Latine Authors

Cuba in My Pocket

By: Adrianna Cuevas

Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 solidifies Castro’s power in Cuba, twelve-year-old Cumba’s family makes the difficult decision to send him to Florida alone. Faced with the prospect of living in another country by himself, he tries to remember the sound of his father’s clarinet, the smell of his mother’s lavender perfume. Life in the... Read more

When We Make It

By: Elisabet Velasquez

Narrated by: Elisabet Velasquez

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"The energy. The clarity. The beauty. Elisabet Velasquez brings it all. . . . Her voice is FIRE!"—NYT bestselling and award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson
 
An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it means to "make it,” for readers of Nicholasa Mohr and Elizabeth Acevedo.

Sarai is a... Read more

Mi Casa Is My Home

By: Laurenne Sala

Narrated by: Marisa Blake

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Bienvenidos to Lucía’s home. Lucía lives in her casa with her big, loud, beautiful familia, and she’s going to show you around! From la puerta, where Abuela likes to wave to the neighbors and wait for packages from Puerto Rico or Spain, to la cocina, where Lucía watches her Mamá turn empty pots into soups and arroces, to el patio, where Lucía... 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

A Lot Like Adios

By: Alexis Daria

Narrated by: Seraphine Valentine

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

""Alexis Daria's A Lot Like Adiós is a charming, sexy spitfire of a novel! Between Mich and Gabe's crackling dialogue and their palpable yearning, I fell hard and fast for this book, racing through its pages until I finally closed it with an overflowing heart and a deep happy sigh. Romance readers, this is your new favorite book!"" --Emily... Read more

I Was Never the First Lady

By: Wendy Guerra

Narrated by: Krizia Bajos & Frankie Corzo

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath.Nadia Guerra’s mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she’s an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn’t quite... Read more

L.A. Weather

By: María Amparo Escandón

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick

"Narrator Frankie Corzo's lovely smooth voice eloquently depicts the mostly female characters in this novel . . . This audiobook enthralls the listener." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winning review

“There’s a 100% chance you’ll be paging through this book to uncover the secrets and... Read more

Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros, Sofia Leal De La Rosa & Carlot...

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past in this poignant and gorgeously told tale masterfully written by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street, in a dual-language edition.

As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in... Read more

Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

By: Ada Ferrer

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 23 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY

“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of... Read more

Small Town Monsters

By: Diana Rodriguez Wallach

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Conjuring meets The Vow! This terrifying audiobook tells the story of a girl, a dark angel, and the cult hellbent on taking over her small, coastal town.

Vera Martinez wants nothing more than to escape Roaring Creek and her parents' reputation as demonologists. Not to mention she's the family outcast, lacking her parents' innate abilities,... Read more

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

Narrated by: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The founder of Latina Rebels and a “Latinx Activist You Should Know”(Teen Vogue) arms women of color with the tools and knowledge they need to find success on their own terms  

For generations, Brown girls have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism, often feeling alone in the struggle. By founding Latina Rebels,... Read more

The Kissing Bug

By: Daisy Hernández

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Who does the United States take care of and who does it leave behind? This is a riveting investigation of infectious disease, poverty, racism, and for-profit health care—and the harm caused by decades of silence.Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an... Read more

Zonia's Rain Forest

By: Juana Martinez-Neal

Narrated by: Sisa Quispe & Cinthya Gonzales Perez

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Zonia’s home is the Amazon rain forest, where it is always green and full of life. Every morning, the rain forest calls to Zonia, and every morning, she answers. She visits the sloth family, greets the giant anteater, and runs with the speedy jaguar. But one morning, the rain forest calls to her in a troubled voice. How will Zonia answer?... 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

Gordo

By: Jaime Cortez

Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. A young, probably gay, boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler’s mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood, fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by... Read more

The President and the Frog

By: Carolina De Robertis

Narrated by: Carolina De Robertis

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A "sublime and gripping novel ... about hope: that within the world's messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing" (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe), from the acclaimed author of Cantoras.

“In the president’s excruciating (and sometimes humorous) encounters with his strangely healing frog ... De... Read more

Of Love and Other Demons

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Christopher Salazar

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria—the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport—is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like... Read more

Trejo

By: Danny Trejo & Donal Logue

Narrated by: Danny Trejo & Donal Logue

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “celebration of a life fully lived” (Reyna Grande, author of The Distance Between Us), discover the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo’s journey from crime, prison, addiction, and loss—it’s “enough to make you believe in the possibility of a Hollywood ending” (The New York Times Book Review).

On screen, Danny... Read more

The Mirror Season

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Graciela Cristales's whole world changes after she and a boy she barely knows are assaulted at the same party. She loses her gift for making enchanted pan dulce. Neighborhood trees vanish overnight, while mirrored glass appears, bringing reckless magic with it. And Ciela is haunted by what happened to her and what happened to the boy whose name... Read more

God Is Your Defender

By: Rosie Rivera

Narrated by: Rosie Rivera

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Businesswoman, television personality, and survivor Rosie Rivera shares how to lean on God as defender in the midst of life’s hurts and wounds while also grappling with the strong desire for justice and retaliation.Revenge is one of our deepest instincts. When we have been hurt or when something has been stolen from us, whether that be our... Read more

Rain God

By: Arturo Islas

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers."" — Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird’s Daughter""Rivers, rivulets, fountains... Read more

On the Hook

By: Francisco X. Stork

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"You know I'm coming. You're dead already."Hector has always minded his own business, working hard to make his way to a better life someday. He's the chess team champion, helps the family with his job at the grocery, and teaches his little sister to shoot hoops overhand.Until Joey singles him out. Joey, whose older brother, Chavo, is head of the... Read more

The Five Wounds

By: Kirstin Valdez Quade

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With... 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