BIPOC Authors

Soul Culture

By: Remica Bingham-Risher

Narrated by: Delva Roline

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footsteps

Acclaimed Cave Canem poet and essayist Remica Bingham-Risher interweaves personal essays and interviews she conducted over a decade with 10 distinguished Black poets, such as... Read more

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

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

Close Protection

By: Eden Victoria

Narrated by: Eden Victoria & Hunter Johns

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

IT’S. FINALLY. HAPPENING. The thrilling fake-dating, bodyguard romance YA debut from the original BookTok content creator of the year, Eden Victoria (@EdenVictorria and @edenslife)

Being the heiress of Greenway Discoveries, Daphne Green has always lived a life of privilege. But when there is a break-in at her father’s office, he enlists the... Read more

Allure

By: Iesha Bree

Narrated by: Mari & Dylan Ford

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

allure / ??lo?or /: the power to entice or attract through personal charm In the world of creativity, Lore Reed shines as a beacon of boundless imagination, her sculptures and paintings capturing the essence of emotion and beauty. Raised in a household where freedom and exploration reigned supreme, Lore’s carefree spirit knows no bounds. Yet... Read more

Understanding the Purpose and Power of Authority

By: Myles Monroe

Narrated by: Preston Butler

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We often view authority as something oppressive, stifling, even fearful. And sometimes—perhaps too often—those impressions bear out in reality. We live in an era of overstepped boundaries and abuse in many fields of life, so that authority has become the enemy.
 
We may also have a limited idea of what authority means. Even with legitimate... Read more

Class Dismissed

By: Anthony Abraham Jack

Narrated by: Anthony Abraham Jack

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Anthony Abraham Jack reveals the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excel Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But when the twin pandemics of... Read more

The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Goblin's Revenge

By: Marcus Rashford

Narrated by: Kenton Thomas

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Marcus and friends as they solve another mystery in The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Goblin's Revenge. This is the sixth exciting adventure by England International footballer, child food-poverty campaigner and bestselling author Marcus Rashford MBE. Inspired by Marcus's own experiences growing up!

A vengeful goblin is targeting bullies at... Read more

Embrace

By: Mya

Narrated by: Chance Smolders & Opal Black

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

embrace /im-?br?s/ to clasp in the arms; to take up especially readily or gladly Suvi Summers never had luck in the love department. Failed relationship after failed relationship leads her to an unforgettable interview with the matchmaking service, Arranged Hearts. Blaze Snow was a ladies' man through and through. He’d never had any trouble... Read more

Desire

By: Kay Shanee

Narrated by: Aria Addison & Chance Smolders

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

desire /d??z?(?)r /: a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen Unsettled… That is the word Desire Chambries uses to describe how she feels. Although her preschool students bring her joy, her personal life needs resuscitating. She’d love to get married, but the dating scene lacks quality men. Most were... Read more

Transmentation | Transience

By: Darkly Lem

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling authors Darkly Lem comes Transmentation | Transience, the first book in a sweeping multiverse of adventure and intrigue, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and The Expanse series.Over thousands of years and thousands of worlds, universe-spanning societies of interdimensional travelers have arisen. Some seek to make the... Read more

Red Clay

By: Charles B. Fancher

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An astounding multigenerational saga, Red Clay chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins.In 1943, when a frail old white woman shows up in Red Clay, Alabama, at the home of a Black former slave—on the morning following his funeral—his family hardly knows... Read more

Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras

By: Odie Henderson

Narrated by: Odie Henderson

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema—the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre—from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism



In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, an... Read more

No One Is Self-Made

By: Lakeysha Hallmon

Narrated by: Lakeysha Hallmon

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This book isn’t just for one kind of entrepreneur—it’s for every kind. Whether you're thriving with purpose or struggling to grow your business and battle self-doubt, No One is Self-Made offers solutions and encouragement you need to push forward with the right community. From the visionary behind the groundbreaking Village Market, a direct... Read more

Being Black in America's Schools

By: Brian Rashad Fuller

Narrated by: Brian Rashad Fuller

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In a polarizing and racially divided America, what do children of color learn about themselves before they even go to school? How do they see themselves and is that image only exacerbated by spending twelve years in a public education system that perpetuates negative stereotypes? Brian Rashad Fuller personally knows that the impact of low... Read more

Koda

By: Natisha Raynor

Narrated by: J. Shani Michaels & Myles Washington

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Koda Perry is a self-made millionaire who can't seem to form his own identity as anything other than a spoiled rich kid. Determined to build his own legacy, he branched out on his own, built a company from the ground up, and became a millionaire before the age of thirty—but for his billionaire father, that's not good enough. In his mother's... Read more

Chloe

By: Connie Briscoe

Narrated by: Chanté McCormick

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Connie Briscoe updates Daphne Du Maurier’s classic Rebecca in this chilling tale of domestic suspense centered on a spirited woman named Angel who marries a Black billionaire, only to discover that he remains haunted by his first wife who took her own life—or did she? A mansion haunted by the ghost of a cool,... Read more