BIPOC Authors

In a Not So Perfect World

By: Neely Tubati-Alexander

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Tubati Alexander is a writer to watch!” —Emily GiffinOne of Good Morning America's 15 books to read heading into spring and a SheReads and Zibby Mag Most Anticipated Book of the YearThe author of Love Buzz follows her acclaimed first novel with a delightful Caribbean-set romp about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a... Read more

Where Rivers Part

By: Kao Kalia Yang

Narrated by: Pamela Xiong & Kao Kalia Yang

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety is a profound “testament to the miraculous strength of women and the indomitable resolve of the human spirit” (Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans).

Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb’s childhood was marked by the violence of America’s Secret War and the... Read more

How We Named the Stars

By: Andrés N. Ordorica

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family’s hopes and dreams—and the burden of sharing his late uncle’s name. Daniel flounders at first, but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate,... Read more

Promise Kept

By: K’wan

Narrated by: Honey Jones

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning sequel to Promise Broken, K’wan spins a pulse-pounding story about surviving, thriving, and the consequences of love.Promise and her best friend Mouse have fled Newark and are hiding out in New York City, wanted by the police—and the streets—for the death of B-Stone, leader of the Bloods. In the city, Promise has found work as a... Read more

Black Women Always

By: Kevin Morosky

Narrated by: Kevin Morosky, Loreece Harrison & Jay Lafayette...

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A defining manual on using creativity as a tool for empowerment and allowing your personal identity to live in and guide all parts of your life, Kevin Morosky shares stories and inspiration from the women who have most influenced his creative path and explores the ways we can pursue success by implementing their wisdom in all aspects... Read more

Just Another Epic Love Poem

By: Parisa Akhbari

Narrated by: Nikki Massoud & Elena Rey

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance.

"The heartache and longing of witnessing a beloved character pine hopelessly over her best friend has never brought me this much unadulterated joy." –National Book Award Finalist Sonora Reyes, author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School

Over the... Read more

Elevate and Dominate

By: Deion Sanders

Narrated by: Deion Sanders

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller

Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders is one of the greatest motivators and inspirational leaders of all time—on the field, in business, with family, and in his community. Now, he delivers the ultimate playbook of inspiring personal stories, winning strategies, and the motivation required to help us “elevate and dominate”... Read more

Pride and Joy

By: Louisa Onomé

Narrated by: Yinka Ladeinde

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for “fans of dark, laugh-out-loud family dramas” (Bust magazine), this is a heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grappling with their matriarch’s sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back.

Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone... Read more

Black Wolf

By: Juan Gómez-Jurado

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"Scott Brick narrates this addictive audiobook, which blends dark humor and thrills.... The characters' emotional lives are explored in depth, and Brick's narration builds a connection between the listener and the characters." —AudioFile on Red Queen

International bestselling sensation Antonia Scott, along with Jon Gutierrez, return in the much... Read more

The Moon That Turns You Back

By: Hala Alyan

Narrated by: Hala Alyan

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war. A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one... Read more

Upcountry

By: Chin-Sun Lee

Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Claire Pedersen and her husband are relocating from NYC to the Catskills—they have found a terrific deal on a property in foreclosure. The house has been in April Ives’s family for three generations, but the single mother of three children from two different fathers needs the money. Claire and April are instantly antagonistic, but the sale... Read more

The Other Fab Four

By: Mary McGlory & Sylvia Saunders

Narrated by: Sylvia Wiggins & Mary McGlory

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us comes a fiercely feminist, heartwarming story of friendship and music about The Liverbirds, Britain’s first all-female rock group.

The idea for Britain’s first female rock band, The Liverbirds, started one evening in 1962, when Mary McGlory, then age 16, saw The Beatles play live at The Cavern Club in... Read more

Jumpnauts

By: Hao Jingfang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Hugo Award­–winning author of Folding Beijing comes a gripping science fiction thriller in which three unlikely allies attempt a desperate mission of first contact with a mysterious alien race before more militaristic minds can take matters into their own hands.

In a future where the world is roughly divided into two factions, the... Read more

Gigi Shin Is Not a Nerd

By: Lyla Lee

Narrated by: Shannon Tyo

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This first book in a sparkling middle grade series “reminiscent of Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club books” (Kirkus Reviews) follows a young Korean American girl who starts a business with her best friends to support her artistic dreams.

Jiyoung “Gigi” Shin loves to create, from her zany outfits to self-executed haircuts. She dreams of becoming... Read more

The Model Black

By: Barbara Banda

Narrated by: Patricia Grant

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is for anyone who wants to understand what being more inclusive at work means, especially as it relates to black leaders. Based on candid interviews with thirty successful black leaders, it peels away the multifaceted layers of black British leaders in organizations to offer a new way of thinking about the black British experience.



This... Read more

The Breakup Vacation

By: Anna Gracia

Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the summer before senior year of college, and Grace is about to make the worst decision of her life in this “sexy, sun-drenched cocktail of chaotic good fun and heartfelt hilarity” (Sarah Kuhn, author of the Heroine Complex series) that captures the messiness of your early twenties, while highlighting the necessity of girlfriends at any—and... Read more

The Only Constant

By: Najwa Zebian

Narrated by: Najwa Zebian

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

You can become the change driver of your own life. The celebrated poet, educator, and author of Welcome Home shows you how in this practical, wise, and tender guide to all of life’s changes.

“Change is hard—but Najwa shows you what’s on the other side, and she’s the one you want to lead you through it.”—Melissa Urban, New York Times bestselling... Read more

Metaracism

By: Tricia Rose

Narrated by: Mela Lee & Tricia Rose

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives

In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and... Read more

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

By: Nam Le

Narrated by: Nam Le

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat

In his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every convention of diasporic literature—in a virtuosic array of forms and registers—before shattering the... Read more

Say Hello to My Little Friend

By: Jennine Capó Crucet

Narrated by: Krizia Bajos

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Scarface meets Moby Dick in Say Hello to My Little Friend—“a masterclass in pace and precision…brilliant” (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, National Book Award Finalist of Chain Gang All Stars) about a young man’s attempt to capitalize on his mother’s murky legacy—a story steeped in Miami’s marvelous and sinister magic.

Failed Pitbull impersonator... Read more

JoyFull

By: Radhi Devlukia-Shetty

Narrated by: Radhi Devlukia-Shetty

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

More than 125 plant-based recipes and a practical approach to making deeply flavorful food for feeling your best.

“What you eat—along with your daily habits and the thoughts you think—has the ability to completely transform every aspect of your health.” —Radhi Devlukia-Shetty

A passionate self-taught cook and... Read more

Fathomfolk

By: Eliza Chan

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of revolution and magic set against the glittering, semi-submerged city of Tiankawi.

Welcome to Tiankawi – shining pearl of human civilization and a safe haven for those fleeing civil unrest. Or at least, that’s how it first appears.

But in the... Read more

The Tennis Partner

By: Abraham Verghese

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend... Read more

Finally Heard

By: Kelly Yang

Narrated by: Sunny Lu & Kelly Yang

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes the sequel to Finally Seen “that tackles tweenhood and technology woes head-on” (School Library Journal, starred review) when Lina tries to navigate social media, only to discover not everything online is what it seems.

When ten-year-old Lina Gao sees her mom’s video on social media... Read more