BIPOC Authors

The Kevin Powell Reader

By: Kevin Powell

Narrated by: Kevin Powell

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Kevin Powell is one of the most prolific and acclaimed American writers, thinkers, activists, and public speakers of the past three decades. His writings are important contributions to our national conversations on race, gender, class, politics, pop culture, celebrity, hip-hop, and the past, present, and future of the United States.

The Kevin... Read more

God Themselves

By: Jae Nichelle

Narrated by: Jae Nichelle

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern church, these poems a holy space.
Rising star and spoken word poet Jae Nichelle debuts her luminous thoughts in God Themselves, a new collection of stirring poetry. Nichelle taps into her experiences of growing up in the South as a queer Black woman to... Read more

River Spirit

By: Leila Aboulela

Narrated by: Waceke Wambaa

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When Akuany and her brother Bol are orphaned in a village raid in South Sudan, they’re taken in by a young merchant Yaseen who promises to care for them, a vow that tethers him to Akuany through their adulthood. As a revolutionary leader rises to power—the self-proclaimed Mahdi, prophesied redeemer of Islam—Sudan begins to slip from the grasp of... Read more

African American Magick

By: Stephanie Rose Bird

Narrated by: Sanya Simmons

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

African American Magick infuses ancient techniques, rituals, and methods from around the world to use each season's inherent energies to supplement the health and well-being of body, mind, and soul.



The changing of the seasons can feel magical—greens changing to browns and golds, snow melting to show fresh buds. We all recognize these telltale... Read more

House Gone Quiet

By: Kelsey Norris

Narrated by: James Fouhey, Jade Wheeler, Machelle Williams &...

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence | Named a Best Book of 2023 by Library Journal and Debutiful

An eerie, irresistible debut story collection about the bonds and bounds of community and what it means to call a place home, “perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood and Carmen Maria Machado” (Booklist).

“A writer to watch if there ever... Read more

Lucky Girl

By: Scout Bassett

Narrated by: Scout Bassett

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sprinter, long jumper, and Paralympian Scout Bassett shares the lessons she’s learned battling the toughest challenges facing young women today.
 
As an infant in China, Scout Bassett survived a fire that took her right leg. She spent the next seven years in an orphanage before being adopted and whisked away to the United States, where she felt... Read more

Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

Narrated by: André Santana, Bryan Washington & Jake Choi

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington Post

The ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's... Read more

The Daughters of Madurai

By: Rajasree Variyar

Narrated by: Vaishnavi Suryaprakash

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Daughters of Madurai is both a heartrending family story and a page-turning mystery about the secrets we must keep to protect those we love.

Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can’t produce a son—or worse, if she bears daughters. They let her keep her first baby girl, but the rest are taken... Read more

The True Story of Pocahontas

By: Dr. Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow & Angela L. ...

Narrated by: Rainy Fields

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people. Read more

My Road from Damascus

By: Jamal Saeed

Narrated by: Pasha Ebrahimi

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the Bones Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his... Read more

Adversity for Sale

By: Jeezy

Narrated by: Jay "Jeezy" Jenkins

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author. NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERTo Jeezy’s legion of fans, his name is synonymous with hustle, grit, and the integrity to go out there and achieve your dreams. In his first book, Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe, Jeezy shares never heard stories of what it took for him to beat the odds and get out of the... Read more

Eco Girl

By: Ken Wilson-Max

Narrated by: Jade Wheeler

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Eve loves living next to a forest because it means being close to her favorite baobab trees. Doing her best to imitate them, Eve practices patience. She feeds and shelters birds, just as her beloved trees do, stretching toward the sky as if her arms were branches. Eve longs to communicate with the leafy giants she admires, and while she can’t... Read more

The Nameless Restaurant

By: Tao Wong

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a restaurant in Toronto. Its entrance is announced only by a simple unadorned wooden door, varnished to a beautiful shine but without paint, hidden beside dumpsters and a fire escape. There is no sign, no indication of what lies behind the door. If you do manage to find the restaurant, the décor is dated and worn—homey, if one were to... Read more

Hard Dough Homicide

By: Olivia Matthews

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Spice Isle Bakery owner Lyndsay Murray is always looking for new ways to grow her family’s business. But she already regrets agreeing to host the retirement dinner for local high-school principal Emily Smith. The tyrant used to be her mother's boss, and they did not get along. Six guests arrive for the celebration, but only five survive. Emily... Read more

Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

Narrated by: Christina Sharpe

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman).

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about... 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

Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King

By: Coretta Scott King

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Music and sound effects are beautifully paired with January LaVoy's inviting narration of this adaptation of Coretta Scott King's autobiography.—AudioFile

"Music and sound effects are beautifully paired with January LaVoy’s inviting narration of this adaptation of Coretta Scott King’s autobiography for adults."—The Children's Book Review... Read more

Nadia & Nadir

By: Marzieh A. Ali

Narrated by: ABDO Publishing

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve books in one volume with free accompanying read-along audioNadia and Nadir are a pair of young Muslim-American siblings living in Houston, Texas, with their mom and dad. Like all kids, they enjoy staying busy. Nadia and Nadir are quick to make learning fun in their day-to-day lives. And with grandparents coming to visit and trips to... Read more

Beyond the Story

By: BTS & Myeongseok Kang

Narrated by: Kim Young-Gi & Park Chan-won

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK—
Published in celebration of BTS’s 10th Anniversary, stories that go beyond what you already know about BTS.

After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut in June 2023. They have risen to the peak as an iconic global artist and during this... Read more

Kiki Finds Her Voice

By: Kierra Sheard-Kelly

Narrated by: Kierra Sheard-Kelly

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author with an audiobook-exclusive conversation between the author and her mom!When the school talent show creates an issue between her and her friends, little Kiki learns what it means to follow your heart and be a leader. Based on a true story from the life of Grammy-nominated singer and actress Kierra Sheard-Kelly, this inspiring... Read more

Far Beyond Gold

By: Sydney McLaughlin

Narrated by: Sydney McLaughlin

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.What fears are standing in your way or holding you back? How do you want to become stronger? Olympic and World champion hurdler Sydney McLaughlin wants to help you answer these questions as she shares her personal story of struggles and victories, of faith and transformation.Sydney McLaughlin knows about facing down obstacles.... Read more

Homeward

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and no one—will ever be the same.Georgia, 1962. Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband and pregnant with another man’s baby. After tragedy strikes her husband in the war overseas, a numb Rose is left with pieces of who she used to be... Read more

I Hope You Fail

By: Pinky Cole

Narrated by: Pinky Cole

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Pinky Cole—founder of the wildly successful restaurant chain Slutty Vegan—takes you back to your moments that seemed hopeless to help you discover how filled with possibility they really were.We've all been told we can't do it. That we're not enough. That we grew up in the wrong neighborhood or had the wrong parents or made... Read more

No Reservations

By: Sheryl Lister

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Warm and wise--a feel good story. Sheryl Lister's No Reservations is a heartfelt tribute to sisterhood and found-family. The feelings linger long after the last page." --Vanessa Riley, Award-winning author of Island Queen and Queen of ExilesTrue friendship never ends.Best friends forever. That's the vow Joy, Diane, Rochelle and Yvette made when... Read more