Latine Authors

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

Side Chick Nation

By: Aya De Leon

Narrated by: Aya De Leon

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

She's beautiful, unpredictable-and on the run from dangerous men. But this ex-side chick is ready to risk everything to help others in trouble . . . Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing to the Caribbean. Between her special skills-and an eye for very rich and/or very... Read more

Salty, Bitter, Sweet

By: Mayra Cuevas

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A slow-burn romance in a cutthroat kitchen! There’s more to becoming a top chef for 17-year-old Isabella Fields than just not getting chopped … especially when the chances of things heating up with an intriguing boy and becoming a food star in the kitchen are both on the line.Isa’s family life has fallen apart after the death of her Cuban abuela... 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

White Light

By: Vanessa Garcia

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Just before her father's sudden death, Cuban-American artist Veronica Gonzalez is offered her first gallery exhibit, a real chance to break into the art world. Torn between the need to mourn and the pressure to create new artwork, Veronica is propelled into a fever-dream of productivity and grief, amidst memories of her tumultuous relationship... Read more

Stef Soto, Taco Queen

By: Jennifer Torres

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartwarming and charming debut novel about family, friends, and finding your voice all wrapped up in a warm tortilla.



Seventh grader Estefania "Stef" Soto is itching to shake off the onion-and-cilantro embrace of Tia Perla, her family's taco truck. She wants nothing more than for her dad to get a normal job and for Tia Perla to be put out to... Read more

The Only Road

By: Alexandra Diaz

Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Jaime makes the treacherous and life-changing journey from his home in Guatemala to live with his older brother in the United States in this gripping and realistic middle grade novel.



Jaime is sitting on his bed drawing when he hears a scream. Instantly, he knows: Miguel, his cousin and best friend, is dead.



Everyone in Jaime's... 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

My Time Among the Whites

By: Jennine Capo Crucet

Narrated by: Jennine Capo Crucet

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on being an "accidental" American?an incisive look at the edges of identity for a woman of color in a society centered on whiteness In this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capo Crucet explores the condition of... Read more

The Hispanic Republican

By: Geraldo Cadava

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating and thought-provoking history of the growth of Hispanic American Republican voters in the past half century and their surprising impact on US politics.In the lead-up to every election cycle, pundits predict that Latino Americans will overwhelmingly vote in favor of the Democratic candidate. And it’s true—Latino voters do tilt... Read more

The Book of Rosy

By: Rosayra Pablo Cruz & Julie Schwietert Collazo

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra & Jayme Mattler

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“Offers hope in the face of desperate odds” – ELLE Magazine, ELLE’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020“[D]isturbing and unforgettable memoir…This wrenching story brings to vivid life the plight of the many families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.” – Publisher’s Weekly, STARRED REVIEW“[The] haunting and eloquent…narrative of a Guatemalan... Read more

Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse

By: Chantel Acevedo

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in an action-packed debut middle grade fantasy duology about a Cuban American girl who discovers that she’s one of the nine Muses of Greek mythology. Perfect for fans of The Serpent’s Secret, the Aru Shah series, and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.Callie Martinez-Silva didn’t mean to turn her best friend into a pop star.... Read more

American Sweethearts

By: Adriana Herrera

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“Inclusive, optimistic, and scorching, this romance sends the series out on a high note.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Award-winning author Adriana Herrera delivers hot romance and social justice in equal measure in this sexy contemporary read.


Juan Pablo Campos doesn’t do regrets. He’s living the dream as a physical therapist with his... 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

Like Flies from Afar

By: K. Ferrari

Narrated by: Joe Lewis

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"In a sardonic tone, Joe Lewis delivers this captivating, bloodstained, deeply twisted, hard-boiled thriller following a day in the life of Argentinian oligarch Luis Machi." -- AudioFile Magazine

The first novel to appear in English by the "subway janitor by night, novelist by day," who began his writing career while an undocumented immigrant... Read more

Hatemonger

By: Jean Guerrero

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“A vital book for understanding the still-unfolding nightmare of nationalism and racism in the 21st century.” –Francisco Cantu, author of The Line Becomes a RiverStephen Miller is one of the most influential advisors in the White House. He has crafted Donald Trump’s speeches, designed immigration policies that ban Muslims and separate families,... Read more

The Book of Lost Saints

By: Daniel Jose Older

Narrated by: Sofia Quintero

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An evocative multigenerational Cuban-American family story of revolution, loss, and family bonds. Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her foul-mouthed spirit visits her nephew, Ramon, in modern day New Jersey. Her hope: That her presence will prompt him to... Read more

Ghost Squad

By: Claribel A. Ortega

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Coco meets Stranger Things with a hint of Ghostbusters in this action-packed supernatural fantasy.For Lucely Luna, ghosts are more than just the family business.Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell that accidentally awakens malicious spirits, wreaking havoc throughout St. Augustine. Together, they must join... Read more

Deadbreak

By: Jorge Sanchez

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It's been three long years since Deadbreak. That's what everyone's calling it—the day the dead rose. Every day since then Jeremiah Reid has had one goal: to make his way back to his daughter. With his four-legged companion, Joe, Jeremiah has to travel a lawless wasteland teeming with zombies, bandits, and worse, like people who put anchovies on... 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

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 Devil's Highway

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic).

In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern... Read more

The Volcano Daughters

By: Gina María Balibrera

Narrated by: Gisela Chipe, Elena Rey, Alma Cuervo, E. A. Cas...

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide—which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco’s Cannery Row—each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories

“Gripping and spellbinding...Unforgettable.”—Brit Bennett,... Read more

First in the Family

By: Jessica Hoppe

Narrated by: Jessica Hoppe

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe, Latinx writer, advocate, and creator of NuevaYorka.

“A powerful thunderclap of a memoir.” —Lilliam Rivera, author of Dealing in Dreams

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Today.com, LupitaReads, Electric Literature, Esquire, Publishers Weekly

In... Read more