Latine Authors

Natural History

By: Carlos Fonseca Suárez

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities.Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator’s fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom—with... Read more

The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues

By: Rosie Mercado

Narrated by: Rosie Mercado

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

The Latina superstar shares the impossible true story of her fight to realize her dreams in this powerful memoir and inspirational guide filled with hard-earned, heartfelt advice for all women striving for independence.

The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues is the remarkable story of Rosie Mercado’s journey from helplessness to becoming a model,... Read more

Jubilee

By: Jennifer Givhan

Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When Bianca appears late one night at her brother’s house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms.Told in alternating points of... Read more

Lupe Wong Won't Dance

By: Donna Barba Higuera

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

My gym shorts burrow into my butt crack like a frightened groundhog.Don't you want to read a book that starts like that??Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues.She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy...like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some... Read more

A Changing World

By: César Vidal

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 26, 1991, an event of extraordinary importance in universal history took place. It involved the dissolution of the Soviet Union, an event of enormous repercussions that almost no one had anticipated. In fact, only the historian Andrei Amalrík and Nobel laureate and writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, two Russian dissidents, had enough... Read more

Finding Joy

By: Adriana Herrera

Narrated by: Braeden Sinclair

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

As his twenty-sixth birthday approaches, Desta Joy Walker finds himself in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the one place he's been actively avoiding most of his life. For Desta, the East African capital encompasses some of the happiest and saddest parts of his life—his first home and the place where his father died. When an unavoidable work obligation... Read more

I Am These Truths \ Yo soy estas verdades (Spanish edition)

By: Sunny Hostin

Narrated by: Gabriela Guraieb

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Asunción «Sunny» Hostin, la célebre coanfitriona de The View, siempre sintió que pertenecía a diferentes mundos y que debía elegir uno de ellos. De madre puertorriqueña y padre afroamericano, dejó atrás la pobreza y los obstáculos de su niñez en el sur del Bronx gracias a una combinación de esfuerzo, algo de suerte y becas universitarias. Al... Read more

I Am These Truths

By: Sunny Hostin & Charisse Jones

Narrated by: Sunny Hostin

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Emmy Award winning legal journalist and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in this powerful memoir that offers an intimate and unique look at identity, intolerance, and injustice.

“What are you?” has followed Sunny... Read more

Miss Meteor

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia & Anna-Marie McLemore

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia & Almarie Guerra

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A gorgeous and magical collaboration between two critically acclaimed, powerhouse YA authors offers a richly imagined underdog story perfect for fans of Dumplin’ and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. There hasn’t been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Quintanilla in all its... Read more

God-Level Knowledge Darts

By: Desus & Mero

Narrated by: Desus & Mero

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Desus & Mero are smarter and funnier than everyone writing books.”—Shea Serrano
“I will never write anything as hilarious as they have. I give up.”—Malcolm Gladwell
“These motherf***ers make me laugh until I choke.”—Jia Tolentino
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR

A wild, hilarious guide to life from the... Read more

Land of the Cranes (Scholastic Gold)

By: Aida Salazar

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family detention center for migrants and refugees.Nine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to... Read more

Once I Was You

By: Maria Hinojosa

Narrated by: Maria Hinojosa

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NPR’s Best Books of 2020
BookPage’s Best Books of 2020
Real Simple’s Best Books of 2020
Boston.com readers voted one of Best Books of 2020

“Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story.” —Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road

The Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor of NPR’s Latino USA tells the story... Read more

Each of Us a Desert

By: Mark Oshiro

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Frankie] Corzo fluidly shifts from English to Spanish and back in this atmospheric audiobook, adopting a leisurely pace that allows listeners to savor the setting, poetic language, and slow-burn romance. Corzo creates distinct voices for a variety of casually queer Latinx characters. This meditative listen shouldn't be missed." --... Read more

Furia

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

Narrated by: Sol Madariaga

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK
Recipient of the 2021 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Medal

One of BuzzFeed's Must-Read YA Books of 2020
A Best Book of the Year: Cosmopolitan * Kirkus Reviews * SheReads * New York Public Library 

“An engrossing #OwnVoices novel.”
—PopSugar

“This book will set your dreams on fire . . . It’s... Read more

Chiquis Keto

By: Chiquis Rivera

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The bestselling author and singer shares her personal brand of keto, including everything from recetas sabrosas to fun workouts and motivational personal stories to inspire all Latin-food lovers.

Let’s face it. Growing up Latina means tortillas, chips, rice, and beans are served with everything. Chiquis has tried almost every... Read more

Sanctuary

By: Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher

Narrated by: Paola Mendoza

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Co-founder of the Women's March makes her YA debut in a near future dystopian where a young girl and her brother must escape a xenophobic government to find sanctuary.

It's 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked--from buses to grocery stores. It's almost impossible to survive as an undocumented... Read more

Unforgetting

By: Roberto Lovato

Narrated by: Roberto Lovato

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year""Gripping and beautiful. With the artistry of a poet and the intensity of a revolutionary, Lovato untangles the tightly knit skein of love and terror that connects El Salvador and the United States.""   —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes and Nickel and DimedAn urgent, no-holds-barred... Read more

The Wrong Mr. Darcy

By: Evelyn Lozada & Holly Lorincz

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Juggling multiple character accents and tones with ease, [narrator Joniece] Abbott-Pratt shines as Hara, her lilting and curious tone perfectly complementing the novel’s relatable go-getter protagonist." -- Booklist

In Evelyn Lozada and Holly Lorincz's lightly inspired Pride and Prejudice romantic comedy The Wrong Mr. Darcy, two unlikely people... Read more

The Last Great Road Bum

By: Héctor Tobar

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Pabón delivers a top-notch performance of Tobar’s masterful blend of fiction and
nonfiction...Pabón's understated delivery allows listeners to make their own discoveries in this truly unique and intriguing story." -- Booklist

In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who... Read more

Inventing Latinos

By: Laura E. Gómez

Narrated by: Joana Garcia

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture‚ yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rather than a longstanding racial group. In Inventing Latinos‚ Laura Gómez illuminates the fascinating race-making‚ unmaking‚ and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries‚ leaving a... Read more

Ines of My Soul

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Isabel Allende & Alma Cuervo

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Powerfully evocative. . . . Allende is at her best here; spinning words like spells, enthralling the reader with surreal visions of the New World.”— NewsweekA passionate epic of love, freedom, and conquest, based on historical events, from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea.Though she... Read more

Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

By: Jennifer De Leon

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“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

The Infinite Plan

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Isabel Allende & Luis Moreno

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade.”—Boston GlobeAn enthralling tale of one man's search for love and his struggle to contend with the pain and deprivation that shaped him.Born in the Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves grew up in poverty, survived the killing fields of... Read more

AOC

By: Lynda Lopez

Narrated by: Cary Hite & Marisa Blake

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moment Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat a ten-term incumbent in the primary election for New York’s 14th on June 26, 2018, her journey to the national, if not world, stage, was fast-tracked. Six months later, as the youngest Congresswoman ever elected, AOC became one of a handful of Latina politicians in Washington, D.C. Not yet thirty,... Read more