Latine Authors

Yoga for Connecting Mind, Body, and Soul

By: Lana Wedmore

Narrated by: Moxie LaBouche

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Restore Your Balance in Just Ten Minutes a Day

Do you ever wake up feeling stiff and sore? Do you sit at a desk all day and lack the energy to get up and move? Do you know you need exercise but you can't find the time? Then Yoga for Connecting, Mind, Body, and Soul is for you. In ten minutes a day, this book will help you: 1) Restore your body's... Read more

The Everything I Have Lost

By: Sylvia Zeleny

Narrated by: Lori Felipe-Barkin

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2022 Amazing Audiobooks for Teens Selected List nomination.A coming-of-age story set in today’s Juarez.12-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico.Life in Juarez is strange. People say it's the murder capital of the world. Dad’s gone a lot. They can’t play outside... Read more

Indivisible

By: Daniel Aleman

Narrated by: Adan Rocha

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation.

Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the fear that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back... Read more

Forever Young

By: Dr. Jill Helms

Narrated by: Dr. Jill Helms

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Longevity: the ambition of kings, super villains,... Read more

Mona

By: Pola Oloixarac

Narrated by: Sofia Willingham

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity—a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings—she pokes fun at American academic culture and its... Read more

America's Dream

By: Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

""Lyrical [and] haunting, América’s liberating epiphany will have readers . . . on their feet and cheering."" — Washington PostFrom the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, América’s Dream explores the ever-shifting definition of what it means to be American and exemplifies the spirit of every immigrant who has dared to... Read more

Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

By: Laekan Zea Kemp

Narrated by: Andy Aragón & Arami Malaise´

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter meets Emergency Contact in this stunning story of first love, familial expectations, the power of food, and finding where you belong.

Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her mom and dad have different plans—leaving Pen to choose... 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

Páradais

By: Fernanda Melchor

Narrated by: Karina Gidi

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

«Fernanda Melchor explora la violencia y la desigualdad en esta novela brutal. Lo hace con una destreza técnica deslumbrante, oído absoluto para la oralidad y precisión de neurocirujana para la crueldad. Páradais es un breve e inexorable descenso al infierno». Mariana Enríquez En un conjunto residencial de lujo, dos adolescentes inadaptados se... 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

What's Mine and Yours

By: Naima Coster

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

An instant New York Times bestseller!

A USA Today bestseller!

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Amazon • Esquire • Marie Claire • Refinery29 • Kirkus • Redbook • Ms. Magazine • The Millions • Undomesticated Magazine • Paperback Paris

"A once-every-few-years reading experience."—Mary Beth Keane, New York... 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

Thriving in the Fight

By: Denise Padín Collazo

Narrated by: Carmen Cancél

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Social justice work is more crucial than ever, but it can be physically and emotionally draining. Longtime activist Denise Collazo offers three keys to help Hispanic women keep their focus, morale, and energy high.

Doing the work of social change is hard. Waking up every day to take on the biggest challenges of our time can be overwhelming, and... Read more

A Spy in the Struggle

By: Aya De Leon

Narrated by: Aya De Leon

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Success used to be this savvy lawyer’s only rule. But now she’s putting everything on the line to bring a killer corporation to justice.Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law. So when herprestigious New York law firm is raided by the FBI,... 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

Pablo: Apostol a las naciones

By: César Vidal

Narrated by: Reynaldo Infante

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

El presente libro no es una obra de teología ni un comentario del los Hechos o de las cartas paulinas—aunque las referencias a ambas áreas resulten ineludibles—sino de Historia. Su metodología es la histórica y, de manera muy especial, la utilizada por la investigación de la Historia Antigua. Con todo, a pesar de su carácter histórico, estas... Read more

The Transmigration of Bodies

By: Yuri Herrera

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, the Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but the Redeemer ventures out into the city’s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.Yuri... Read more

What Would Frida Do?

By: Arianna Davis

Narrated by: Marisa Blake

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Revered as much for her fierce spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a brazen symbol of daring creativity. She was a woman ahead of her time whose paintings have earned her generations of admirers around the globe. But perhaps her greatest work of art was her own life. What Would Frida Do? explores the feminist icon's... 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

This Is How We Fly

By: Anna Meriano

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

*"Truly enchanting."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A loose retelling of Cinderella, about a high-school graduate who--after getting grounded for the whole summer--joins a local Quidditch league and finds her footing, perfect for fans of Dumplin', Fangirl, and everyone who's read and adored Harry Potter.

17-year-old vegan feminist Ellen... Read more

The Taste of Sugar

By: Marisel Vera

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart-wrenching novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish-American War.



It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced... Read more

A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

By: Laura Taylor Namey

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

SELECTED AS A YALSA 2022 AMAZING AUDIO FOR YOUNG ADULTS!

A New York Times bestseller
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club YA Pick

Love & Gelato meets Don’t Date Rosa Santos in this charming, heartfelt story following a Miami girl who unexpectedly finds love—and herself—in a small English town.

For Lila Reyes, a summer in England was... Read more

Someone Like Me

By: Julissa Arce

Narrated by: Julissa Arce

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

A remarkable true story from social justice advocate and national bestselling author Julissa Arce about her journey to belong in America while growing up undocumented in Texas.

Born in the picturesque town of Taxco, Mexico, Julissa Arce was left behind for months at a time with her two sisters, a nanny, and her grandma while her parents worked... Read more

Finding Latinx

By: Paola Ramos

Narrated by: Paola Ramos

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million... Read more