BIPOC Authors

The White Mosque

By: Sofia Samatar

Narrated by: Sofia Samatar

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small... Read more

Willie Horton: 23

By: Willie Horton & Kevin Allen

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling autobiography from one of Detroit's favorite sons



At fifteen, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At twenty, he smacked his first major-league home run. At twenty-four, Horton stood in full uniform on the hood of his car, in the midst of burning homes and overturned vehicles, and... Read more

Jana Goes Wild

By: Farah Heron

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly acclaimed author of Accidentally Engaged delivers a delightful rom-com of one woman trying to shed her perfect image at a destination wedding with hilarious—and moving—results, perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez and Jasmine Guillory.

Jana Suleiman has never really fit in—everyone always sees her as too aloof, too cool, too perfect. The... Read more

Outlaw Culture

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore Bell Hooks's electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As Hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture... Read more

The Age of Goodbyes

By: Li Zi Shu

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

By one of Southeast Asia's most exciting writers, The Age of Goodbyes is a wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace of storytelling.



In 1969, in the wake of Malaysia's deadliest race riots, a woman named Du Li An secures her place in society by marrying a gangster. In a parallel narrative, a critic... Read more

Tears Over Russia

By: Lisa Brahin

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village,... Read more

That Dangerous Energy

By: Aya De León

Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming from a troubled youth, Morgan Faraday grabs every opportunity to up-level her life. So she definitely plans to keep oil-company heir Sebastian Reid interested...all the way to the altar. He’s brilliant and supportive and is turning his billion-dollar company green to make up for his ancestors’ exploitation. With him, Morgan can have love,... Read more

Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

Narrated by: Nathaniel Curtis & Octavia Nyombi

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM BOOKRIOT AND BOOKPAGE

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is... Read more

When Trying to Return Home

By: Jennifer Maritza McCauley

Narrated by: Psalm Morant & Andréa Agosto

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in this collection dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free from her damaging influence during a desperate and disastrous attempt to rescue her brother from foster care. A man, his wife, and his mistress each... Read more

Tremors in the Blood

By: Amit Katwala

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he a grieving husband or a ruthless killer who conspired with bandits to have her murdered? To find out, the San Francisco police turned to technology and a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley... Read more

The Echo from Dealey Plaza

By: Abraham Bolden

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred.



Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Service agent in Chicago when he was asked by John F. Kennedy himself to join the White House Secret Service detail. For Bolden, it was a dream come true—and an encouraging sign of the charismatic... Read more

Stay Sane in an Insane World

By: Greg Harden

Narrated by: Greg Harden

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“What I learned from Greg is still a part of who I am today.”—Tom Brady, 7-time Super Bowl champion Greg Harden changes lives. This is why hundreds of world-class athletes, doctors, lawyers, teachers, business leaders, college students, and professionals from all walks of life have come to him for advice and... Read more

Goodbye Earl

By: Leesa Cross-Smith

Narrated by: Mela Lee, Kamali Minter, Sarah Beth Goer, Erin ...

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Four women take fate into their own hands in this big-hearted story of friendship, resilience, and revenge on monstrous men, from the award-winning author of Half-Blown Rose. 

Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart.
 
In 2004, Rosemarie,... Read more

The Journey Prize Stories 33

By: David Chariandy

Narrated by: Beau Dixon, Patrice Henry, Colton Royce, Emerja...

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada's premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country's best emerging Black writers.

For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction... Read more

Soul Tourists

By: Bernardine Evaristo

Narrated by: Mercedes Snow

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he's dragged to a disco at Piccadilly Circus and there he meets Jessie: artiste, motormouth, ducker, and diver. She swoops Stanley out of his soulless life and off on a rollercoaster road trip across Europe,... Read more

Black Founder

By: Stacy Spikes

Narrated by: Stacy Spikes

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the twenty-one most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and work—including the true story of what really happened to MoviePass—straight from the cofounder and former CEO himself.



Stacy Spikes knows what's it... Read more

The Dreamkeepers

By: Gloria Ladson-Billings

Narrated by: Sanya Simmons

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover how to give African American children the education they deserve with this updated new resource



In the newly revised Third Edition of The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, distinguished professor Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings delivers an encouraging exploration of the future of education for African American... Read more

Con Cuba en el bolsillo

By: Adrianna Cuevas

Narrated by: Juan Manuel Acuña Rodriguez

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Cuando la fallida invasión de Bahía de Cochinos en 1961 solidifica el poder de Castro en Cuba, la familia de Cumba, de 12 años, toma la difícil decisión de enviarlo a la Florida solo. Ante la idea de vivir en otro país por sí mismo, Cumba intenta recordar el sonido del clarinete de su padre, el olor del perfume de lavanda de su madre. La vida en... Read more

The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto

By: Adrianna Cuevas

Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite role-playing game, than face his father’s increasing restrictions and his mother’s fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never... Read more

Now I Become Myself

By: Ken Shigematsu

Narrated by: Ken Shigematsu

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Becoming who you were before the world told you who you had to be.You're not alone when it comes to experiencing shame or fear of not being enough. Shame isn't felt only by those who have gone through failure or trauma or been told they'll never amount to anything. Many people—even those who are considered successful—struggle... Read more

Forever Home

By: Anh Lin

Narrated by: Anh Lin

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Most of my childhood was spent in transition. . .Anh Lin knows something about displacement and belonging. When she was four, her family left their home in Vietnam and migrated to the United States where Anh experienced difficult, transient living situations, the inherited traumas of her parents, and—the summer before she... Read more

Knowing the Spirit

By: Costi W. Hinn

Narrated by: Costi W. Hinn

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Explore what the Bible really says about the Holy Spirit and what it means to see the power of the Holy Spirit at work in your life.Whether intentionally or not, many Christians today seek health, wealth, and happiness by summoning the Holy Spirit like a genie to grant their wishes. When things don't go the way they think they... Read more

The Anxiety Opportunity

By: Curtis Chang

Narrated by: Curtis Chang

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What if instead of battling anxiety, you saw your worries as a doorway to spiritual transformation? Challenging the assumption that anxiety is the enemy, theologian, popular podcaster, and fellow sufferer of chronic anxiety Curtis Chang gives you a different framework for approaching fears. You will discover profound new ways of relating to... Read more

You Are More Than You've Been Told

By: Hosanna Wong

Narrated by: Hosanna Wong

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author with pre-recorded spoken word performances of “I Have a New Name” and “Greatly Loved”!A Publisher's Weekly and ECPA bestsellerYou don't have to live disconnected from yourself or from God.Have you ever felt unseen, unwanted, or unworthy? If so, you're not crazy. You've been told lies your whole life. From the beginning of... Read more