Latine Authors

Mexican Gothic

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian
 
ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity... Read more

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Hernan Diaz

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò...

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE

“Buzzy and enthralling . . . A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery... Read more

Celestial Monsters

By: Aiden Thomas

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners will be captivated...André Santana keeps the tension in his narration taut as Teo wrestles with both physical challenges and his own feelings of inferiority." —AudioFile on The Sunbearer Trials

New York Times-bestselling author Aiden Thomas returns to the beloved world of The Sunbearer Trials in Celestial Monsters, a heart-stopping... Read more

Solito

By: Javier Zamora

Narrated by: Javier Zamora

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award

A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping... Read more

In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened... Read more

Cemetery Boys

By: Aiden Thomas

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as "groundbreaking."

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.

When... Read more

Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal & Johnny Rey Diaz

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A "genuinely scary" horror debut written in "prose so beautiful you won't want to rush" about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes (Ana Reyes)



Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal... Read more

Vampires of El Norte

By: Isabel Cañas

Narrated by: Jose Nateras & Krysta Gonzales

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda.

As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But... Read more

One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix series adaptation starring Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, and Marco GonzálezOne of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of... Read more

Clap When You Land

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo & Melania-Luisa Marte

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An Odyssey Honor AudiobookIn a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.Don't miss the audiobook, read by Elizabeth Acevedo, the beloved... Read more

The Wicked Bargain

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen with a mission of revenge, redemption, and revolution. From the New York Times bestselling author of Most Ardently.

On Mar León de la Rosa's sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical... Read more

Olga Dies Dreaming

By: Xochitl Gonzalez

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Armando Riesco & Inés del Castillo

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"All three narrators are Puerto Rican–born and deliver the Spanish passages with musical grace, thereby enhancing an already fine novel." —The Washington Post

“The narrators’ accents and code-shifting create a vibrant auditory experience. In particular, Guerra’s luscious voice conveys Olga’s transformation from fighter to a compassionate woman as... Read more

Witch of Wild Things

By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Narrated by: Krysta Gonzales

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
One of Amazon's Best Romances of September!
A People Magazine Romantasy Pick!

Legend goes that long ago a Flores woman offended the old gods, and their family was cursed as a result. Now, every woman born to the family has a touch of magic.
 
Sage Flores has been running from her family—and their “gifts”—ever since her... Read more

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz

Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell & Rossmery Almonte

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features original sound design.

"Together, [narrators] Almonte and Wetherell are the key to this exceptional novel. A brilliantly narrated immigrant story, spiked with heart and flair, that will have patrons rooting for Cara’s success." - Library Journal

"Rossmery Almonte's pitch-perfect narration of Angie Cruz's inventive new novel... Read more

Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers.

“No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath... Read more

Tender is the Flesh

By: Agustina Bazterrica

Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made... Read more

Our Share of Night

By: Mariana Enriquez

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 27 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”—The Washington Post
“An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)

ONE OF TIME AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S TEN BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • GOOD MORNING... Read more

In 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

A Proposal They Can't Refuse

By: Natalie Caña

Narrated by: Valentina Ortiz

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Utterly charming… A Proposal They Can't Refuse is a surefire winner!” —Mia Sosa, USA Today bestselling author of The Worst Best Man

Natalie Caña turns up the heat, humor and heart in this debut rom-com about a Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian... Read more

The House of the Spirits

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Thom Rivera & Marisol Ramirez

Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This “spectacular… absorbing and distinguished work…is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America” (The New York Times Book Review).

The House of the Spirits, which introduced Isabel Allende as one of the world’s most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and... Read more

What the River Knows

By: Isabel Ibañez

Narrated by: Ahmed Hamad & Ana Osorio

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez's lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the... Read more

Ana María and The Fox

By: Liana De la Rosa

Narrated by: Ruby Hunt

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"Pleasingly subversive."--New York Times Book Review

“A perfect mix of slow-burn romance, geopolitical maneuvering and sisterly antics.”—The Washington Post

One of Library Journal's Best Romances of 2023!
A BookList Editor's Pick of 2023!

A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing Victorian... Read more

Lost Children Archive

By: Valeria Luiselli

Narrated by: Valeria Luiselli, Kivlighan de Montebello, Will...

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Impossibly smart, full of beauty, heart and insight . . . Everyone should read this book."--Tommy Orange

From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking... Read more

This Is Why They Hate Us

By: Aaron H. Aceves

Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Nevermind that he’s only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Nevermind that he has absolutely zero game. And definitely forget the fact that good and kind and, not to mention, beautiful Saleem is leaving LA for the summer to... Read more