Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month Adult Fiction 2023

I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat

By: Christopher Gonzalez
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Tony Chiroldes & Anthony Medina
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

“It’s wildly delightful to have such a slender short story collection provide a full course meal of emotion: savory, salty, sour, sweet, tender and all-around charming. These are portraits of hungry men--craving touch, love, and acceptance--and finding it in friends and family (and food). True to the title, I found myself satisfied by the end of... Read more

Cantoras

A novel

By: Carolina De Robertis
Narrated by: Carolina De Robertis
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

"Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution—and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again—either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside this song of a story." —Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award–winning author

From the highly acclaimed,... Read more

Loteria

By: Cynthia Pelayo
Narrated by: Lori Barkin, Leonel Garza & Andrew Joseph Perez
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Award-winning author Cynthia "Cina" Pelayo's acclaimed short story collection Lotería, now with added illustrations and new bonus stories...as well as an exclusive preview for her upcoming sequel to CHILDREN OF CHICAGO, THE SHOEMAKER'S MAGICIAN (out this Spring).
The Mexican board game of Lotería is a game of chance—similar to bingo. However, in... Read more

Sabrina & Corina

Stories

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Narrated by: Various
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

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

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

A Novel

By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Bernardo de Paula
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin... Read more

Neruda on the Park

A Novel

By: Cleyvis Natera
Narrated by: Imani Russell, Annette Amelia Oliveira & Alma Cuervo
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification

“Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an... Read more

Of Women and Salt

A Novel

By: Gabriela Garcia
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

“Gabriela Garcia has delivered a gripping novel that moves between modern-day Miami and revolutionary and post-revolution Cuba to tell the stories of four generations of women whose past traumas continue to play out in current times. It’s a story of strength, immigration, and the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters. Of Women and Salt... Read more

La hija española (The Spanish Daughter)

By: Lorena Hughes
Narrated by: Marta Moreno, Marta Begué & Eva Coll
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Puri ha heredado dos cosas de su padre: la pasión por el chocolate y una plantación de cacao situada en Vinces, Ecuador, la ciudad conocida como el «París Chiquito». Aunque no ha visto a su padre desde que era un bebé, este le ha dejado una parte de la plantación que tenía. También les ha dejado su parte a los tres hijos ilegítimos que tenía.... Read more

The Spanish Daughter

By: Lorena Hughes
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Set against the lush backdrop of early twentieth century Ecuador and inspired by the real-life history of the coastal town known as the birthplace of cacao, this captivating novel from the award-winning author of The Sisters of Alameda
Street tells the story of a resourceful young chocolatier who must impersonate a man in order to survive …
As a... Read more

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

A Novel

By: Angie Cruz
Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell & Rossmery Almonte
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

“An outstanding novel that made my laugh, cringe, cry, and tell all of my friends. This is MUST LISTEN audiobook with incredible narration that brings the highly original format of the book to life more than any book I've listened to. I loved this book. Read more

La Casa en Mango Street

By: Sandra Cisneros
Narrated by: Liliana Valenzuela
Length: TBA

Celebrado desde su publicación inicial como el relato clásico de una muchada del barrio latino de Chicago, La casa en Mango Street has sido elogadio por los críticos, acogido por los niños y sus padres y abuelos y estudiado por todas partes, desde escuelas primarias en las grandes ciudades hasta universidades por todo el país. Ahora por primera... Read more

The House on Mango Street

By: Sandra Cisneros
Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

In hardcover for the first time--on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication--the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters. Read more

The Enchanted Hacienda

By: J.C. Cervantes
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

“This summer’s sweetest confection is J.C. Cervantes’s The Enchanted Hacienda. This book is like dipping your brain into a jar of serotonin.” —New York Times Book Review

"This is a contemporary coming-of-age story, with a sprinkling of magic, that’s one of my most anticipated reads of the year." —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author,... Read more

Where There Was Fire

By: John Manuel Arias
Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

"Bilingual Spanish/English audiobook narrator Sananes enlivens Costa Rican American poet/writer Arias’ multigenerational saga." —Booklist

A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias

Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s... Read more

The Night Traveler

A Novel

By: Armando Lucas Correa
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl.

Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to... Read more

The Witch and the Vampire

By: Francesca Flores
Narrated by: Bailey Carr & Mary Helen Gallucci
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Ava and Kaye used to be best friends—until one night two years ago when vampires broke through the magical barrier protecting their town and, in the ensuing attack, Kaye’s mother was killed and Ava was turned into a vampire. Since then, Ava has been trapped in her house. Her mother Eugenia needs her: Ava still has her witch powers, and Eugenia... Read more

The Faraway World

Stories

By: Patricia Engel
Narrated by: Gisela Chipé, Frankie Corzo, Inés del Castillo, Cynthia Farrell, Dominique Franceschi, George Newbern, Anthony Rey Perez, Aida Reluzco, Alejandra Reynoso, Gary Tiedemann & Patricia Engel
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

*A New York Times Editors’ Choice*

From the author of Infinite Country—a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick—comes a “rich and compelling” (The Washington Post) collection of ten exquisite, award-winning short stories set across the Americas and linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise.

Two Colombian... Read more

The Haunting of Alejandra

A Novel by V. Castro

By: V. Castro
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

“Poignant, relatable and perfectly scary. Raquel Beattie's narration was on point. Don't listen late at night! Read more

Ana María and The Fox

The Luna Sisters: Book #1

By: Liana De la Rosa
Narrated by: Ruby Hunt
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

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

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 season.
 
Ana María Luna Valdés has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect... Read more

My Name Is Iris

A Novel

By: Brando Skyhorse
Narrated by: Alejandra Reynoso
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

“For second-generation Mexican American Iris, success is a well-paying office job (even if her coworkers think she and her one Latinx coworker are the same person), a house in a nice neighborhood without sidewalks or chain fences or front-yard barbeques, and being able to provide a comfortable life for her daughter even when she leaves her... Read more