BIPOC Authors

The Valentine's Hate

By: Sidney Halston

Narrated by: Karla Serrato & Sean Crisden

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful enemy to lovers/fake engagement rom-com themed around Valentine’s Day! Jennifer Lopez’s new movie Marry Me meets Erin Sterling’s holiday themed The Ex Hex.Cupid only strikes once. At least that’s what Lissette Alonso believes. Ever since the Most Disastrous Valentine’s Day of All Time™ she has hated all things V-day. But Lizzie’s... Read more

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

Narrated by: Jen Sookfong Lee

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award.
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada
A TODAY Show Recommended Read

This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as a revelatory lens to explore family, identity,... Read more

Brotherless Night

By: V. V. Ganeshananthan

Narrated by: Nirmala Rajasingam

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this “heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war” (Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half).

“This book, a careful, vivid exploration of what’s lost within a... Read more

The House in the Pines: Reese's Book Club

By: Ana Reyes

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller!

“This is an absolute, can’t-put-it-down thriller. . . . It’s truly a wild ride that had me flying through chapter after chapter—which I think is the perfect way to kick off your year of reading.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick January 2023)

Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago... Read more

Man or the Monster

By: Aamna Qureshi

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

She made her decision. Now she has to live with it.Durkhanai Miangul sealed her lover’s fate when she sent him through a door where either a lady or a lion awaited him. But her decision was only the beginning of her troubles. Durkhanai worries that she might not be the queen her people need or deserve when conflict threatens her kingdom.
Her... Read more

Jude and Diana

By: Sharon Robart-Johnson

Narrated by: Shelley Hamilton

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The only mention of Jude in Nova Scotia’s official history relates to her death: a slave-owning family was brought to trial for her murder in 1801. They were acquitted despite overwhelming evidence that they were guilty. Sharon Robart-Johnson pays tribute to such archival glimpses of enslaved people by re-creating the fullness of sisters... Read more

Twice as Hard

By: Jasmine Brown

Narrated by: Wanda Rush

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in black history. It’s time to set the record straight

No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial... Read more

The Davenports

By: Krystal Marquis

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

*Instant New York Times Bestseller*

The Davenports delivers a totally escapist, swoon-worthy romance while offering a glimpse into a period of African American history often overlooked.

"The perfect read for fans of escapist historical fiction.” —NBC’s TODAY

The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing... Read more

The Tiny Warrior

By: D.J. Eagle Bear Vanas

Narrated by: D.J. Eagle Bear Vanas

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to look inward and find strength by learning to use your warrior spirit in this guide from D.J. Eagle Bear Vanas, star and host of the PBS special, Discovering Your Warrior Spirit.

Why seek outside answers when you already possess the resources and power you need? In a world moving faster than ever, the challenge to stay connected to... Read more

Scratching River

By: Michelle Porter

Narrated by: Michelle Porter

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Scratching River braids the voices of mother, brother, sister, ancestor, and river to create a story about environmental, personal, and collective healing.

This memoir revolves around a search for home for the author’s older brother, who is both autistic and schizophrenic, and an unexpected emotional journey that led to acceptance, understanding... Read more

Stiletto Sisterhood

By: Fallon DeMornay

Narrated by: Anita Kalathara

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When best friends Priya, Isobel, Caitlin, Eshe, and Shayne met, they swore to chase dreams, not drama. Now years later, Priya Seth is determined to win the coveted one-year mentorship with her idol at New York’s hottest law firm. Her rival? Last night’s hookup, Hadrian Marek. Despite having a privileged upper hand, Hadrian is willing to form an... Read more

Tastes So Sweet

By: Kelly Cain

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

After losing her parents in high school, Ryan Landry grew up fast, solely focusing on supporting her younger twin sisters. With the twins now preparing for college, the financial stakes are raised so Ryan enters a restaurant-manager-of-the-year contest. Her chances for the grand prize are strong—after all, she’s the executive manager of... Read more

Emmanuel

By: Ruth Chou Simons

Narrated by: Ruth Chou Simons

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

If there’s one name for Jesus that captures the whole heart of God, it is Emmanuel—God with us. No other name similarly expresses the fullness of God’s eternal desire for His image-bearers. He’s always wanted us to be with Him. From the bestselling author and artist behind GraceLaced and Beholding and Becoming comes this gorgeous exploration of... Read more

Marrying My Billionaire Boss

By: Nadia Lee

Narrated by: Tim Paige & Savannah Peachwood

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

I had a plan: move to LA, get a job, find the love of my life, and live happily ever after. I was on track, but being an assistant to gorgeous billionaire philanthropist Nate Sterling suddenly got a whole lot more complicated. It's a dream job...until he asks me to save him from a fur-bikini-wearing psycho ex-girlfriend who is determined to win... Read more

Smells Like Stars

By: D. Nandi Odhiambo

Narrated by: Duffy Mikkelson

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Kerstin Ostheim, a journalist, and P. J. Banner, a freelance photographer, have been together six months after meeting on a dating website. They are getting married in two weeks and as the wedding fast approaches, they question their compatibility while investigating mysterious horse killings that are taking place in Ogweyo's Cove, the Pacific... Read more

Umbilical Cord

By: Hasan Namir

Narrated by: Amir Haidar

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Child
Once upon a time
Your baba fell in love with your dad
We got married and dreamt of having a baby
A roller coaster of emotions and feelings
We were always hopefulLambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir shares a joyful collection about parenting, fatherhood and hope. These warm free-verse poems document the journey that... Read more

Dante’s Indiana

By: Randy Boyagoda

Narrated by: Randy Boyagoda

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Following Original Prin, a NYTBR Editor’s Choice and Globe and Mail Best Book, Dante’s Indiana is an extraordinary journey through the divine comedies and tragedies of our time.Middle-aged, married, but living on his own, Prin has lost his way. Desperate for money and purpose, he moves to small-town Indiana to work for an evangelical... Read more

Krista Kim-Bap

By: Angela Ahn

Narrated by: Vicki Kim

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In debut author Angela Ahn’s middle grade novel, all Krista wants is to figure out the three F’s: food, family, and friends…Krista and Jason have been best friends since preschool. It never mattered that he was a boy with reddish-brown hair and she was the “Korean girl” at school. Now in fifth grade, everyone in their class is preparing... Read more

Help! I’m Alive

By: Gurjinder Basran

Narrated by: Hillary Warden

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerfully emotional story of four people touched by a teen’s death, award-winning author Gurjinder Basran’s Help! I’m Alive is a clear-eyed exploration of meaningful connection in the modern era After video footage of Jay’s death is shared on social media, a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of what happened to... Read more

Spíləxm

By: Nicola I. Campbell

Narrated by: Nicola I. Campbell

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. In the Nłeʔkepmxcín language, spíləx̣m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in the quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British Columbia landscape, and with an almost tactile representation of being on the land and water, Spíləx̣m... Read more

School Clothes

By: Jarvis R. Givens

Narrated by: Shaun D. Scott

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A chorus of Black student voices that renders a new story of US education—one where racial barriers and violence are confronted by freedom dreaming and resistance

Black students were forced to live and learn on the Black side of the color line for centuries, through the time of slavery, Emancipation, and the Jim Crow era. And for just as... Read more

Double O Stephen and the Ghostly Realm

By: Angela Ahn

Narrated by: Tony Kim

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ghosts, pirates and family secrets — Stephen gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out adventure in the ghostly realm, for fans of When You Trap a Tiger.

Stephen loves pirates. What he doesn’t love is his name: Stephen Oh-O’Driscoll. He believes when his Korean mother and Irish father gave him this name, that it was just one cruel setup... Read more

Speaking my Soul

By: John Russell Rickford

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its... Read more

Journal of a Travelling Girl

By: Nadine Neema

Narrated by: Nadine Neema

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This fictional coming-of-age story traces a young girl’s reluctant journey by canoe through the ancestral lands of the Tłı̨chǫ People, as she gradually comes to understand and appreciate their culture and the significance of their fight for self-government.

Eleven-year-old Julia has lived in Wekweètì, NWT, since she was five. Although the people... Read more