Latine Authors

Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity

By: Angela Velez

Narrated by: Adriana Santos & Sol Madariaga

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this Latinx road trip adventure—a big-hearted, voice-driven YA about two sisters who couldn’t be more different, but become begrudging partners on their school’s cross-country college trip—from debut author Angela Velez. Perfect for fans of Lilliam Rivera, Jenny Han, and Sandhya Menon. Overachiever Luz “Lulu”... Read more

Unstoppable

By: Chiquis Rivera

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Latin Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter and author of the New York Times bestseller Forgiveness returns with this nationally bestselling memoir that shares the triumphs, hardships, and lessons of life after her mother Jenni Rivera’s death.

Bringing her signature warmth, humor, and positivity to the page, Chiquis Rivera... Read more

Ramón and Julieta

By: Alana Quintana Albertson

Narrated by: Alexander Amado & Vanessa Vasquez

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen in People en Español!

An NPR Best Book of 2022 and “Books We Love” Pick

A PopSugar and BookBub Most Anticipated Romance of 2022!

When fate and tacos bring Ramón and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the star-crossed pair must make a choice: accept the bitter food rivalry that drives them apart or surrender to a love that consumes... Read more

Violeta

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Javiera Gazitua

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

La épica y emocionante historia de una mujer cuya vida abarca los momentos históricos más relevantes del siglo XX. Desde 1920 -con la llamada «gripe española»- hasta la pandemia de 2020, la vida de Violeta será mucho más que la historia de un siglo. Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco... Read more

All Day Is A Long Time

By: David Sanchez

Narrated by: Robb Moreira

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Millions' ""Most Anticipated Books of 2022"" One of PureWow’s ""10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in January"" One of BookShop.org's ""Notable New Releases"" One of The New York Times Book Review’s ""16 New Books Coming in January"" One of Poets & Writers' ""New and Noteworthy Books” ""David Sanchez's first novel—brilliant, lyrical,... Read more

High-Risk Homosexual

By: Edgar Gomez

Narrated by: Edgar Gomez

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"I've always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas. In particular, effeminate queer men represent a simultaneous rejection and embrace of masculinity . . . In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold... Read more

Velorio

By: Xavier Navarro Aquino

Narrated by: Diana Pou, Vico Ortiz, María Victoria Martínez,...

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“This debut novel traces a group of survivors who fall under the spell of an authoritarian cult leader in the days following Hurricane Maria’s destruction in Puerto Rico. It is deeply imagined and deeply felt – imagistic and strange and haunting – and simmering with grief and rage.”  -- Gabriela Garcia, New York Times bestselling authorSet in... Read more

Velorio \ (Spanish edition)

By: Xavier Navarro Aquino

Narrated by: Diana Pou, Vico Ortiz, María Victoria Martínez,...

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

«En esta novela, la catástrofe se cuenta con precisión de cronista y belleza poética. Sus voces transcurren entre el tono íntimo y devastador de un diario del desastre y la mirada colectiva de la memoria que ve la esperanza en el linaje de resistencias que han enfrentado al poder desde tiempos ancestrales. Xavier Navarro Aquino nos entrega así... Read more

The Spanish Daughter

By: Lorena Hughes

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the lush backdrop of early twentieth century Ecuador and inspired by the real-life history of the coastal town known as the birthplace of cacao, this captivating novel from the award-winning author of The Sisters of Alameda
Street tells the story of a resourceful young chocolatier who must impersonate a man in order to survive …

As a... Read more

La selva de Zonia

By: Juana Martinez-Neal

Narrated by: Sisa Quispe & Cinthya Gonzales Perez

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Explora las maravillas de la Amazonía con Zonia, una niña asháninka, cuyas alegres aventuras en la selva se interrumpen un día por un misterioso y desconcertante descubrimiento. La selva es el hogar de Zonia. Es su jardín y su patio, su vecindario y su parque. Cada mañana, la selva llama a Zonia. Cada mañana, ella responde: le dice “hola” a la... Read more

Harsh Times

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

Narrated by: Ian Guerra

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

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

When We Were Them

By: Laura Taylor Namey

Narrated by: Gail Shalan

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Laura Taylor Namey comes a “lyrical and tender, authentic” (Kirkus Reviews) novel about friendship and the bittersweetness of growing up and growing apart.

When they were fifteen, Willa, Luz, and Britton’s friendship was everything.
When they were sixteen, they stood by each other no matter what.
When they... Read more

Rescuing Socrates

By: Roosevelt Montás

Narrated by: Roosevelt Montás

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Dominican-born scholar Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds

What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this... Read more

They Called Us ""Lucky""

By: Ruben Gallego & Jim DeFelice

Narrated by: Ruben Gallego & Stephen Graybill

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Arizona Congressman, a ""powerful"" and ""searing"" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq WarAt first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns,... Read more

Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed

By: Saraciea J. Fennell

Narrated by: Avi Roque, Elizabeth Acevedo, Frankie Corzo, Ib...

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by a full cast.

Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is a ground-breaking anthology that will spark dialogue and inspire hope

In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming... Read more

One Week to Claim It All & Just for the Holidays...

By: Adriana Herrera

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Lola James

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One Week to Claim It All

She’ll inherit an empire…but only if she can resist her ex—in this Sambrano Studios novel by Adriana Herrera.

She’s on track to be the new CEO. Her ex is the only one standing in the way.

When Esmeralda Sambrano-Peña unexpectedly inherits her father’s media empire, it ruffles more than a few feathers. And no one is more... Read more

We Light Up the Sky

By: Lilliam Rivera

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Should you save a world that doesn't want to save you?
Award-winning author Lilliam Rivera explores the haunting story of an alien invasion from the perspective of three Latinx teens.

Pedro, Luna, and Rafa may attend Fairfax High School together in Los Angeles, but they run in separate spheres. Pedro is often told that he's “too much” and seeks... Read more

Neverforgotten

By: Alejandra Algorta

Narrated by: Andres Macias Hernandez & Christopher Salazar

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Fabio flies through the streets of Bogotá on his bicycle, the children of his
neighborhood trailing behind him. It is there that life feels right—where the world
of adults, and their lies, fades away. But then one day, he simply forgets. Forgets
how to ride his bicycle. And Fabio will never be the same again.
From Colombia comes a special debut... Read more

Our Way Back to Always

By: Nina Moreno

Narrated by: Natalia del Riego & Adan Rocha

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Brujas

By: Lorraine Monteagut, PhD

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

There is a new kind of witch emerging in our cultural consciousness: the bruja.



Witchcraft has made a comeback in popular culture, especially among feminists. A growing subculture of BIPOC witches, led by Afro-Caribbean immigrants, Indigenous Americans, and other witches of color, is reclaiming their ancestral traditions and contributing their... Read more

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Bernardo de Paula

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin... Read more

Una vez fui tú (Once I Was You Spanish Edition)

By: María Hinojosa

Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

María Hinojosa es una periodista galardonada que ha colaborado con las cadenas más respetadas y se ha distinguido por realizar reportajes con un toque humano. En estas memorias escritas con gran belleza, nos relata la historia de la política de inmigración de los EE.UU. que nos ha llevado al punto en que estamos hoy, al mismo tiempo que nos... Read more

Mi Casa Is My Home

By: Laurenne Sala

Narrated by: Marisa Blake

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Bienvenidos to Lucía’s home. Lucía lives in her casa with her big, loud, beautiful familia, and she’s going to show you around! From la puerta, where Abuela likes to wave to the neighbors and wait for packages from Puerto Rico or Spain, to la cocina, where Lucía watches her Mamá turn empty pots into soups and arroces, to el patio, where Lucía... Read more

When We Make It

By: Elisabet Velasquez

Narrated by: Elisabet Velasquez

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"The energy. The clarity. The beauty. Elisabet Velasquez brings it all. . . . Her voice is FIRE!"—NYT bestselling and award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson
 
An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it means to "make it,” for readers of Nicholasa Mohr and Elizabeth Acevedo.

Sarai is a... Read more