BIPOC Authors

Sugar, Spice, and Can't Play Nice

By: Annika Sharma

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Payal Mehra's detached parents insist she marry fellow Londoner and serial dater Ayaan Malhotra in order to save their own company, she has a choice: get disowned from the luxurious life they've funded and put her dreams on hold while she works a soul-sucking day job...or get engaged to save her family's fortune and maybe rescue her own... Read more

Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success

By: Jessica Parra

Narrated by: Karla Serrato

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Graduation is only a few months away, and Rubi Ramos’s “recipe for success” to get into prestigious Alma University is already off track. When Alma waitlists Rubi’s application, Rubi will need to be distraction-free to make the grade and keep her parents—who have wanted this for her for years—from finding out. And that means falling for her cute... Read more

My Powerful Hair

By: Carole Lindstrom

Narrated by: Jennifer Bobiwash

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Our ancestors say our hair is our memories, our source of strength and power, a celebration of our lives. Mom never had long hair—she was told it was too wild. Grandma couldn’t have long hair—hers was taken from her. But one young girl can’t wait to grow her hair long: for herself, for her family, for her connection to her culture and the Earth,... Read more

Grandma's Tipi

By: S. D. Nelson

Narrated by: Jashaun St. John

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Now that Clara is almost in third grade, she’s finally old enough to spend her first summer away from home visiting her grandma, Unci, and her cousin at their home in Standing Rock Reservation. To welcome her visit, Uncle Louie brings an extra-special surprise in his pickup truck: the tipi that’s been passed down through their family for... Read more

Can't Help but Love You

By: Tay Mo'nae

Narrated by: Elena Campbell & Winston James

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Aisha owns her own printing company, creating custom shirts, mugs, and other things. She's guarded and has a hard time allowing men to get close to her on a serious level. One heartbreak was enough for her. She eventually learns the only one who can heal that hurt she felt years ago is the same guy who caused it. But is that possible knowing the... Read more

At the Frontier of God's Empire

By: Ji Li

Narrated by: Kathleen Li

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the early twentieth century, At the Frontier of God's Empire adds the remarkable story of Alfred Marie Caubrière (1876–1948). A French Catholic missionary, Caubrière arrived in Manchuria on the eve of the Boxer Uprising in 1899 and was murdered on the eve of the birth of the... Read more

Flowers of Fire

By: Hawon Jung

Narrated by: Kathleen Li

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

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Murder on Bamboo Lane

By: Naomi Hirahara

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of the Japantown Mysteries, trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle . . .



Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it's still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate.



At... Read more

We Are the Crisis

By: Cadwell Turnbull

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEThe long-awaited sequel to No Gods, No Monsters from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull, We Are the Crisis sees humans and monsters clash as civil rights collide with preternatural forces.Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca’s old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace.The... Read more

Only the Dead Know Peace

By: Alberto Mansur

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Only the Dead Know Peace is a powerhouse book. An adrenaline-fueled epic that is authentic, propulsive, timely, and unforgettable. It will keep you on the edge of your seat till the very last page.” – Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling authorIn the spirit of The Cartel, The Little Drummer Girl, and I Am Pilgrim, Alberto Mansur’s debut... Read more

The Rachel Experiment

By: Lisa Lin

Narrated by: Kat Riley

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

As a financial analyst, Rachel Bai is more comfortable with numbers than people. When her boss promotes her to head a team in San Francisco, his message is clear—she has one year to build a successful team and become an effective leader. Rachel sets out to discover how to be more comfortable interacting with people, but a drunken night meant for... Read more

One Hundred Days

By: Alice Pung

Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“A powerhouse story, a powerhouse voice, that wrestles with intragenerational fractures and complicated entanglements. At the center of the book is an obsessive kind of love, a love that gives but also takes, but a love that only forms from bonds forged in fire.”—Weike Wang, award-winning author of Joan Is Okay and ChemistryFrom one of... Read more

Life in Two Worlds

By: Ted Nolan

Narrated by: James Malloch

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

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In 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. But he wouldn’t work in pro hockey again for almost a decade. What happened?

Growing up on a First Nation reserve, young Ted Nolan built his own backyard hockey rink and wore skates many sizes too big. But poverty wasn’t his biggest challenge. Playing the game... Read more

The Braid Girls

By: Sherri Winston

Narrated by: Erin Ruth Walker, Tyla Collier & Jade Wheeler

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Maggie's world is turned upside down when she learns that her father, whom she admires, has a second daughter, Callie, whom no one knew existed. But she won't let a new family member get in the way of her summer plans with her best friend, Daija. They're determined to make tons of money braiding hair for kids around the neighborhood. Daija's... Read more

A Realistic Blacktopia

By: Derrick Darby

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States is dogged by racism and racial disparities in income, wealth, health, education, and criminal justice. Philosophers disagree on what kind of politics is needed to address this problem. Do we pursue race-specific remedies to undo racism or do we assume the permanence of racism and opt for non-race-specific remedies in pursuit of... Read more

The Centre

By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

Narrated by: Balvinder Sopal

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly comic, speculative debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost. Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of “great works of literature,” but instead mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies,... Read more

We Don't Swim Here

By: Vincent Tirado

Narrated by: iiKane

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay. A chilling new novel for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Lamar Giles, and Ryan Douglass.



Bronwyn is only supposed to be in rural Hillwoods for a year. Her grandmother is in hospice, and her father needs to get her affairs in order. And they're all meant to make some final... Read more

The Mill House Murders

By: Yukito Ayatsuji

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A hugely enjoyable classic Japanese mystery with an ingenious conclusion from the author of The Decagon House Murders, translated into English for the first time



Don't miss this beautifully constructed, highly entertaining and atmospheric murder mystery—its propulsive plot makes for a compelling listen.



As they do every year, a small group of... Read more

A Quitter's Paradise

By: Elysha Chang

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Quitter’s Paradise, the darkly humorous debut by bold, new voice Elysha Chang, a young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother’s death, even as unearthed family secrets become increasingly inextricable from her own. Eleanor is doing just fine. Yes, she’s hiding things from her husband. Sure, she quit her PhD program and is now... Read more

Dirty Wars

By: Kenya Wright

Narrated by: Lacy Laurel & Tristan Josiah

Length: 24 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

As Kazimir and Emily battle a great war in Italy, dark secrets rise that could either shatter this couple or strengthen their bond even more. This dark, high-octane installment will take you on an emotional rollercoaster ride of deadly twists and psychological turns. Read more

The Blue Is Where God Lives

By: Sharon Sochil Washington

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing, powerful work of Afro-magic realism that reclaims the promise of a family's destiny through the bending of time

Blue’s daughter, Tsitra, is dying a violent and horrific death while, thousands of miles away, Blue feels the slowing of time and hears voices, followed by a stillness that befalls her for eighteen months.

More than a... Read more

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

By: Jamison Shea

Narrated by: Kristolyn Lloyd

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From debut author Jamison Shea comes this slow-burn horror novel that lifts a veil on the institutions that profit from exclusion and the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back. This program is read by Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning-actor Kristolyn Lloyd.

There will be blood.

Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this... Read more

Chinese Menu

By: Grace Lin

Narrated by: Lisa Ling

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery and Caldecott honoree and New York Times bestselling author Grace Lin delivers a groundbreaking, lushly illustrated, and beautifully written full-color book that explores the whimsical myths and stories behind your favorite American Chinese food.

From fried dumplings to fortune cookies, here are the tales behind your favorite foods. Do... Read more

The Light at the End of the World

By: Siddhartha Deb

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan & Neil Shah

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Delhi, the near future: Bibi, a low-ranking employee of a global consulting firm, is tasked with finding a man long thought to be dead but who now appears to be the source of a vast collection of documents. The trove purports to reveal the secrets of the Indian government, including
detention centers, mutated creatures, engineered viruses,... Read more