BIPOC Authors

Confrontations

By: Simone Atangana Bekono

Narrated by: Ella Dacres

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Confrontations by Simone Atangana Bekono, read by Ella Dacres.

A bold, unsettling, surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling.

Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile detention center to... Read more

A Gamble at Sunset

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Bianca Drew

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgina Wilcox, a wallflower with hidden musical talents, is furious when her reclusive older sister—the recently widowed Viscountess—refuses sorely needed help from the Duke of Torrance, the only gentleman who has shown kindness to the bereft Wilcox sisters. Georgina decides to get back at her sister and shock the Viscountess by kissing the... Read more

He's My Next Mistake

By: Jahquel J.

Narrated by: Elyce Anthony & Myles Washington

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine matching on a dating app with the guy of your dreams. Tall—check. Handsome—check. Financially responsible—check check. … and he happens to live in the same city as you. That's what happens when Jru Amber matches with Crew Tims. They both know they're the perfect match on paper, but both of them are far too busy to see if the connection... Read more

stay up

By: Khodi Dill

Narrated by: Khodi Dill

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice. Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don’t know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy... Read more

The Rooftop Garden

By: Menaka Raman-Wilms

Narrated by: Alison Deon

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rooftop Garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from his Toronto home, and Nabila travels to Berlin to find him and try to bring him back. The story is interspersed with scenes from their childhood, when... Read more

Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

Narrated by: Christina Wong

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for 2024 Canada Reads Longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medals for Excellence through the American Library Association A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders Bringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes... Read more

Modern Divination

By: Isa Agajanian

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A Discovery of Witches meets The Atlas Six in Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian, a dark contemporary fantasy from a brilliant new talent. Modern Divination is the first book in the Spells for Life and Death duology.

The colour of magic was gold . . .

Twenty-three-year-old witch Aurelia Schwartz has always had to carefully balance her human... Read more

Keepers of the Stones and Stars

By: Michael Barakiva

Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies & Frankie Corzo

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Reed is leading his best life: he’s just kissed the boy of his dreams, his band is finally taking off, and he’s a shoo-in to getting elected as next year’s Student Council president. But he’s ready to give it all up when his suspiciously aristocratic guidance counselor tells him he has been chosen to go on the adventure of a lifetime. Because... Read more

Dead Girls Walking

By: Sami Ellis

Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal & Geneva Mitchell

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Temple Baker knows that evil runs in her blood. Her father is the North Point Killer, an infamous serial killer known for branding his victims. He was the talk of countless true crime blogs for years. Some say he was possessed by a demon.

Some say they never found all his victims. Some say that even though he’s now behind bars, people are still... Read more

The Fake Boyfriend Fiasco

By: Talia Hibbert

Narrated by: Rooke Kingston & Harvey Fuller

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Footballing legend Nik Christou leads a charmed life. Rich, successful, and internationally adored, no woman (or man) has ever rejected him—until a tattooed goddess blows his mind and captures his heart with just one kiss. Distrustful of men and disdainful of love, Aria Granger’s tongue is as sharp as her winged eyeliner. She knows from... Read more

The Oath

By: T.M. Richardson

Narrated by: Lacy Laurel

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Miles, Deacon, and Cassidy are Franklin’s best friends, brothers in every sense of the word. When Franklin asks his brothers to do something unorthodox as his dying wish, the trio has some reservations. When they tell his widow about the oath that they were bound in brotherhood to uphold, will she run or embrace a new phase of her life that... Read more

¡Vamos! Let's Go Read

By: Raúl The Third

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival that the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone.... Read more

The Truth About Dragons

By: Julie Leung

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Truth About Dragons features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the giggles from hobgoblins and the sounds of waterfalls!

A Caldecott Honor Winner

The Truth About Dragons follows a young child on a journey guided by his mother's bedtime storytelling. He quests into two very different forests,... Read more

Let the Games Begin

By: Rufaro Faith Mazarura

Narrated by: Shaniqua Okwok

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"A delight to listen to." — AudioFile

"British actor Shaniqua Okwok skillfully voices the main characters, lending distinctive, natural-sounding accents for each."—Library Journal

Set against a sizzling-hot Greek summer filled with sunshine and souvlaki, Rufaro Faith Mazarura’s Let the Games Begin is a un-put-downable debut rom-com about two... Read more

Bad Witches

By: H. B. Akumiah

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In H. B. Akumiah’s lively and charming debut, three young women discover the unbelievable: they’re witches, and their newfound magic may be the key to saving the world …The Witch Sphere is in turmoil. In the years since a stunning betrayal sent shock waves through society, the Sphere was hit with a crisis: witches are giving birth to more typics... Read more

American Ghoul

By: Michelle McGill-Vargas

Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A wildly entertaining debut from Michelle McGill-Vargas, American Ghoul deftly combines horror and social commentary—with a dash of buddy comedy—in an innovative twist on the vampire genre.You can’t kill someone who’s already dead.That’s what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer after—allegedly—killing her mistress, Simone Arceneau. But how could... Read more

Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Reckoning of Roku

By: Randy Ribay

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From National Book Award finalist Randy Ribay comes a gripping new chapter—starring Avatar Roku—in the New York Times bestselling Chronicles of the Avatar series, set in the world of Avatar: the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.A young Avatar Roku has only just commenced his training at the Southern Air Temple when his erstwhile friend,... Read more

Craft

By: Ananda Lima

Narrated by: Taylor Harvey

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life, and she writes him stories about beautiful and impossible things. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and unsettling linked collection that lures listeners into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil, where... Read more

Guarding Temptation

By: Talia Hibbert

Narrated by: Rooke Kingston & Ekow Quartey

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Nina Chapman’s most embarrassing moment? Finally dragging James Foster into bed. The stern, steady mechanic made her see stars . . . then called her a mistake and disappeared, leaving the tatters of their friendship in his wake. But when Nina’s work as an investigative journalist brings death threats to her door, James marches back into her... Read more

Taken to Kor

By: Elizabeth Stephens

Narrated by: Joy Beharie & Curtis Michael Holland

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

I thought he liked me. He's been my only source of company for the past rotation that I've been held captive. But when he rejects me in front of everyone, I get the shrov out, determined to find humans on another satellite far far away from this mess that is my life. Except I don't exactly receive the warm homecoming I expect. Instead this... Read more

Taken by the Pikosa Warlord

By: Elizabeth Stephens

Narrated by: Tempest Mensah & James Cavenaugh

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

I'm awoken after a thousand's year sleep to a brutal world ruled by a male who may be the devil himself—Ero. Strange that, though so much has changed, language hasn't lost its roots. Because of that, I'm able to interpret his tongue—the only one who can. I plan to use my strengths to free the captive tribes from Ero's brutality or, better yet,... Read more

Rakesfall

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other... Read more

A Run at Love

By: Toni Shiloh

Narrated by: Dioni Michelle Collins

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A CONTENDER RUNNING FOR THE ROSES

As a Black woman in a field with little diversity, Piper McKinney is determined to make her mark on the horse-racing world. Raised on a Thoroughbred farm in Kentucky, Piper’s dream is for her horse to win the prestigious Kentucky Derby.
With the help of her best friend and trainer, Tucker Hale, she gains national... Read more

The Voyage of Sam Singh

By: Gita Ralleigh

Narrated by: Sid Sagar

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Voyage of Sam Singh by Gita Ralleigh, read by Sid Sagar.

In Gita Ralleigh's second magical middle grade adventure set in a parallel colonial India, land-pirate Sam Singh sails to an isle teeming with spirits and secrets on a perilous journey to find the truth.

'We are kings of the forest,
Let them tame us if they can!'

Sam’s... Read more