BIPOC Authors

After Hours on Milagro Street

By: Angelina M. Lopez

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A WASHINGTON POST BEST ROMANCE OF 2022
A FATED MATES BEST ROMANCE OF 2022
AN ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY BEST ROMANCE OF 2022

Guapo pobrecito, her grandmother calls him. The “poor handsome man.”

Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra “Alex” Torres turning Loretta’s, her grandmother’s bar, into a viable... Read more

The White Allies Handbook

By: Lecia Michelle

Narrated by: Julienne Irons

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

You've read White Fragility and How to Be an Antiracist, but what comes next? The answer lies in this clear, actionable guide providing an invaluable four-week program for becoming an ally who makes a real difference in the racial justice fight.



Black women have always been the driving force behind real change in this country—especially when it... Read more

Big Girl

By: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon.



In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils—and undeniable beauty—of insatiable longing.



Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem,... Read more

Identitti

By: Mithu Sanyal

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sellout meets Interior Chinatown in this satirical debut about a German Indian student whose world is upended when she discovers that her beloved professor who passed for Indian is, in fact, white.Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known blogger and doctoral student, is in awe of her supervisor—postcolonial and race studies professor... Read more

Rhett Redeemed

By: Chantal Fernando

Narrated by: Patrick Zeller & C.J. Bloom

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Chantal Fernando brings the sexy second installment to the Knights and Dragons series, where the line between good and bad decisions gets blurry…

Life is about choices. He had a history of making bad ones. 

Ready for a New Start

United with her newly discovered half sister, Constance Wilder finally has a family.... Read more

The House on Blueberry Lane

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"If there's one thing Jackson knows how to do, it's how to pluck those heartstrings."—BookPage

All he needs is a second chance

All she wants is no strings attached

The biggest mistake of Jaye Colfax’s life was letting Velvet Spencer leave. For three years, they were together exclusively and it was great—at least for Jaye. But Velvet wanted more.... Read more

Beating Heart Baby

By: Lio Min

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz & Jensen Silvio

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby is a “dizzying, sexy, and utterly heartfelt” (Mary H. K. Choi) love letter to internet friendships, anime, and indie rock

When artistic and sensitive Santi arrives at his new high school, everyone in the wildly talented marching band welcomes him with open arms. Everyone except for the prickly, proud musical prodigy... Read more

The Elephant Girl

By: James Patterson & Ellen Banda-Aaku

Narrated by: Krystel Roche

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

James Patterson and award-winning author Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable story of a girl, an elephant, and their life-changing friendship. 
 
Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip—especially about the new boy, Leku—twelve-year-old Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village.... Read more

The Accidental Pinup

By: Danielle Jackson

Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Rival photographers are forced to collaborate on a body-positive lingerie campaign, but they might have to readjust their focus when sparks fly.

Photographer Cassie Harris loves her job—her company Buxom Boudoir makes people look beautiful and feel empowered with her modern twist on classic pinup photography. Cassie’s best friend, Dana, is about... Read more

Spirit Hunters #3: Something Wicked

By: Ellen Oh

Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting conclusion to the acclaimed Spirit Hunters series!We Need Diverse Books cofounder Ellen Oh delivers the final book in her middle grade series Spirit Hunters, a gripping mystery and thrilling adventure, starring a Korean-American heroine and a diverse cast of characters.Harper is dealing with too many new changes in her house. Her... Read more

Sisters of the Yam

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle,... Read more

Things We Do in the Dark

By: Jennifer Hillier

Narrated by: Carla Vega

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook includes a bonus conversation between the author and actor Brandi Cyrus.

Winner of Best Audiobook at the 2023 ITW (International Thriller Writers) Thriller Awards.

Things We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris... Read more

How Maya Got Fierce

By: Sona Charaipotra

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In How Maya Got Fierce by Sona Charaipotra, The Bold Type meets Younger when a teen who gets her dream job at a fashion magazine, despite being only seventeen.

Maya dreams of working in magazines. But as the daughter of garlic farmers, her path is set: it’s off to Cow Camp instead. But when she ends up in the New York City area and realizes... Read more

In Bed with Her Boss

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

D'marcus Armstrong was demanding, autocratic and cranky as a boss. But as the star of her feverish nighttime fantasies, the man was simply divine. Still, Opal Lockhart had no chance with Detroit's self-made millionaire. What would a high roller like him want with a buttoned-up, naive secretary like her?

Enter the Lockhart sisters—for some... Read more

Symptoms of a Heartbreak

By: Sona Charaipotra

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Doogie Howser, M.D. meets The Fault in Our Stars in this tender romcom." —Teen Vogue

The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds—and falls head over heels—in Sona Charaipotra's contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak.

Sixteen-year-old Saira has always juggled family, friendships, and her Girl Genius... Read more

Illegally Yours

By: Rafael Agustin

Narrated by: Rafael Agustin

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin (Jane The Virgin) accidentally discovered he was undocumented and how that revelation turned everything he thought he knew about himself and his family upside down.

Growing up, Rafa’s parents didn't want him to feel different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should... Read more

The Last Beekeeper

By: Pablo Cartaya

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children Finalist Texas Bluebonnet Award List 2022-23Facing a world dually altered by climate change and those who profit from it, Yolanda Cicerón will have to fight to save the last known beehive from extinction in this stirring new adventure by award-winning author Pablo Cartaya.In a future shaken... Read more

My Name Is a Story

By: Ashanti

Narrated by: Ashanti

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From Grammy Award-winning singer Ashanti comes an empowering story about a girl who learns to love her unique name. First days aren’t easy for a girl with a name like Ashanti. It feels like no one can pronounce it correctly! But with some encouragement from her mom, Ashanti spells her name and learns just how special it is.A is for awesome, S is... Read more

The Binding Room

By: Nadine Matheson

Narrated by: Diveen Henry

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Matheson’s voice is exciting, urgent… and, now more than ever, vital.”—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

Detective Anjelica Henley confronts a series of ritualistic murders in this heart-pounding thriller about race, power and the corrupt institutions that threaten us

When Detective Anjelica Henley is... Read more

My Boy Will Die of Sorrow

By: Efrén C. Olivares

Narrated by: José Antonio Rodríguez

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer—whose work on the front lines of the fight against family separations in South Texas intertwines with his own story of immigrating to the United States at thirteen—reframes the United States' history as a nation of immigrants but also a nation against immigrants. In the summer of 2018,... Read more

Other Names for Love

By: Taymour Soomro

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

As Soomro moves his characters from urban Karachi to rural Abad to the faraway escape of London, Todiwala consistently and attentively distinguishes the changing cast with practiced ease." - Booklist

A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy’s life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire.

At... Read more

The Man Who Could Move Clouds

By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER  

From the author of the “original, politically daring and passionately written” (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.

For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s... Read more

Why Didn't You Tell Me?

By: Carmen Rita Wong

Narrated by: Carmen Rita Wong

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her identity, and her place in the world in this powerful and dramatic memoir

“Riveting . . . [Wong] tells her story in vivid conversational prose that will make readers feel they’re listening to a master storyteller on a long car trip. . . . Hers is a... Read more

Circling Back to You

By: Julie Tieu

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus & Reuben Uy

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Tieu, an exciting new and diverse voice in contemporary romance, returns with a hilarious and sexy new novel about colleagues who decide to take their relationship outside the office.Cadence Lim has transformed from behind-the-scenes number cruncher to an integral part of the sales team at Prism Realty. But despite moving up the corporate... Read more