BIPOC Authors

Bake Infinite Pie with X + Y

By: Eugenia Cheng

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Aspiring bakers will embrace this charming picture book about baking pie by using simple math, from one of the world’s most creative and celebrated mathematicians.

X + Y are dreaming of baking infinite pie. But they don’t know if infinite pie is real. With the help of quirky and uber-smart Aunt Z, and a whole lot of flour and butter, X and Y will... Read more

Plum Bun

By: Jessi Redmon Fauset

Narrated by: Jasmin Walker

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes is her only obstacle to opportunity. What... Read more

The ABCs of Black History

By: Rio Cortez

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In rhyming couplets, Cortez leads readers on a journey through Black life that acknowledges pain and struggle while building confidence with examples of triumph. It’s a tricky maneuver when writing for children, but Cortez pulls it off.” – The New York Times"A uniquely crafted ABC book that portrays some of the most... Read more

Dream, Annie, Dream

By: Waka T. Brown

Narrated by: Sophie Oda

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams.As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the... Read more

The Great Mrs. Elias

By: Barbara Chase-Riboud

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history.
A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias’ glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park... Read more

The Keeper

By: Guadalupe García McCall

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by a terrifying true story, acclaimed author Guadalupe Garcia McCall creates a twisty tale about a boy desperately trying to survive in a new town with a secret past. James always knew moving from Texas to Oregon was going to be horrible.. But no sooner have he and his family arrived in their ""perfect"" new home in their ""perfect""... Read more

Deep Purpose

By: Ranjay Gulati

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Forbes, Best Business Books of 2022The Next Big Idea Club, Best Leadership Books of 2022Thinkers50 Top 10 Best New Management Books for 2022Axiom Award Bronze Medalist for Business EthicsA distinguished Harvard Business School professor offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast... Read more

Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity

By: Angela Velez

Narrated by: Adriana Santos & Sol Madariaga

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this Latinx road trip adventure—a big-hearted, voice-driven YA about two sisters who couldn’t be more different, but become begrudging partners on their school’s cross-country college trip—from debut author Angela Velez. Perfect for fans of Lilliam Rivera, Jenny Han, and Sandhya Menon. Overachiever Luz “Lulu”... Read more

Race Crazy

By: Charles Love

Narrated by: Charles Love

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When did America become obsessed with racial differences? After decades of progress healing real-world prejudices and anger, we suddenly live in an America where we’re expected to view every single thing through the lens of race.Children are taught the politics of racial resentment and fear in schools. Films, novels, and even comic books are... Read more

The Healing Power of African-American Spirituality

By: Stephanie Rose Bird

Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a fabulous resource for anyone who wants to understand African American spirituality, shamanism, and indigenous spiritual practices and beliefs. It is designed to be informative while providing hands-on recipes, rituals, projects, and resources to help you become an active participant in its wonderfully soulful traditions.

Inside you... Read more

Decolonizing Wellness

By: Dalia Kinsey

Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The lack of BIPOC and LGBTQ representation in the fields of health and nutrition has led to repeated racist and unscientific biases that negatively impact the very people they purport to help. Many representatives of the increasingly popular body-positivity movement actually add to the body-image concerns of queer people of color by emphasizing... 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

A 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 through their organizations or industries but need a roadmap for how to get to the top and stay there. Based... Read more

Mirror Girls

By: Kelly McWilliams

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony, Carmen Jewel Jones & Robin Eller

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil... Read more

Cherish Farrah

By: Bethany C. Morrow

Narrated by: Angel Pean

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by PopSugar, Ms. magazine, Medium, Book Riot, BookPage, CrimeReads, Tor Nightfire, Bookshop, Book Talk, BiblioLifestyle, and more! 

AN APRIL 2022 BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK

“Morrow uses her heroine’s warped perspective to examine painful truths about race and class in America, but this isn’t a book intended to... Read more

Colors of Awesome!

By: Eva Chen

Narrated by: Eva Chen

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From Kamala Harris' white pantsuit to Judy Garland's ruby slippers to Mamie Johnson's blue baseball uniform, powerful and inspiring women from throughout history have proved that "awesome" comes in all colors!

A Is for Awesome provided an ABC of amazing women from throughout history. 3 2 1 Awesome counted down... Read more

Fortune

By: Lisa Sharon Harper

Narrated by: Lisa Sharon Harper

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on her lifelong journey to know her family's history, leading Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair.



Harper has spent three decades researching ten generations of her family history through DNA research,... Read more

The Salt Eaters

By: Toni Cade Bambara

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times).



Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion” (The New York Times Book Review).



Though they all... Read more

Nobody's Magic

By: Destiny O. Birdsong

Narrated by: Mela Lee, Tracey Leigh & Jasika Nicole

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“The magic here is not the supernatural kind, but rather an attention to the grace of the ordinary. It is the magic of watching these women come into their power.”—New York Times

A GMA Buzz Pick!

A Most Anticipated Book by Essence · The Millions · Atlantic Journal Constitution · Glamour · Teen Vogue · Bustle · BookPage · Nashville Scene · Ms.... Read more

Black and Blur

By: Fred Moten

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life. In these interrelated essays, Moten attends to entanglement, the blurring of borders, and other practices that... Read more

So Simple a Beginning

By: Raghuveer Parthasarathy

Narrated by: Anand Jagatia

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Anand Jagatia reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexityThe form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. A human being is very different from a bacterium or a zebra. The living world is a realm of dazzling variety, yet a shared set of physical principles shapes... Read more

Leather and Lace

By: Rebel Carter

Narrated by: Marya Freeman

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Time is running out for Mary Sophia James, who has come to the frontier town of Gold Sky, Montana at her mother's insistence. Mary needs to find a husband fast – before her condition becomes too obvious. When Mary spots the gorgeous Alex Pierce across the town square one day though, her world is turned upside down. Not only is Alex beautiful and... Read more

Light of Darkness

By: Ebenezer O. Makinde

Narrated by: Casey Raiha

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

As Good and Evil sit precariously weighing in the balance, swaying back and forth with the whims and spirit of humanity, many continue to ask: what is it that gives us purpose? Who truly matters in this age of adversity? Are we coincidental masses of flesh and blood, or were we put on this earth for a reason?Such impassable questions have been... Read more

Bird Brother

By: Rodney Stotts

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Rodney grew up during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration an accepted part of daily life for nearly everyone he knew. To rent his own apartment, he needed a paycheck—something the money from dealing drugs didn't provide. For that, he took a position in 1992 with a new nonprofit, the Earth Conservation Corps.... Read more

Freewater

By: Amina Luqman-Dawson

Narrated by: Cary Hite & Sisi Aisha Johnson

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Debut author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom.

Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he... Read more