Black Authors

Afterlives

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

Narrated by: Damian Lynch

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022

A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAGE, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

“Superb. . . . A celebration of a place and time when people held onto their own ways, and basked in ordinary joys even as... Read more

Ain't Burned All the Bright

By: Jason Reynolds

Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Nile Bullock, Tatum Marylin Hal...

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A 2023 ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN’S RECORDING!

Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.

Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin, had a... Read more

Chasing Me to My Grave

By: Winfred Rembert

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Karen Chilton

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager.He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife.... Read more

The Mamas

By: Helena Andrews-Dyer

Narrated by: Helena Andrews-Dyer

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Can white moms and Black moms ever truly be friends? Not just mom friends, but like really real friends? And does it matter?

“Utterly addictive . . . Through her sharp wit and dynamic anecdotal storytelling, Helena Andrews-Dyer shines a light on the cultural differences that separate Black and white mothers.”—Tia Williams, New York Times... Read more

The Black Fives

By: Claude Johnson

Narrated by: Claude Johnson

Length: 20 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking history of Black basketball

African Americans were making moves in basketball generations before the rise of the NBA. Their pioneering efforts helped popularize the sport in big cities and small towns alike and shaped the game we know and love today. From the
invention of the game in 1891 to the racial integration of all-White... Read more

I Don't Care If You Like Me, I Like Me

By: Bernie Mac & Rhonda R. McCullough

Narrated by: Reggie Reg & Rhonda R. McCullough

Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen up y’all. Bernie Mac is back, and this here is his page-a-day prescription for a better life and career. You wanna be successful, don’t ya? All you gotta do is read one page a day. So come on, let’s start your edumacation right now.

Are y’all ready to get yourself together? It’s time for you to start livin’ your best life, and all you... Read more

Police Brutality and White Supremacy

By: Etan Thomas

Narrated by: Julian Thomas

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring original interviews with: Steph Curry, Chuck D, Yamiche Alcindor, Isiah Thomas, Jemele Hill, Craig Hodges, Stan Van Gundy, Mark Cuban, Jake Tapper, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Sue Bird, Kyle Korver, Rick Strom, Cenk Uygur, Tim Wise, Chris Broussard, Breanna Stewart, Rex Chapman, Stephen Jackson, Kori McCoy, Lora Dene King, Chikesia Clemons,... Read more

Shelter

By: Lawrence Jackson

Narrated by: Korey Jackson

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job teaching in Baltimore, he searched for schools for his sons and bought a house. This would be unremarkable but for the fact that he grew up in West Baltimore and his job was at Johns Hopkins,
whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides a point of departure for this... Read more

Hearts of Fire

By: The Voice of the Martyrs

Narrated by: Nancy Wu, Soneela Nankani, Natasha Soudek & Cor...

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Christian Book Award Finalist - Audio - 2023!

Eight women from eight different countries shared similar experiences of hardship and persecution, all for their faith in Christ. Yet they all emerged from adversity as heroines. From the young Vietnamese girl who turned down freedom in order to share the gospel in her Communist homeland, to the... Read more

Scatterlings

By: Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe

Narrated by: Christel Mutombo

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST NEW BOOK from *Vanity Fair *The Root *Vulture *People *The Washington Post *Christian Science Monitor *Los Angeles Times *EssenceA New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Pick! A New Yorker Best Book of the Year!A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning—and the most awarded debut title in South... Read more

Expository Apologetics

By: Voddie Baucham

Narrated by: Preston Butler

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Apologetics is for everyone.The Bible is clear that all believers are called to defend their faith. However, if apologetics is the formal process that we have come to expect, this sounds like an impossible task. But what if apologetics could be part of natural, normal conversation―both from the pulpit and in everyday life?Aimed at preparing you... Read more

People Person

By: Candice Carty-Williams

Narrated by: Danielle Vitalis

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the “brazenly hilarious, tell-it-like-it-is first novel” (Oprah Daily) Queenie returns with another witty and insightful “treat” (Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession) of a novel about the power of family—even when they seem like strangers.

If you could choose your family...you wouldn’t choose the Penningtons.

Dimple Pennington... Read more

The 2% Way

By: Dr. Myron L. Rolle

Narrated by: Charles Ray

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

You don't have to change your life overnight--instead, you can make small changes that leave a lasting impact. In The 2% Way, discover the simple, revolutionary practice behind the against-the-odds success story of Dr. Myron L. Rolle.Dr. Rolle has led a remarkable life: from earning a scholarship to a prestigious private high school to becoming... Read more

Waging a Good War

By: Thomas E. Ricks

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by multiple-award-winning narrator JD Jackson.

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the civil rights movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world.

In Waging a Good War, bestselling author... Read more

Eternally Yours

By: Patrice Caldwell

Narrated by: Patrice Caldwell, Katie Koster, Catherine Ho, A...

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Give in to this irresistible paranormal romance anthology filled with tales of the mortal and the monstrous. In Eternally Yours, fifteen of today’s bestselling writers explore love in its many forms . . .

Contributors include Kalynn Bayron, Kendare Blake, Kat Cho, Melissa de la Cruz, Hafsah Faizal, Sarah Gailey, Chloe Gong, Alexis Henderson, Adib... Read more

Midnight Hour

By: Abby L. Vandiver

Narrated by: Leon Nixon, Carolina Hoyos, Catherine Ho, Toria...

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color. Edited by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Abby L. Vandiver, this thrilling anthology will keep you on the edge of your seat. Jennifer Chow: Midnight... Read more

Seen and Unseen

By: Marc Lamont Hill & Todd Brewster

Narrated by: Marc Lamont Hill & Todd Brewster

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” (The New York Times) Nobody Marc Lamont Hill and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster.

With his signature “clear and courageous” (Cornel West) voice Marc Lamont... Read more

The Unfortunates

By: J K Chukwu

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhausted by the racism at her elite college, is determined to reveal the truth about The Unfortunates—the unlucky subset of Black undergrads who Just. Keep. Disappearing.Sahara is Not Okay. Entering her sophomore year, she already feels like a failure:... Read more

Magnolia Flower

By: Zora Neale Hurston & Ibram X. Kendi

Narrated by: Sheryl Lee Ralph

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston comes a moving adaptation by National Book Award winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Antiracist Baby, Ibram X. Kendi. Magnolia Flower follows a young Afro Indigenous girl who longs for freedom.Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of... Read more

Call Me Miss Hamilton

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Hamilton grew up knowing right from wrong. She was proud to be Black, and when the chance came along to join the Civil Rights Movement and become a Freedom Rider, she was eager to fight for what she believed in. She was arrested again and again?and she did not back down when faced with insults or disrespect. In an Alabama court, a white... Read more

Game

By: Grant Hill

Narrated by: Grant Hill

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The full, frank story of a remarkable life’s journey—to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace—made possible above all by a family’s love

Grant Hill always had game. His choice of college was a subject of national interest, and his... Read more

My People

By: Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Narrated by: Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work... Read more

Along the Shore

By: Rochelle Alers

Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on a charming North Carolina island, the latest novel in national bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ unforgettable, heartfelt Book Club series tells of one woman whose past comes calling—even as a new beginning beckons …

Cherie Renee Thompson is finally ready to dive into change. After two summers vacationing on Coates Island, she’s now a... Read more

Black Women Will Save the World

By: April Ryan

Narrated by: April Ryan

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this long-overdue celebration of Black women’s resilience and unheralded strength, the revered, trailblazing White House correspondent reflects on “The Year That Changed Everything”—2020—and African-American women’s unprecedented role in upholding democracy.“I am keenly aware that everyone and everything has a story,” April D. Ryan... Read more