BIPOC Authors

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

Indefinite

By: Michael L. Walker

Narrated by: Earl McLean

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences max out at a year, some spend years awaiting trial in jail—especially in counties where courts are jammed with cases. City and county jails, detention... Read more

Only a Monster

By: Vanessa Len

Narrated by: Vera Chok

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The sweeping romance of Passenger meets the dark fantasy edge of This Savage Song in this stunning contemporary fantasy debut from Vanessa Len, where the line between monster and hero is razor thin.Don’t forget the rule. No one can know what you are. What we are. You must never tell anyone about monsters. Joan has just learned the truth: her... Read more

You Are Radically Loved

By: Rosie Acosta

Narrated by: Rosie Acosta

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning host of the Radically Loved podcast, an invitation to discover the healing power of who you are, body, mind, and spirit.

Growing up in East L.A. in the nineties, Rosie Acosta dismissed spirituality and wellness as something people like her didn’t do. But after being arrested at age fifteen, she knew that only a radical... Read more

The Cryptopians

By: Laura Shin

Narrated by: Laura Shin

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses.

In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of crypto endures—vast fortunes made from... Read more

I'm So (Not) Over You

By: Kosoko Jackson

Narrated by: Timothy Bell Reese

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Shine[s] with a beautiful, blooming sense of wonder.”—New York Times Book Review

A 2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER!

One of...
Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best LGBTQ+ Romance Novels of the Last Five Years
Essence's New Books We Can’t Wait To Read In 2022
Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Romance Novels of 2022
Buzzfeed’s Highly Anticipated LGBTQ... Read more

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 Cloud Rising

By: David Wright Falade

Narrated by: James Shippy

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former... Read more

Golden Girl

By: Reem Faruqi

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning, ALA Notable author of Unsettled and Lailah’s Lunchbox, this is a captivating coming-of-age middle grade novel in verse about seventh grader Aafiyah Qamar, a Pakistani American girl who hatches a special plan to help her family but finds that doing what’s right isn’t always easy.For fans of The Thing About... Read more

The House of Rust

By: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber

Narrated by: Waceke Wambaa

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father.The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar’s... Read more

Decker's Dilemma

By: Chantal Fernando

Narrated by: Patrick Zeller & C.J. Bloom

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Knights of Fury and the Wind Dragons MCs come together in New York Times bestselling author Chantal Fernando’s gritty new series.

Wind Dragon princess Cara and ex-cop Decker will have to cross every line to be together—including the law. 

At a Turning Point

It was a typical PI gig: track down the client’s newly discovered half sister. For... Read more

The Verifiers

By: Jane Pek

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST MYSTERY BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people's online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing....

“The world of social... Read more

Miss Pearly's Girls

By: ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley comes an intriguing, heartfelt tale about long held family secrets, truths that won’t stay hidden, and how facing the ultimate loss can force us to find our own ways to make amends and heal …Raising four very different daughters on her own in rural Arkansas wasn’t easy for Miss Pearly Bell. And... Read more

Level Up

By: Stacey Abrams, Lara Hodgson & Heather Cabot

Narrated by: Lara Hodgson, Heather Cabot & Stacey Abrams

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring and revelatory guide to starting and scaling a small business, from powerhouse duo Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson

Like many business owners, renowned politician and activist Stacey Abrams didn’t start a business because she dreamed of calling herself an entrepreneur. Her part-time post (and its $17,310 annual salary) as a member of... Read more

Black American Refugee

By: Tiffanie Drayton

Narrated by: Tiffanie Drayton

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Named "most anticipated" book of February by Marie Claire, Essence, and A.V. Club
 
"…extraordinary and representative."—NPR

"Drayton explores the ramifications of racism that span generations, global white supremacy, and the pitfalls of American culture."—Shondaland
 
After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic... Read more

Eyes That Speak to the Stars

By: Joanna Ho

Narrated by: Justin Chien

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling team Joanna Ho and Dung Ho present Eyes That Speak to the Stars, companion to the acclaimed Eyes That Kiss in the Corners.“A brilliant treatise to love of self and heritage.” —School Library Journal (starred review)“A beautifully validating book that builds on the necessary work of its predecessor.” —Kirkus“Affirmative... Read more

Walking the Bowl

By: Chris Lockhart & Daniel Mulilo Chama

Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever altered by the mysterious murder of a fellow street child.

Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the... Read more

LifePass

By: Payal Kadakia

Narrated by: Payal Kadakia

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Introducing The LifePass Method: A unique method of goal setting from the founder of ClassPass that will help you hone in on your feelings, screen out unnecessary distractions, and live a successful and fulfilling life based on your deepest desires.

Grant yourself permission to have the life you most want to live. When Payal Kadakia let go of the... 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

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

Soul Love

By: Aja

Narrated by: Leon Nixon & Shari Peele

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Zoe comes from a line of clairvoyant, empathic women. Each one, including Zoe, is deeply connected to the world around them. Zoe's gifts are much more intense and hard to go unnoticed by those who get close to her so she often hides what she knows to avoid being seen as unstable. She's always known who the love of her life was going to be, she... Read more

Overlord, Vol. 3

By: Kugane Maruyama

Narrated by: Chris Guerrero

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Lord Ainz has made great progress moonlighting as the indomitable hero Momon, but what should be a moment of triumph is shattered--by news of rebellion. He vows to find out what has happened and to defend the honor of his guild and home--Ainz Ooal Gown. Read more

The Chandler Legacies

By: Abdi Nazemian

Narrated by: Abdi Nazemian & Vikas Adam

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a revelatory novel about the enclosed world of privilege and silence at an elite boarding school and the unlikely group of friends who dare to challenge the status quo through their writing. Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Kathleen Glasgow, and Jandy Nelson, with crossover... Read more

Reclaim the Stars

By: Zoraida Córdova

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra & Zoraida Córdova

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of 2022
One of Pop Sugar's Best New YA of 2022

From stories that take you to the stars, to stories that span into other times and realms, to stories set in the magical now, Reclaim the Stars takes the Latin American diaspora to places fantastical and out of this world.

Follow princesses warring in space,... Read more