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Julia Alvarez Bibliography

Can you guess Julia Alvarez's bibliography?
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#1
Poetry Collections
1984
Homecoming: Poems
1995
The Other Side
2004
The Woman I Kept to Myself
2026
Visitations: Poems
 
 
#2
Poems
1984
How I Learned to Sweep
1984
Dusting
1984
Household Riddle
1984
Making Our Beds
1984
The Master Bed
1984
Washing the Windows
1984
Storm Windows
1984
Hairwashing
1984
Hanging the Wash
1984
Folding My Clothes
1984
Ironing Their Clothes
1984
Rolling Dough
1984
What Could It Be?
1984
Posture Lesson
1984
New Clothes
1984
Naming the Fabrics
1984
Orchids
1984
Charges
1984
Mother Love
1984
Woman's Work
1984
Heroines
1984
Woman Friend
1984
Wallpaper
1984
Against Cinderella
1984
Old Heroines
1984
Last Night at Tia's
1991
Bookmaking
1995
Grace
1995
Exile
1995
Papi Working
1995
New World
1995
Touchstone
1995
Anatomy Lesson
1995
Bilingual Sestina
1995
Audition
1995
Gladys Singing
1995
Mami and Gauguin
1995
Proof
1995
Abandoned
1995
Making Up the Past
1995
Queens, 1963
1995
Sound Bites
1995
On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan's 'The Blue Estuaries'
1995
Between Dominica and Ecuador
1995
Beginning Again
1995
First Love Letter
1995
Going Back to Sleep
1995
Monkey Business
1995
Last Love Story
1995
Missing Missives
1995
Staying Up Alone
1995
You Remember the Definitions, Not the Words
1995
Home Fires
1995
The Other Side
1995
I Drove Up in Mami's Mercedes
1995
Down That Mountain, Mike and I Hike
1995
Mike and I Tour Boca
1995
I Hadn't Fit Into Any of the Stories
1995
Mike and I Pretend We're Married
1995
Boca's Mayor Calls Mike Over
1995
"We Also Die," Says Ñaña
1995
Clairol, the Youngest of Ñaña's Girls
1995
El Professor Juan Bautista
1995
Shy Schoolgirl in Pigtails
1995
Little House Is Closed Up
1995
"Tell Me," I Ask Miguel Angel
1995
At His Bodega, Leo Sells Everything
1995
Mike and I Have Our Best Talks
1995
Our Brief Trip to the Capital
1995
Who Do You Love? Who Do You Love?
1995
Old Man Sleeps Like the Dead
1995
One of Los Muchos
1995
I've Met Everyone in Boca
1995
My Last Afternoon in Boca
1995
I Hear Papito Calling
1995
Estel
2004
Seven Trees
2004
Family Tree
2004
Saman
2004
Weeping Willow
2004
Maple, Oak, or Elm?
2004
Arborvitae
2004
Locust
2004
Last Trees
2004
The Woman I Kept to Myself
2004
Intimations of Mortality from a Recollection in Early Childhood
2004
Anger & Art
2004
El Fotografo
2004
The Red Pickup
2004
Spic
2004
All-American Girl
2004
Bellevue
2004
Abbot Academy
2004
By Accident
2004
Vain Doubts
2004
First Muse
2004
Lunch Hour, 1971
2004
Heartland
2004
Bad-Weather Friends
2004
Sisterhoods
2004
Reunion
2004
My Bottom Line
2004
Love Portions
2004
Fights
2004
Tone
2004
Hairbands
2004
Manholes
2004
Canons
2004
My Kind of Woman
2004
Musco del Hombre
2004
Ars Politica
2004
Naming the Animals
2004
The Animals Review Pictures of a Vanished Race
2004
Why Don't We Ever See Jesus Laughing?
2004
Addison's Vision
2004
Winter Storm
2004
The Therapist
2004
Disappearing
2004
Gaining My Self Back
2004
That Moment
2004
Signs
2004
Deathdays
2004
All's Clear
2004
Now, When I Look at Women
2004
At the GYN
2004
Grand Baby
2004
Life Lines
2004
Spring, at Last!
2004
Regreso
2004
In Spanish
2004
You
2004
Leaving English
2004
Meditation
2004
Aficionados
2004
Touching Bottom
2004
Cleaning Ladies
2004
Tom
2004
I Dream of Allen Ginsberg
2004
Famous Poet, Years Afterward
2004
Why I Teach
2004
Undercover Poet
2004
Small Portions
2004
"Poetry Makes Nothing Happen?"
2004
Reading for Pleasure
2004
Direct Address
2004
Passing On
2004
Keeping Watch
2004
El Sereno
2004
Looking Up
2004
What We Ask For
2004
What Was It That I Wanted?
2004
Keeping Watch
2004
Why I Write
2004
Did I Redeem Myself?
2026
Recitation
2026
On Sundays
2026
Balancing Acts
2026
My Sister's Restaurant
2026
Erasing the Blackboards
2026
Mami at Her Vanity
2026
Waiting for My Father to Pick Me Up at the Library
2026
American Dreams
2026
Mami on Menses
2026
Papi's Clocks
2026
Ariadne in Bloomingdale's
2026
First Marriage
2026
At the Mental Health Clinic Waiting Room
2026
The Four Girls
2026
The Long & the Short of It
2026
Falling in Love in Late Fall
2026
On a Hill Above Your House
2026
Dream Girl
2026
What Goes Wrong
2026
Amenorrhea
2026
Late Winter Walk
2026
The Red Bathrobe
2026
Visitation
2026
Who to Ask?
2026
Muse Sighting in Matanzas
2026
I Go Through the House, Turning Off Lights
2026
Sobremesa
#3
Novels
1991
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
1994
In the Time of the Butterflies
1997
Yo!
2000
In the Name of Salomé
2002
Before We Were Free
2004
Finding Miracles
2006
Saving the World
2020
Afterlife
2024
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
 
 
#4
Essay Collection
1998
Something to Declare: Essays
 
 
#5
Essays
1998
Grandfather's Blessing
1998
Our Papers
1998
My English
1998
My Second Opera
1998
I Want to Be Miss America
1998
El Doctor
1998
La Gringuita
1998
Picky Eater
1998
Briefly, a Gardener
1998
Imagining Motherhood
1998
Genetics of Justice
1998
Family Matters
1998
First Muse
1998
Of Maids and Other Muses
1998
So Much Depends
1998
Dona Aida, with Your Permission
1998
Have Typewriter, Will Travel
1998
A Vermont Writer from the Dominican Republic
1998
Chasing the Butterflies
1998
Goodbye, Ms. Chips
1998
In the Name of the Novel
1998
Ten of My Writing Commandments
1998
Grounds for Fiction
1998
Writing Matters
 
 
#6
Children's Books
2000
The Secret Footprints
2001
A Cafecito Story
2001
How Tía Lola Came to (Visit) Stay
2005
A Gift of Gracias: The Legend of Altagracia
2009
The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belén
2009
Return to Sender
2010
How Tía Lola Learned to Teach
2011
How Tía Lola Saved the Summer
2016
Where Do They Go?
 
 
#7
Non-Fiction Book
2007
Once Upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA
 
 
#8
Memoir
2012
A Wedding in Haiti: The Story of a Friendship
 
 
#9
Graphic Novel
2026
In the Time of the Butterflies: The Graphic Novel
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