Latine Authors

The Male Gazed

By: Manuel Betancourt

Narrated by: Manuel Betancourt

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Manuel Betancourt has long lustfully coveted masculinity—in part because he so lacked it. As a child in Bogotá, Colombia, he grew up with the social pressure to appear strong, manly, and, ultimately, straight. And yet in the films and television he avidly watched, Betancourt saw glimmers of different possibilities. From the stars of telenovelas... Read more

Love of My Lives

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Who hasn’t fantasized about finding a soul mate? In acclaimed author YamileSaied Méndez’s charmingly romantic new novel, a young woman whose perfectpartner literally appeared to her in a dream must search some unusual places—including the truths hidden within her own heart …

Madi Ramírez has it all—a thriving career she loves, a successful... Read more

American Negra

By: Natasha S. Alford

Narrated by: Natasha S. Alford

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY.In smart, vivid prose, Alford illustrates... Read more

The Name-Bearer

By: Natalia Hernandez

Narrated by: Ana Osorio

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Extended Stay

By: Juan Martinez

Narrated by: Lee Osorio

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In a rundown neighborhood in the heart of Las Vegas, the Alicia hotel awakens and beckons to the most vulnerable—those with something to hide.



After his parents are killed in a horrific roadside execution, Alvaro flees his home in Colombia and finds work as a line cook at the seedy hotel. Together with his sister, Carmen, he begins to make a new... Read more

A Tall Dark Trouble

By: Vanessa Montalban

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sánchez women aren't just unlucky in love—they're cursed.

Eighteen-year-old twins Delfi and Lela know better than to play with magic. Their lives are marked by a malevolence that’s followed their family from Cuba to Miami, poisoning any chance at romantic love. It’s no wonder their Mami has forbidden them from getting involved with the... Read more

All Friends Are Necessary

By: Tomas Moniz

Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “tender and open-hearted novel," (Nina LaCour, author of Yerba Buena) Tomas Moniz—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Lambda Literary awards—delivers a commanding new story about the power of friendship, community, and the families we create for ourselves.

Efren “Chino” Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping... Read more

It Happened to Anna

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

Narrated by: Sara Matsui-Colby

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Great Divide, The \ Entre dos aguas (Spanish edition)

By: Cristina Henriquez

Narrated by: Jane Santos

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

De la aclamada autora de El libro de los americanos desconocidos, llega la extraordinaria novela épica de Cristina Henríquez sobre la construcción del canal de Panamá: un hito histórico que partió en dos la historia del continente americano, así como las vidas de quienes lo hicieron posible.Dicen que la construcción del canal será la hazaña más... 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

Cruzita and the Mariacheros

By: Ashley Granillo

Narrated by: EJ Lavery

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Closer

By: Mariano Rivera

Narrated by: Michael Kay

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.

Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door, began his incredible journey as the son of a poor Panamanian fisherman. When first scouted by the Yankees, he didn't even own his own glove. He... Read more

Maya's Notebook

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Maria Cabezas

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Maya’s Notebook is a startling novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende.
 
This contemporary coming-of-age story centers upon Maya Vidal, a remarkable teenager abandoned by her parents. Maya grew up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandmother Nini, whose formidable strength helped her build a new life... Read more

Ripper

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Isabel Allende—the New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have sold more than 57 million copies around the world—demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial... Read more

Days of Obligation

By: Richard Rodriguez

Narrated by: Michael Anthony

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A series of ten essays span the five centuries of history, from Hernan Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to San Francisco's AIDS epidemic.Richard Rodriguez explores the conflicts of race, religion, and cultural identity for Mexican-Americans across the landscape of his beloved California—as well as the impact this history had on him.Rodriguez... Read more

We the Animals

By: Justin D. Torres

Narrated by: Frankie J. Alvarez

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An exquisite, blistering debut novelThree brothers tear their way through childhood—smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he’s Puerto Rican, she’s white—and their love is a... Read more

At Night We Walk in Circles

By: Daniel Alarcón

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The breakout book from a prizewinning young writer: a breathtaking, suspenseful story of one man's obsessive search to find the truth of another man's downfallNelson's life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man; his brother has left their South American country and moved to the United States, leaving... Read more

The Universal Tone

By: Carlos Santana

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 19 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend.

In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years later -- after he played a historic set at Woodstock --... Read more

Faces in the Crowd

By: Valeria Luiselli

Narrated by: Armando Durán & Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem... Read more

The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho

By: Anjanette Delgado

Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Two divorces have taught Mariela Estevez that she's better suited to being a mistress than a wife. Whose heart needs all that "forever after" trouble? Still, her affair with her married lover, Hector, has become problematic—especially because he's also a tenant in her apartment building in the heart of Miami's Calle Ocho in Little Havana. But... Read more

Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise

By: Oscar Hijuelos

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a novel inspired by the friendship between famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley—"surely among the best books Oscar ever wrote" (Paul Auster).

Acclaimed novelist Oscar Hijuelos was fascinated by the Twain-Stanley connection and eventually began researching and... Read more

Land of Careful Shadows

By: Suzanne Chazin

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Land of Careful Shadows by award-winning author Suzanne Chazin is a powerful mystery full of passion and secrets that deals with a clash of cultures and familial relationships, and it's full of drama, mystery, and raw emotions.When the dead body of a Latino woman is found in a reservoir about fifty miles north of Manhattan, with a photo of a... Read more

Nightmare Range

By: Martin Limón

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty years ago Martin Lim├│n published his first mystery featuring Sergeant George Sue├▒o, a young Mexican American army detective stationed on the US Eighth Army base in South Korea in the early 1970s, the heart of the Cold War. George and his investigating partner, the rowdy and short-fused Sergeant Ernie Bascom, are assigned cases in which... 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