BIPOC Authors

Lakelore

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz & Avi Roque

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half water, half air. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who’ve been there. Bastián grew up both above
the lake and in the otherworldly space beneath it. Lore’s seen the world under the lake only once, but that... Read more

Half-Blown Rose

By: Leesa Cross-Smith

Narrated by: Mela Lee & Tim Campbell

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husband’s betrayal leads to a year of travel, art, and passion in Paris, from the award-winning author of This Close to Okay.
 
Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and... Read more

Into the Riverlands

By: Nghi Vo

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find... Read more

Don't Look Back

By: Achut Deng & Keely Hutton

Narrated by: Nedra Marie Taylor

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up.

I want life.

After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in... Read more

Bridge to Bat City

By: Ernest Cline

Narrated by: Felicia Day

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ernest Cline comes a mostly true tall tale about an unexpected friendship between a young girl and a music-loving colony of bats. After losing her mother, thirteen-year-old Opal moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the family farm. There, Opal bonds with Uncle Roscoe over music and befriends a group of... Read more

Cold

By: Mariko Tamaki

Narrated by: Katharine Chin & Raymond J. Lee

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A boy, a body, a girl, a secret. From award-winning author Mariko Tamaki, Cold is a haunting YA audiobook about a shocking murder in a quiet town and four students who knew too much and said too little.

This is the story of a boy who died—and a girl who wants to know why.

Todd Mayer is dead. Now he's some sort of ghost, hovering over his body,... Read more

The Book of Goose

By: Yiyun Li

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.

Fabienne is dead. Her... Read more

The Silence that Binds Us

By: Joanna Ho

Narrated by: Raechel Wong

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“A grieving teen fights Asian hate by finding her voice in this complex, timely story.” —Kirkus (starred review)""With a layered, sensitive voice, Ho’s weighty novel delves into themes of racism, classism, loss, and healing."" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Inspired by the recent rise in hate crimes against AAPI, Ho’s story of inclusion,... Read more

No Escape

By: Nury Turkel

Narrated by: Stewart Lang

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing... Read more

Ocean's Godori

By: Elaine U. Cho

Narrated by: Judy Alice Lee

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Becky Chambers meets Firefly in this big-hearted Korean space opera debut about a disgraced space pilot struggling to find her place while fighting to protect the people she loves. “A thrilling, transportive ride from a powerful and evocative new voice.” —Lena Waithe, Rishi Rajani, and Naomi Funabashi, Hillman Grad Books Ocean Yoon has never... Read more

Here After

By: Amy Lin

Narrated by: Amy Lin

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA Today Bestseller • Starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Library Journal • Best Book of 2024 Pick by Esquire, ELLE, SheReads, and Kirkus• A 2024 NPR “Book We Love” Pick • A March 2024 Book of the Month Selection • An Apple Books Best Book of March • Finalist for the 2024 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction • A Great... Read more

Kinauvit?

By: Norma Dunning

Narrated by: Norma Dunning

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"From the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System
In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the... Read more

What the Fact?

By: Seema Yasmin

Narrated by: Seema Yasmin

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed writer, journalist, and physician Dr. Seema Yasmin comes a “savvy, accessible, and critical” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the importance of media literacy, fact-based reporting, and the ability to discern truth from lies.

What is a fact? What are reliable sources? What is news? What is fake news? How can anyone make... Read more

The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

Narrated by: Jean-Marc Berne

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family—even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After... Read more

Curvy Girl Summer

By: Danielle Allen

Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoking-hot, hilarious novel about the perils of online dating.

“There’s got to be an easier way than dating. I want the shortcut. I just want to find my person and start our lives together.”
After a one-night stand with her clingy ex, Aaliyah James has... Read more

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris

By: Adriana Herrera

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"A romp-filled and refreshingly diverse historical romance."—Buzzfeed

Paris, 1889
The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe…including Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Caña Brava rum empire.

Luz Alana set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one... Read more

Delicious Monsters

By: Liselle Sambury

Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“A haunted house thriller packed with cryptic mystery, dark humor, and bone-chilling twists.” —Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston

The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this “genuinely terrifying” (School Library Journal, starred review) psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating... Read more

When Haru Was Here

By: Dustin Thao

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

We Are Okay meets Wandavision in this novel about loneliness, complicated friendships, and what it means to let go.

After the death of his best friend, Eric Ly creates imaginary scenarios in his head to deal with his grief. Until one of them becomes real when a boy he met last summer in Japan finds his way back into his life. When he least... Read more

In the Shadow of the Mountain

By: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Narrated by: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life—one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us.”—Elizabeth Gilbert

This audiobook is read by the author.

"Through her narration, Vasquez-Lavado, whose first language... Read more

Abolitionist Intimacies

By: El Jones

Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral... Read more

Qualified

By: Shari Dunn

Narrated by: Shari Dunn

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking work challenging the false narrative that diversity equals a lack of qualifications by uncovering the impact of “competency checking,” a practice that unjustly scrutinizes Black people and other people of color, forcing them to repeatedly prove their worth, intelligence, and even their right to be in the workplace.The... Read more

Prisoner #1056

By: Roy Ratnavel

Narrated by: Roy Ratnavel

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
BRONZE MEDALIST IN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY FOR THE AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS

An incredible immigrant story from a prominent Canadian Tamil who fled torture and imprisonment, arrived in Canada with $50 in his pocket, then rose from the mailroom to the executive suite of the country’s largest independent asset management company.

Roy... Read more

A Thousand Natural Shocks

By: Omar Hussain

Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of Murder & Mayhem’s Most Anticipated Mystery, Thriller, and Crime Books of 2025Named a Goodreads Best Thriller & Mystery of 2025Omar Hussain’s dazzling debut, A Thousand Natural Shocks, is a mesmerizing meditation on trauma, memory, and identity wrapped in a high-octane thriller.Dash, a reporter in Monterey, California, is... Read more

Whiteout

By: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Ston...

Narrated by: Danielle Shemaiah, Nic Stone, Shayna Small, Bah...

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Atlanta is blanketed with snow just before Christmas, but the warmth of young love just might melt the ice in this novel of Black joy, and cozy, sparkling romance—by the same unbeatable team of authors who wrote the New York Times bestseller Blackout!As the city grinds to a halt, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic... Read more