Latine Authors

Afterlife

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents comes “a stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own.” (Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award–winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X)Antonia Vega, the... Read more

Spirit Run

By: Noé Álvarez

Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who “slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives.” A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez... Read more

The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

By: Michael Zapata

Narrated by: Coral Peña

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

*Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction*

A Heartland Booksellers Award Nominee

An NPR Best Book of the Year

A BookPage Best Book of the Year

A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020

A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from the Boston Globe and The Millions

A Best Book of February 2020 at Salon, The Millions, LitHub and Vol 1.... Read more

Ordinary Girls

By: Jaquira Diaz

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author



While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Jaquira Díaz found herself caught between extremes: as her family split apart and her mother battled schizophrenia, she was surrounded by the love of her friends; as she longed for a family and... Read more

Pride

By: Ibi Zoboi

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling starring all characters of color. Don't miss the audiobook,... Read more

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra & Ingrid Rojas ...

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the most dazzling and devastating novels I’ve read in a long time...Readers of Fruit of the Drunken Tree will surely be transformed.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Simultaneously propulsive and poetic, reminiscent of Isabel Allende...Listen to this new author’s voice — she has something powerful to say.”
—Entertainment Weekly

A mesmerizing debut... Read more

Her Body and Other Parties

By: Carmen Maria Machado

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado... Read more

Along Came Amor

By: Alexis Daria

Narrated by: Seraphine Valentine

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Along Came Amor has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. 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

Guava and Grudges

By: Alexis Castellanos

Narrated by: Marisa Blake

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Guava and Grudges by Alexis Castellanos, read by Marisa Blake

Ana Maria Ybarra dreams of becoming a world-famous pastry chef, but dreams have a cost. Her family can barely keep the family business running, let alone pay for culinary school. Ana Maria helps out at the family bakery, Café Y Mas, whenever she can, but they are... Read more

Great Divide, The \ Entre dos aguas (Spanish edition)

By: Cristina Henriquez

Narrated by: Jane Santos

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

De la aclamada autora de El libro de los americanos desconocidos, llega la extraordinaria novela épica de Cristina Henríquez sobre la construcción del canal de Panamá: un hito histórico que partió en dos la historia del continente americano, así como las vidas de quienes lo hicieron posible.Dicen que la construcción del canal será la hazaña más... Read more

It Happened to Anna

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

Narrated by: Sara Matsui-Colby

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This spine-tingling ghost story follows a tween girl who’s being literally haunted by loneliness until a new friendship upends her life. From the bestselling author of the Paola Santiago series!

"Absolutely haunting!"—Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of Mine

A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Sadie Rivera has been haunted all her... Read more

All Friends Are Necessary

By: Tomas Moniz

Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “tender and open-hearted novel," (Nina LaCour, author of Yerba Buena) Tomas Moniz—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Lambda Literary awards—delivers a commanding new story about the power of friendship, community, and the families we create for ourselves.

Efren “Chino” Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping... Read more

Cruzita and the Mariacheros

By: Ashley Granillo

Narrated by: EJ Lavery

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Cruzita is going to be a pop star. All she has to do is win a singing contest at her favorite theme park and get famous. But she can't go to the theme park this summer. Instead, she has to help out at her family's bakery, which has been struggling ever since Tío Chuy died. Cruzita's great-uncle poured his heart into the bakery—the family... Read more

Pages of Mourning

By: Diego Gerard Morrison

Narrated by: Andre Bellido

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 2017 and the crisis of forced disappearances has reached a tipping point after forty-three docent students disappeared and are feared dead. Aureliano Más the Second is a fledgling writer at a lucrative fellowship in Mexico City chaired by his aunt, Rose. When Aureliano was very young, his mother left without reason or trace. Aureliano is... Read more

The Quince Project

By: Jessica Parra

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Castillo Torres, Student Body Association event chair and serial planner, could use a fairy godmother. After a disastrous mishap at her sister’s quinceañera and her mother's unexpected passing, all of Cas’s plans are crumbling. So when a local lifestyle-guru-slash-party-planner opens up applications for the internship of her dreams, Cas sees it... Read more

Chicano Frankenstein

By: Daniel A. Olivas

Narrated by: Thom Rivera

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A modern retelling of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley classic that addresses issues of belonging and assimilation An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant... Read more

American Negra

By: Natasha S. Alford

Narrated by: Natasha S. Alford

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY.In smart, vivid prose, Alford illustrates... Read more

The Diablo's Curse

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Bargain and Most Ardently comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill--about a teen demon who wants to be human, a boy cursed to die young, and the murderous island destined to bury them both.

Dami is a demon determined to cancel every deal they've ever... Read more

Extended Stay

By: Juan Martinez

Narrated by: Lee Osorio

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In a rundown neighborhood in the heart of Las Vegas, the Alicia hotel awakens and beckons to the most vulnerable—those with something to hide.



After his parents are killed in a horrific roadside execution, Alvaro flees his home in Colombia and finds work as a line cook at the seedy hotel. Together with his sister, Carmen, he begins to make a new... Read more

Daughters of Latin America \ Hijas de America Latina (Spanish ed)

By: Sandra Guzman

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra & Maria Victoria Martinez

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

UNA EXTRAORDINARIA SELECCIÓN DE OBRAS ESENCIALES, EN SU MAYORÍA INÉDITAS, QUE CELEBRAN LA FUERZA, EL TALENTO Y LA DIVERSIDAD DE LAS MUJERES LATINAS, Y TIENDEN PUENTES QUE NOS CONECTAN LAS UNAS CON LAS OTRAS.Desde la prosa implacable de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz hasta los poderosos cantos de la chamana María Sabina; desde las luchas... Read more

Call You When I Land

By: Nikki Vargas

Narrated by: Nikki Vargas

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Colorful, vivid storytelling.... for anyone looking for a road to reinvention." —Kristin Newman

A soul-stirring memoir from Colombian immigrant and travel journalist Nikki Vargas, whisking us through the countries that brought her new love, self-discovery, and the inspiration to launch the first international feminist travel magazine, Unearth... Read more

A Dish Best Served Hot

By: Natalie Caña

Narrated by: Valentina Ortiz

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“From a comedic cast of supporting characters to an emphasis on the importance of community... A vibrant second-chance love story about repairing community and romantic connection." —Kirkus Reviews (STARRED)

“It’s a pleasure to watch [Caña's characters] develop over the course of the novel. This is a treat.”—Publishers Weekly (STARRED)

Santiago... Read more

Love of My Lives

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Who hasn’t fantasized about finding a soul mate? In acclaimed author YamileSaied Méndez’s charmingly romantic new novel, a young woman whose perfectpartner literally appeared to her in a dream must search some unusual places—including the truths hidden within her own heart …Madi Ramírez has it all—a thriving career she loves, a successful... Read more