Featured Article: 10 of the Best Hispanic Authors to Listen to Right Now
This list is in no way exhaustive, but it is a great place to discover—or rediscover—exceptional Hispanic writers, many with extensive back catalogs. It’s gratifying to hear these works in the language in which they were written, with gorgeous renditions en español. And while you’ll have plenty of their work to listen to, we also suggest you learn about the lives of each author. Their stories include struggles as immigrants, expatriates, and refugees.
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A Long Petal of the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border....
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Impressive
- By Jean on 05-24-20
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A Long Petal of the Sea
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-21-20
- Language: English
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Violeta
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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This sweeping novel from the New York Times best-selling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans 100 years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the 20th century....
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Not my favorite....
- By Pat Brett on 02-14-22
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Violeta
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-25-22
- Language: English
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Violeta (Spanish Edition)
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Javiera Gazitua
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios....
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Parece que te lo lee ella!
- By silviaolmedo on 02-04-22
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Violeta (Spanish Edition)
- Narrated by: Javiera Gazitua
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-25-22
- Language: Spanish
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The House of the Spirits
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera, Marisol Ramirez
- Length: 18 hrs and 51 mins
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The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man....
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Slogging through uninspired narration
- By DebO on 06-28-18
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The House of the Spirits
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera, Marisol Ramirez
- Length: 18 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-29-16
- Language: English
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La casa de los espíritus [The House of the Spirits]
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Javiera Gazitua, Senén Arancibia
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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La primera novela de Isabel Allende narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes. El despótico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro....
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Cuento mágico sobre una familia y su país
- By Zoori on 07-01-16
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La casa de los espíritus [The House of the Spirits]
- Narrated by: Javiera Gazitua, Senén Arancibia
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 10-30-14
- Language: Spanish
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Open Veins of Latin America
- Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- By: Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende - Foreward
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
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Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America....
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Excellent history from Columbus to Allende.
- By kwdayboise (Kim Day) on 04-25-17
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Open Veins of Latin America
- Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-06-09
- Language: English
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Daughter of Fortune
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy....
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An adventure to the California Gold Fields of 1849
- By Jean on 07-20-20
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Daughter of Fortune
- Narrated by: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Series: Daughter of Fortune, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-19-20
- Language: English
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Paula (Spanish Edition)
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Javiera Gazitua, Isabel Allende
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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Un autorretrato de insólita emotividad al tiempo que exquisita recreación de la sensibilidad de las mujeres de nuestra época....
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emociones compartidas
- By Anonymous User on 09-02-17
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Paula (Spanish Edition)
- Narrated by: Javiera Gazitua, Isabel Allende
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-12-17
- Language: Spanish
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The Japanese Lover
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Joanna Gleason
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco....
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My first negative review
- By Karen O'Byrne on 11-11-15
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The Japanese Lover
- Narrated by: Joanna Gleason
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 11-03-15
- Language: English
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Largo pétalo de mar [Long Sea Petal]
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Jordi Boixaderas
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia....
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Hermoso!!
- By Elizabeth Vinelli de Rivera on 05-27-19
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Largo pétalo de mar [Long Sea Petal]
- Narrated by: Jordi Boixaderas
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-21-19
- Language: Spanish
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La Ciudad de las Bestias [The City of the Beasts]
- Memorias del Águila y del Jaguar Serie, Libro 1 [Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar Series, Book 1]
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Camila Valenzuela
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Alexander Cold es un muchacho americano de quince años que parte al Amazonas con su abuela Kate, periodista especializada en viajes. La expedición se interna en la selva en busca de una extraña bestia gigantesca. Junto a su compañera de viaje, Alex conocerá un mundo sorprendente....
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Una historia de fantasía y aventura.
- By federnais2000 on 11-06-19
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La Ciudad de las Bestias [The City of the Beasts]
- Memorias del Águila y del Jaguar Serie, Libro 1 [Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar Series, Book 1]
- Narrated by: Camila Valenzuela
- Series: Memorias del Águila y del Jaguar, Book 1, La Ciudad de las Bestias [The City of the Beasts], Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-15-18
- Language: Spanish
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El amante japonés [The Japanese Lover]
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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La historia de amor entre la joven Alma Velasco y el jardinero japonés Ichimei conduce al lector por un recorrido a través de diversos escenarios que van desde la Polonia....
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Bonita historia, pero nada es lo que piensas,
- By Itamar Grau on 11-17-19
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El amante japonés [The Japanese Lover]
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-19-16
- Language: Spanish
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The Soul of a Woman
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Gisela Chipe
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl....
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Disappointing
- By Heather Saffell on 03-06-21
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The Soul of a Woman
- Narrated by: Gisela Chipe
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-02-21
- Language: English
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Eva Luna
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snakebitten gardener - born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life....
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Once upon a time...
- By Anonymous User on 12-14-19
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Eva Luna
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-12-19
- Language: English
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Portrait in Sepia
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Isabel Allende, Blair Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment....
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Fantastical
- By Lety on 03-05-22
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Portrait in Sepia
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Isabel Allende, Blair Brown
- Series: Daughter of Fortune, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-19-20
- Language: English
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Más allá del invierno [In the Midst of Winter]
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Camila Valenzuela
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"....
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loved it!
- By Bree on 11-25-17
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Más allá del invierno [In the Midst of Winter]
- Narrated by: Camila Valenzuela
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-01-17
- Language: Spanish
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In the Midst of Winter
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Alma Cuervo
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his 60s, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn....
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Typical Allende, rich, warm, enticing.
- By Carla Espinoza on 11-13-17
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In the Midst of Winter
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Alma Cuervo
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-31-17
- Language: English
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El Reino del Dragón de Oro [The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon]
- Memorias del Águila y del Jaguar Serie, Libro 2
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Camila Valenzuela
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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En El Reino del Dragón de Oro, Isabel Allende nos invita a entrar en una doble aventura. Alexander Cold, su abuela Kate y Nadia Santos, los protagonistas de La Ciudad de las Bestias, han vuelto a reunirse....
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El Reino del Dragon de Oro
- By Luz Maria Andrade on 10-10-20
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El Reino del Dragón de Oro [The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon]
- Memorias del Águila y del Jaguar Serie, Libro 2
- Narrated by: Camila Valenzuela
- Series: Memorias del Águila y del Jaguar, Book 2, La Ciudad de las Bestias [The City of the Beasts], Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 10-25-18
- Language: Spanish
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Island Beneath the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: S. Epatha Merkerson
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
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Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarit - known as Tt - is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage....
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excellent listen
- By Stevon on 06-27-10
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Island Beneath the Sea
- A Novel
- Narrated by: S. Epatha Merkerson
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-27-10
- Language: English
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De amor y de sombra [Of Love and Shadows]
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Maria Ignacia Hojas
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Ésta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvándose así de una existencia vulgar....
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Excelente novela
- By nadia on 11-02-19
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De amor y de sombra [Of Love and Shadows]
- Narrated by: Maria Ignacia Hojas
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-18-17
- Language: Spanish
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