BIPOC Authors

How We Named the Stars

By: Andrés N. Ordorica

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family’s hopes and dreams—and the burden of sharing his late uncle’s name. Daniel flounders at first, but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate,... Read more

When I Think of You

By: Myah Ariel

Narrated by: DeWanda Wise

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sweeping second chance romance from debut author Myah Ariel, the unexpected spark of two former flames may force them to choose between their dreams and each other.

Kaliya Wilson has paid her dues. But all the years behind the reception desk at a flashy film studio have only pushed her movie-making dreams further out of reach. That is,... Read more

Finally Seen

By: Kelly Yang

Narrated by: Cindy Kay & Kelly Yang

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes a “involving, realistic” (Booklist, starred review) middle grade novel about a young girl who leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, and learns about family, friendship, and the power of being finally seen.

My sister got to grow up with my parents.... Read more

The Fervor

By: Alma Katsu

Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama & Louis Ozawa

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of the celebrated literary horror novels The Hunger and The Deep turns her psychological and supernatural eye on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II.

1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are... 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

The Third Perspective

By: Africa Brooke

Narrated by: Africa Brooke

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In our deeply divided, binary world, honest discussion is stressful for all sides. A "gifted thought leader who offers the medicine much needed in our culture today", Africa Brooke says there is another way: the Third Perspective (Nicole LePera, author of How to Do the Work).

In this manifesto, Africa teaches us how to return to critical... Read more

A Quiet Teacher

By: Adam Oyebanji

Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Abimbola is a language teacher at the prestigious Calderhill Academy in Pittsburgh. Only that's not his real name or the only secret he's hiding. Greg has a closetful. When the murder of a wealthy parent on school premises shines an unwanted spotlight on Calderhill Academy, Greg is determined to avoid attention—that is until the closest... Read more

Yerba Buena

By: Nina LaCour

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Full of sensory details, vivid characters, and moment after moment of gorgeously rendered ordinary life, this audiobook is a queer must-listen." -AudioFile

This program is masterfully narrated by award-winning "Golden Voice" narrator Julia Whelan.

Yerba Buena is the debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour,... Read more

Ander & Santi Were Here

By: Jonny Garza Villa

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Avi] Roque's warm and musical narration is utter perfection. They capture Ander and Santi's fear with vivid immediacy and also infuse their voices with bubbly happiness. In moments of tenderness, their breath catches. They switch easily between Spanish and English and use a half-dozen unique accents for different characters. This audiobook is... Read more

The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell

Narrated by: Shayna Small & Tananarive Due

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a foreword by author, educator, and Jordan Peele collaborator, Tananarive Due.

A YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one.

Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and... Read more

Raiders of the Lost Heart

By: Jo Segura

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An Indie Next and LibraryReads Pick!

Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers—and hearts—in ruins.

Archaeologist Dr. Socorro “Corrie” Mejía has a bone to pick. Literally. 

It’s been Corrie’s life goal to lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle in search of the long-lost remains of her... Read more

A Song to Drown Rivers

By: Ann Liang

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick • An October 2024 Indie Next Pick • An October 2024 LibraryReads Pick

"Like Xishi, Naudus has an enchanting power: the ability to immerse listeners in an emotionally nuanced tale. Her talent is on full display here--and listeners will be as enthralled with it as Fuchai's royal court is with Xishi's great... Read more

Sugar, Baby

By: Celine Saintclare

Narrated by: Sara Novak

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare, read by Sara Novak.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024 BY VOGUE, ELLE, NYLON, NPR, PURE WOW, SHONDALAND, BOOK RIOT and more!

In the vein of Luster and Queenie, an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of the internet—an intoxicating, bold debut from a dazzling new voice.

Sugar,... Read more

The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang

Narrated by: Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao & Telly Leung

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"A sweeping triumph in queer romance." –Booklist

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?”

In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor—but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex... Read more

The Storm We Made

By: Vanessa Chan

Narrated by: Samantha Tan

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2024 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

In this “espionage-laden family epic” (Vanity Fair), an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy—and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable ties.

Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger:... Read more

Joan Is Okay

By: Weike Wang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “A deeply felt portrait . . . With gimlet-eyed observation laced with darkly biting wit, Weike Wang... Read more

Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw

By: Eddie Ndopu

Narrated by: Eddie Ndopu

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful
 
Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn’t live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving pop... Read more

Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

Narrated by: Marisa Blake

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman’s destructive relationship with a legendary writer.

It’s 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she... Read more

The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VOGUE, AND NPR

“Perhaps Hamid’s most remarkable work yet … an extraordinary vision of human possibility.” –Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies

“Searing, exhilarating … reimagines Kafka’s iconic The Metamorphosis for our racially charged... Read more

Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago’s divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.

An exiled auspex who... Read more

Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK 

Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Award
Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, ESQUIRE,... Read more

The Palace of Eros

By: Caro De Robertis

Narrated by: Caro De Robertis

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s a literary gift to see gender expansiveness depicted in an ancient myth with such grace and ease.” —Electric Literature

Fans of Circe and Black Sun, “prepare to be astonished” (R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries) with this bold and subversive feminist and queer retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros.

Young, headstrong Psyche has... Read more

This Could Be Us

By: Kennedy Ryan

Narrated by: Ines del Castillo, Jakobi Diem & Kennedy Ryan

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming.” ―EMILY HENRY, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one... Read more

Arya Khanna's Bollywood Moment

By: Arushi Avachat

Narrated by: Nikhaar Kishnani

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Save the Date meets Never Have I Ever in this sparkling debut rom-com about a high school senior whose life suddenly gets a Bollywood spin when her sister gets engaged.

Shaadi preparations are in full swing, which means lehenga shopping, taste testing, dance rehearsals, and best of all, Arya’s sister Alina is home. The Khannas are together again,... Read more