By: Julia Alvarez / Narrated By: Noemi de la Puente, Alma Cuervo, Bianca Carnacho, Melanie Martinez
Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
…Wow… what can I say, but Wow…?
In the Time of the Butterflies
Mexican WhiteBoy
By: Matt de la Peña / Narrated By: Henry Leyva
Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
Passionate without being all “Fraught-with-Angst”
Back in Society
Series: The Poor Relation, Book 6
By: Marion Chesney / Narrated By: Davina Porter
Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
Not the most engaging of heroines, but the poor relations more than make up for that!
Mother Tongue
Animal Farm
By: George Orwell / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham
Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
Soooo harrowing it made my heart and soul hurt…!
Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue
Series: The Poor Relation, Book 5
By: Marion Chesney / Narrated By: Davina Porter
Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
An adorable heroine, a misguided plot, and plenty of schemes—what could go wrong? HA!
We Set the Dark on Fire
Series: We Set the Dark on Fire, Book 1
By: Tehlor Kay Mejia / Narrated By: Kyla Garcia
Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
Kinda on the fence about this one—has its pluses, has its minuses…
The Testaments
Series: The Handmaid's Tale, Book 2
By: Margaret Atwood / Narrated By: Derek Jacobi, Mae Whitman, Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Tantoo Cardinal, Margaret Atwood
Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
Oh gosh, I hate to say it, but some questions should never be answered…
The Murmur of Bees
By: Sofía Segovia / Translated By: Simon Bruni / Narrated By: Xe Sands, Angelo Di Loreto
Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
Absolutely beautiful translation of a gorgeous piece of literary fiction
Night's Gift
Series: Of Cats and Dragons, Book 1
By: Carol E. Leever, Camilla Ochlan / Narrated By: P. J. Ochlan
Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
Tormy the 30-lb. kitten saves the day; tho’ the main characters are quite likable too!
Like Water for Chocolate
By: Laura Esquivel / Narrated By: Yareli Arizmendi
Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
Steamy, satisfying, simply scrumptious. Oh, and fabulous narration!
Esperanza Rising
By: Pam Munoz Ryan / Narrated By: Trini Alvarado
Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
First listen? Not so much. Second listen? Holy Cow, I almost missed a great story!
The House on Mango Street
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
By: Benjamin Alire Saenz / Narrated By: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
And they discover the secrets in El Paso, no less!
Collected Fictions
By: Jorge Luis Borges / Translated By: Andrew Hurley / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
CERTAINLY it’s the translation! It CAN’T be that Borges is full of himself?!?
The House Of Broken Angels
Written and Narrated By: Luis Alberto Urrea
Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
Five stars! No, six! No, ten! Twenty stars for this BEAUTIFUL book!!!
Lights On The Sea
By: Miguel Reina / Translated By: Catherine E. Nelson / Narrated By: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
At times simple; at other times? Simply beautiful
Pride
By: Ibi Zoboi / Narrated By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
Not the best P & P Variation but certainly memorable…
Towers Falling
Written and Narrated By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
Because shouldn’t we be a much bigger, more unified community? Let Deja tell the tale…
The Beast's Heart
A Novel of Beauty and the Beast
By: Leife Shallcross / Narrated By: Jim Dale
Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
Magnificent narration of this enchanting and humanizing tale