BIPOC Authors

In Every Mirror She’s Black

By: Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström

Narrated by: Sara Powell & Rosemarie Akwafo

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people.



Successful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi is lured from the US to Sweden by Jonny von Lundin, CEO of the nation's largest marketing firm, to help fix a PR fiasco... Read more

The Wonders We Seek: Thirty Incredible Muslims Who Helped Shape the World Unabr

By: Saadia Faruqi & Aneesa Mumtaz

Narrated by: Dalia Ramahi

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this biographical collection, authors Saadia Faruqi and Aneesa Mumtaz highlight some of the talented Muslim physicians, musicians, athletes, poets, and more who helped make the world we know today. A brilliant surgeon heals patients in the first millennium.A female king rules the Indian subcontinent.A poet pours his joy and grief into the... Read more

The Ghetto Within

By: Santiago H. Amigorena

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that “has stifled [him] since [he] was born”, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring novel of loss and unshakeable love.A critical sensation in France, The Ghetto Within is its author’s personal attempt to confront his grandfather’s... Read more

Shady Baby Feels

By: Gabrielle Union & Dwyane Wade

Narrated by: Gabrielle Union

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn about feelings and emotions with Shady Baby in this audiobook created by the bestselling team of Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, and Tara Nicole Whitaker!Shady Baby is baking cupcakes, and she has some feelings about the process. From excitement or boredom, Shady Baby expresses nine common emotions. Perfect for the youngest of listeners,... Read more

A Duke, the Spy, an Artist, and a Lie

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Founded by the ton's most ingenious countess, the secret society The Widow's Grace comes to the aid of ill-treated widows and wives and helps them regain their fortunes, their families, and sometimes discover true love . . .



For adventurous heiress Cecilia Charity Thomas, marrying charming military lieutenant Viscount Gantry to save him from... 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

Perish

By: LaToya Watkins

Narrated by: Jeremy Michael Durm, Keyonni James, Chanté McCo...

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Watkins’s prose is effortless and forthright. . . . This is an impressive feat of storytelling. . . . It’s a difficult read and a tender story of silences and secrets. It’s a novel about coming home, despite that home being broken. And it’s a brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it.”
—The New York Times Book... Read more

Ben and Beatriz

By: Katalina Gamarra

Narrated by: James Fouhey & Aida Reluzco

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s nothing like falling for your worst enemy.

Beatriz Herrera is a fierce woman who will take you down with her quick wit and keen intellect. And after the results of the 2016 election worked hard to erase her identity as a queer biracial woman, she’d be right to. Especially if you come for her sweet BFF cousin, Hero. Beatriz would do... Read more

Long Past Summer

By: Noué Kirwan

Narrated by: Nicola Lambo

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kirwan’s excellent debut brings charm, complexity, and plenty of heat…This mature, steamy romance will have readers swooning.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Noué Kirwan’s exquisitely-written debut left me breathless.”—Farrah Rochon, USA Today bestselling author of The Dating Playbook

"Long Past Summer is powerful.”—Naima Simone, USA Today... Read more

No More Playas

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Lance Montgomery, renowned relationship expert, has perfected the art of being a playa. His acclaimed workshops and bestselling books prove it. His most popular title, The Playa’s Handbook, caused a major uproar among black women and men, and shot to the top of the bestseller list.
 
Then he met Dr. Asia Fowler, a colleague whose views on love are... Read more

Star of His Heart

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Drop-dead-gorgeous Ethan Chambers loves his life as Hollywood's most eligible—and elusive—bachelor. Plus, the talented actor has just gotten an offer he can't refuse: a starring role on TV's hit medical drama. But it's the show's sultry makeup and wardrobe director who's got his pulse racing—and making him think twice about staying... Read more

The Playa's Handbook

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s not a whole lot happening in Gary, Indiana. That is, until nationally renowned relationship expert Lance Montgomery bursts on to the scene. Twice divorced, Montgomery is now on a mission to perfect the art of being single. His tantalizing book The Playa’s Handbook is causing quite a stir. His rules include:
 
*Never give a woman the key to... Read more

Mornings Without Mii

By: Mayumi Inaba

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author’s twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, and the writing life.On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze of Tokyo’s Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to find a newborn kitten, just the size of her palm,... Read more

When You Learn the Alphabet

By: Kendra Allen

Narrated by: Nicole Cash

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Kendra Allen’s first collection of essays—at its core—is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between parent and daughter. These parental relationships expose the conditioning that subconsciously... Read more

New Arrivals on West India Dock Road

By: Renita D’Silva

Narrated by: Nikki Patel

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a BRAND NEW historical series from Renita D'Silva. Welcome to West India Dock Road, in London’s East End...'Beautifully told. I became immersed in Divya's world.' Patricia McBride1938: Divya has made the long sea journey from India to England, employed as a nanny by a British family. But once they arrive, she is cruelly abandoned,... Read more

What Happens in Paradise

By: Olivia Spring

Narrated by: Chloë Sommer & Javier Cáberiz

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Escape to the Love Hotel with this spicy summer romance from bestselling author Olivia Spring 🌞🌴❤️THE WHITE LOTUS MEETS FIRST DATES HOTELPerfect for fans of Abby Jimenez, Meghan Quinn and Sarah Adams!Tropes & Themes✨ Summer Romance✨ Friends to lovers✨ Workplace Romance✨ Forced Proximity✨ Age Gap (she’s older, he’s younger)✨ Destination... Read more

Writing, the Other Life

By: Annie Ernaux

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A sensational celebration of Annie Ernaux's work—featuring collected writing by critics, journalists, and 24 previously unpublished pieces by the Nobel Prize winner herself—offering a full view of the author's life, writing style, reception by readers, and her thoughts and influence. For fans new to... Read more

Manifiesto criminal (Ray Carney 2)

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Víctor Sabi

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

«Whitehead se está convirtiendo rápidamente en el Dickens de la vida de losafroamericanos estadounidenses».
Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Times El doble ganador del Pulitzer continúa entonando su himno a Harlem, en todo su esplendor y miseria, y recreando el paisaje criminal del agitado Nueva York de la década de 1970. Comienza la década de los... 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

Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion

By: Abiola Bello

Narrated by: Diana Yekinni

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover your wild side! Join twins Misha and Ziggy as they put their extraordinary animal powers to the test in this new illustrated wildlife adventure series for readers 6+. For fans of Leonora Bolt and Space Detectives.

Misha and Ziggy are no ordinary twins. They have a secret that no one else knows: Misha can speak to animals and Ziggy can... Read more

Ajay and the Treasure of Thar

By: Varsha Shah

Narrated by: Susheel Kumar

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When eight-year-old Kai – custodian of a legendary treasure map – asks the Mumbai Sun team for help, Ajay knows he has landed on his next story.

The team is propelled into a journey through the Blue City of Jodhpur, to the temples of Ranakpur, and the desert city of Jaisalmer.

But a dastardly billionaire treasure hunter has heard of the map too .... Read more

Dancers of the Dawn

By: Zulekhá A. Afzal

Narrated by: Safiyya Ingar

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Deep in the desert a storm is brewing. The first in a slow burning YA romantasy.

'Enchanting.' Katharine Corr, co-author of Daughter of Darkness

Under the blazing sun, an elite troupe of dancers are trained to harness their magic. They are the queen’s most formidable assassins. Aasira has one of the rarest talents – for she is a flame-wielder.... Read more

One Eighty

By: Charity Shane

Narrated by: Chance Smolders & Wesleigh Siobhan

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Two people…
Two different objectives…
One ultimate goal… Gideon “Gee” Powers has one hundred and eighty days to secure his rightful place as head of the family. Rhian Barnes has one hundred and eighty days to complete a bucket list.
One night in Sin City blurs the lines and two become one. Read more

Merc

By: B. Love

Narrated by: Winston James & Lacy Laurel

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

For a man like Merc, his reputation has always preceded him. Known for his allegiance to the criminal underworld as a protector, the gangster only shows love to his family… and his son and the woman who birthed him are at the top of that list. When Merc decides to take one last job before retiring, he doesn’t think it will include protecting a... Read more