Latin American Books

Harsh Times

A Novel

By: Mario Vargas Llosa
Narrated by: Ian Guerra
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

The true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it

Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America:... Read more

Casi una mujer

By: Esmeralda Santiago
Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

En su nueva memoria, la aclamada autora de Cuando era puertorriquena (CE021) continua su cautivante cronica describiendo su salida de los barrios de Brooklyn a los teatros de Manhattan. "Negi," como carinosamente la llama su familia, deja Macun, un campo de Puerto Rico, en 1961 para vivir en un apartamento de tres habitaciones en un proyecto de... Read more

Cuando era Puertorriquena

When I was Puerto Rican

By: Esmeralda Santiago
Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

La historia de Esmeralda Santiago comienza en la parte rural de Puerto Rico, donde sus padres y siete hermanos, en continuas luchas los unos con los otros, vivian una vida alborotada pero llena de amor y ternura. De nina, Esmeralda aprendio a apreciar como se come una guayaba, a distinguir la cancion del coqui, a identificar los ingredientes en... Read more

Donde las mujeres

By: Álvaro Pombo
Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

En esta magnifica novela, el autor describe el esplendor y el ocaso de una familia que aparentemente se cree perfecta y que trata de aparentar ante sus vecinos una falsa felicidad para ocultar los secretos familiares. La hija mayor habla sobre sus parientes y los describe como seres superiores, educados y capases de opacar a las demas personas... Read more

Burn Baby Burn

By: Meg Medina
Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

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

Halsey Street

By: Naima Coster
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

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

Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

By: Laekan Zea Kemp
Narrated by: Andy Aragón & Arami Malaise´
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter meets Emergency Contact in this stunning story of first love, familial expectations, the power of food, and finding where you belong.

Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her mom and dad have different plans—leaving Pen to choose... Read more

What's Mine and Yours

By: Naima Coster
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

An instant New York Times bestseller!

A USA Today bestseller!

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Amazon • Esquire • Marie Claire • Refinery29 • Kirkus • Redbook • Ms. Magazine • The Millions • Undomesticated Magazine • Paperback Paris

"A once-every-few-years reading experience."—Mary Beth Keane, New York... Read more

Our Way Back to Always

By: Nina Moreno
Narrated by: Natalia del Riego & Adan Rocha
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

To All the Boys I've Loved Before meets Morgan Matson in this effervescent romance about childhood best friends reconnecting that's full of sunny days, warm nights, first kisses, and mended hearts.

Luisa (Lou) Patterson grew up across the street from Sam Alvarez in the small, quirky town of Port Coral. They used to be inseparable—spending every... Read more

Heartbreak Symphony

By: Laekan Zea Kemp
Narrated by: Robb Moreira & Tania Possick
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Clap When You Land meets On the Come Up in this heart-gripping story about navigating first love and overcoming grief through the power of music.

Aarón Medrano has been haunted by the onstage persona of his favorite DJ ever since his mother passed away. He seems to know all of Aarón’s deepest fears, like that his brain doesn’t work the way it... Read more

Colonize This!

Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

Live Girls

By: Bushra Rehman & Daisy Hernández
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari, Sharmila Devar, Kyla Garcia, Almarie Guerra, Greta Jung, Staci Mitchell & Kristyl Dawn Tift
Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of color
It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the... Read more

Calling for a Blanket Dance

By: Oscar Hokeah
Narrated by: Oscar Hokeah & Rainy Fields
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

“This is an incredible family epic in sleek, unpretentious form. Hokeah uses his characters as crisp prisms through which we see the nature of family: vicious and precious, mournful and joyful, everything in-between. A remarkable debut! Read more

Illegally Yours

A Memoir

By: Rafael Agustin
Narrated by: Rafael Agustin
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin (Jane The Virgin) accidentally discovered he was undocumented and how that revelation turned everything he thought he knew about himself and his family upside down.

Growing up, Rafa’s parents didn't want him to feel different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should... Read more

Zero Saints

By: Gabino Iglesias
Narrated by: Jean-Marc Berne
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Enforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend's head and feed the kid's fingers to...something. Their message is clear: this is their territory, now. But Fernando isn't put down... Read more

Things We Lost in the Fire

Stories

By: Mariana Enriquez
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

An arresting collection of short stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortazar, by an exciting new international talent. Read more

Mona

A Novel

By: Pola Oloixarac
Narrated by: Sofia Willingham
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity—a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings—she pokes fun at American academic culture and its... Read more

Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer

By: Jamie Figueroa
Narrated by: Joana Garcia
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

“One of a number of excellent debut novels already out in the still-new year, this is a singular work. Taking on the coming-of-age from young adulthood into something deeper and more mature, the story follows a sister and brother as they reckon with their mother’s passing and begin to understand what life should and should not be as it gets... Read more

A Spy in the Struggle

By: Aya De Leon
Narrated by: Aya De Leon
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Success used to be this savvy lawyer’s only rule. But now she’s putting everything on the line to bring a killer corporation to justice.

Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law. So when her
prestigious New York law firm is raided by the FBI,... Read more

My Broken Language

A Memoir

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Narrated by: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.

“Quiara Alegría Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away.... Read more

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe

A Sal and Gabi Novel: Book #1

By: Carlos Hernandez
Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

“This book was so much fun! The narrator captures the characters so well. I was laughing out loud at the ridiculous situations Sal and Gabi find themselves in, while feeling deeply when confronted with real issues such as friends with hard home lives and sick infants. I love the union of practical magic with science and the unknown. One of my... Read more