Audiobooks by Puerto Rican Authors

Sleeping with the Frenemy

Vega Family Love Stories: Book #3

By: Natalie Caña
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

“Irresistible… A vibrant second-chance love story about repairing community and romantic connection.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on A Dish Best Served Hot

The third book in the riotously funny Vega Family Love Stories finds self-assured firefighter Leo Vega trying to reignite the embers of a love gone cold.

Leo Vega’s love life has been on... Read more

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jimenez
Narrated by: Claire Jimenez
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

“Jiménez’s debut is funny and moving. A Puerto Rican girl living in Staten Island, Ruthy, disappeared on the way home from school. Years later, her sisters think they’ve found her and plan to bring her home. I loved everything about this. Read more

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez \ Que le pasó a Ruthy Ramírez (SP ed)

By: Claire Jimenez
Narrated by: Jenyvette Vega
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Las Ramírez de Stanten Islan orbitan alrededor de la ausencia. Cuando Ruthy, a los trece años, desapareció sin dejar rastro después de un entrenamiento de atletismo, su familia quedó marcada y deshecha. Una noche, doce años después, Jessica, la hermana mayor, ve en la pantalla de su televisión a una mujer que aparece en Catfight, un reality show... Read more

Blackouts

A Novel

By: Justin Torres
Narrated by: Ozzie Rodriguez & Torian Brackett
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

“A deep meditation on queerness, memory, and the nature of history. Moments of transcendent beauty and stark reality often share the same page. Read more

Mother Island

A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico

By: Jamie Figueroa
Narrated by: Jamie Figueroa & Kelle Rae Oien
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself • "A lushly written, deeply felt investigation into the meanings of home, lineage and selfhood." —Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Body Work and Girlhood

Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who... Read more

High-Risk Homosexual

A Memoir

By: Edgar Gomez
Narrated by: Edgar Gomez
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

"I've always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas. In particular, effeminate queer men represent a simultaneous rejection and embrace of masculinity . . . In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold... Read more

When Trying to Return Home

Stories

By: Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Narrated by: Psalm Morant & Andréa Agosto
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in this collection dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free from her damaging influence during a desperate and disastrous attempt to rescue her brother from foster care. A man, his wife, and his mistress each... Read more

Ordinary Girls

A Memoir

By: Jaquira Diaz
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

“Too often, those of us who grow up below the federal poverty line spend the rest of our lives erasing ourselves. If we manage to migrate out of poverty, we do so at a cost. The gatekeepers of academia, and of literature, often only want to hear our stories if we make a spectacle of our people, or if we tell our stories in the language of the... Read more

Olga Dies Dreaming

A Novel

By: Xochitl Gonzalez
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Armando Riesco & Inés del Castillo
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“Olga’s mother abandoned her family to fight for Puerto Rico’s liberation, and since then both Olga and her brother Prieto have tried to fill the void she left. Olga seeks attention and approval in meaningless relationships, while Prieto seeks approval and acclaim as a politician. Both finally face truths about their revolutionary mother and... Read more

My Beloved World

By: Sonia Sotomayor
Narrated by: Rita Moreno
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary... Read more

Zero Saints

By: Gabino Iglesias
Narrated by: Jean-Marc Berne
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Enforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend's head and feed the kid's fingers to...something. Their message is clear: this is their territory, now. But Fernando isn't put down... Read more

Coyote Songs

By: Gabino Iglesias
Narrated by: Amanda Alcántara, Fernando Avila, Jean-Marc Berne, Nicholas A. Ortiz, Ann Osmond & Jane Santos
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

In this mosaic horror/crime novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest. A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the Mother of Chaos. A boy joins corpse... Read more

A Dish Best Served Hot

Vega Family Love Stories: Book #2

By: Natalie Caña
Narrated by: Valentina Ortiz
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

“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

A Proposal They Can't Refuse

Vega Family Love Stories: Book #1

By: Natalie Caña
Narrated by: Valentina Ortiz
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

“Puerto-Rican chef Kamilah and Irish distiller Liam, once childhood friends-turned enemies, are forced to fake an engagement to appease the fates, otherwise known as their cunning, geriatric grandfathers. Featuring a boisterous family, detailed descriptions of whiskey, and sexy tension between the two leads, Natalie Caña establishes herself as an... Read more

¡Solo Ayuda!

Como construir un mundo mejor

By: Sonia Sotomayor
Narrated by: Eva Longoria
Length: 14 minutes

Todas las noches, cuando Sonia se va a dormir, Mami le hace la misma pregunta: ¿Qué hicistepara ayudar hoy? Y como al igual que su mami, Sonia quiere ayudar a su comunidad, siempre se asegura de tener una buena respuesta a la pregunta de Mami.
 
En una historia inspirada en los deseos de su propia familia por ayudar a los demás, Sonia Sotomayor,... Read more

Just Help!

How to Build a Better World

By: Sonia Sotomayor
Narrated by: Kerry Washington & Sonia Sotomayor
Length: 11 minutes

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Just Ask! comes a fun and meaningful story about making the world--and your community--better, one action at a time, that asks the question: Who will you help today?

Every night when Sonia goes to bed, Mami asks her the same question: How did you help today? And since Sonia wants to help her... Read more

A Woman of Endurance

A Novel

By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory’s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to... Read more

Woman of Endurance, A \ Indómita (Spanish Edition)

By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Narrated by: Yetta Gottesman
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

El poder inolvidable de Beloved de Toni Morrison y la atmósfera evocativa de A Respectable Trade de Phillippa Gregory se combinan en esta revolucionaria novela de Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, que ilustra un aspecto poco conocido de la historia –el comercio transatlántico de personas esclavizadas en Puerto Rico– narrado a través de la experiencia de... Read more

The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho

By: Anjanette Delgado
Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Two divorces have taught Mariela Estevez that she's better suited to being a mistress than a wife. Whose heart needs all that "forever after" trouble? Still, her affair with her married lover, Hector, has become problematic—especially because he's also a tenant in her apartment building in the heart of Miami's Calle Ocho in Little Havana. But... Read more

Ordinary Girls \ Muchachas ordinarias (Spanish edition)

Memorias

By: Jaquira Díaz
Narrated by: Maria Victoria Martinez
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Para las muchachas que fuimos, para la muchacha que fui, para las muchachas de todo el mundo que son como nosotras solíamos ser. Para las muchachas que nunca se vieron reflejadas en los libros. Para las muchachas ordinarias.Jaquira Díaz siempre se encontró entre extremos en lugares permeados por la violencia. A pesar de añorar tener una familia... Read more