BIPOC Authors

Prophesy Deliverance!

By: Cornel West

Narrated by: Kellye A. Saunders & Diontae Black

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this, his premiere work, Cornel West challenges African Americans to consider the incorporation of Marxism into their theological perspectives, thereby adopting the mindset that it is class more so than race that renders one powerless in America. His work reflects political and cultural perspectives borne out of his own formative life... Read more

Policing the Womb

By: Michele Goodwin

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the... Read more

The Recruiter

By: Alexander Mukte

Narrated by: James Shippy & Cortney Wright

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This new thought fiction series explores pursuing your higher self, transcending ego and fear, the interconnectedness of all things in nature, and the importance of listening to the universe.
Read by an Earphones Award-winner as part of a dual narrator performance, this 2022 International Book Awards Winner is “one of those well-written, nuanced... Read more

Deeply Rooted Dreams

By: Alexander Mukte

Narrated by: Cortney Wright & James Shippy

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Woven into another fast-paced, topical mystery, the second installment of this new thought fiction series explores overcoming fear in the pursuit of purpose and the interconnectedness of all things in nature.
Read by an Earphones Award-winner as part of a dual narrator performance, this sequel to The Recruiter unveils more of the universal trial... Read more

The Color Line

By: Igiaba Scego

Narrated by: Chanté McCormick

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn't let that stop her. The daughter of a Native American woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the rare opportunity to study, travel, and follow... Read more

The Bird Tattoo

By: Dunya Mikhail

Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and... Read more

The Real Odessa

By: Uki Goñi

Narrated by: Pat Grimes

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

As Russian forces closed in on Berlin and Hitler’s premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goñi unravels the complex network that led them to Argentina. Relying on international support—in Scandinavia, Switzerland, and Italy—and the enthusiasm of... Read more

Shapes, Lines, and Light

By: Katie Yamasaki

Narrated by: Katie Yamasaki

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling he sought to create in his buildings as “serenity, surprise, and delight.” Here, his granddaughter Katie Yamasaki charts his life and work: his childhood in Seattle’s Japanese immigrant community, paying his way through college working in Alaska’s notorious salmon canneries, his success in architectural... Read more

Only This Beautiful Moment

By: Abdi Nazemian

Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Fajer Al-Kaisi & Iman Nazemzadeh

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Stonewall Book Award Winner * A Best Book of the Year from the Guardian, ALA Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage From the award–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and Darius the Great Is Not Okay. 2019. Moud is... Read more

Wealth Warrior

By: Linda Garcia

Narrated by: Linda Garcia

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This much-needed conversational guide to the stock market by a financial expert empowers you to heal money wounds, establish financial literacy, and make your money work for you.
 
 Financial educator Linda García breaks down one of the most elusive yet effective financial systems in existence. A single mother at a young age, Linda struggled to... Read more

An Appetite for Miracles

By: Laekan Zea Kemp

Narrated by: André Santana & Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp’s heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must come together to heal the pain from their pasts, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nicola Yoon.
 
Danna Mendoza Villarreal’s grandfather is slowly losing himself as his memories fade, and Danna’s not sure her plan to help him remember through... Read more

Promposal

By: RaeChell Garrett

Narrated by: Heni Zoutomou

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An overachiever must decide if risking her heart by working with her former crush turned enemy is worth the reward in this snappy rom-com, perfect for fans of Tweet Cute and Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry. 

High school senior Autumn Reeves has been waitlisted at her dream school. Determined to move to the top of the list, she must find a way to... Read more

The Bone Shard War

By: Andrea Stewart

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Feodor Chin & Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 19 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Bone Shard Daughter comes the final book in the Drowning Empire series, as the fate of Lin Sukai—and her family’s dynasty—lay in her hands in this action-packed, magic-laced epic fantasy.

Lin Sukai has won her first victory as Emperor, but the future of the Phoenix Empire hangs in the balance – and Lin is dangerously short... Read more

A Living Remedy

By: Nicole Chung

Narrated by: Jennifer Kim

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKWinner, Tillie Olsen Award for Creative WritingNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * TodayFrom the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a... Read more

Witnesses for the Dead

By: Gary Phillips

Narrated by: Robertson Dean, Graciela Jones, Tamika Katon-Do...

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by recent true events, the all-original stories in Witnesses for the Dead are set in motion by the act of witnessing. The characters who populate these pages are not themselves the perpetrators of crimes, but find their lives indelibly
changed by what they see as they grapple with coming forward, taking action, or retreating into the... Read more

The Scorpion Queen

By: Mina Fears

Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Uprooted meets Children of Blood and Bone in this dark fantasy inspired by a Malian fairy tale about a princess whose suitors are challenged to gruesome trials.

Deep within the imperial palace at Timbuktu, Amie has suffered a devastating loss. Once the daughter of a prosperous salt merchant Amie’s life was cruelly overturned in a matter of... Read more

Abeni's Song

By: P. Djèlí Clark

Narrated by: Funmi James

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

IN DARKNESS, A SONG CAN LEAD THE WAY. BEWARE WHICH ONE YOU LISTEN TO.

Abeni's Song by award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark is the enchanting beginning of an epic West African and African Diaspora-inspired fantasy adventure for middle-grade listeners about a reluctant apprentice to magic and the stolen villagers she sets out to save.

“Lush and... Read more

Mr Kato Plays Family

By: Milena Michiko Flašar

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tokyo-born-and-raised multilingual Nishii makes an ideal cipher for the recently retired Mr Katō..."- Booklist

Milena Michiko Flašar's Mr Katō Plays Family is an eccentric second-lease-on-life novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

Mr Katō—a curmudgeon and recent retiree—finds his only solace during his daily... Read more

The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle

By: T. L. Huchu

Narrated by: Kimberly Mandindo

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Duels, magic, and plenty of ghosts await in The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, the third book of T. L. Huchu's USA Today bestselling Edinburgh Nights series.

Everyone’s favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptical Enquirers’ biennial conference just in time to be tied into a mystery—a locked room mystery,... Read more

Wires that Sputter

By: Britta Badour

Narrated by: Britta Badour

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful debut collection from an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet.

Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Finalist
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Shortlist
Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Shortlist
Raymond Souster Award, Longlist

With propulsive, intimate stylings and an eye toward Black liberations, pop culture, sports, and familial fractures,... Read more

Viral Justice

By: Ruha Benjamin

Narrated by: Ruha Benjamin

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Ruha Benjamin offers an inspiring and uniquely personal vision of how we can build a more just world one small change at a time "A book as urgent as the moment that produced it."—Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and... Read more

Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

Narrated by: Maya Soroya

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot... Read more

NerdCrush

By: Alisha Emrich

Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ramona Lambert is a typical shy, artistic sixteen-year-old. She has a best friend whom she’s known since they were in diapers, parents who love her, a love for cosplay, and a crush on the cute boy in her class. The only problem? Her best friend moved away, her parents don't quite understand her love of cosplay, and she is pretty sure her crush... Read more

Man Made Monsters

By: Andrea L. Rogers

Narrated by: Lane Factor & DeLanna Studi

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls.

Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance.

Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection—from werewolves to vampires to zombies, all the... Read more