Black Authors

With Love, Miss Americanah

By: Jane Igharo

Narrated by: Joy Ofodu

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

With Love, Miss Americanah—the Young Adult contemporary romance debut from Jane Igharo—sees a teenager move from Nigeria to America and navigate her senior year with the help of classic teen movies and a new crush, all while working through grief and the rigid expectations of her mother.

17-year-old Enore Adesuwa doesn’t dive into things, she... Read more

A Love Like the Sun

By: Riss M. Neilson

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER! 

“Perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez, Kennedy Ryan, and Carley Fortune (aka me).”
–Emily Henry

“Beautifully blending beloved tropes and smooth, often lyrical prose… Two lovers navigate challenges related to mental health, racial identity, grief, and a chronic illness” –NPR

Lifelong best friends spend a fateful summer... Read more

Hip-Hop Is History

By: Questlove

Narrated by: Questlove

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City, the audiobook features narration and storytelling by Questlove, who expertly weaves together a rich sonic tapestry of hip-hop tales large and small, well-known and obscure. From hearing “Rapper’s Delight” for the first time in 1979 to directing and producing the 50th Anniversary... Read more

Everything and Nothing at Once

By: Joél Leon

Narrated by: Joél Leon

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author and combines several original tracks from Joél Leon and his collaborators, Arthur Lewis and Trevon Squirewell, and a thought-provoking collection of essays. Everything and Nothing at Once is an all-encompassing audio experience.

For readers of Heavy, Punch Me Up to The Gods, and A Little Devil in America, a... Read more

Pardon My Frenchie

By: Farrah Rochon

Narrated by: J.Y. Kora & Redd Vines

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Almost There delivers the start of a new rom-com series with an enemies-to-lovers romance, perfect for readers of Abby Jimenez and Jasmine Guillory.

Ashanti Wright is thrilled over the success of her doggie daycare, Barkingham Palace. But handling the business and taking care of her teen twin sisters is a... Read more

Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places

By: Claire Kann

Narrated by: Zenzi Williams

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Swoony and spooky.”—NPR

Love brings down the haunted house in this captivating romance from the acclaimed author of The Romantic Agenda.

Lucky Hart has a special affinity for the supernatural but almost no one takes parapsychology seriously. She’s estranged from her family, lost her friends, and has been rejected from graduate school. Twice.... Read more

A Gamble at Sunset

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Bianca Drew

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgina Wilcox, a wallflower with hidden musical talents, is furious when her reclusive older sister—the recently widowed Viscountess—refuses sorely needed help from the Duke of Torrance, the only gentleman who has shown kindness to the bereft Wilcox sisters. Georgina decides to get back at her sister and shock the Viscountess by kissing the... Read more

How to Tell the Truth

By: Preston Perry

Narrated by: Preston Butler

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Preston Perry’s path toward God. A hope-filled apologetics and evangelism book written by the popular cohost of the podcast, With the Perrys. Includes a foreword by Jackie Hill Perry.

In this compelling and gripping book, Preston tells the story of how God chased him. The streets of Chicago were his home, and it was there that he... Read more

The DIVA Principle

By: McKinney Michelle Hammond

Narrated by: McKinney Michelle Hammond

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep inside the heart of every woman is a diva just waiting to be released. It lies underneath all of the other things she has supposedly “learned” about herself—truth, fiction, deception, or just the superimposed bad feelings of others who’ve tried to smother the diva within. Although the word diva now evokes the image of a vain or... 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. Entrepreneur and thought leader Africa Brooke charts a path for understanding in this groundbreaking guide for finding common ground.

In this manifesto, Africa teaches us how to return to critical thinking and reduce societal divides by opening our minds and being... Read more

The Dangerous Ones

By: Lauren Blackwood

Narrated by: Angel Pean & Jay Ben Markson

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"A perfect mix of MAGIC, VAMPIRES, STAR-CROSSED LOVE, and writing as SHARP AND DEADLY a spear." - Nisha J. Tuli, author of Trial of the Sun Queen

THE THRILLING ROMANTASY FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LAUREN BLACKWOOD!

One vampire to kill. Another to love.

War doesn’t scare Jerusalem. She’s a Saint. Thanks to powerful demigod-style... Read more

Blood at the Root

By: LaDarrion Williams

Narrated by: Jalyn Hall & LaDarrion Williams

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical. The first edition paperback of Blood at the Root features custom designed edges with spellbinding art.

Ten years ago, Malik's life changed forever... Read more

A Run at Love

By: Toni Shiloh

Narrated by: Dioni Michelle Collins

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A CONTENDER RUNNING FOR THE ROSESAs a Black woman in a field with little diversity, Piper McKinney is determined to make her mark on the horse-racing world. Raised on a Thoroughbred farm in Kentucky, Piper’s dream is for her horse to win the prestigious Kentucky Derby. With the help of her best friend and trainer, Tucker Hale, she gains national... Read more

The Dead Don't Need Reminding

By: Julian Randall

Narrated by: Julian Randall

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This “inventive, poetic, vulnerable, and sincere” book from an acclaimed author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-culture (Kirkus).

The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall’s return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his... Read more

Power Moves

By: Sarah Jakes Roberts

Narrated by: Sarah Jakes Roberts

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller!Read by the author.Unleash the superpower of being yourself. Sarah Jakes Roberts, bestselling author of Woman Evolve, will help you craft a language toward your issues with intentionality.Stripping our minds of the expectations that inundate our world has never been more difficult. One quick scroll of our phones... Read more

Missing White Woman

By: Kellye Garrett

Narrated by: Ariel Blake

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

A "propulsive page-turner" (Alyssa Cole) and "thriller not to be missed" (Michael Connelly) from the award-winning author of Like a Sister, in which a woman thinks she’s waking up to a romantic vacation—only to find a body in her rental home and her boyfriend gone.

The truth is never skin deep.
 
It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend... Read more

The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste

Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family.Love potions are a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within... Read more

Understanding the Purpose and Power of Change

By: Myles Monroe

Narrated by: Preston Butler

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Thriving in a Constantly Changing World 

Changes and disruptions come to us all—whether we are prepared for them or not. We also face sweeping societal changes in our day as pivotal arenas of life converge to transform our globe. How we deal with those inevitable changes, no matter what their source, determines whether they will ultimately be a... Read more

Blood Justice

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Terry J. Be...

Length: 19 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration and an author's note and acknowledgments read by the author.

"Robinson and Abbott-Pratt alternate the first-person chapters with skill, pulling out every emotion in the story's closely held secrets, romance, and magic" —AudioFile on Blood Debts

Blood Justice is the hotly anticipated sequel to Terry J.... Read more

Facing the Unseen

By: Damon Tweedy, M.D.

Narrated by: Damon Tweedy, M.D.

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine

As much as we all might wish that mental health problems, with their elusive causes and unsettling behaviors, simply did not exist,... Read more

The Kiss Countdown

By: Etta Easton

Narrated by: Angel Pean

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A struggling event planner and a sinfully hot astronaut must decide if their fake relationship is worth a shot at happily-ever-after, in this starry debut.

Risk-averse event planner Amerie Price is jobless, newly single, and about to lose her apartment. With no choice but to gamble on her shaky start-up, the last thing she needed was to run into... Read more

From Come Over To Come Home

By: Jahquel J.

Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith & La'Rey Aris

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Wren Michelle is the top real-estate agent in North Carolina. She resides in Brookwood, an upcoming city in North Carolina filled with young professionals. A single mom by choice, her only concern is her daughter, her career, and trying to successfully co-parent with her first love. She thought she would have been married while raising her child... Read more

Ash Dark as Night

By: Gary Phillips

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the follow-up to One-Shot Harry, fearless crime photographer and occasional private eye Harry Ingram finds himself in the LAPD’s crosshairs after capturing damning evidence of police brutality.An atmospheric dive into a city on the brink that’s brimming with remarkable historical detail, Ash Dark as Night is perfect for fans of Walter Mosley... Read more

Dead Girls Walking

By: Sami Ellis

Narrated by: Geneva Mitchell & Tamika Katon-Donegal

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Temple Baker knows that evil runs in her blood. Her father is the North Point Killer, an infamous serial killer known for branding his victims. He was the talk of countless true crime blogs for years. Some say he was possessed by a demon. Some say they never found all his victims. Some say that even though he’s now behind bars, people are still... Read more