Black Authors

None But the Righteous

By: Chantal James

Narrated by: William DeMeritt

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics, and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. Four centuries later, nineteen-year old Ham is set adrift from his hometown of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Hidden beneath his clothes, he wears his only valued... Read more

Some of My Best Friends

By: Tajja Isen

Narrated by: Tajja Isen

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A fearless, “funny, poignant, and super-smart” (Ms. magazine) essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.

In this “inspiring, determined work of personal narrative and cultural criticism” (Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives), essayist and award-winning voice actor Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of... Read more

Bird Brother

By: Rodney Stotts

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Rodney grew up during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration an accepted part of daily life for nearly everyone he knew. To rent his own apartment, he needed a paycheck—something the money from dealing drugs didn't provide. For that, he took a position in 1992 with a new nonprofit, the Earth Conservation Corps.... Read more

Tears of My Mother

By: Wendy Osefo

Narrated by: Wendy Osefo

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When star of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Potomac Dr. Wendy Osefo was growing up, her mother was her everything. But when she became a mother herself, everything changed. In this “exquisitely-drawn portrait of the intense bond that only a mother can have with a daughter” (Katie Haufner, author of Mother Daughter Me), Wendy explores how her... Read more

The Principles and Power of Vision

By: Myles Munroe

Narrated by: Preston Butler

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether you are a businessperson, a departmental manager, an employee, a homemaker, a student, or a head of state, author Myles Munroe explains how you can make your dreams and hopes a living reality.
Through The Principles and Power of Vision, you will… Discover your purpose in life. Understand why vision is essential to your success. Grasp the... Read more

Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries

By: Florence Tate & Jake-Ann Jones

Narrated by: Kim Staunton & Beresford Bennett

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries is the story of an unsung civil rights organizer, Black Power activist, and barrier-breaking Black woman, Florence Louise Tate (1931–2014). Tate was close to the young leaders of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She became a mentor, a mother-of-themovement, and a target of J. Edgar Hoover... 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

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

The Rancher Returns

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A rancher comes home to a passionate hero’s welcome—from a perfect stranger!

Discover New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson’s The Westmoreland Legacy…

Returning from active duty to find his ranch being dug up by a beautiful stranger isn’t the homecoming navy SEAL Gavin Blake expected. Dr. Layla Harris is convinced there’s buried... Read more

What Noise Against the Cane

By: Desiree C. Bailey

Narrated by: Desiree C. Bailey

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of... Read more

The Little Book of Rootwork

By: Paris Ajana

Narrated by: Ella Turenne

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Rootwork, also known as hoodoo or conjure, is an African American folk magic influenced by a blend of African beliefs, traditions, and cultures. This book includes step-by-step guidance for over 80 rituals, spells, and techniques that can help manifest your goals and transform your life. Written by a descendant of African American and Filipino... Read more

The Savvy Sistahs

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Amber, Carla and Brandy---known as the "ABCs"---are intelligent businesswomen who met in their business support group "The Savvy Sistahs Who Mean Business" and became the best of friends. They've bonded over lost loves, past hurts, and too many lonely nights. . .

Amber Stuart escaped an abusive marriage and now finds peace running her small... Read more

Golden Ax

By: Rio Cortez

Narrated by: Rio Cortez

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award
Finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award

“Outstanding . . . the poetry in these pages is intelligent, lyrical, as invested in the past as the present and future with witty nods to pop culture.” —Roxane Gay, author of... Read more

What a Woman Wants

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

After a close friend commits suicide, Faith, Monique, and Shannon head to the beach cottage on Hilton Head Island. Determined to heed her advice and make the most of their lives, they make a pact to spend the summer embracing new adventures. They also embrace new men and a new best friend along the way.
 
Filled with profound passion and... Read more

In Bed with Her Boss

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

D'marcus Armstrong was demanding, autocratic and cranky as a boss. But as the star of her feverish nighttime fantasies, the man was simply divine. Still, Opal Lockhart had no chance with Detroit's self-made millionaire. What would a high roller like him want with a buttoned-up, naive secretary like her?

Enter the Lockhart sisters—for some... Read more

Strictly Confidential Attraction

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"I need you, Alli."

Did Mark mean what Alison Lind hoped? Was her boss declaring his passion for her? Did he really feel the same way she secretly felt for him? Apparently not. Instead of asking her to be his lover, he was asking her to be temporary nanny to his baby niece. Not an ounce of desire in sight. Or was there? Living together, spending... Read more

The Bennetts' Christmas

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s been fifteen years and now those Bennett girls are all grown up, finished with college and ready to take on the world in their new careers. Close as ever, Kennedy, Victoria, Monica and Sebrina decide not to return to Georgia, but to move north to St. Paul, Minnesota. They have plans to succeed at all of their goals. Falling in love isn’t on... Read more

Ties That Bind

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

It all started in college, in the turbulent sixties, when Randolph and Jenna became lovers. Randolph knew the moment he saw Jenna Haywood that he had to make her his. But the path to love is not an easy one. His wealthy Grandmother Julia disapproves of the match and unbeknowst to him, his brother’s seemingly docile fiancee has a few plans of her... Read more

Her Little Black Book

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s less than a week before Sonya Morrison’s wedding when she decides to pass her legendary little black book on to her cousin Courtney Andrews along with all of her best wishes. Courtney, who’s fast approaching thirty, thinks every woman she knows has somehow met a man who is husband material except for her. So Sonya’s little black book seems... Read more

A Visible Man

By: Edward Enninful

Narrated by: Edward Enninful

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our culture's most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriers.

When Edward Enninful became the first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, few in the world of fashion wanted to confront how it failed to represent the world we live in. But Edward, a champion of inclusion throughout his life, rapidly changed that.
 
Now,... Read more

Cashing Out

By: Julien Saunders & Kiersten Saunders

Narrated by: Julien Saunders & Kiersten Saunders

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary financial and career path to break free from corporate America's grasp, make peace with your finances, and build wealth on your own terms

When it comes to our finances, we’re told to follow the same script as our white colleagues: work hard, make money, save, and invest. Yet despite putting in twice the effort, you end up making... Read more