Latine Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Latine and/or Hispanic descent.
Things We Lost in the Fire
By: Mariana Enriquez
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
An arresting collection of short stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortazar, by an exciting new international talent. Read more
View audiobookZama
By: Antonio Di Benedetto
Narrated by: Armando Durán
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature. Read more
View audiobookThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
Narrated by: Lin-Manuel Miranda & Karen Olivo
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award®-winning creator and star of the musical Hamilton, and Tony Award®-winning actress, Karen Olivo. This brilliant narration adds another layer of lyricism and depth to this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel.
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican... Read more
My (Underground) American Dream
By: Julissa Arce
Narrated by: Julissa Arce
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A National Bestseller!
What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States?
JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers to those questions are sometimes far too simple-and often... Read more
Labyrinth Lost
By: Zoraida Cordova
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Nothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives. Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she can't... Read more
View audiobookPierced by the Sun
By: Laura Esquivel
Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Lupita’s hard-knock life has gotten the better of her time and time again. A childhood robbed of innocence set off a chain of events that she still has not managed to control, no matter how hard she tries. Every time she thinks she has a handle on things, unexpected turns make her question everything, including herself.When Lupita witnesses the... Read more
View audiobookThe Hunted
By: Matt de la Peña
Narrated by: Henry Leyva
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña’s The Hunted, the sequel to The Living, is a high-energy, action-packed survival story.“De la Peña has created a rare thing: a plot-driven YA with characters worthy of a John Green novel.” —Entertainment Weekly on The Living, A-For those left living, it’s kill or be killed. When Shy pulled himself... Read more
View audiobookBurn Baby Burn
By: Meg Medina
Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets.... Read more
View audiobookBecoming Marta
By: Lorea Canales
Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Thanks to her wealthy and well-connected family, twenty-six-year-old Marta is used to getting whatever she wants. And what she wants is a good time.That is, until her father’s wife—the woman who raised her—becomes ill. Beautiful young Marta is forced to witness her unfaithful, brutish father abandon her adoptive mother in her final moments.... Read more
View audiobookTwain & Stanley Enter Paradise
By: Oscar Hijuelos
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous work of fiction inspired by the real-life, 37-year friendship between two towering figures of the late nineteenth century, famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
Hijuelos was fascinated by the... Read more
The Story of My Teeth
By: Valeria Luiselli
Narrated by: Armando Durán & Thom Rivera
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of “Highway” Sánchez—bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer—and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.“I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I’m grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other... Read more
View audiobookBecoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx
By: Sonia Manzano
Narrated by: Sonia Manzano
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Pura Belpré Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir.Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy Award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives... Read more
View audiobookMake Your Home Among Strangers
By: Jennine Capo Crucet
Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
Length: 14 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Lizet, a daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school, secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college. Her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami, and amid a painful divorce, her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and older sister, a newly single... Read more
View audiobookThe Universal Tone
By: Carlos Santana
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 19 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend.
In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years later -- after he played a historic set at Woodstock --... Read more
The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho
By: Anjanette Delgado
Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Two divorces have taught Mariela Estevez that she's better suited to being a mistress than a wife. Whose heart needs all that "forever after" trouble? Still, her affair with her married lover, Hector, has become problematic—especially because he's also a tenant in her apartment building in the heart of Miami's Calle Ocho in Little Havana. But... Read more
View audiobookThe Book of Unknown Americans
By: Cristina Henríquez
Narrated by: Various
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“A triumph of storytelling. Henríquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.” —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
A boy and... Read more
Faces in the Crowd
By: Valeria Luiselli
Narrated by: Armando Durán & Roxanne Hernandez
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem... Read more
View audiobookThe Closer
By: Mariano Rivera
Narrated by: Michael Kay
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.
Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door, began his incredible journey as the son of a poor Panamanian fisherman. When first scouted by the Yankees, he didn't even own his own glove. He... Read more
Ten Women
By: Marcela Serrano
Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning Chilean author Marcela Serrano weaves a beautiful story about the universal connections between women.For nine Chilean women, life couldn’t be more different. There is the teenage computer whiz confronting her sexual identity. A middle-aged recluse who prefers the company of her dog over that of most humans. A housekeeper. A... Read more
View audiobookRipper
By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 14 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Isabel Allende—the New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have sold more than 57 million copies around the world—demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial... Read more
View audiobookThe Living
By: Matt de la Pena
Narrated by: Henry Leyva
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Shy takes the summer job to make some money. A few months on a luxury cruise liner—how bad can it be? Bikinis, free food, maybe even a girl or two…every cruise has a fresh crop of passengers, after all. He’ll rake in the tips and be able to help his mom and sister out with the bills.But then, an earthquake more massive than any ever recorded... Read more
View audiobookAt Night We Walk in Circles
By: Daniel Alarcón
Narrated by: Armando Durán
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The breakout book from a prizewinning young writer: a breathtaking, suspenseful story of one man's obsessive search to find the truth of another man's downfallNelson's life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man; his brother has left their South American country and moved to the United States, leaving... Read more
View audiobookNightmare Range
By: Martin Limón
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty years ago Martin Lim├│n published his first mystery featuring Sergeant George Sue├▒o, a young Mexican American army detective stationed on the US Eighth Army base in South Korea in the early 1970s, the heart of the Cold War. George and his investigating partner, the rowdy and short-fused Sergeant Ernie Bascom, are assigned cases in which... Read more
View audiobookMaya's Notebook
By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Maria Cabezas
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Maya’s Notebook is a startling novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende.
This contemporary coming-of-age story centers upon Maya Vidal, a remarkable teenager abandoned by her parents. Maya grew up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandmother Nini, whose formidable strength helped her build a new life... Read more
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