BIPOC Authors

He/She/They

By: Schuyler Bailar

Narrated by: Schuyler Bailar

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From a trans rights activist and athlete, an urgent guide that changes the conversation about gender identity.

Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced in state governments around the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack in sports, healthcare, school curriculum, bathrooms, bars, and nearly every walk of... Read more

An Immense World

By: Ed Yong

Narrated by: Ed Yong

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong
 
“One of this year’s finest works of narrative... Read more

The Lunar New Year Surprise

By: Jade Wang

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

During the Lunar New Year festivities, can Gege find the perfect moment to present his handcrafted surprise to his little sister? This story will teach children what makes the Lunar New Year special, from the preparation responsibilities to the celebratory new moon signifying the first day of the holiday and the festivities that continue in the... Read more

Bite by Bite

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or... Read more

A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

Narrated by: Michelle Porter, Jani Lauzon, Tara Sky, Tantoo ...

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them.

Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women... Read more

To Shape a Dragon's Breath

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

Narrated by: Charley Flyte

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NEBULA AND LODESTAR AWARDS • FINALIST FOR THE ASTOUNDING, LOCUS, AND BRITISH FANTASY NEWCOMER AWARDS • “My favorite book of the year . . . a coming-of-age story that is cozy and hair-raising in equal measure.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

“I tore through it, caught up in an enthusiasm for dragons... Read more

Counterfeit

By: Kirstin Chen

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK“A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read—but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority. . . . Chen is up to something innovative and... Read more

Light in Gaza

By: Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing & Mike Merryman-L...

Narrated by: Amin El Gamal & Hanne Rickert

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel. This distinctive anthology imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and struggle for liberation. Light in Gaza is a seminal, moving, and wide-ranging anthology of... Read more

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

By: Crystal Smith Paul

Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Kineta Kunutu & Lynnette Nicholas

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE'S BOOK CLUB MAY 2023 PICK

A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz

When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of... Read more

The Violin Conspiracy

By: Brendan Slocumb

Narrated by: JD Jackson & Brendan Slocumb

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.

“I... Read more

The Bullet Swallower

By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Narrated by: Lee Osorio

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A “mesmerizing...wildly entertaining” (The Boston Globe) magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to rob a train, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.

In... Read more

Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.

“Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep... Read more

The Verifiers

By: Jane Pek

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST MYSTERY BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people's online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing....

“The world of social... Read more

Calling for a Blanket Dance

By: Oscar Hokeah

Narrated by: Oscar Hokeah & Rainy Fields

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. 

Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands... Read more

Never Whistle at Night

By: Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

Narrated by: Erin Tripp, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Joelle Pet...

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY • BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY • LOCUS AWARD FINALIST

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?”

“Never failed to surprise, delight, and shock.” —Nick Cutter,... Read more

So Let Them Burn

By: Kamilah Cole

Narrated by: Keylor Leigh & Kamali Minter

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s forced to choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland—perfect for fans of Iron Widow and The Priory of the Orange Tree. 
 
Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island... Read more

Erasure

By: Percival Everett

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now as the Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross.



Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more... Read more

The Sum of Us

By: Heather McGhee

Narrated by: Heather McGhee

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.

WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE... Read more

Faebound

By: Saara El-Arifi

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Two elven sisters become imprisoned in the intoxicating world of the fae, where danger and love lie in wait. Faebound is the first book in an enchanting new trilogy from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife.

“A romantic fantasy of epic proportions, crackling with magic and passion.”—Samantha Shannon, bestselling author of The... Read more

Stay True

By: Hua Hsu

Narrated by: Hua Hsu

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu

“This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come.”—Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Cartographers

By: Peng Shepherd

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu, Karen Chilton, Ron ...

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father’s belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret—one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family’s dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell... Read more

Lovely One

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

Narrated by: Ketanji Brown Jackson

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her “vulnerable, tender, and infinitely inspirational” (Oprah Daily) memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story.

“A billowingly triumphant American tale.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

A NEW YORK TIMES... Read more

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.

“This is historical science fiction at its best: a dreamy reimagining of a classic story with vivid descriptions of... Read more

The Bandit Queens

By: Parini Shroff

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands—in this razor-sharp debut.

"A radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of... Read more