Latine Authors

My Sister

By: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

Narrated by: Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization.

When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in... Read more

Dead Light March

By: Daniel José Older

Narrated by: Anika Noni Rose

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mina Satorius, a classmate of Sierra and her crew, is being drawn deeper into the light of the Sorrows' world. Sierra's brother, Juan, isn't quite sure what to do with his band's latest song—it has an actual melody!—but maybe it'll impress his brand-new, out-of-the-blue super-secret crush. And Sierra herself is grappling with the new powers that... Read more

Illegal: A Disappeared Novel

By: Francisco X. Stork

Narrated by: Roxana Ortega & Christian Barillas

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be illegal in the United States?Life in Mexico is a death sentence for Emiliano and his sister Sara.To escape the violent cartel that is after them, they flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping that they can find a way to bring their pursuers to justice.Sara turns herself over to the... Read more

Where We Go From Here

By: Lucas Rocha

Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Anthony Lee Medina & Luis S...

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An absorbing debut novel about three gay friends in Brazil whose lives become intertwined in the face of HIV, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Bill Konigsberg.Ian has just been diagnosed with HIV.Victor, to his great relief, has tested negative.Henrique has been living with HIV for the past three years.When Victor finds himself getting... Read more

Santiago's Road Home

By: Alexandra Diaz

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Three starred reviews!
“Harrowing but deeply illuminating.” —School Library Journal

A young boy gets detained by ICE while crossing the border from Mexico to the United States in this timely and unflinching novel by award-winning author Alexandra Diaz.

The bed creaks under Santiago’s shivering body. They say a person’s life flashes by before... Read more

Once I Was You

By: Maria Hinojosa

Narrated by: Maria Hinojosa

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NPR’s Best Books of 2020
BookPage’s Best Books of 2020
Real Simple’s Best Books of 2020
Boston.com readers voted one of Best Books of 2020

“Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story.” —Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road

The Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor of NPR’s Latino USA tells the story... Read more

A Luminous Republic

By: Andrés Barba

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wholly compelling.” —Colm Tóibín

A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.

San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived.
 
No one... Read more

Inventing Latinos

By: Laura E. Gómez

Narrated by: Joana Garcia

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture‚ yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rather than a longstanding racial group. In Inventing Latinos‚ Laura Gómez illuminates the fascinating race-making‚ unmaking‚ and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries‚ leaving a... Read more

Lost in the Never Woods

By: Aiden Thomas

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"There are moments of true tenderness, hope, and grief in this haunting, magical tale, and the narrator makes it all convincing. Teenage listeners will be drawn into this enchanting story." -- Booklist, starred review

When children start to go missing in the local woods, a teen girl must face her fears and a past she can't remember to rescue them... Read more

Disposable City

By: Mario Alejandro Ariza

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.
Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today.... Read more

Youth to Power

By: Jamie Margolin

Narrated by: Jamie Margolin

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity. Youth To Power is an essential how-to for anyone of any... Read more

The Distance Between Us

By: Reyna Grande

Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border.

Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this... Read more

Once Upon a Quinceanera

By: Monica Gomez-Hira

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Jane the Virgin, this immediately accessible and irresistibly fun rom-com debut will spin readers into an unforgettable summer of late-night dancing, broken hearts, second chances, and telenovela twists.Carmen Aguilar just wants to make her happily ever after come true. Except apparently “happily ever after” for... Read more

Finding Joy

By: Adriana Herrera

Narrated by: Braeden Sinclair

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

As his twenty-sixth birthday approaches, Desta Joy Walker finds himself in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the one place he's been actively avoiding most of his life. For Desta, the East African capital encompasses some of the happiest and saddest parts of his life—his first home and the place where his father died. When an unavoidable work obligation... Read more

Category Five

By: Ann Dávila Cardinal

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

After the hurricane, some see destruction and some smell blood.

Vieques: a small island just off the northeastern coast of the main island of Puerto Rico.
A place struggling to recover after Hurricane Maria, where developers smell desperation and see opportunity.

A paradise turned hunting ground for something angry that the storm revived.
Lupe,... Read more

Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

By: Crystal Maldonado

Narrated by: Carla Vega

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard.
Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.

Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat.

People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but it's hard, and her mom leaving... Read more

Land of the Cranes (Scholastic Gold)

By: Aida Salazar

Narrated by: Dani Gonzalez

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family detention center for migrants and refugees.Nine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to... Read more

Furia

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

Narrated by: Sol Madariaga

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK
Recipient of the 2021 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Medal

One of BuzzFeed's Must-Read YA Books of 2020
A Best Book of the Year: Cosmopolitan * Kirkus Reviews * SheReads * New York Public Library 

“An engrossing #OwnVoices novel.”
—PopSugar

“This book will set your dreams on fire . . . It’s... Read more

A Nation of Women

By: Luisa Capetillo

Narrated by: Melanie Martinez & Félix V. Matos Rodríguez

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo

A Penguin Classic

In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern... Read more

The Soul of a Woman

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press).

“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle

“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a... Read more

Cazadora

By: Romina Garber

Narrated by: Sol Madariaga

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Cazadora, Romina Garber weaves together Argentine folklore and what it means to be illegal in a timely, intimate, and emotionally powerful narrative.

Werewolves. Witches. Romance. Resistance.

Enter a world straight out of Argentine folklore...

Following the events of Lobizona, Manu and her friends cross the mystical border into Kerana—a cursed... Read more

The Girls in My Town

By: Angela Morales

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The autobiographical essays in The Girls in My Town create an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother's childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates moments of loss and longing, truth and beauty, motherhood and daughterhood. She writes about her... Read more

The Rock Eaters

By: Brenda Peynado

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Ines del Castillo, Sunil Malhotr...

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An NPR Best Book of 2021
NYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021

A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia
 
What does... Read more

The Beautiful Ones

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic.

They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina’s... Read more