Sandra Cisneros Books in Order

Sandra Cisneros has written 15 books, published between 1984 and 2022. The first book is The House on Mango Street (1984) and the newest is Woman Without Shame: Poems (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
1984–2022
Pages on record
1,950 in 10 of 15 books
Reading time
33–49 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,950 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 15 titles with a page count on record.

Photo of Sandra Cisneros, author

Sandra Cisneros, born December 20, 1954, is an American writer and a key figure in Chicano literature. The House on Mango Street (1984), Cisneros's first novel, and the short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991) are the works Cisneros is best known for. Poetry follows in My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987), Loose Woman (1994) and Woman Without Shame (2022). Mexican American women, girls and adolescence recur among the recorded subjects. Cisneros holds a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and was named in 2017 to one of 25 Ford Foundation Art of Change fellowships. The listing also carries critical volumes written about Cisneros's work rather than by Cisneros.

How many Sandra Cisneros books are there?

Sandra Cisneros has 15 books, released between 1984 and 2022.

Sandra Cisneros Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 Sandra Cisneros books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    The House on Mango Street1984 · 110 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984110
  2. 2
    My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems1987 · 103 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987103
  3. 4
    Hairs/Pelitos1994 · confirmed 1/4
    1994
  4. 5
    Loose Woman1994 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994144
  5. 6
    Caramelo2002 · 443 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002443
  6. 7
    Vintage Cisneros2004 · 198 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004198
  7. 8
    Holler If You Hear MeTeaching for Social Justice #132009 · 221 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009221
  8. 92012
  9. 10
    Have You Seen Marie?2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012
  10. 11
    Woman Hollering Creek2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013
  11. 12
    A House of My Own: Stories from My Life2015 · 382 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015382
  12. 13
    Puro AmorChapter #12018 · 29 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201829
  13. 14
    Martita, I Remember You/Martita, Te Recuerdo2021 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021128
  14. 15
    Woman Without Shame: Poems2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022

Sandra Cisneros books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Chapter in order

1 book
  1. 1. Puro Amor

Teaching for Social Justice in order

1 book
  1. 13. Holler If You Hear Me

Standalone books

13 books

13 Sandra Cisneros titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Sandra Cisneros books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 15 Sandra Cisneros books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Sandra Cisneros

Start with The House on Mango Street (1984), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Sandra Cisneros book?

Woman Without Shame: Poems (2022) is the newest Sandra Cisneros book released so far.

Is there a new Sandra Cisneros book coming?

No next Sandra Cisneros book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Sandra Cisneros has won

Wikidata records 4 awards for Sandra Cisneros. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award2024Won
  • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize2022Won
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards1993Won
  • American Book Awards1985Won

Sandra Cisneros at a glance

Paused
No new Sandra Cisneros title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Sandra Cisneros books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,950 pages across the 10 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 168 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Sandra Cisneros books, 5 of 15, were published in the 2010s.

What the Sandra Cisneros books are about

13 of the 15 Sandra Cisneros books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mexican americans is tagged on 4 of 13. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.