BIPOC Authors

A Thousand Miles to Graceland

By: Kristen Mei Chase

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The journey of a thousand miles begins with sequins and a beehive wig in this sharply funny and achingly tender debut novel about mothers, daughters, and the surprising power of Elvis.

Grace Johnson can’t escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot—until her husband announces he’s done with their marriage. Grace has a choice: wallow in... Read more

Stacey's Remarkable Books

By: Stacey Abrams

Narrated by: Stacey Abrams

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller and NAACP Image Award winner Stacey's Extraordinary Words, from political leader Stacey Abrams.Stacey’s favorite day of the week is Thursday, when the whole class goes to the library and she gets to lose herself in her beloved books.On one of these special days, Stacey discovers that a new... Read more

Boys Don’t Cry

By: Meghna Pant

Narrated by: Malika Choudhury

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A work of power, intimacy and magic' Anees Salim, authorWhen Maneka Pataudi is arrested as the prime suspect for the murder of her ex-husband, she reveals a chilling tale of marital abuse and neglect.But is her confession the truth or a lie? Is she telling the story as a victim or a perpetrator? And, is it better for women to kill for love or be... Read more

Love Led by the Spirit

By: Pat Simmons

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Minister Rossi Tolliver is ready to settle down, but there is a good reason he isn't married. Besides the outward attraction, he desires a woman who is sweet, humble, and loves the Lord.

As the family minister, everybody had an opinion about what type of woman would be his perfect mate: one not prone to anger, have a gentle spirit, be kind to... Read more

Bet on Black

By: Eboni K. Williams

Narrated by: Eboni K. Williams

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist, attorney, and star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York reshapes the cultural landscape of achievement by showing why Black unity is crucial to individual and collective success.

When The Real Housewives of New York City hired its first black cast member after more than 13 years on the air, attorney, speaker, and journalist... Read more

Behind Her Lives

By: Briana Cole

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrets, suspense, and a missing sister—who may not want to be found—are at the center of Briana Cole's latest enthralling multicultural drama. Will appeal to fans of psychological suspense, gritty drama, and listeners of De'Nesha Diamond, Kiki Swinson, Saundra, Wahida Clark, Ashley & JaQuavis, Victoria Christopher Murray, and Shelly... Read more

You Are Life

By: Bao Phi

Narrated by: Bao Phi

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This joyful poem celebrates the wonderful and complex identity of children of immigrants and refugees, embracing all that they are—a dancer, a shining light, a K-pop song—and promising what they will never be: invisible. Read more

Merci Suárez Plays It Cool

By: Meg Medina

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

For Merci Suárez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It’s a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. Merci has always been fine with not... Read more

A Sliver of Moon and a Shard of Truth

By: Chitra Soundar

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Clever Prince Veera and his best friend, Suku, are back in a vibrant new collection of stories riddled with surprises. When the prince’s great uncle, Raja Apoorva, invites the boys to the summer festival in Peetalpur, Prince Veera and Suku are excited to compete in the games. It’s no easy feat to make the peahen sing (when peahens can’t sing) or... Read more

The Wind Rises

By: Timothée de Fombelle

Narrated by: Waceke Wambaa

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

1786. Isolated from the rest of the world, thirteen-year-old Alma lives with her family in a lush African valley. She spends her days exploring their blissful homeland. But everything changes when her little brother finds a secret way out of the valley. Alma sets out to find him, but she soon must face terrible dangers in a continent ravaged by... Read more

The Patriarchs

By: Angela Saini

Narrated by: Sohm Kapila

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it

For centuries, societies have treated male domination as natural to the human species. But how would our understanding of gender inequality—our imagined past... Read more

Qualified

By: Mia Love

Narrated by: Mia Love & Jamie Renell

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This memoir from the first Black Republican congresswoman in America shows readers how to own their stories, find their voices, and lead with character as they empower others to do the same.  For so long, women—and Black women in particular—have been taught that they must have a stellar background, the highest degree of education, and the... Read more

This Is Supposed to Be Fun

By: Myisha Battle

Narrated by: Myisha Battle

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A certified clinical sexologist’s radically inclusive guide to sex and dating 

Swipe. Match. Get ghosted. Repeat. Modern dating can quickly start to feel like an overwhelming slog. It’s easy to forget the point of it all: this is supposed to be fun. Enter professional sex and dating coach Myisha Battle. Drawing on an engaging and diverse... Read more

Defend Us in Battle

By: George Monsoor

Narrated by: Zach Hoffman & John Behrens

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

On September 29, 2006, Michael Monsoor and three SEAL snipers watched vigilantly for enemy activity from their rooftop post in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. When a grenade thrown from insurgents bounced off Michael's chest, he could have escaped. Instead, he threw himself onto the live grenade, shielding his fellow soldiers from the immediate explosion.... Read more

Building a Family of Faith

By: Andy Dooley

Narrated by: Andy Dooley

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Fun devotions to help your family connect with one another, grow in faith, and learn how physical activity can influence your relationships with each other and with God.Whether your family has been doing devotions for years or this is your first time introducing them, Building a Family of Faith is a weekly devotional designed... Read more

Big Girl

By: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon.



In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils—and undeniable beauty—of insatiable longing.



Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem,... Read more

Origins, Revised and Updated

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Donald Goldsmith

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and crosspollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This revised and updated edition features such startling discoveries as... Read more

It's Always Been Ours

By: Jessica Wilson MS, RD

Narrated by: Jessica Wilson MS, RD

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This “necessary book” (Roxanne Gay, New York Times bestselling author, Bad Feminist and Hunger) shares an essential look at the ways in which Black women are left out of conversations about “diet culture,” health, and wellness. In It’s Always Been Ours, eating disorder specialist and storyteller Jessica Wilson challenges us to rethink the... Read more

Why Fathers Cry at Night

By: Kwame Alexander

Narrated by: Kwame Alexander

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with. In a powerfully intimate and non-traditional (or "new-fashioned") memoir, Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man... Read more

Identitti

By: Mithu Sanyal

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sellout meets Interior Chinatown in this satirical debut about a German Indian student whose world is upended when she discovers that her beloved professor who passed for Indian is, in fact, white.Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known blogger and doctoral student, is in awe of her supervisor—postcolonial and race studies professor... Read more

It Takes Two to Mango

By: Carrie Doyle

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

After Plum Lockhart's job as a travel magazine editor is eliminated in corporate cuts, she decides she's sick of cold winters in NYC and fruitless swiping on dating apps?what she needs is a dramatic change of scenery. On a whim, she accepts a job as a villa broker and moves to a beautiful Caribbean island. However, paradise isn't as perfect as... Read more

Crossfire

By: Staceyann Chin

Narrated by: Staceyann Chin

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book. According to The New York Times, Chin is “sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking.” The Advocate says that her poems “combine hilarious one-liners with a refusal to conform” and note “Chin is out to... Read more

The Woman Who Climbed Trees

By: Smriti Ravindra

Narrated by: Deepa Samuel

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman’s coming-of-age... This is electrifying.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Is this a ghost story?” Meena asked the barber’s wife who told the tale. “I don’t want to hear scary stories one night before I marry.” “Not all ghost stories are scary,” said the barber’s wife, laughing at Meena. “Besides, we... Read more

How to Try

By: Lorenzo Lebrija

Narrated by: Lorenzo Lebrija

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

What if tried and true methods from the corporate world could raise your ministry’s probability of success by a considerable margin? Lorenzo Lebrija, director of TryTank, a lab for church growth and innovation, has developed a fresh straightforward framework for experiments in new ministry based on research and interviews. With three clear... Read more