Latine Authors

The House on Mango Street

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2025 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National... Read more

La Casa en Mango Street

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Liliana Valenzuela

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Celebrado desde su publicación inicial como el relato clásico de una muchada del barrio latino de Chicago, La casa en Mango Street has sido elogadio por los críticos, acogido por los niños y sus padres y abuelos y estudiado por todas partes, desde escuelas primarias en las grandes ciudades hasta universidades por todo el país. Ahora por primera... Read more

The Book of Unknown Americans

By: Cristina Henríquez

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“A triumph of storytelling. Henríquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.” —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
 
A boy and... Read more

The Story of My Teeth

By: Valeria Luiselli

Narrated by: Armando Durán & Thom Rivera

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of “Highway” Sánchez—bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer—and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.“I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I’m grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other... Read more

My (Underground) American Dream

By: Julissa Arce

Narrated by: Julissa Arce

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A National Bestseller!

What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States?

JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers to those questions are sometimes far too simple-and often... Read more

Bless Me, Ultima

By: Rudolfo Anaya

Narrated by: Robert Ramirez

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic... Read more

Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx

By: Sonia Manzano

Narrated by: Sonia Manzano

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir.Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy Award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives... Read more

Never Too Real

By: Carmen Rita

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Carmen Rita’s savvy, scandalous, and wise new novel, four close friends who’ve earned the best of everything are forced to decide what they can afford to lose.Cat, Magda, Gabi, and Luz have helped each other up the ladder with unshakable encouragement—and raw honesty—since forever. But lately, trouble is throwing everything these formidable... Read more

My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain

By: Patricio Pron

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A young writer, living abroad, returns home to his native Argentina to say goodbye to his dying father.In his parents' house, he finds a cache of documents—articles, maps, photographs—and unwittingly begins to unearth his father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man. Suddenly he comes face to face with the ghosts of Argentina's dark... Read more

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Lin-Manuel Miranda & Karen Olivo

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award®-winning creator and star of the musical Hamilton, and Tony Award®-winning actress, Karen Olivo. This brilliant narration adds another layer of lyricism and depth to this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel.


Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican... Read more

Empire of Dreams

By: Giannina Braschi

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An intriguing and hypnotizing work of postmodern fiction from groundbreaking Hispanic-American writer Giannina Braschi, Empire of Dreams chronicles a decade-long love affair with 1980s New York and all its contradictions. The city’s perversions and passions, power and marginality, grandeur and squalor come vibrantly to life in each of the book’s... Read more

The Living

By: Matt de la Pena

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Shy takes the summer job to make some money. A few months on a luxury cruise liner—how bad can it be? Bikinis, free food, maybe even a girl or two…every cruise has a fresh crop of passengers, after all. He’ll rake in the tips and be able to help his mom and sister out with the bills.But then, an earthquake more massive than any ever recorded... Read more

The Hunted

By: Matt de la Peña

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña’s The Hunted, the sequel to The Living, is a high-energy, action-packed survival story.“De la Peña has created a rare thing: a plot-driven YA with characters worthy of a John Green novel.” —Entertainment Weekly on The Living, A-For those left living, it’s kill or be killed. When Shy pulled himself... Read more

Ten Women

By: Marcela Serrano

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning Chilean author Marcela Serrano weaves a beautiful story about the universal connections between women.For nine Chilean women, life couldn’t be more different. There is the teenage computer whiz confronting her sexual identity. A middle-aged recluse who prefers the company of her dog over that of most humans. A housekeeper. A... Read more

Becoming Marta

By: Lorea Canales

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Thanks to her wealthy and well-connected family, twenty-six-year-old Marta is used to getting whatever she wants. And what she wants is a good time.That is, until her father’s wife—the woman who raised her—becomes ill. Beautiful young Marta is forced to witness her unfaithful, brutish father abandon her adoptive mother in her final moments.... Read more

Burn Baby Burn

By: Meg Medina

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets.... Read more

Pierced by the Sun

By: Laura Esquivel

Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Lupita’s hard-knock life has gotten the better of her time and time again. A childhood robbed of innocence set off a chain of events that she still has not managed to control, no matter how hard she tries. Every time she thinks she has a handle on things, unexpected turns make her question everything, including herself.When Lupita witnesses the... Read more

Zama

By: Antonio Di Benedetto

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature.Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly... Read more

Kill the Spider

By: Carlos Whittaker

Narrated by: Carlos Whittaker

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Carlos Whittaker equips you with practical steps to destroying the roots of your deep-seated habits so you can get rid of what's holding you back and embrace true freedom in Christ. Are you tired of trying to live for Christ--only to fail time and time again with the same old behaviors? Do you pray for guidance, ask for deliverance, and vow to... Read more

Halsey Street

By: Naima Coster

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction.A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to belong—not only to a place but to one another.Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She’s accepted that her... Read more

I'll Be Your Blue Sky

By: Marisa de los Santos

Narrated by: Angela Dawe & Erin Bennett

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in this captivating, beautifully written drama involving family, friendship, secrets, sacrifice, courage, and true love for fans of Jojo Moyes, Elin Hilderbrand, and Nancy Thayer.On the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes meets... Read more

Everyone Knows You Go Home

By: Natalia Sylvester

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An International Latino Book Award winner.“Everyone Knows You Go Home is prescient, tackling issues of family division, the arduous journey of crossing from one country into the next, and the sacrifices we make in exchange for a better future.” —Houston ChronicleThe first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already dead—an apparition... Read more

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

By: Paul Ortiz

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights

Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar... Read more

I'm Not Missing

By: Carrie Fountain

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning poet Carrie Fountain comes a debut audiobook set in Las Cruces, New Mexico, about a half-Latina girl stepping outside of the shadow of her best friend.

It’s senior year, and Miranda Black’s best friend, Syd, has run away—suddenly and inexplicably, leaving behind nothing but a pink leopard print cell phone with a text message... Read more