BIPOC Authors

Sister Mother Warrior

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh & Robin Miles

Length: 18 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved... Read more

Self-Portrait with Ghost

By: Meng Jin

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“A knockout short story collection...Each one of these 10 dizzyingly immersive stories offers up a heady and visceral portrait of what ails us, from isolation and self-doubt, to unrequited love and regret over what might have been, to what it means to be (and to be considered) an American."" -- San Francisco ChronicleMeng Jin’s critically... Read more

100 Animals That Can F*cking End You

By: Mamadou Ndiaye

Narrated by: Mamadou Ndiaye

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A wittily informative field guide to the deadliest animals on Earth from a beloved "AnimalTok" star. Ever wonder how to tell if a moose is about to subtract you? Curious why you should be terrified of cassowaries, the “velociraptor that time forgot?” Questioning whether that cute baby hippo is actually a homicidal maniac in the making? Yea, so... Read more

Our Gen

By: Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

“Our Gen is warm and smart, accessible yet meaningful, a beach read with strong writing and emotional heft.”—BookPageResidents of an active-living retirement community revert to lives of youthful indulgence, even as time-bomb secrets of their pasts tick toward explosion. The Gen—short for Sexagenarian—is an upscale fifty-five-plus community... Read more

The Earthspinner

By: Anuradha Roy

Narrated by: Maya Saroya

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Lives We Never Lived, an incisive and moving novel about the struggle for creative achievement in a world consumed by growing fanaticism and political upheaval.One night, Elango has a dream that consumes him, driving him to give it shape. The potter... Read more

Take No Names

By: Daniel Nieh

Narrated by: Ewan Chung

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting thriller about a fugitive in search of a quick payday in Mexico City who finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme.Victor Li is a man without a past. To his new employer, Mark, he’s just an anonymous hired hand to help with the dirty work. Together, they break into storage units that contain the possessions... Read more

Miss Aldridge Regrets

By: Louise Hare

Narrated by: Georgina Campbell

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Super cinematic and every bit as Agatha Christie-esque as its sounds... ifyou like murder mysteries, pick this one up!”
 
-Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers


Named A Most Anticipated Mystery of Summer by Betches, Essence, Crime Reads and more!

The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An... Read more

The Light Always Breaks

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt & Neill Thorne

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

As 1947 opens, Eva Cardon is the twenty-four-year-old owner of Washington, D.C.’s, most famous Black-owned restaurant. When her path crosses with Courtland, a handsome white senator from Georgia, both find themselves drawn to one another—but the danger of a relationship between a Black woman and a white man from the South could destroy them and... Read more

The Darkening

By: Sunya Mara

Narrated by: Rachel Petladwala

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thrilling and epic YA fantasy debut the only hope for a city trapped in the eye of a cursed storm lies with the daughter of failed revolutionaries and a prince terrified of his throne.Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queen’s soldiers, they gave her a choice: death... Read more

In the Beautiful Country

By: Jane Kuo

Narrated by: Sura Siu

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Jasmine Warga and Thanhhà Lại, this is a stunning novel in verse about a young Taiwanese immigrant to America who is confronted by the stark difference between dreams and reality.Anna can’t wait to move to the beautiful country—the Chinese name for America. Although she’s only ever known life in Taiwan, she can’t help but brag about... Read more

Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble

By: Whoopi Goldberg & Deborah Underwood

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book of the award-winning and bestselling Sugar Plum Ballerinas series by Whoopi Goldberg—now featuring brand-new illustrations! At the Nutcracker School of Ballet in Harlem, young dancers learn to chassé, plié, and jeté with their Sugar Plum Sisters—but things don't always go to plan! As the girls encounter challenges both on and off... Read more

Reckoning with Slavery

By: Jennifer L. Morgan

Narrated by: Angel Pean

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In Reckoning with Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic. From capture to transport to sale to childbirth, these women were demographically counted as... Read more

The Dream Runners

By: Shveta Thakrar

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Vikas Adam

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A lush tapestry of dreams, myth, and magic—perfect for fans of Holly Black, Roshani Chokshi, and Margaret Rogerson.Seven years ago, Tanvi was spirited away to the subterranean realm of Nagalok, where she joined the ranks of the dream runners: human children freed of all memory and emotion, who collect mortal dreams for the entertainment of the... Read more

Harlem Sunset

By: Nekesa Afia

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a 2022 People Magazine best book of the summer!

A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home...

Harlem, 1927. Twenty-seven-year-old Louise Lloyd has found the perfect job! She is the new manager of the Dove, a... Read more

How to Try

By: Lorenzo Lebrija

Narrated by: Lorenzo Lebrija

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

What if tried and true methods from the corporate world could raise your ministry’s probability of success by a considerable margin? Lorenzo Lebrija, director of TryTank, a lab for church growth and innovation, has developed a fresh straightforward framework for experiments in new ministry based on research and interviews. With three clear... Read more

American Royalty

By: Tracey Livesay

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson & Wesleigh Siobhan

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dangerously sexy rom-com that evokes the real-life romance between Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle, a prince who wants to live out of the spotlight falls for a daring American rapper who turns his life, and the palace, upside down.Sexy, driven rapper Danielle “Duchess” Nelson is on the verge of signing a deal that’ll make her one... Read more

The Scent of Burnt Flowers

By: Blitz Bazawule

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Fleeing persecution in 1960s America, a Black couple seeks asylum in Ghana, but fresh dangers and old secrets threaten their newfound freedom in this hypnotic debut novel.

“I am truly blown away by this novel.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the Bone

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: CrimeReads

When the windshield... Read more

The Sizzle Paradox

By: Lily Menon

Narrated by: Abhay Ahluwalia & Brittany Pressley

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kiss Quotient meets Love Potion No. 9 in the next sparkling romantic comedy by Lily Menon, The Sizzle Paradox.

Lyric Bishop feels like a fraud—she’s studying sexual chemistry in romantic partners and what makes for a successful long-term relationship, only she can’t seem to figure it out in her own dating life. The science is sound, but how... Read more

The Wife Before

By: Shanora Williams

Narrated by: Tracey Conyer Lee

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shanora Williams weaves an insidiously sexy, twist-filled novel in which a new bride’s fairytale marriage fast becomes a nightmare of secrets …Samira Wilder has never had it easy, and when her latest lousy job goes south, things only promise to get harder. Until she unexpectedly meets a man who... Read more

Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Plum Fantastic

By: Whoopi Goldberg & Deborah Underwood

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book of the award-winning and bestselling Sugar Plum Ballerinas series by Whoopi Goldberg—now featuring brand-new illustrations!  At the Nutcracker School of Ballet in Harlem, young dancers learn to chassé, plié, and jeté with their Sugar Plum Sisters—but things don't always go to plan! As the girls encounter challenges both on and off... Read more

Black Looks

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to... Read more

On Rotation

By: Shirlene Obuobi

Narrated by: Mela Lee

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

AS SEEN ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA! ONE OF TEEN VOGUE'S 25 BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS THEY CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS YEARONE OF BETCHES' ""22 BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ THIS YEAR""""As a fan of Grey’s Anatomy (and Chicago Med!), I couldn’t put down On Rotation, and you won’t be able to, either. Shirlene Obuobi makes you feel as if you’re actually right there... Read more

African Americans in the Revolutionary War

By: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Michael Lee Lanning

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

At first, neither George Washington nor the Continental Congress approved of enlisting African Americans in the new army. Nevertheless, Black men—both slave and free—filled the ranks and served in all of the early battles. Black sailors also saw action in every major naval battle of the Revolution, including members of John Paul Jones's crew... Read more

Spíləxm

By: Nicola I. Campbell

Narrated by: Nicola I. Campbell

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. In the Nłeʔkepmxcín language, spíləx̣m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in the quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British Columbia landscape, and with an almost tactile representation of being on the land and water, Spíləx̣m... Read more