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Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Non-Fiction series? Start with "A Place to Stand" (2001) and follow publication order through all 31 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
A Place to Stand
2001
Adolescents on the Edge (With: Releah Lent)
2010
Laughing in the Light
2020
Fired up with You! : Poems of a Niagara Vision (With: Barbara Mor,Robert Volbrecht,Will Inman)
1977
What's Happening
1982
Poems Taken From My Yard
1986
Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
1987
Black Mesa Poems
1989
Immigrants in Our Own LandSelected Early Poems
1990
Working in the Dark
1991
Set This Book On Fire!
1999
Que Linda La Brisa
2001
Healing Earthquakes
2001
C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans
2002
The Importance of a Piece of Paper
2004
Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande
2004
Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande
2007
Rita and Julia
2008
Stories from the Edge
2010
The Face
2013
Singing at the Gates
2014
When I Walk Through That Door, I Am
2019
Nuke Rebuke
1984
Prose and Poetry of the American West
1991
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
1994
Letters to America
1995
Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature
2006
From the Inside Out: Letters to Young Men and Other Writings
2009
Dedicated to the People of Darfur
2009
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System
2019
Voices of Change Workbook
2021
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