BIPOC Authors

Velorio

By: Xavier Navarro Aquino

Narrated by: Diana Pou, Vico Ortiz, María Victoria Martínez,...

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“This debut novel traces a group of survivors who fall under the spell of an authoritarian cult leader in the days following Hurricane Maria’s destruction in Puerto Rico. It is deeply imagined and deeply felt – imagistic and strange and haunting – and simmering with grief and rage.”  -- Gabriela Garcia, New York Times bestselling authorSet in... Read more

Raising Free People

By: Akilah S. Richards

Narrated by: Akilah S. Richards

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy cause for some, it is not enough for countless others still trying to navigate the tyranny of what schooling has always been. Raising Free People argues that we need to build and work within systems designed for any human to... Read more

The Bride Experiment

By: MiMi Jefferson

Narrated by: Khalid Hill

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

James is days away from being married when he learns his fiancé Raquel has been keeping an explosive secret. Humiliated and with his reputation on the line, he sets out to destroy Raquel. The bride-to-be strikes back with a blow so intense it leaves James defenseless, with his life spiraling out of control.Within days, he is a shell of the... Read more

Searching for Right

By: Brittney Holmes

Narrated by: D. S. VanNiel

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren, Jayda, Danielle, and Brenda are finishing their senior year of high school. They seem to have perfect lives, but these girls have more to worry about than finals and college applications.Lauren has an inextinguishable infatuation with her history teacher, and she will do whatever it takes to get what she wants, even if it means hurting... Read more

On Bended Knee

By: Brittney Holmes

Narrated by: D. S. VanNiel

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Nineteen-year-old Devon Torres has lived the past several years of his life dealing drugs and running the streets of South Atlanta. Separating himself from his family and clinging to his business, Devon recruits young teens throughout his neighborhood to help maintain order in the community. He seems to have everything figured out—until he meets... Read more

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

By: M. T. Pope, Tina Brooks McKinney, Brenda Hampto...

Narrated by: Khalid Hill & Rhyan Neco

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married man who thinks he’s left his homosexual experiences in his past. What he didn’t count on was the high-ranking officer who forces a sexual relationship with him.After breaking off a relationship with her abusive girlfriend, Lauren Burns has finally made her dreams come true by becoming a member of the US... Read more

Young and Hungry

By: Michel Moore & Marlon P. S. White

Narrated by: Khalid Hill

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death …Not only is the city of Detroit bankrupt, it also has one of the highest murder rates in the country. When government-enforced power restrictions are applied, hell on earth becomes hotter in the already anything-goes, cutthroat city. Even the predators become prey. No loyalty, no... Read more

Lose Your Mother

By: Saidiya Hartman

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of... Read more

They Don’t Play Fair

By: Clifford “Spud” Johnson

Narrated by: Tony Isabella

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Papio and Special are back! Their love for one another has withstood the drama and turmoil of their chaotic lives, but their thirst for the dollar has once again set them on a crash course for mayhem. They’ve accumulated a long list of enemies, and now it’s time to do battle. Calling on some strong allies to assist them, they insist that no one... Read more

Becoming Abolitionists

By: Derecka Purnell

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day.Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: the police cannot... Read more

Finding My Father

By: Blair Linne

Narrated by: Blair Linne, Shai Linne & Mark Dever

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal story of learning to trust our heavenly Father when you feel your earthly father has let you down.

Blair Linne’s personal story of growing up without a father at home reflects the experiences of millions. She weaves her personal story with thoughtful theological reflection, inviting readers to learn from God what "father" really means... Read more

Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds

By: Samira Ahmed

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Samira Ahmed comes a thrilling fantasy adventure intertwining Islamic legend and history, perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the Land of Stories.
 
On the day of a rare super blue blood moon eclipse, twelve-year-old Amira and her little brother, Hamza, can’t stop their bickering while attending a special exhibit on medieval... 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

The Earthspinner

By: Anuradha Roy

Narrated by: Maya Saroya

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

'A writer of great subtlety and intelligence, who understands that emotional power comes from the steady accretion of detail' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian

'She writes elegantly and intelligently whatever the subject matter' Francesca Angelini, The Times

'A compulsively readable novel' Manil Suri, New York Times

'A horse was in flames. It roamed beneath... Read more

It Takes Two to Mango

By: Carrie Doyle

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

After Plum Lockhart's job as a travel magazine editor is eliminated in corporate cuts, she decides she's sick of cold winters in NYC and fruitless swiping on dating apps?what she needs is a dramatic change of scenery. On a whim, she accepts a job as a villa broker and moves to a beautiful Caribbean island. However, paradise isn't as perfect as... Read more

The Passing Playbook

By: Isaac Fitzsimons

Narrated by: Jamie K. Brown

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Love, Simon meets Bend It Like Beckham in this feel-good contemporary romance about a trans athlete who must decide between fighting for his right to play and staying stealth.

“A sharply observant and vividly drawn debut. I loved every minute I spent in this story, and I’ve never rooted harder for a jock in my life.” – New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Girl With Stars in Her Eyes

By: Xio Axelrod

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese & Tamika Simone

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Her name's Antonia "Toni" Bennette (yeah, she's heard all the jokes before) and she's not a rock star. Neither are the Lillys—not yet. But the difference between being famous and being almost famous can be a single wrong note... or the start of something that'll change your life forever. Growing up in dive bars up and down the East Coast, Toni... Read more

Jackson

By: LaQuette

Narrated by: Eboni Flowers

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Aja Everett longs to turn her old family ranch into a place where anyone can find rest and healing. But her big heart's bound to get her in trouble if she's not careful—someone wants her gone, and they'll do whatever it takes to drive her away from the land that's her lifeblood. Whether she's willing to admit it or not, she needs help. She needs... Read more

Crossfire

By: Staceyann Chin

Narrated by: Staceyann Chin

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book. According to The New York Times, Chin is “sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking.” The Advocate says that her poems “combine hilarious one-liners with a refusal to conform” and note “Chin is out to... Read more

Pen Pal (Prison Letters From A Free Spirit On Slow Death Row)

By: Tiyo Attallah Salah-El

Narrated by: Carl Weathers, Jack Daniel, Wendy Shapero, Lanc...

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Tiyo Attallah Salah-El died in 2018 on “Slow Death Row” while serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. He was a man with a dizzying array of talents and vocations: author, scholar, teacher, musician, and activist: he was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons. He was also, as is apparent from the letters written over... Read more

Ayesha at Last

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

Narrated by: Roshni Shukla

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen on The Today Show! One of the best summer romance picks!

One of Publishers Weekly Best Romance Books of 2019!

A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love.

Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives... Read more

Forty Million Dollar Slaves

By: William C. Rhoden

Narrated by: William C. Rhoden

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says former New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the... Read more

The Leavers

By: Lisa Ko

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a... Read more

Games without Rules

By: Tamim Ansary

Narrated by: Tamim Ansary

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan—a tribal universe of village republics... Read more