BIPOC Authors

The Moon That Turns You Back

By: Hala Alyan

Narrated by: Hala Alyan

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war. A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one... Read more

Jumpnauts

By: Hao Jingfang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Hugo Award­–winning author of Folding Beijing comes a gripping science fiction thriller in which three unlikely allies attempt a desperate mission of first contact with a mysterious alien race before more militaristic minds can take matters into their own hands.

In a future where the world is roughly divided into two factions, the... Read more

The Life Brief

By: Bonnie Wan

Narrated by: Bonnie Wan

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is a creative act. Start living a meaningful life with this soul-shaking, “brilliant companion on the road to more aliveness” (Dave Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Designing Your Life) to identify your core values and create the life you want.

We all have moments when we doubt the path we’re on. Am I in the right relationship?... Read more

The Things We Didn't Know

By: Elba Iris Pérez

Narrated by: Marisa Blake

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The USA TODAY bestselling inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical and “wonderfully compelling” (Judith Simon Prager, author of What the Dolphin Said) cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores a young girl’s childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small... Read more

The Band

By: Christine Ma-Kellams

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A psychologist with a savior complex offers shelter to a recently cancelled K-pop idol in this “first great K-pop literary phenomenon” (Debutiful) that is perfect for fans of Mouth to Mouth and Black Buck.

Sang Duri is the eldest member and “visual” of a Korean boy band at the apex of global superstardom. But when his latest solo single... Read more

Finally Heard

By: Kelly Yang

Narrated by: Sunny Lu & Kelly Yang

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes the sequel to Finally Seen “that tackles tweenhood and technology woes head-on” (School Library Journal, starred review) when Lina tries to navigate social media, only to discover not everything online is what it seems.

When ten-year-old Lina Gao sees her mom’s video on social media... Read more

Root Fractures

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

Narrated by: Diana Khoi Nguyen

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

*One of Time’s Must-Read Books of 2024*
*One of Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2024*
*One of LitHub’s Poetry Books to Read in 2024*
*One of The Millions’s Must-Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024*

National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank... Read more

JoyFull

By: Radhi Devlukia-Shetty

Narrated by: Radhi Devlukia-Shetty

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Food Network: One of the 10 Best Vegan Cookbooks of the Year

More than 125 plant-based recipes and a practical approach to making deeply flavorful food for feeling your best.

“What you eat—along with your daily habits and the thoughts you think—has the ability to completely transform every aspect of your health.” —Radhi... Read more

Say Hello to My Little Friend

By: Jennine Capó Crucet

Narrated by: Krizia Bajos

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Kirkus Prize

Scarface meets Moby Dick in Say Hello to My Little Friend—“a masterclass in pace and precision…brilliant” (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, National Book Award Finalist of Chain Gang All Stars) about a young man’s attempt to capitalize on his mother’s murky legacy—a story steeped in Miami’s marvelous and sinister... Read more

Where Rivers Part

By: Kao Kalia Yang

Narrated by: Pamela Xiong & Kao Kalia Yang

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety is a profound “testament to the miraculous strength of women and the indomitable resolve of the human spirit” (Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans).

Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb’s childhood was marked by the violence of America’s Secret War and the... Read more

The Breakup Vacation

By: Anna Gracia

Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the summer before senior year of college, and Grace is about to make the worst decision of her life in this “sexy, sun-drenched cocktail of chaotic good fun and heartfelt hilarity” (Sarah Kuhn, author of the Heroine Complex series) that captures the messiness of your early twenties, while highlighting the necessity of girlfriends at any—and... Read more

Viper's Dream

By: Jake Lamar

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Harlem, 1936. Clyde “The Viper” Morton boards a train from Alabama to Harlem to chase his dreams of being a jazz musician. When his talent fails him, he becomes caught up in the dangerous underbelly of Harlem’s drug trade, leaving him to decide what he's willing to give up and what he wants to fight for. A heartbreaking and fast-paced story... Read more

The Bodies Keep Coming

By: Dr. Brian H. Williams

Narrated by: Dr. Brian H. Williams

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to... Read more

Telephone

By: Percival Everett

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area—the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon—he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college where... Read more

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett



I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier.



Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man... Read more

The Final Curtain

By: Keigo Higashino

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions.



Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to... Read more

A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day

By: Jackie Lau

Narrated by: Khristine Rivière

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Amber Wong has landed her dream job at the Stratford Festival, and life is looking good. Sure, she hasn't had sex in so long that her condoms have expired, but she'll just pick up some new ones, along with discounted Christmas chocolate, at the grocery store.



And that's where she runs into Dr. Sebastian Lam, the son of her parents' close friends,... Read more

Beguiled by the Beastly Baron

By: YD La Mar

Narrated by: Hannah Martin & Dan Calley

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Miss Antônia Santos Pereira, at the bequest of your late father's will and on account of your potential ruined status and age, her majesty has hereby ordered you to attend the Monsters Ball to find suitable prospects for your family lineage.



Antônia is back in London after the passing of her father. Living overseas most her life, without the... Read more

American Negra

By: Natasha S. Alford

Narrated by: Natasha S. Alford

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY.In smart, vivid prose, Alford illustrates... Read more

White Supremacy Is All Around

By: Akilah Cadet

Narrated by: Akilah Cadet

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Founder and CEO of consulting firm Change Cadet Dr. Akilah Cadet shares a powerful, incisive look at where we are in the fight to dismantle white supremacy—and what we urgently need to do next​.

This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me... Read more

Swimming into Trouble

By: Angela Ahn

Narrated by: Vicki Kim

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Temporarily sidelined from her swim team by an earache, Julia won't be kept down in this buoyant novel for ages 7 to 10 by acclaimed writer Angela Ahn.

As a member of the Vipers Swim Team, Julia Nam's always in the pool. Mountainview Community Center is like her second home, not only because swimming at the aquatic center is her favorite thing in... Read more

Rebel Skies

By: Ann Sei Lin

Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Ann Sei Lin's enchanting and action-packed debut, first in a series, will sweep readers away to an aerial world of magic, danger and political intrigue. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Lim, Kalynn Bayron and the films of Studio Ghibli.

Kurara has never known any other life than being a servant onboard the Midori, a flying ship serving the military... Read more

In a Not So Perfect World

By: Neely Tubati Alexander

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Tubati Alexander is a writer to watch!” —Emily GiffinOne of Good Morning America's 15 books to read heading into spring and a SheReads and Zibby Mag Most Anticipated Book of the YearThe author of Love Buzz follows her acclaimed first novel with a delightful Caribbean-set romp about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a... Read more

A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 International BestsellerLonglisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize & New American Voices AwardAmazon Top 10 Editors PickNamed a Best Book of the Year by Elle, Cosmo, Real Simple, Glamour, Conde Nast, Readers Digest, & more""A premise that would (and should) translate well to a prestige television series.""—Elle""The best...book I... Read more