Audiobooks by Latine Authors

Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

A LatinX Coming-of-Age

By: Jennifer De Leon
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

“A funny, perceptive, and much-needed book telling a much-needed story.” —Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Little Fires Everywhere

First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what... Read more

A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

Cuban Girl’s Guide

By: Laura Taylor Namey
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

SELECTED AS A YALSA 2022 AMAZING AUDIO FOR YOUNG ADULTS!

A New York Times bestseller
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club YA Pick

Love & Gelato meets Don’t Date Rosa Santos in this charming, heartfelt story following a Miami girl who unexpectedly finds love—and herself—in a small English town.

For Lila Reyes, a summer in England was... Read more

How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe

By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

“This was just so darned delightful. I loved Moon, and her sharp retorts (she comes up with the best insults!), as well as her determination to succeed at her goals even though she constantly doubts herself. She and her twin sister, Star, are opposites in all ways. Star is the beautiful one, and Moon is not. Star is loved, and Moon is not. Star... Read more

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

Stories

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Aida Reluzco, Andy Garcia-Ruse, André Santana & Christian Barillas
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

An NPR Best Book of 2023

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh.

From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies.... Read more

Half Outlaw

By: Alex Temblador
Narrated by: Luzma Ortiz
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Looking for the missing half of herself, a woman goes on one last ride with the motorcycle club that raised her, and gets more than she bargained for.After the tragic death of her parents when she was just four years old, Raqi is sent to live with her uncle Dodge in Escondido, California. Taking after her Mexican father, Raqi immediately faces... Read more

Bodega Dreams

A Novel

By: Ernesto Quinonez
Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

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

Valley of Shadows

A Novel

By: Rudy Ruiz
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of FictionA visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, Valley of Shadows sheds light on the dark past of injustice, isolation, and suffering along the US-Mexico border.Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in... Read more

Retablos

Stories from a Life Lived along the Border

By: Octavio Solis
Narrated by: Octavio Solis
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

“A retablo is a devotional painting, often laid on tin and depicting, as Solis describes in his introduction, “some terrible rift in a person’s life that they survive thanks to the intercession of the Divine.” This memoir-in-vignettes from the celebrated playwright and poet Solis is a series of treasures: absorbing, vivid, sensitive, and... Read more

The Name-Bearer

Flowers of Prophecy

By: Natalia Hernandez
Narrated by: Ana Osorio
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

For her entire life, the Name-Bearer's sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy from the Flowers of Prophecy. But when the child is finally born and the Name-Bearer is sent to the Flowers, they refuse to name him. Instead they deliver a prophecy; another child was born who is more worthy of the Naming, and if... Read more

Cruzita and the Mariacheros

By: Ashley Granillo
Narrated by: EJ Lavery
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Cruzita is going to be a pop star. All she has to do is win a singing contest at her favorite theme park and get famous. But she can't go to the theme park this summer. Instead, she has to help out at her family's bakery, which has been struggling ever since Tío Chuy died. Cruzita's great-uncle poured his heart into the bakery—the family... Read more

Chicano Frankenstein

By: Daniel A. Olivas
Narrated by: Thom Rivera
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

A modern retelling of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley classic that addresses issues of belonging and assimilation An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant... Read more

The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly, Atlanta Amado, Victoria Villarreal, Arthur Morey, Andrew Eiden, Kristen DiMercurio, Frankie Corzo, Lauren Fortgang, Javier Prusky, Fred Sanders, Lee Osorio & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine—but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

“Whenever I want to read a book I know will be good, I go to Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Taylor... Read more

First in the Family

A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream

By: Jessica Hoppe
Narrated by: Jessica Hoppe
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

This program is read by the author.

An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe, Latinx writer, advocate, and creator of NuevaYorka.

“A powerful thunderclap of a memoir.” —Lilliam Rivera, author of Dealing in Dreams

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Today.com, LupitaReads, Electric Literature, Esquire, Publishers Weekly

In... Read more

It Happened to Anna

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia
Narrated by: Sara Matsui-Colby
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

This spine-tingling ghost story follows a tween girl who’s being literally haunted by loneliness until a new friendship upends her life. From the bestselling author of the Paola Santiago series!

"Absolutely haunting!"—Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of Mine

A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Sadie Rivera has been haunted all her... Read more

The Volcano Daughters

A Novel

By: Gina María Balibrera
Narrated by: Gisela Chipe, Elena Rey, Alma Cuervo, E. A. Castillo & Ines del Castillo
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide—which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco’s Cannery Row—each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories

“Gripping and spellbinding...Unforgettable.”—Brit Bennett,... Read more

There is a Rio Grande in Heaven

Stories

By: Ruben Reyes Jr.
Narrated by: Johnny Rey Diaz
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

“I do love a choose your own adventure story. Read more

The Palace of Eros

A Novel

By: Caro De Robertis
Narrated by: Caro De Robertis
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

“If you liked The Song Of Achilles and Circe, you’ll love this sapphic subversive feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros! Read more

Catalina

A Novel

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Narrated by: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom

“[A]... Read more

Pages of Mourning

By: Diego Gerard Morrison
Narrated by: Andre Bellido
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

It's 2017 and the crisis of forced disappearances has reached a tipping point after forty-three docent students disappeared and are feared dead. Aureliano Más the Second is a fledgling writer at a lucrative fellowship in Mexico City chaired by his aunt, Rose. When Aureliano was very young, his mother left without reason or trace. Aureliano is... Read more

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

“I loved the cemetery setting filled with the characters whose unfinished stories were literally buried because the writer didn’t want to lose her mind, with so many voices and tales rambling around in her head. She thought they would lie to rest and leave her be, but instead they burst to life, their stories pouring out to anyone who would... Read more