BIPOC Authors

Would I Lie to You?

By: Aliya Ali-Afzal

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “total page-turner,” wife and mother Faiza is about to find what happens when you have your dream life and are about to lose it... but only if you're caught (Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium).

At the school gates, Faiza fits in. It took a few years, but now the snobbish white mothers who mistook her for... Read more

Black Like Who?

By: Rinaldo Walcott

Narrated by: Nigel Williams

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Rinaldo Walcott’s groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused an uproar upon its publication. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music, and electronic media, Walcott’s book not only assesses the role of black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously... Read more

Race After Technology

By: Ruha Benjamin

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.



Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen... Read more

Living While Black

By: Guilaine Kinouani

Narrated by: Shirley Crabbe

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A Guardian “Best Book of 2021” Selection

A powerful look at the impacts of anti-Black racism and a practical guide for overcoming racial trauma through radical self-care as a form of resistance

Over the past 15 years, radical psychologist Guilaine Kinouani has focused her research, writing, and workshops on how racism affects both physical and... Read more

Illogical

By: Emmanuel Acho

Narrated by: Emmanuel Acho

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man comes a call to break through our limits and say yes to a life of infinite possibility.

You may know Emmanuel Acho as the host of groundbreaking video series “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.” Or as a New York... Read more

When We Were Birds

By: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

Narrated by: Sydney Darius & Wendell Manwarren

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytelling—a spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal.

"Roots the reader in [Trinidad’s] traditions and rituals [and] ... in the glorious matriarchy by which lineage is... Read more

Homecoming

By: Thema Bryant, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Thema Bryant, Ph.D. & Ina King

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A road map for dismantling the fear and shame that keep you from living a free and authentic life.

In the aftermath of stress, disappointment, and trauma, people often fall into survival mode, even while a part of them longs for more. Juggling multiple demands and responsibilities keeps them busy, but not healed. As a survivor of sexual assault,... Read more

Vagabonds!

By: Eloghosa Osunde

Narrated by: Arit Okpo, Atta Otigba, Eloghosa Osunde, Ifeyin...

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD

“If you read one debut novel in 2022, this should be it.” —Los Angeles Times

In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, some defiant—navigate danger,... Read more

Moon Witch, Spider King

By: Marlon James

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 30 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“Masterfully flips the first installment on its head... James makes the mythic tantalizingly real.’” —Esquire
 
"Even more brilliant than the first.” —Buzzfeed

An Instant New York Times Bestseller and NPR Best Book of 2022 pick
 
From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in... Read more

Peace Is a Practice

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

Narrated by: Morgan Harper Nichols

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.When you breathe in all the grace available to you and release everything that is outside of your control, you'll discover peace that surpasses your circumstances. All it takes is practice.If you feel overwhelmed with anxiety about the future, you're far from alone. For many of us, when we're not worrying about what is to... Read more

It's Not Just Cookies

By: Tiffany Chen & Leon Chen

Narrated by: Tiffany Chen & Leon Chen

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook is read by the authors and includes an exclusive, fan-sourced Q&A with the authors! Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. And, on one fateful December day, girl stands up boy and then bakes him a batch of apology cookies. The rest is history.Building Tiff's Treats has been a love story unlike any other for these... Read more

Call Me Chef, Dammit!

By: Andre Rush

Narrated by: Chef Andre Rush

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents?Call Me Chef, Dammit! is the inspiring story of Andre Rush, who became an overnight sensation in 2018, after a photograph of his now-famous... Read more

Something Good

By: Vanessa Miller

Narrated by: Tyra Kennedy

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When three women find their lives inextricably linked after a terrible mistake, they must work together to make the most of their futures.Alexis Marshall never meant to cause the accident that left Jon-Jon Robinson paralyzed—but though guilt plagues her, her husband hopes to put the past behind them. After all, he’s in the middle of selling a... Read more

Black Faces in High Places

By: Randal D. Pinkett & Jeffrey A. Robinson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

GOLD MEMBER WINNER — LIVING NOW BOOK AWARD: SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP and eLIT BOOK AWARD: BUSINESS AUDIOBOOKA timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries and, just as importantly, to stay there.Black Faces in High Places is the essential guide for Black professionals who are moving up... Read more

Black Ops

By: Ric Prado

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era.

Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home... Read more

Real Life, Real Love

By: RaaShaun "DJ Envy" Casey & Gia Casey

Narrated by: RaaShaun "DJ Envy" Casey & Gia Casey

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

RaaShaun “DJ Envy” and Gia Casey met when they were two teenagers attending the same high school in Queens. They have been together for an astounding twenty-seven years and married for twenty. They have remained together through RaaShaun’s growing celebrity, a devastating (and very public)
cheating scandal, and the births of six children. Now, a... Read more

Her Hometown Hero

By: Jacquelin Thomas

Narrated by: Elle Cleviden

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a wounded hero let go of the past?

Wounded marine Trey Rothchild has returned to Polk Island. People call him a hero, but will he ever feel that way after losing his team? Reuniting with high school crush Gia Harris buoys his spirits. Though she’s focused on making her
physical therapy clinic a success—and avoiding romance with patients—Gia... Read more

Freedom!

By: Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Mar...

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Booklist Editors’ Choice
WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World
WINNER–International Literacy Association (ILA)–Young Adult Nonfiction
HONOR–2023 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights
Top 10–In the Margins Book Award

There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place,... Read more

Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?

By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

Narrated by: Ronke Adékoluejo

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Yinka is a lovable and relatable disaster—which is to say, she isn’t actually a disaster at all...I adore her.”—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers

“Feel good, funny, and clever, it’s got smash-hit written all over it!” –Josie Silver, New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December

Meet Yinka: a... Read more

Four Aunties and a Wedding

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

Narrated by: Risa Mei

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe—even the mafia—in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties.

Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day has arrived, and she can't wait to marry her college... Read more

Amari and the Great Game

By: B. B. Alston

Narrated by: Imani Parks

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sequel to the New York Times bestseller Amari and the Night Brothers!Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this magical second book in the New York Times and Indie bestselling Supernatural Investigations trilogy—perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor.After finding her brother and saving... Read more

Glory

By: NoViolet Bulawayo

Narrated by: Chipo Chung

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST

“Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review

"Genius."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds

From the award-winning author of the... Read more

Business Not As Usual

By: Sharon C. Cooper

Narrated by: Marcella Cox

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman learns the hard way about mixing business with pleasure in this hilarious new romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Sharon C. Cooper.

I am beautiful. I am confident. I am lovable. I am a lottery winner.

This is the mantra that will get Dreamy Daniels through each day until she makes it big. So what if she lives in a seedy part of... Read more

The Return of Faraz Ali

By: Aamina Ahmad

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala & Nina Wadia

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND NPR

WINNER OF THE 2023 L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE, ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION

“Stunning not only on account of the author’s talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity.” —New York Times Book Review (cover)

Sent back to his birthplace—Lahore’s notorious red-light... Read more