Black Authors

Look for Me and I'll Be Gone

By: John Edgar Wideman

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Janina Edwards

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

*A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of the Year*

From John Edgar Wideman, a modern “master of language” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a stunning story collection that spans a range of topics from Michael Jordan to Emmett Till, from childhood memories to the final day in a prison cell.

In Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone, his sixth... Read more

Dead of Winter

By: Stephen Mack Jones

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit’s Mexicantown for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city-block-long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest.

Detroit ex-cop and Mexicantown native August Snow has been invited for a business meeting at Authentic Foods. Its owner,... Read more

The Magnificent Makers #1: How to Test a Friendship

By: Theanne Griffith

Narrated by: Giordan Diaz

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

BOOM! SNAP! WHIZ! ZAP! The Magnificent Makers series is filled with science, adventure, and characters that listeners will love! A modern-day Magic School Bus for chapter book listeners!

This book includes two science activities kids can do at home! These quick educational activities (30 minutes or less) use items you probably already have on... Read more

The Magnificent Makers #2: Brain Trouble

By: Theanne Griffith

Narrated by: Imani Parks

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

BOOM! SNAP! WHIZ! ZAP! The Magnificent Makers series is filled with science, adventure, and characters that listeners will love! A modern-day Magic School Bus for chapter book listeners!

This audiobook includes two science activities kids can do at home! These quick educational activities (30 minutes or less) use items you probably already have... Read more

The Magnificent Makers #3: Riding Sound Waves

By: Theanne Griffith

Narrated by: Giordan Diaz

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Boom! Snap! Whiz! Zap! The Magnificent Makers chapter book series is filled with science, adventure, and characters kids will love! Every audiobook includes two science activities kids can do at home!

A modern day Magic School Bus for the chapter book listener!

A wacky scientist, Dr. Crisp loves to invite students to the her Maker Maze for a... Read more

The Magnificent Makers #4: The Great Germ Hunt

By: Theanne Griffith

Narrated by: Imani Parks

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Boom! Snap! Whiz! Zap! The Magnificent Makers chapter book series is filled with science, adventure, and characters kids will love! Every audiobook includes two science activities kids can do at home!

This series is a modern day Magic School Bus for the chapter book listener!

In class, Violet and Pablo have been learning about the icky world of... Read more

Fear of Black Consciousness

By: Lewis R. Gordon

Narrated by: Landon Woodson & Lewis R. Gordon

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopher

In this original and penetrating audiobook, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the... Read more

Foolish Hearts

By: Synithia Williams

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Full of drama among the beautiful and powerful, the series would make a fabulous soap opera.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

All they need is a second chance…

It’s been three years since Ashiya Waters walked away from Russell—and made the biggest mistake of her life. She knows she shouldn’t dwell on the past. Love isn't meant to last…and nobody... Read more

Temperatures Rising

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherri Griffin knows all about hot, stormy weather. The kind where all a girl wants to do is strip down to her La Perla lingerie. A successful radio producer, Sherri's had to weather all kinds of storms. But nothing could prepare her for the force of football-star-turned-sports-DJ Terrence Jeffries.

Never give your heart; never get hurt. That's... Read more

Bachelor Unclaimed

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Are his playboy days over for good?

In the wake of political defeat, former mayoral candidate Ainsley St. James does something totally out of character—she has a one-night stand with a seductive stranger. Never expecting to see him again, she accepts a job covering a breaking story in Hilton Head, South Carolina…only to discover that the island's... Read more

Kneel

By: Candace Buford

Narrated by: Preston Butler III

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This fearless debut novel explores racism, injustice, and self-expression through the story of a promising Black football star in Louisiana.

The system is rigged.

For guys like Russell Boudreaux, football is the only way out of their small town. As the team’s varsity tight end, Rus has a singular goal: to get a scholarship and play on the national... Read more

Black Birds in the Sky

By: Brandy Colbert

Narrated by: Brandy Colbert & Kristyl Dawn Tift

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa,... Read more

Gullah Spirituals

By: Eric Sean Crawford

Narrated by: Korey Jackson

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and... Read more

Miss Me With That

By: Rachel Lindsay

Narrated by: Rachel Lindsay

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A candid, witty, and inspiring collection of essays from The Bachelor’s first Black Bachelorette, exploring everything from relationships and love to politics and race
 
“The Bachelor gave me an opportunity, but I created my own happy ending.”

Rachel Lindsay rose to prominence as The Bachelor’s first Black Bachelorette and has since become one of... Read more

Civil Rights Queen

By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The first major biography of one of our most influential judges—an activist lawyer who became the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary—that provides an eye-opening account of the twin struggles for gender equality and civil rights in the 20th Century. • “Timely and essential."—The Washington Post

“A... Read more

Because Claudette

By: Tracey Baptiste

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From NYT bestselling author Tracey Baptiste comes a singular picture book, adapted for audio, that is both a biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebration of collective action.

When fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated bus on March 2, 1955, she had no idea she... Read more

When Winter Robeson Came

By: Brenda Woods

Narrated by: Keylor Leigh

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The whole world seems to transform during the summer of 1965, when Eden’s cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in L.A. just as the Watts Riots erupt, in this stirring new novel by Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods.

When Eden’s cousin Winter comes for a visit, it turns out he’s not just there to sightsee. He wants to figure out... Read more

What Is Black Lives Matter?

By: Lakita Wilson & Who HQ

Narrated by: Karen Murray

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling series comes the latest title in the Who HQ Now format for trending topics. It tells the history of a political and social movement that advocates for non-violent civil disobedience and protests against incidents of police brutality--and all racially motivated violence--against Black people.

When a Black... Read more

The Black Agenda

By: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

Narrated by: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, Chanté McCormick, Don...

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book of its kind, a collection bringing together leading Black scholars and experts for a policy-oriented approach to the fight for racial justice in America.

From ongoing reports of police brutality to the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on Black Americans, the year 2020 brought a renewed awareness to the deep-rootedness of... Read more

Never Tell

By: Stacey Abrams

Narrated by: January LaVoy & Stacey Abrams

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an author's note read by Stacey Abrams.

From popular former gubernatorial candidate, lawyer, and New York Times bestselling author Stacey Abrams comes an audiobook reissue of her romantic suspense novel, Never Tell, written under the name Selena Montgomery.

Criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott wants nothing more than to live... Read more

Self-Care for Grief

By: Nneka M. Okona

Narrated by: Chanté McCormick

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Process your grief, protect your mental health, and find moments of happiness with these 100 self-care activities specifically designed for difficult and distressing situations.

When faced with loss or trauma, the grief can oftentimes feel overwhelming. It can feel difficult, if not impossible, to focus your attention elsewhere. And yet, during... Read more

And We Rise

By: Erica Martin

Narrated by: Erica Martin

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse.

In stunning verse, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement—from the well-documented events that shaped the nation’s treatment of Black people, beginning with... Read more

The Bench

By: Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex

Narrated by: Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex’s first children’s book, The Bench, beautifully captures the special relationship between father and son, as seen through a mother’s eyes. The audiobook, read by the author, gives us snapshots of shared moments that evoke a deep sense of warmth, connection, and compassion.
 
This is your bench
Where you’ll witness... Read more

The Chosen One

By: Echo Brown

Narrated by: Echo Brown & Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This memoir filled with “overwhelming emotions and power” (The Mary Sue) testifies to the disappointments and triumphs of a Black first-generation college student in this exploration of the first-year experience.

There are many watchers and they are always white. That’s the first thing Echo notices as she settles into Dartmouth College. Despite... Read more