BIPOC Authors

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

By: M. T. Pope, Tina Brooks McKinney, Brenda Hampto...

Narrated by: Khalid Hill & Rhyan Neco

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married man who thinks he’s left his homosexual experiences in his past. What he didn’t count on was the high-ranking officer who forces a sexual relationship with him.After breaking off a relationship with her abusive girlfriend, Lauren Burns has finally made her dreams come true by becoming a member of the US... Read more

On Bended Knee

By: Brittney Holmes

Narrated by: D. S. VanNiel

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Nineteen-year-old Devon Torres has lived the past several years of his life dealing drugs and running the streets of South Atlanta. Separating himself from his family and clinging to his business, Devon recruits young teens throughout his neighborhood to help maintain order in the community. He seems to have everything figured out—until he meets... Read more

Searching for Right

By: Brittney Holmes

Narrated by: D. S. VanNiel

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren, Jayda, Danielle, and Brenda are finishing their senior year of high school. They seem to have perfect lives, but these girls have more to worry about than finals and college applications.Lauren has an inextinguishable infatuation with her history teacher, and she will do whatever it takes to get what she wants, even if it means hurting... Read more

Working Girls

By: Trixie Mattel & Katya

Narrated by: Trixie Mattel & Katya

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova took the world by storm with their Guide to Modern Womanhood, a book of expert advice on beauty, homemaking, and relationships. Now they’re tackling an even bigger challenge: finding success in the modern workplace.

In Working Girls, Trixie and Katya dole out both savvy and satirical advice for every stage... Read more

Your Purpose Is Calling

By: Dharius Daniels

Narrated by: Dr. Dharius Daniels

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Discover exactly who you were created to be and what you were created to do by learning to see yourself the way God sees you. The key to understanding, embracing, and unleashing your God-given uniqueness is possessing an accurate picture of your true identity. After all, if you don't know who you are, how could you ever know... Read more

Killing Comparison

By: Nona Jones

Narrated by: Piper Jones

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.It's time to leave behind the discontent of comparative thinking and discover a free and joyful life in the security of God’s love.If you find yourself filled with feelings of insecurity, sure that others are better off or more worthy than you are…then you’re in good company! In today’s image-driven world, nearly all of us... Read more

Prank Day

By: Kel Mitchell

Narrated by: Kel Mitchell

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.From actor, producer, and comedian Kel Mitchell of Nickelodeon's All That and the film Good Burger, this laugh-aloud novel for kids follows Chase as he masterminds a series of epic pranks only to discover that they've all become real on April 2nd. When his tricks become reality in hilarious and disastrous ways, Chase must come... Read more

Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems

By: Dionne Brand

Narrated by: Dionne Brand & Christina Sharpe

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career—new and collected poetry from one of Canada’s most honoured and significant poets.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, Winner
Toronto Book Award, Shortlist

Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand’s poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness... Read more

Gather Me

By: Glory Edim

Narrated by: Glory Edim

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.

“A beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed by an expansive and ever-growing love for words and for... Read more

Tainna

By: Norma Dunning

Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau & Eric Schweig

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful short stories centered on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, from young to elderly, and even from alive to deceased, Dunning’s characters are united by shared feelings of... Read more

The Return of the Fallen Angels Book Club

By: R. Franklin James

Narrated by: Caitlin Cavannaugh

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollis Morgan married young to flee an unloving family and ended up in prison, paying the price for her charming husband’s embezzlement. After finally obtaining a California judicial pardon, Hollis has climbed the ladder from paralegal to probate attorney at a respected law firm in the Bay Area. Unfortunately her first two cases are trials by... Read more

An Unreliable Magic

By: Rin Chupeco

Narrated by: Cassie Simone

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Tala, Alex, and the rest of their friends are safe for now, but they know the Snow Queen is still out there. They have to be prepared for when she eventually attacks?and they all decide to do so in their own way. When Ryker comes out of the woodwork, showing himself when he starts attacking American detention facilities and freeing refugees, and... Read more

Light of Darkness

By: Ebenezer O. Makinde

Narrated by: Casey Raiha

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

As Good and Evil sit precariously weighing in the balance, swaying back and forth with the whims and spirit of humanity, many continue to ask: what is it that gives us purpose? Who truly matters in this age of adversity? Are we coincidental masses of flesh and blood, or were we put on this earth for a reason?Such impassable questions have been... Read more

Body Becoming

By: Roberto Ché Espinoza

Narrated by: Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The body that Robyn Henderson-Espinoza inhabits is a nonbinary body, a trans body, a body in two races—and a body continually in discovery. Theirs is also a body on sojourn invested in experience, body understanding, and engagement in and for human thriving. Henderson-Espinoza relates coming into a new body story, beginning with the deep... Read more

The Enneagram for Black Liberation

By: Chichi Agorom

Narrated by: Chichi Agorom

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Enneagram is an ancient system of human development that shows us the limiting stories that keep us stuck in unhelpful patterns, and invites us into more expansive stories. For too long, conversations about the Enneagram and its personality types have been centered on and by whiteness. In The Enneagram for Black Liberation, certified... Read more

A Library

By: Nikki Giovanni

Narrated by: Nikki Giovanni

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this lyrical book, world-renowned poet, New York Times bestselling author, and Coretta Scott King Honor winner Nikki Giovanni and fine artist Erin Robinson craft an ode to the magic of a library as a place not only for knowledge but also for imagination, exploration, and escape.In what other place can a child ""sail their dreams"" and ""surf... Read more

One-Shot Harry

By: Gary Phillips

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer seeking justice for his jazz musician friend.

Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process... Read more

High Spirits

By: Camille Gomera-Tavarez

Narrated by: Coral Pena

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, by debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez.

It is a book centered on one extended family—the Beléns—across multiple generations.

It is set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa—and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights, too.

It is... Read more

Black Looks

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to... Read more

Reel to Real

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Movies matter—that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and class. Here bell hooks—one of America's most celebrated... Read more

Sisters of the Yam

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle,... Read more

The Deep Blue Between

By: Ayesha Harruna Attah

Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina have always shared their lives.



But after a raid on their village in 1892, the twins are torn apart. Taken in different directions, far from their home in rural West Africa, each sister finds freedom and a new start. Hassana settles in in the city of Accra, where she throws herself into working for political and... Read more

America, a Redemption Story

By: Senator Tim Scott

Narrated by: Senator Tim Scott & Frances “Mama” Scott

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.The American Dream isn’t a thing of the past, but a miracle of the present.Now more than ever it’s easy to focus on the divisions that plague our nation. It may seem as if our best days are behind us, but bestselling author and senator Tim Scott believes we have yet to realize the fullness of our identity. We are in the midst... Read more

The Good Fight

By: Shirley Chisholm

Narrated by: Marcella Cox

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman and person of color—a work of immense historical importance that both captures and transcends its times, newly reissued to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of her campaign.“Shirley Chisholm created a... Read more