BIPOC Authors

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

Jawbone

By: Mónica Ojeda

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?"



Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?



When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta... Read more

The Dream Builders

By: Oindrila Mukherjee

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After living in the United States for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world.The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she learns that nothing―and... Read more

Jade Is a Twisted Green

By: Tanya Turton

Narrated by: Julienne Irons

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life's pleasures after loss.



Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman living in Toronto, must find a way to pick up the pieces and discover who she is following the mysterious death of her... Read more

Book of Wings

By: Tawhida Tanya Evanson

Narrated by: Athena Karkanis

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one’s own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist traces a global journey from Vancouver to the United States, Caribbean, Paris, and Morocco as a relationship... Read more

A History of Burning

By: Janika Oza

Narrated by: Lipica Shah & KP Upadhyayula

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This epic, sweeping historical novel full of "wondrous complexity” spans continents and a century, and reveals how one act of survival can reverberate through generations (Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin). ​

In 1898, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor for the British on the East African... Read more

Joy is My Justice

By: Tanmeet Sethi

Narrated by: Tanmeet Sethi

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Reclaim your joy and personal power and find healing in this radical guide to powerful stories and meditations rooted in neuroscience.Your pain is not fair or just. You are not broken because you feel it deeply. Yet every footstep you take toward Joy, even while still living with fear or rage, is a radical act of Justice that defies the... Read more

The Garden Within

By: Dr. Anita Phillips

Narrated by: Anita Phillips & Sarah Jakes Roberts

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERFeatured on SUPER SOUL PODCAST hosted by Oprah Winfrey.  Read by the author.Too often we’ve been taught to view our emotions with suspicion, seeing them as something to be suppressed, managed, or mastered. This isn’t true. Emotions are not your enemy. Internal war is not your destiny. You... Read more

CROWNED

By: Kahran Bethencourt & Regis Bethencourt

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Mychal-Bella Bowman

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrators Dion Graham and Mychal-Bella Bowman's grand and lively performances will have young listeners eager to hear every story in this vibrant collection of African and African-American-inspired tales."—AudioFile

From the New York Times bestselling authors of GLORY, Kahran and Regis Bethencourt of CreativeSoul Photography, comes CROWNED, a... Read more

Girls Like Girls

By: Hayley Kiyoko

Narrated by: Brandon Flynn, Hayley Kiyoko, Katie Gavin, Mali...

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by an all-queer cast: the author, Hayley Kiyoko; Natalie Naudus; Malia Pyles; Katie Gavin; and Brandon Flynn.

"This quaint performance by a five-narrator ensemble will tug at the heartstrings."- AudioFile

Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her... Read more

Cast Into Doubt

By: Patricia MacDonald

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Shelby wants to give her daughter Chloe a gift she’ll never forget: a luxury cruise around the Caribbean. It will be the honeymoon Chloe and her husband Rob never got to take. Shelby will look after their little boy. Then the unthinkable happens: Shelby gets a call from a distraught Rob—Chloe is missing, fallen overboard. Everyone says she was... Read more

Hope's Path to Glory

By: Jerdine Nolen

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In Alexandria, Virginia, in the mid-19th century, a slave-owning family is facing financial trouble. The eldest son, Jason, thinks going to California to mine for gold might be the best way to protect his father’s legacy. He’ll need a cook, a laundress, and a hostler for the journey, and one of them is twelve-year-old Clementine, whose mother... Read more

My Nemesis

By: Charmaine Craig

Narrated by: Charmaine Craig

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Prize, comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples.Tessa is a successful white woman writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person,... Read more

An Echo in the City

By: K. X. Song

Narrated by: Christina Ho & Ewan Chung

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Two star-crossed teenagers fall in love during the Hong Kong protests in this searing contemporary novel about coming-of-age in a time of change.
 
Sixteen-year-old Phoenix knows her parents have invested thousands of dollars to help her leave Hong Kong and get an elite Ivy League education. They think America means big status, big dreams, and... Read more

Too Sweet to Be Good

By: K.M. Jackson

Narrated by: Dioni Michelle Collins

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Between the bustling local bakery, helpful neighbors, and down-home wisdom, Sugar Lake is a delicious place to call home—and love is the sweetest risk …

Alexandrea Gale put her acting career on hold to help keep her family’s bakery in business—and gave it a few eye-catching updates while she was at it. To earn money to return to New York, she... Read more

In the Belly of the Congo

By: Blaise Ndala

Narrated by: Christel Mutombo

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

April 1958.

Organizing the Brussels World’s Fair, the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, subcommissioner Robert Dumont cedes to pressure from the royal palace: there will be a “Congolese village” in one of the seven pavilions devoted to the settlements. Among the eleven members
of this “human zoo” assembled to put... Read more

Children of Stardust

By: Edudzi Adodo

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Zero was a mass of conflicting emotions. This would be his first mission. What if they failed to find the Mask of the Shaman King? The entire galaxy was at stake.

Zero Adedji dreams of joining one of the Saba guilds—groups of intergalactic explorers. Instead, he must scrape by as a guide to travelers stranded on his home planet of Anansi 12. Then... Read more

Last Seen in Lapaz

By: Kwei Quartey

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, PI Emma Djan resorts to dangerous undercover work to track her down in Accra.

Just as things at work are slowing down for PI Emma Djan, an old friend of her boss’s asks for help locating his missing daughter. According to her father, Ngozi had a... Read more

Talking Back

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In childhood, Bell Hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, Hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy. Among her discoveries is that moving from silence... Read more

The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

Narrated by: Chris McPherson

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRE THE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022 When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of... Read more

The Idea of Prison Abolition

By: Tommie Shelby

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by J. D. Jackson offers an incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and... Read more

Much Ado About Nada

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

Narrated by: Farah Kidwai

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion...
 
Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she’s still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother’s unsubtle pleas to get married already. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it’s a... Read more

Immortal Longings

By: Chloe Gong

Narrated by: Jeena Yi

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Chloe Gong’s adult epic fantasy debut, inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, is a “smart, imaginative, and brutal” (Wesley Chu, New York Times bestselling author of The War Arts Saga) collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance amidst a set of deadly games.

Every year, thousands in the... Read more

Firewater

By: Harold R. Johnson

Narrated by: Kairyn Potts

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol—its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many... Read more