grant,Sonia Nieto
Same as It Never Was
Book 27 of 32 · published 2019 Anthology · Gloria Ladson-Billings
Holler If You Hear Me, Comic Edition
Book 28 of 32 · published 2019 Anthology · Diane Ravitch
Teacher Educators as Critical Storytellers
Book 30 of 32 · published 2021 Anthology · Gloria Ladson-Billings
Where Is the Justice? Engaged Pedagogies in Schools and Communities
Book 31 of 32 · published 2021 Anthology · Valerie Kinloch
Child Care Justice
Latest in the series · book 32 of 32 · published 2022 Anthology · Maurice Sykes,Kyra Ostendorf
Mondo Elvis
Book 2 of 4 · published 1994 Anthology · Howard Waldrop,Cornelius Eady,Mark Childress,Susie Mee,Nick Cave,Mark Winegardner,Rafael Alvarez,Greil Marcus,Pagan Kennedy,Lucinda Ebersole,Richard Peabody,Lynne McMahon,Cathryn Hankla,Samuel Charters,Rachel Salazar,Eleanor Earle Crockett,Diane Wakoski,Judy Vernon,David Wojahn,William McCranor Henderson,Janice Eidus,Elizabeth Ash Vélez,Laura Kalpakian,Eri Makino,Ai,Michael Wilkerson,Brian Gilmore
Mondo Marilyn
Book 3 of 4 · published 1995 Anthology · J.G. Ballard,Michael Hemmingson,Clive Barker,Doris Grumbach,Beth Meacham,Lynne Tillman,Charles Bukowski,David Trinidad,Tom Whalen,Sharon Olds,Leslie Pietrzyk,Lyn Lifshin,Nanci Griffith,Robert Peters,Lucinda Ebersole,Richard Peabody,Jeanne Beaumont,Gregg Shapiro,Judy Grahn,Sam Toperoff,Julia P. Dubner,Bill Morris,John Rechy,L.A. Lantz,Phyllis Burke,Hillary Johnson,Rita Valencia,Michael Lally,Eleanor E. Crocket,Taylor Mead,Susan Compo,Rosanne Daryl Thomas
Mondo James Dean
Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 1996 Anthology · Lewis Shiner,Jack C. Haldeman II,Bentley Little,Michael Hemmingson,Chuck Taylor,Michael Martone,Louisa Ermelino,Terence Winch,Lucinda Ebersole,Richard Peabody,Sparrow .,Janice Eidus,Ai,Tino Villanueva,Edwin Corley,Robert Ready,Reuben Jackson,Stephanie Hart,D.E. Steward,David Plumb,Ed Graczyk,Hilary Howard,James Finney Boylan,Miranda Schwartz
Growing Up Female: Stories By Women Writers From the American Mosaic
Book 3 of 13 · published 1993
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Book 5 of 13 · published 1999
Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature
Book 8 of 13 · published 2006
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
Winning many awards and nominations for her work, Cisneros has written on a diverse range of subjects over the years. Looking at subjects such as coming-of-age, which would inform her debut novel, she always delivers in a manner that's honest and true. Translated worldwide, her work has found readers from all over the world far and wide, which is largely due to the universality of her writing.
Which Sandra Cisneros series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Teaching for Social Justice series, the earliest of Sandra Cisneros's multi-book series: it opens with A Simple Justice (2000) and runs to 32 books across 2000–2022, ending with Child Care Justice (2022).
How many books has Sandra Cisneros written?
Sandra Cisneros has 196 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1984 and 2025. 157 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Teaching for Social Justice series with 32 books — and 39 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Sandra Cisneros's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Sandra Cisneros's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Teaching for Social Justice (2000–2022, 32 books).
How are Sandra Cisneros's books organised into series?
This guide splits Sandra Cisneros's 196 books into 3 named series and 39 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Teaching for Social Justice (32 books, 2000–2022); Akashic Noir (121 books, 2002–2025); Mondo (4 books, 1993–1996).