Latine Authors

The Ghetto Within

By: Santiago H. Amigorena

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that “has stifled [him] since [he] was born”, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring novel of loss and unshakeable love.A critical sensation in France, The Ghetto Within is its author’s personal attempt to confront his grandfather’s... Read more

What's Coming to Me

By: Francesca Padilla

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutiérrez plans revenge on her predatory boss in an attempt to escape her oppressive town in this equally poignant and thrilling contemporary YA about grief, anger, and fighting for what you deserve, perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson and Erika L. Sánchez.

In the seaside town of Nautilus, Minerva Gutiérrez... Read more

The Memory Index

By: Julian Ray Vaca

Narrated by: Sophia Buller & Tyler Kwiatkowski

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this electric speculative YA sci/fi novel, the world treats memories like currency, so dreams can be a complicated business. Perfect for fans of Neal Stephenson and Philip K. Dick.In an alternative 1987, a disease ravages human memories. There is no cure, only artificial recall. The lucky ones—the recollectors—need the treatment only once a... Read more

The Neapolitan Sisters

By: Margo Candela

Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos, Frankie Corzo & Ana Daniela Osorio

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up with a kind but alcoholic father and a suspicious, passive-aggressive mother, the Bernal sisters each developed their own way of coping: Dulcina had her art and drugs and alcohol, Claudia plunged into her studies and fled to Princeton, and Maritza watched one Disney movie after another in between devouring romance novels. Now all... Read more

Surely Surely Marisol Rainey

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“Anyone who has ever had trouble feeling brave will be empowered by Marisol.”—NBC NewsEveryone loves sports . . . except Marisol! The stand-alone companion to Newbery Medal winner and New York Times–bestselling Erin Entrada Kelly’s Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey is an irresistible and humorous story about friendship, family, and fitting in. Fans of... Read more

Bonsai

By: Alejandro Zambra

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sublime . . . true and beautiful and moving.” —The New York Times Book Review

The landmark first novel of one of the greatest living Latin American writers—now in a sparkling new translation by his longtime collaborator

When it was first published in 2006, then-literary critic and poet Alejandro Zambra’s first novel, Bonsai, caused a sensation.... Read more

Fault Tolerance

By: Valerie Valdes

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the critically acclaimed Prime Deceptions and Chilling Effect, the hilarious new novel about the adventures of Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra.Nothing wrecks Captain Eva Innocente’s vacation plans quite like an anonymous threat to vaporize billions of people. Hundreds of monoliths have suddenly... Read more

Twice a Quinceañera

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author of the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick Furia, Yamile Saied Méndez makes her adult fiction debut with this sparkling, whimsical novel of an accomplished young woman who discovers what it really means to come into her own …

One month short of her wedding day—and her thirtieth birthday—Nadia Palacio finds herself standing up to... Read more

After Hours on Milagro Street

By: Angelina M. Lopez

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A WASHINGTON POST BEST ROMANCE OF 2022
A FATED MATES BEST ROMANCE OF 2022
AN ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY BEST ROMANCE OF 2022

Guapo pobrecito, her grandmother calls him. The “poor handsome man.”

Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra “Alex” Torres turning Loretta’s, her grandmother’s bar, into a viable... Read more

The Last Beekeeper

By: Pablo Cartaya

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children Finalist Texas Bluebonnet Award List 2022-23Facing a world dually altered by climate change and those who profit from it, Yolanda Cicerón will have to fight to save the last known beehive from extinction in this stirring new adventure by award-winning author Pablo Cartaya.In a future shaken... Read more

Illegally Yours

By: Rafael Agustin

Narrated by: Rafael Agustin

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Half Outlaw

By: Alex Temblador

Narrated by: Luzma Ortiz

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Valentina Salazar is not a Monster Hunter

By: Zoraida Córdova

Narrated by: Ana Osorio

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Monsters, mayhem, and a little family magic will have readers rooting for Valentina!” -- Kwame Mbalia, New York Times bestselling authorIt takes a special person to end up in detention on the last day of school.It takes a REALLY special person to accidentally burn down the school yard while chasing a fire-breathing chipmunk.But nothing about... Read more

The Girls in Queens

By: Christine Kandic Torres

Narrated by: Gisela Chipe

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ FROM HARPER'S BAZAAR, BUSTLE, NYLON, THE MILLIONS, MS. MAGAZINE, and THE SKIMMAn unforgettable debut novel about the furious loyalty of two Latinx women coming of age in Queens, New York, an emotionally resonant novel infused with the insight, power, and poignancy of Angie Cruz’s Dominicana, Jacqueline Woodson’s... Read more

Maria, Maria

By: Marytza K. Rubio

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends. As the college professor in "Brujería for... Read more

Somewhere We Are Human

By: Reyna Grande & Sonia Guiñansaca

Narrated by: Avi Roque, Diana Pou, Marisa Blake & Christian ...

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

""[These contributions] touch on so many different facets of the immigrant experience that readers will find much to ponder... [and] experience how creative writing enriches our understanding of each other and our lives."" –BooklistIntroduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh NguyenA unique collection of 41 groundbreaking essays,... Read more

Zero Saints

By: Gabino Iglesias

Narrated by: Jean-Marc Berne

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Brown Neon

By: Raquel Gutierrez

Narrated by: Raquel Gutierrez

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders.

Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutiérrez’s debut essay collection, Brown Neon, gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For... Read more

More Than You'll Ever Know

By: Katie Gutierrez

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo & Yareli Arizmendi

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK""Fantastic . . . A sweeping novel, unflinching and evocative in its engrossing study of love, motherhood, sex, Mexico, journalism and more."" — WASHINGTON POST""Masterful . . . Elegance, darkness, even fear are deftly intertwined . . . A wonderful read."" — LUIS ALBERTO URREA, Pulitzer... Read more

Our Last Days in Barcelona

By: Chanel Cleeton

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Elena Rey & Victoria Villarreal

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An NPR Best Book of 2022
 
“A master class in family and political drama, in star-crossed love stories and in capturing the enormity of what home is.”—NPR

When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s new novel.
 
Barcelona, 1964.... Read more

Neruda on the Park

By: Cleyvis Natera

Narrated by: Imani Russell, Annette Amelia Oliveira & Alma C...

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification

“Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an... Read more

Join the Club, Maggie Diaz

By: Nina Moreno

Narrated by: Cyrina Fiallo

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This humorous and heartfelt middle-grade debut by Nina Moreno with illustrations by Courtney Lovett is perfect for fansof Celia C. Perez and Terri Libenson, and any reader still deciding what their passion in life is."MAYBE I'M GOOD AT SOMETHING I DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT YET."Everyone in Maggie Diaz's life seems to be finding their true passion.... Read more

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

By: Sonora Reyes

Narrated by: Karla Serrato

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award Finalist * William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Walter Honor Award Winner * Pura Belpré Honor Book * Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Young AdultA sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling... Read more

Cafe Con Lychee

By: Emery Lee

Narrated by: Avi Roque & Kurt Kanazawa

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Meet Cute Diary comes a delectable rom-com that’s brimming with zest and a sprinkle of sweetness. A must-read for fans of Casey McQuiston and Julian Winters.Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses—an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery—and Gabi’s lack of coordination... Read more