BIPOC Authors

Thriving with Anxiety

By: David H. Rosmarin

Narrated by: Mark Smeby

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the founder of Center for Anxiety and Harvard associate professor David H. Rosmarin, PhD, a practical guide to transforming your anxiety from a burden to a benefit.Those of us who suffer from anxiety either exhaust ourselves trying to cure it or resign ourselves to a lifetime of fear and worry. What if, instead of fighting our anxiety, we... Read more

Like Every Form of Love

By: Padma Viswanathan

Narrated by: Padma Viswanathan

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, a gripping exploration of class, race, friendship, sexuality, what an author owes her subject and what it means to be a good person—all wrapped up in a riveting Canadian true crime story.

Padma Viswanathan was staying on a houseboat on Vancouver Island when she struck up a friendship with a warm-hearted,... Read more

Undisputed

By: Donovan Bailey

Narrated by: Donovan Bailey

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning world's fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.

From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to... Read more

Unorthodox Love

By: Heidi Shertok

Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-nine year-old Penina longs for true love and marriage, but being infertile in the Orthodox Jewish community means she’s rarely matched with the cream of the crop—or even skim milk two weeks past its expiration date. Matchmakers either set her up with men twice her age or those with serious mommy issues. At this point, she might as well... Read more

Organ Meats

By: K-Ming Chang

Narrated by: Jen Zhao & Annie Q

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“In the phenomenal Organ Meats, two friends are bound by a red string, dog bloodlines, and the violence that is being a girl” (Ms. magazine)—from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Gods of Want.

“Organ Meats possesses something of the febrile intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, their laser focus on female... Read more

Monsters in Love

By: Resmaa Menakem MSW LICSW SEP

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A gritty, down-to-earth guide for real-life couples



Conflict is a natural part of any intimate relationship. Yet most couples either avoid it or try to smooth over their differences. This often results in at least one partner compromising their integrity—and stunting their own growth.



Monsters in Love challenges the idea that conflict between... Read more

Just Happy to Be Here

By: Naomi Kanakia

Narrated by: Bilal Baig

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this YA standalone perfect for fans of Tobly McSmith and Meredith Russo, the first out trans girl at an all-girls school must choose between keeping her head down or blazing a trail.Tara just wants to be treated like any other girl at Ainsley Academy.That is, judged on her merits—not on her transness. But there’s no road map for being the... Read more

Night Vision

By: Mariana Alessandri

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Gisela Chípe shares a philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can... Read more

The Situationship

By: Taylor-Dior Rumble

Narrated by: Shvorne Marks

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

When the love of her life shows up with a girlfriend, Tia decides it's time to put herself out there.

Expectations of dating apps are low, so it's a surprise when she instantly connects with handsome photographer Nate. He's everything she's looking for; he makes her feel safe, seen, and desired.

Tia assumes they're on the... Read more

The Game

By: Micah Richards

Narrated by: Delon Jessop

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

‘The game isn’t what it seems from the outside. The game isn’t quite what I was expecting. The game doesn’t always work like the people on television think it does. The game is better, worse and stranger than you can imagine, and that is coming from someone who saw it all with their own eyes.’ ... Read more

One Summer in Miami

By: Amber Rose Gill

Narrated by: Amber Rose Gill

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The sun-drenched and spicy new queer romance from the author of Until I Met You. 'A summery and sweet five-star read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🌴🌴🌴 Kya’s work is her life. She graduated from a rigorous engineering programme at MIT and landed a highly competitive job at one of the best tech firms in Silicon Valley. She even... Read more

Black Women Always

By: Kevin Morosky

Narrated by: Kevin Morosky, Loreece Harrison & Jay Lafayette...

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A defining manual on using creativity as a tool for empowerment and allowing your personal identity to live in and guide all parts of your life, Kevin Morosky shares stories and inspiration from the women who have most influenced his creative path and explores the ways we can pursue success by implementing their wisdom in all aspects... Read more

Out of the Far North

By: Amir Tsarfati & Steve Yohn

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Tensions are at a breaking point. The Western markets that once relied on Russian gas have turned to Israel for their energy needs. Furious at this interference in its control over the West, Russia demands that Israel stop its defensive military strikes against Iranian weapons transported into Syria. Weapons Israel knows are meant for the... Read more

Something More

By: Jackie Khalilieh

Narrated by: Parmida Vand

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism diagnosis while navigating her first year of high school, for fans of Jenny Han and Samira Ahmed.

Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make... Read more

My Fighting Family

By: Morgan Campbell

Narrated by: Morgan Campbell

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The debut memoir from award-winning journalist Morgan Campbell: an incredible history of a family’s battles across generations, a hilarious and emotional coming-of-age story, and a powerful reckoning with what it means to be Black in Canada—particularly when you have strong American roots.

Morgan Campbell comes from “a fighting family,” a... Read more

Loving Me After We

By: Ginger Dean

Narrated by: Ginger Dean

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

For fans of How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera and The Book of Boundaries by Melissa Urban, Loving Me After We is the audiobook that will teach you how to love yourself after you've lost yourself in a toxic relationship, and embody confidence, emotional security, and self-love.

A breakup can feel like the... Read more

The Saad Truth about Happiness

By: Gad Saad

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor and “de facto global therapist” to an ever-growing audience of hundreds of thousands of people builds on national bestseller The Parasitic Mind to argue that happiness is not merely a changeable mood but a process toward which we can strive by following some basic steps that have been known to humans for millennia.Happiness is a factIt... Read more

Until I'm Yours

By: Kennedy Ryan

Narrated by: Jill Redfield & Connor Crais

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Ryan delivers a scorching romance where one man must earn the trust of a woman with diamond-hard defenses in order to win her heart.

The world knows her face . . .

Mean girl. Goddess. Bitch. Supermodel Sofie Baston has earned those labels . . . yet they don't scratch the surface of who she really is. Before she... Read more

Beasts of War

By: Ayana Gray

Narrated by: Benjamin Charles, Keylor Leigh & Alexander Cant...

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this epic conclusion to her New York Times bestselling series, Ayana Gray delivers a heart-pounding fantasy adventure filled with mythos, monsters, and mortal heroes who are astoundingly human.

Once a prisoner to Fedu, the vengeful god of death, Koffi has regained her freedom, but she is far from safe. Fedu will stop at nothing to hunt her... Read more

That Self-Same Metal

By: Brittany N. Williams

Narrated by: Patricia Allison

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning YA fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Justina Ireland, about a Black girl (and sword expert) fighting a Fae uprising in Shakespearean London.
Sixteen-year-old Joan Sands is a gifted craftswoman who creates and upkeeps the stage blades for William Shakespeare’s acting company, The King’s Men. Joan’s skill with her blades... Read more

Pilgrim

By: Ruth Chou Simons

Narrated by: Ruth Chou Simons

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

As a follower of Christ, you live each day as a pilgrim, traveling the path Jesus sets before you. Though the road may be rocky, God provides reminders along the way to show you that He writes your story, paves your path, and walks with you always. From bestselling author and artist Ruth Chou Simons comes this uplifting meditation on the... Read more

Brooklyn

By: Tracy Brown

Narrated by: Keyonni James

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn’t who murdered her; the question is who wouldn’t?

Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away,... Read more

Blood Justice

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Terry J. Be...

Length: 19 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration and an author's note and acknowledgments read by the author.

"Robinson and Abbott-Pratt alternate the first-person chapters with skill, pulling out every emotion in the story's closely held secrets, romance, and magic" —AudioFile on Blood Debts

Blood Justice is the hotly anticipated sequel to Terry J.... Read more

Merciless Saviors

By: H.E. Edgmon

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The stunning conclusion to the Ouroboros series, a contemporary fantasy duology in which a teen, Gem, finds out they’re a reincarnated god from another world.

That day at the First Church of Gracie changed everything for Gem Echols, and not just because Marian and Poppy betrayed them. Forced to use the Ouroboros knife on Zephyr, who had... Read more