BIPOC Authors

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

The Bird Tattoo

By: Dunya Mikhail

Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and... Read more

What We Found in Hallelujah

By: Vanessa Miller

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Another storm is on the horizon for the Reynolds women. And the only way out is to go through it.Good things never happen in November—at least not for the Reynolds women. It was the month they lost their patriarch. And the month when fourteen-year-old Trinity went missing during a tropical storm. So Hope Reynolds isn’t surprised when it becomes... 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

A Land of Books

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Our world, little brother, is an amoxtlalpan, a land of books. In the jungles where the jaguar dwells, the Mayas make books. In the mountains the cloud people, the Mixtecs, make them as well. So do others in the coast and in the forests. And we the Mexica of the mighty Aztec empire, who dwell in the valley of the volcanoes, make them too. A... Read more

One Jump at a Time

By: Nathan Chen

Narrated by: Nathan Chen & Eunice Wong

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exhilarating memoir, three-time World Champion and Olympic gold-medalist Nathan Chen tells the story of his remarkable journey to success, reflecting on his life as a Chinese American figure skater and the joys and challenges he has experienced—including the tremendous sacrifices he and his family made, and the physical and emotional... Read more

The World Record Book of Racist Stories

By: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

Narrated by: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection of hilarious, intergenerational anecdotes full of absurd detail about everyday experiences of racism from the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedian Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey.

Families may not always see eye to eye; we get on each other’s nerves, have different... Read more

Pride and Protest

By: Nikki Payne

Narrated by: Kacie Rogers & Ron Nery, Jr.

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Phenomenal Book Club pick for November 2022!

A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood in this fresh and modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by debut author Nikki Payne.
 
Liza B.—the only DJ who gives a jam—wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer... Read more

Lost to the World

By: Shahbaz Taseer

Narrated by: Adam Karim

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Shahbaz Taseer’s memoir of his five-year-long captivity at the hands of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

In late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Taliban-affiliated Uzbek terrorist group.... Read more

Before Your Memory Fades

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Narrated by: Kevin Shen

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time.

On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is fabled for its dazzling views of Hakodate port. But that’s not all. Like the charming Tokyo cafe Funiculi... Read more

Idol, Burning

By: Rin Usami

Narrated by: Mirai

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

""Akari’s obsession is fatalistic and intense, and Usami’s prose (translated by Asa Yoneda) renders it and the hold it has on her tenuous life ably and affectingly. . . . it will especially resonate with readers familiar with real-life superfandoms such as One Direction’s at the height of its fame, down to details such as sought-after exclusive... Read more

Faith Still Moves Mountains

By: Harris Faulkner

Narrated by: Harris Faulkner & Minnie Belle

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From FOX News anchor and author Harris Faulkner comes a collection of powerful, true-life stories of resilience, healing, rescue, and protection.We need reminders of God’s power now more than ever.We often think about prayer as a wish list, with God as Santa Claus. The reality is that the power of prayer reminds us not only how small we are, but... 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 imprisonmentDespite 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 sentences... Read more

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom

By: Rabia Chaudry

Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!”
—Valerie Bertinelli

From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes... Read more

Witnesses for the Dead

By: Gary Phillips

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Arnell Powell, Brian Nishii, Chr...

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by recent true events, the all-original stories in Witnesses for the Dead are set in motion by the act of witnessing. The characters who populate these pages are not themselves the perpetrators of crimes, but find their lives indelibly changed by what they see as they grapple with coming forward, taking action, or retreating into the... Read more

Two Old Broads

By: Dr. M. E. Hecht & Whoopi Goldberg

Narrated by: Devon O'Day & Jackie Schlicher

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by renowned surgeon and expert on the art of aging, Dr. M.E. Hecht, with her friend Whoopi Goldberg lending her unique point of view, Two Old Broads is laugh out loud funny and?tells it like it is for all of us who left middle age in the dust and want to be present, positive, and as extraordinary as ever in our golden years.Whoopi joins... Read more

Marked for Life

By: Isaac Wright, Jr.

Narrated by: Isaac Wright, Jr.

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author, Isaac Wright Jr.

An empowering memoir of courage and hope in the face of injustice—and the basis for the ABC television show, For Life—Marked for Life is the true story of Isaac Wright Jr.’s battle to win his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and a critical indictment of... Read more

How We Heal

By: Alexandra Elle

Narrated by: Alexandra Elle

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved wellness author and teacher Alexandra Elle shares this practical and empowering guide to self-healing.

In How We Heal, bestselling author Alexandra Elle offers a life-changing invitation to heal yourself and reclaim your peace. In these pages, readers will discover essential techniques for self-healing, including journaling rituals to... Read more

The Artisans

By: Shen Fuyu

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family of farmers. Years later, Shen, now a writer, returned to his hometown to capture the village's rich history in the face of industrialization.



Through his own childhood memories and those of his ancestors, Shen resurrects the working life of Shen Village through interlinked... Read more

Love Led by the Spirit

By: Pat Simmons

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Minister Rossi Tolliver is ready to settle down, but there is a good reason he isn't married. Besides the outward attraction, he desires a woman who is sweet, humble, and loves the Lord. As the family minister, everybody had an opinion about what type of woman would be his perfect mate: one not prone to anger, have a gentle spirit, be kind to... Read more

Defend Us in Battle

By: George Monsoor

Narrated by: Zach Hoffman & John Behrens

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

On September 29, 2006, Michael Monsoor and three SEAL snipers watched vigilantly for enemy activity from their rooftop post in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. When a grenade thrown from insurgents bounced off Michael's chest, he could have escaped. Instead, he threw himself onto the live grenade, shielding his fellow soldiers from the immediate explosion.... Read more

The Stories We Tell

By: Joanna Gaines

Narrated by: Joanna Gaines

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

READ BY THE AUTHORAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERImagine if all the worn-out, untrue, painful chapters of our lives started to quiet, and the beautiful, unique pieces of who we are were to rise. Imagine if the stories we tell brought us back to our true selves, back to one another. Imagine if they spoke of how we loved and lost and tried... Read more

Morning Sun in Wuhan

By: Ying Chang Compestine

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What was the pandemic of the century like at the start? This swift, gripping novel captures not only the uncertainty and panic when COVID first emerged in Wuhan, but also how a community banded together. Weaving in the tastes and sounds of the historic city, Wuhan’s comforting and distinctive cuisine comes to life as the listener... Read more

Aliens: Vasquez

By: V. Castro

Narrated by: Lauren Rodriguez

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking Latinx Aliens novel by a rising star Latina author, featuring the fan-favorite character PFC Jenette Vasquez from the hit movie Aliens and the family she is forced to leave behindEven before the doomed mission to Hadley’s Hope on LV-426, Jenette Vasquez had to fight to survive. Born to an immigrant family with a long military... Read more