Latine Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Latine and/or Hispanic descent.
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
View audiobookHave 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
View audiobookAlways 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
View audiobookIt 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
View audiobookWe 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
View audiobookBless 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
View audiobookIn the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
Narrated by: Noemi De La Puente, Alma Cuervo, Blanca Camacho...
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain... Read more
View audiobookLa 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
View audiobookThe 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 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International... Read more
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