Latine Authors

How to Have Your Life Not Suck

By: Bianca Juarez Olthoff

Narrated by: Bianca Juarez Olthoff

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you ever just want someone to help you figure life out--to tell you how to win at work, what guys to stay away from, and what jeans rock your body shape? This book is the perfect cocktail of sass and down-to-earth guidance to navigate your way to the life you want to live.With so much information at your fingertips, real success, good dates,... Read more

The Latin Hit Maker

By: Rudy Pérez

Narrated by: Rudy Perez

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, music legend Rudy Pérez shares his remarkable journey from a poor refugee kid in Miami to composing the greatest hit songs on the world stage. Named the most successful Latin songwriter in history, Rudy Pérez is the creator behind some of the bestselling records of Beyoncé, Julio Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, and IL Divo.In... Read more

Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana

By: Erika L. Sánchez

Narrated by: Scarlett Bernal Hernández

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalista del National Book Award!
Bestseller del New York Times!
TIMES 2020, los 100 mejores libros juveniles de todos los tiempos

Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños... Read more

Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

By: Guillermo del Toro & Cornelia Funke

Narrated by: Thom Rivera

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller!Fans of dark fairy-tales like The Hazel Wood and The Cruel Prince will relish this atmospheric and absorbing book based on Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed movie.Oscar winning writer-director Guillermo del Toro and bestselling author Cornelia Funke have come together to transform del Toro’s hit movie Pan’s... Read more

Side Chick Nation

By: Aya De Leon

Narrated by: Aya De Leon

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

She's beautiful, unpredictable-and on the run from dangerous men. But this ex-side chick is ready to risk everything to help others in trouble . . . Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing to the Caribbean. Between her special skills-and an eye for very rich and/or very... Read more

Perfectly You

By: Mariana Atencio

Narrated by: Mariana Atencio, Chloe Malaise & Maria Elena Sa...

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this much-needed audiobook, which is part self-help and part autobiography, award-winning correspondent Mariana Atencio digs into what makes each of us special and the ways in which we can become a force for good in a broken world. As a bilingual correspondent for NBC News, Fusion TV, and Univision, Mariana holds a unique perspective—having... Read more

Palau

By: Luis Palau

Narrated by: Cástulo Guerra

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world's most influential religious leaders, Luis Palau, shares his legacy message and spiritual memoir for the first time. Tracing his faith journey from humble beginnings on the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to sharing the good news with millions and counseling world leaders, Luis' life is filled with adventure, risk, and... Read more

Five Midnights

By: Ann Dávila Cardinal

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Almarie Guerra is wonderfully cast to narrate Cardinal's fabulously creepy murder mystery...Guerra's well-paced performance, including her perfect Spanish pronunciation, will keep listeners engaged with the suspenseful narrative, which is equal parts crime investigation, macabre ghost story, and slow-burn romance. For thrills and chills in a... Read more

Definitely Hispanic

By: LeJuan James

Narrated by: LeJuan James

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Jane the Virgin’s celebration of Latinidad and Fresh Off the Boat’s situational humor, Definitely Hispanic is a collection of introspective and witty essays by social media influencer and viral phenomenon LeJuan James about growing up Hispanic in the US.

Social media influencer and viral phenomenon LeJuan James loves being... Read more

Path to the Stars

By: Sylvia Acevedo

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring memoir for young listeners about a Latina rocket scientist whose early life was transformed by joining the Girl Scouts and who currently serves as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.



A meningitis outbreak in their underprivileged neighborhood left Sylvia Acevedo's family forever altered. As she struggled in the aftermath of loss,... Read more

Where We Come From

By: Oscar Cásares

Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

A stunning and timely novel about a Mexican-American family in Brownsville, Texas, that reluctantly becomes involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States.

From a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have dangerous reputations--on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol agents--and Brownsville is no... Read more

American Fairytale

By: Adriana Herrera

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning author Adriana Herrera comes a heart-warming—and seriously hot—contemporary romance in her highly-acclaimed Dreamers series.

“Herrera delivers an emotionally resonant, sensually charged second Dreamers contemporary (after American Dreamer) that will knock readers’ socks off.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“American... Read more

Tears of the Trufflepig

By: Fernando A. Flores

Narrated by: Raul Castillo

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE. One of Tor.com's Best Books of 2019.

"Readers of this breakout work [will leave] thrilled and disoriented in equal measure." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

One of The Daily Beast's Best Summer Beach Reads of 2019, one of Lit Hub and The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, one of... Read more

Burro Genius

By: Victor Villaseñor

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When Victor Villaseñor stood at the podium and looked at the group of teachers amassed before him, he became enraged. He had never spoken in public before. His mind was flooded with childhood memories filled with humiliation, misunderstanding, and abuse at the hands of his teachers. With his heart pounding, he began to speak of these incidents.... Read more

The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez

By: Aaron Bobrow-Strain

Narrated by: Aaron Bobrow-Strain & Frankie Corzo

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

**One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019**

This program includes a chapter read by the author.

What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system?

When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother... Read more

Retablos

By: Octavio Solis

Narrated by: Octavio Solis

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes—a memoir about growing up brown at the US/Mexico borderThe tradition of retablo painting dates back to the Spanish Conquest in both Mexico and the US Southwest. Humble ex-votos, retablos are usually painted on repurposed metal, and in one small tableau they tell the story of a crisis and... Read more

Optic Nerve

By: Maria Gainza

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her.



In Optic Nerve, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo's bodies.... Read more

Sabrina & Corina

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands. 

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they... Read more

American Road Trip

By: Patrick Flores-Scott

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartwrenching YA coming of age story about three siblings on a roadtrip in search of healing. With a strong family, the best friend a guy could ask for, and a budding romance with the girl of his dreams, life shows promise for Teodoro "T" Avila. But he takes some hard hits the summer before senior year when his nearly perfect brother, Manny,... Read more

Bodega Dreams

By: Ernesto Quinonez

Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In a stunning narrative combining the gritty rhythms of Junot Diaz with the noir genius of Walter Mosley, Bodega Dreams pulls us into Spanish Harlem, where the word is out: Willie Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange only for... Read more

Dealing in Dreams

By: Lilliam Rivera

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Outsiders meets Mad Max: Fury Road in this fast-paced dystopian novel about sisterhood and the cruel choices people are forced to make in order to survive. At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets. Sixteen-year-old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City. That role brings with it violent throwdowns and access to the hottest... Read more

American Dreamer

By: Adriana Herrera

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fresh and vital new voice in romance.”—Entertainment Weekly

From award-winning author Adriana Herrera comes a novel hailed as one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Romance Novels of 2019 and a TODAY Show Hot Summer Read.

No one ever said big dreams come easy

For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds... Read more

What Does a Princess Really Look Like

By: Mark Loewen

Narrated by: Christina M. Martin

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Chloe dreams of being a ballerina princess. But today she is not practicing her twirls. Today, she crafts her very own princess. The project quickly becomes more than a simple princess drawing. Chloe discovers that princesses are not just about beauty and glitter. They are strong, vocal, and determined. And, as she shares her work with her two... Read more

An Unlikely Journey

By: Julian Castro

Narrated by: Julian Castro

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Julian Castro, 2020 Presidential candidate, keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, and former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story.

In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father comes a candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America. In many... Read more