Latine Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Latine and/or Hispanic descent.
Optic Nerve
By: Maria Gainza
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her.
In Optic Nerve, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo's... Read more
American Road Trip
By: Patrick Flores-Scott
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A heartwrenching YA coming of age story about three siblings on a roadtrip in search of healing. With a strong family, the best friend a guy could ask for, and a budding romance with the girl of his dreams, life shows promise for Teodoro "T" Avila. But he takes some hard hits the summer before senior year when his nearly perfect brother, Manny,... Read more
View audiobookBodega Dreams
By: Ernesto Quinonez
Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In a stunning narrative combining the gritty rhythms of Junot Diaz with the noir genius of Walter Mosley, Bodega Dreams pulls us into Spanish Harlem, where the word is out: Willie Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange only for... Read more
View audiobookDealing in Dreams
By: Lilliam Rivera
Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The Outsiders meets Mad Max: Fury Road in this fast-paced dystopian novel about sisterhood and the cruel choices people are forced to make in order to survive. At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets. Sixteen-year-old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City. That role brings with it violent throwdowns and access to the hottest... Read more
View audiobookAmerican Dreamer
By: Adriana Herrera
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
“A fresh and vital new voice in romance.”—Entertainment Weekly
From award-winning author Adriana Herrera comes a novel hailed as one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Romance Novels of 2019 and a TODAY Show Hot Summer Read.
No one ever said big dreams come easy
For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds... Read more
What Does a Princess Really Look Like
By: Mark Loewen
Narrated by: Christina M. Martin
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Chloe dreams of being a ballerina princess. But today she is not practicing her twirls. Today, she crafts her very own princess. The project quickly becomes more than a simple princess drawing. Chloe discovers that princesses are not just about beauty and glitter. They are strong, vocal, and determined. And, as she shares her work with her two... Read more
View audiobookAn Unlikely Journey
By: Julian Castro
Narrated by: Julian Castro
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Julian Castro, 2020 Presidential candidate, keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, and former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story.
In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father comes a candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America. In many... Read more
Fandango at the Wall
By: Kabir Sehgal
Narrated by: Kabir Sehgal & Douglas Brinkley
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Multi-Grammy-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author Kabir Sehgal examines the relationship between the US and Mexico, accompanied by music from Grammy-winning musician Arturo O'Farrill and special guests, an extended foreword from historian Douglas Brinkley, and afterword by Ambassador Andrew Young.
The US-Mexican relationship... Read more
Crux
By: Jean Guerrero
Narrated by: Jean Guerrero
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death
PEN America Literary Award Winner • “The kind of memoir that seems to redefine the genre.”—Los Angeles Review of Books... Read more
I'm Not Missing
By: Carrie Fountain
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning poet Carrie Fountain comes a debut audiobook set in Las Cruces, New Mexico, about a half-Latina girl stepping outside of the shadow of her best friend.
It’s senior year, and Miranda Black’s best friend, Syd, has run away—suddenly and inexplicably, leaving behind nothing but a pink leopard print cell phone with a text message... Read more
Hunger of Memory
By: Richard Rodriguez
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just fifty words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.
Here is the poignant journey of a "minority student" who pays the cost of his social... Read more
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising
By: Raymond A. Villareal
Narrated by: Taylor Meskimen, Christine Lakin, Jeff Bottoms,...
Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In this ambitious and wildly original debut -- part social-political satire, part international mystery -- a new virus turns people into something a bit more than human, upending society as we know it.
This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an... Read more
Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold)
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Esperanza Rising joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a... Read more
View audiobookMove into More
By: Choco De Jesús
Narrated by: Eddie Lopez
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Abundant life. Does that describe the life you’re living now? Or do words like busy, overwhelming, disappointing, or exhausting come to mind instead? Today, more than ever, we long for satisfaction in our lives and fulfillment in our faith but come up empty. We are lacking, and that hole can’t be filled by money, prestige, or stuff.Pastor Choco,... Read more
View audiobookEveryone Knows You Go Home
By: Natalia Sylvester
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
An International Latino Book Award winner.“Everyone Knows You Go Home is prescient, tackling issues of family division, the arduous journey of crossing from one country into the next, and the sacrifices we make in exchange for a better future.” —Houston ChronicleThe first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already dead—an apparition... Read more
View audiobookI'll Be Your Blue Sky
By: Marisa de los Santos
Narrated by: Angela Dawe & Erin Bennett
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in this captivating, beautifully written drama involving family, friendship, secrets, sacrifice, courage, and true love for fans of Jojo Moyes, Elin Hilderbrand, and Nancy Thayer.On the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes meets... Read more
View audiobookStranger
By: Jorge Ramos
Narrated by: Ozzie Rodriguez & Jorge Ramos
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
“There are times when I feel like a stranger in this country. I am not complaining and it’s not for lack of opportunity. But it is something of a disappointment. I never would have imagined that after having spent thirty five years in the United States I would still be a stranger to so many. But that’s how it is”.
Jorge Ramos, an Emmy... Read more
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
By: Paul Ortiz
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar... Read more
Halsey Street
By: Naima Coster
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction.A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to belong—not only to a place but to one another.Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She’s accepted that her... Read more
View audiobookThe Living Infinite
By: Chantel Acevedo
Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez, Kyla Garcia & Eddie Lopez
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The Living Infinite is based on the true story of the Spanish princess Eulalia, an outspoken firebrand at the Bourbon court during the troubled and decadent final years of her family’s reign.After her cloistered childhood at the Spanish court, her youth spent in exile, and a loveless marriage, Eulalia gladly departs Europe for the New World. In... Read more
View audiobookIn the Distance
By: Hernan Diaz
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend.... Read more
View audiobookThe Education of Margot Sanchez
By: Lilliam Rivera
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
John Hughes's Pretty in Pink comes to the South Bronx in this bold and "emotional story about class, race, hard work, and finding one's place" (Publishers Weekly)-from debut author Lilliam Rivera. Things/People Margot Hates: Mami, for destroying her social life Papi, for allowing Junior to become a Neanderthal Junior, for becoming a Neanderthal... Read more
View audiobookKill the Spider
By: Carlos Whittaker
Narrated by: Carlos Whittaker
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Carlos Whittaker equips you with practical steps to destroying the roots of your deep-seated habits so you can get rid of what's holding you back and embrace true freedom in Christ. Are you tired of trying to live for Christ--only to fail time and time again with the same old behaviors? Do you pray for guidance, ask for deliverance, and vow to... Read more
View audiobookHarvest of Empire
By: Juan Gonzalez
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries—from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture—from food to entertainment to... Read more
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