Latine Authors

Mexican Gothic

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian
 
ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity... Read more

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Hernan Diaz

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò...

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE

“Buzzy and enthralling . . . A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery... Read more

In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened... Read more

What the River Knows

By: Isabel Ibañez

Narrated by: Ahmed Hamad & Ana Osorio

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez's lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the... Read more

Gods of Jade and Shadow

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Yetta Gottesman

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.

“A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read... Read more

Solito

By: Javier Zamora

Narrated by: Javier Zamora

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award

A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping... Read more

Tender is the Flesh

By: Agustina Bazterrica

Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made... Read more

The House of the Spirits

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Thom Rivera & Marisol Ramirez

Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This “spectacular… absorbing and distinguished work…is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America” (The New York Times Book Review).

The House of the Spirits, which introduced Isabel Allende as one of the world’s most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and... Read more

Vampires of El Norte

By: Isabel Cañas

Narrated by: Jose Nateras & Krysta Gonzales

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda.

As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But... Read more

This Is Why They Hate Us

By: Aaron H. Aceves

Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Nevermind that he’s only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Nevermind that he has absolutely zero game. And definitely forget the fact that good and kind and, not to mention, beautiful Saleem is leaving LA for the summer to... Read more

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz

Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell & Rossmery Almonte

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features original sound design.

"Together, [narrators] Almonte and Wetherell are the key to this exceptional novel. A brilliantly narrated immigrant story, spiked with heart and flair, that will have patrons rooting for Cara’s success." - Library Journal

"Rossmery Almonte's pitch-perfect narration of Angie Cruz's inventive new novel... Read more

Clap When You Land

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo & Melania-Luisa Marte

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An Odyssey Honor AudiobookIn a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.Don't miss the audiobook, read by Elizabeth Acevedo, the beloved... Read more

Olga Dies Dreaming

By: Xochitl Gonzalez

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Armando Riesco & Inés del Castillo

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"All three narrators are Puerto Rican–born and deliver the Spanish passages with musical grace, thereby enhancing an already fine novel." —The Washington Post

“The narrators’ accents and code-shifting create a vibrant auditory experience. In particular, Guerra’s luscious voice conveys Olga’s transformation from fighter to a compassionate woman as... Read more

Cemetery Boys

By: Aiden Thomas

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as "groundbreaking."

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.

When... Read more

Her Body and Other Parties

By: Carmen Maria Machado

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado... Read more

Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal & Johnny Rey Diaz

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A "genuinely scary" horror debut written in "prose so beautiful you won't want to rush" about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes (Ana Reyes)



Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal... Read more

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

By: Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Narrated by: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture starring Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, and Eva Longoria!
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

Dive into the award-winning, internationally renowned book that is a “tender, honest exploration of identity” (Publishers Weekly) and distills lyrical truths about family and friendship—featuring images from the film!

Aristotle... Read more

Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

Narrated by: Ozzie Rodriguez & Torian Brackett

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, Time, BookPage

A Must-Read: The New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Boston Herald, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Bay Area Reporter, Datebook, Electric Literature, The Stacks, Them, Publishers Weekly

“Sweeping, ingenious .... Read more

The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henriquez

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick! A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored thereIt is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers... Read more

The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly, Atlanta Amado, Victoria Villarre...

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Narrated by: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

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

One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix series adaptation starring Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, and Marco GonzálezOne of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of... Read more

The Undocumented Americans

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Narrated by: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.

“Karla’s book sheds light on people’s personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be... Read more

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.

“This is historical science fiction at its best: a dreamy reimagining of a classic story with vivid descriptions of... Read more