Every year during September 15 – October 15, the US highlights the contributions of more than 60 million Hispanic Americans, Latinos, Latinas, and Latinx-identifying people to culture and society.

Here are some recent and upcoming releases from our Latinx authors and narrators.  Across all genres, there is something for everyone. Hit play on any of these titles all year round!

We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People

Written by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson

Performed by Christine Anne-Roche

Published by Recorded Books

“Nemonte’s cause is all our cause.” – Leonardo Dicaprio, Actor and Activist

From a fearless internationally acclaimed activist comes an impassioned memoir about an Indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest. Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of Amazon Frontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of indigenous peoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself.

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The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Written by Julia Alvarez

Performed by Alma Cuervo

Published by Recorded Books

Named a Most Anticipated Book by the New York Times

The Cemetery of Untold Stories asks: Whose stories get to be told, and who’s buried? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories. Julia Alvarez reminds us that the narratives of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.

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Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice

Written by Anna Lapera

Performed by Allison Aguilar

Published by Recorded Books

Most Anticipated Middle Grade Reads of 2024: Teen Librarian Toolbox, School Library Journal

From debut author Anna Lapera comes Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice—a novel full of spunk and activist heart.

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The Girl, the Ring, & The Baseball Bat

Written by Camille Gomera-Tavarez

Performed by Amanda Alcántara, Melania Luisa, and André Santana

Published by Recorded Books

Rosie, Caro, and Zeke—and their talismans—find themselves intertwined in a magical, hilarious, and whip-smart Outsiders for the modern day, written by Pura Belpré Honor Winner Camille Gomera-Tavarez.

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Familia

Written by Lauren E. Rico

Performed by Frankie Corzo, Robb Moreira, and Victoria Villarreal

Published by Recorded Books

The Daily Mail Best New Books

Indie Next Pick

What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compelling, emotional novel, two young women are brought together by a genealogy test and a haunting question that shakes their understanding of what family is and who they truly are.

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Accordion Eulogies

Written by Noé Álvarez

Performed by Asa Siegel

Published by Highbridge

Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument

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Monstrilio

Written by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Performed by Victoria Villarreal and Johnny Rey Diaz

Published by Highbridge

Winner of the 2024 Balcones Fiction Prize

A thought-provoking meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty, Gerardo Sámano Córdova blends bold imagination and evocative prose with deep emotional rigor. Told in four acts that span the globe from Brooklyn to Berlin, Monstrilio offers, with uncanny clarity, a cathartic and precise portrait of being human.

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Pages of Mourning

Written by Diego Gerard Morrison

Performed by Andre Bellido

Published by Highbridge

It’s 2017 and the crisis of forced disappearances has reached a tipping point after forty-three docent students disappeared and are feared dead. Aureliano Más the Second is a fledgling writer at a lucrative fellowship in Mexico City chaired by his aunt, Rose. When Aureliano was very young, his mother left without reason or trace. Aureliano is attempting to write a novel that mirrors his mother’s unexplained disappearance while shattering Magical Realism as a genre in the process. It doesn’t help though, that he’s named after the protagonist of a touchstone of the Magical Realist canon, and raised in the mythical town of Comala.

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Reinbou

Written by Pedro Cabiya

Performed by Angela Juarez

Published by Tantor Audio

The basis of the 2017 film adaptation by Andrés Curbelo and David Maler

Told through the eyes of a child and a varied cast of friends, family, and neighbors, Reinbou explores the consequences of political and societal upheaval, corruption, and violence in modern Dominican society.

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Candelaria

Written by Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Performed by Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Published by Tantor Audio

A Best Book of 2023 – USA Today, Vogue.com, HipLatina, Largehearted Boy

A sweeping, mystical novel following three generations of women as they grapple with muddled pasts and predetermined futures, Candelaria is a story of love that eats us alive.

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The Follower of Flowers (Flowers of Prophecy, Book 2)

Written by Natalia Hernandez

Performed by Ana Osorio

Published by Tantor Audio

As a child, the Name-Bearer had one duty; to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy from the Flowers of Prophecy. But on the day of the Naming Ceremony, the Flowers refused. They claim another child was born more worthy of the Naming, and the Name-Bearer must find him and deliver him to them in order to restore peace to her land.

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