Latine Authors

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

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

Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise

By: Oscar Hijuelos

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous work of fiction inspired by the real-life, 37-year friendship between two towering figures of the late nineteenth century, famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Hijuelos was fascinated by the... 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

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

Make Your Home Among Strangers

By: Jennine Capo Crucet

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Lizet, a daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school, secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college. Her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami, and amid a painful divorce, her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and older sister, a newly single... 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Have You Seen Marie?

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing. The word 'orphan' might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like 'a glove left behind at the bus station.' What just might save her... Read more

Always Running

By: Luis J. Rodriguez

Narrated by: Luis J. Rodriguez

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully... Read more

It Calls You Back

By: Luis J. Rodriguez

Narrated by: Jacob Vargas

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up on the streets of East L.A., Luis Rodriguez narrowly escaped a serious jail term and then struggled to overcome his powerful addiction to heroin and alcohol. Eventually, Rodriguez embarked on a career as a successful journalist and a highly regarded poet. In It Calls You Back, Rodriguez describes with heartbreaking honesty his... 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