BIPOC Authors

This is How You Fall in Love

By: Anika Hussain

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents This is How You Fall in Love by Anika Hussain, read by Aysha Kala.

Best friends Zara and Adnan must navigate the twists and turns of fake dating, family dynamics and cultural stereotypes in this swoon-worthy YA Desi rom-com.

Zara loves love in all forms: rom-coms and romance novels and grand sweeping gestures. She's desperate... Read more

stay up

By: Khodi Dill

Narrated by: Khodi Dill

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice. Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don’t know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy... Read more

The Rooftop Garden

By: Menaka Raman-Wilms

Narrated by: Alison Deon

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rooftop Garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from his Toronto home, and Nabila travels to Berlin to find him and try to bring him back. The story is interspersed with scenes from their childhood, when... Read more

Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

Narrated by: Renée Watson

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.

In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes
about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender.

Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections... Read more

Thick with Trouble

By: Amber McBride

Narrated by: Amber McBride

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanhood in the American South

In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being “trouble”—difficult, unruly, fearsome, defiant—is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the Hoodoo... Read more

The Things We Didn't Know

By: Elba Iris Pérez

Narrated by: Marisa Blake

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The USA TODAY bestselling inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical and “wonderfully compelling” (Judith Simon Prager, author of What the Dolphin Said) cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores a young girl’s childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small... Read more

Dysfunction Junction

By: Robin W. Pearson

Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Frances Mae Livingston’s firm grip of her family’s destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she’s losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and her mama that she’s enough. There’s no way she’ll repeat her mama’s mistakes, even if it kills her. Annabelle McMillan didn’t have trouble kicking the... Read more

Girls with Bad Reputations

By: Xio Axelrod

Narrated by: Benjamin Charles & Tyla Collier

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time, the pressure to be the perfect daughter her demanding mother needed nearly broke Mikayla Whitman. Desperate to find an outlet, she picked up a pair of drumsticks, forever altering the rhythm of her life. Since then, she’s been determined to make her own way, finding her home with her bandmates even as she fights to keep her... Read more

Drawing Deena

By: Hena Khan

Narrated by: Reena Dutt

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Amina’s Voice and Amina’s Song comes a “nuanced and quietly powerful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) middle grade novel about a young Pakistani American artist determined to manage her anxiety and forge her own creative path.

Deena’s never given a name to the familiar knot in her stomach that appears when her... Read more

White Supremacy Is All Around

By: Akilah Cadet

Narrated by: Akilah Cadet

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Founder and CEO of consulting firm Change Cadet Dr. Akilah Cadet shares a powerful, incisive look at where we are in the fight to dismantle white supremacy—and what we urgently need to do next​.

This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me... Read more

Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club)

By: DéLana R. A. Dameron

Narrated by: Ashley J. Hobbs, Robin Miles, De'Onna Prince, A...

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “[A] richly textured and deeply moving debut” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter’s coming of age in the 1990s.

“A triumph . . . Redwood Court is storytelling at its best: tender, vivid, and richly complicated.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New... Read more

This Is the Honey

By: Kwame Alexander

Narrated by: Mahogany L. Brown & Joel Damany Steingold

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by Why Fathers Cry at Night author and #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander. In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a... Read more

The American Queen

By: Vanessa Miller

Narrated by: Angel Pean

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

AS SEEN ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA: GMA 15 New Books to Read | 2024 American Fiction Award WINNER for African American Fiction AND Historical Fiction"Miller brings to enthralling life a hidden gem in American history." --Publishers Weekly
There is only one known queen who truly ruled a kingdom on American soil. Meet the queen of Happy... Read more

Far Beyond Gold

By: Sydney McLaughlin

Narrated by: Sydney McLaughlin

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.What fears are standing in your way or holding you back? How do you want to become stronger? Olympic and World champion hurdler Sydney McLaughlin wants to help you answer these questions as she shares her personal story of struggles and victories, of faith and transformation.Sydney McLaughlin knows about facing down obstacles.... Read more

Spectral Evidence

By: Gregory Pardlo

Narrated by: Gregory Pardlo

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY • A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic

Elegant, profound, and intoxicating—Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves... Read more

Hybrid Heart

By: Iori Kusano

Narrated by: Sarah Skaer

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A pop idol in near future Japan. Her every move controlled in the present and haunted by the past.



The stage is the surveillance society of near-future Tokyo. In order to become an idol, Rei has sacrificed her private life as she focuses on her solo activities. Haunted by guilt, the insidious manipulations of a controlling talent manager, and the... Read more

Poemhood: Our Black Revival

By: Amber McBride, Erica Martin & Taylor Byas

Narrated by: Angel Pean & Greg Campbell

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

""A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry."" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)""This deep and complex assemblage of Black poetry culminates in a joyful, painful, and emotionally rich experience."" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)""An eclectic mix of Black experiences fills this unmatched anthology that features both... Read more

HBCU Made

By: Ayesha Rascoe

Narrated by: Ayesha Rascoe, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Brandon...

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this joyous essay collection edited by NPR's Ayesha Rascoe, celebrities and other alumni provide testimonials about their experience attending historically Black college universities–which shaped their lives and made them who they are today.

With a diverse set of contributors, including Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, and Branford Marsalis,... Read more

Confrontations

By: Simone Atangana Bekono

Narrated by: Ella Dacres

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Confrontations by Simone Atangana Bekono, read by Ella Dacres.

A bold, unsettling, surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling.

Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile detention center to... Read more

Root Fractures

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

Narrated by: Diana Khoi Nguyen

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

*One of Time’s Must-Read Books of 2024*
*One of LitHub’s Poetry Books to Read in 2024*
*One of The Millions’s Must-Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024*

National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and... Read more

The Words That Remain

By: Stênio Gardel

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome Cícero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has long been unable to read. As young men, he and Cícero fell in love, only to have Raimundo’s... Read more

How to See

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Reach true clarity and insight by looking deeply, minimizing misperceptions, and having the courage to see things as they really are.The seventh book in the bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh that introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness... Read more

Kiki Finds Her Voice

By: Kierra Sheard-Kelly

Narrated by: Kierra Sheard-Kelly

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author with an audiobook-exclusive conversation between the author and her mom!When the school talent show creates an issue between her and her friends, little Kiki learns what it means to follow your heart and be a leader. Based on a true story from the life of Grammy-nominated singer and actress Kierra Sheard-Kelly, this inspiring... Read more

My Fighting Family

By: Morgan Campbell

Narrated by: Morgan Campbell

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The debut memoir from award-winning journalist Morgan Campbell: an incredible history of a family’s battles across generations, a hilarious and emotional coming-of-age story, and a powerful reckoning with what it means to be Black in Canada—particularly when you have strong American roots.

Morgan Campbell comes from “a fighting family,” a... Read more