Black Authors

Viral Justice

By: Ruha Benjamin

Narrated by: Ruha Benjamin

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Ruha Benjamin offers an inspiring and uniquely personal vision of how we can build a more just world one small change at a time "A book as urgent as the moment that produced it."—Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and... Read more

The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE, ELLE, OPRAH DAILY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BUZZFEED AND VULTURE

“Erudite, intimate, hilarious, poignant . . . A gorgeously written novel of youth’s promise, of the quest to find one’s tribe and one’s calling.” —Leigh Haber, Oprah Daily

The Booker Prize finalist and... Read more

Wildflower

By: Aurora James

Narrated by: Aurora James

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This “empowering and inspirational” (People) memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equality for everyone—from a leading activist and fashion pioneer.

“With community and sisterhood at its center, Wildflower teaches us that against all odds, we can overcome.”—Rupi Kaur, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

NerdCrush

By: Alisha Emrich

Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ramona Lambert is a typical shy, artistic sixteen-year-old. She has a best friend whom she’s known since they were in diapers, parents who love her, a love for cosplay, and a crush on the cute boy in her class. The only problem? Her best friend moved away, her parents don't quite understand her love of cosplay, and she is pretty sure her crush... Read more

For the Culture

By: Marcus Collins

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this illuminating book, the architect of some of the most famous ad campaigns of the last decade reveals how our perspective can be influenced by culture.

In For the Culture, Marcus Collins argues that true cultural engagement is the most powerful vehicle for influencing behavior. If you want to get people to move, you must first understand... Read more

Trauma, Tresses, and Truth

By: Lyzette Wanzer

Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Black women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair.



From grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military squadrons, Black and Afro Latina natural hair continues to confound, transfix, and enrage members of White American society. Why, in 2022, is this still the case? Why have we not moved beyond that... Read more

Hope's Path to Glory

By: Jerdine Nolen

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In Alexandria, Virginia, in the mid-19th century, a slave-owning family is facing financial trouble. The eldest son, Jason, thinks going to California to mine for gold might be the best way to protect his father’s legacy. He’ll need a cook, a laundress, and a hostler for the journey, and one of them is twelve-year-old Clementine, whose mother... Read more

Believe for It

By: Cece Winans & Suzanne Gosselin

Narrated by: Cece Winans

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling female gospel artist of all time CeCe Winans comes a heartfelt guide full of spirit, music, and faith. CeCe's first book in over 10 years, Believe for It explores what it means to pass along wisdom and faith to generations to come.Believe for It: Passing on Faith to the Next Generation beautifully recounts the pivotal... Read more

Forever Is Now

By: Mariama J. Lockington

Narrated by: Angel Pean

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A poignant and lyrical young adult novel-in-verse about a Black teen coming of age in an anxiety-inducing world, from the author of For Black Girls Like Me and In the Key of Us.

I'm safe here.

That's how Sadie feels, on a perfect summer day, wrapped in her girlfriend's arms. School is out, and even though she’s been struggling to manage her... Read more

Family Business 6

By: Carl Weber & La Jill Hunt

Narrated by: Ace Bentley, K. Bernard, Sable Lyn, Ebony Ford ...

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Essence bestseller La Jill Hunt return with a story of love, money, power, and respect in the next addition of the popular Family Business series.

Five years ago, Orlando Duncan created the perfect drug in HEAT. It made the Duncans more than two hundred and fifty million dollars and was on its way... Read more

Uncut Funk

By: Bell Hooks & Stuart Hall

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as "life, love, death, sex." From the trivial to the profound, across boundaries of age, sexualities and genders, hooks and Hall dissect topics and themes of continual contemporary relevance, including... Read more

The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

Narrated by: Chris McPherson

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRE THE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022 When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of... Read more

Death by Society

By: Sierra Elmore

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony & Emily Lawrence

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Mean Girls meets It’s Kind of a Funny Story as two teenage girls’ worlds collide when one attempts suicide to avoid toxic popularity.Carter Harper may have created an award-winning app and have a 3.93 grade point average, but her successes are overshadowed by brutal bullying, depression, and loneliness. Tired of being treated as the popular... Read more

Above the Rim

By: Jen Bryant

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor was one of basketball’s all-time-greatest players—an innovative athlete, team player, and quiet force for change. One of the first professional African-American players, he inspired others on and off the court. But when traveling for away games, many hotels and restaurants turned Elgin away because he was black. One... Read more

The Idea of Prison Abolition

By: Tommie Shelby

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by J. D. Jackson offers an incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and... Read more

Everything's Fine

By: Cecilia Rabess

Narrated by: Denée Benton

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Does love conquer all? Does it now? Did it ever? These are questions Cecilia Rabess asks in her nimble, discerning debut…The ending of Everything’s Fine is one of the best I’ve read in years.” —The New York Times

A painfully funny, painfully real love story for our time that doesn’t just ask will they, but…should they?

Jess is a senior in... Read more

Temple Folk

By: Aaliyah Bilal

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah, Chanté McCormick, Soneela Nankan...

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction

A “splendid and grand collection” (Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize­–winning author of The Known World) portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America.

In Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion,... Read more

The Lagos Wife

By: Vanessa Walters

Narrated by: Dami Olukoya & Debra Michaels

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This lush and suspenseful Good Morning America Book Club pick “will have you glued to every page” (HuffPost) as it follows a woman to Nigeria to uncover what happened to her missing estranged niece…no matter the cost.

Previously published as The Nigerwife.

Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband, a palatial house in the heart of... Read more

That Dangerous Energy

By: Aya De León

Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming from a troubled youth, Morgan Faraday grabs every opportunity to up-level her life. So she definitely plans to keep oil-company heir Sebastian Reid interested...all the way to the altar. He’s brilliant and supportive and is turning his billion-dollar company green to make up for his ancestors’ exploitation. With him, Morgan can have love,... Read more

No Lucks Given

By: Brother Luck & Marcus Costantino

Narrated by: Brother Luck

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

No Lucks Given, by Chef Brother Luck, is a powerful reflection on the most vital parts of the human experience: identity, community, and work. Packed with pain, passion, honor, and hope, No Lucks Given is an encouragement to everyone who has ever doubted themselves or God, whether they grew up on the streets or not--life is hard, but there is hope. Read more

When Trying to Return Home

By: Jennifer Maritza McCauley

Narrated by: Psalm Morant & Andréa Agosto

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in this collection dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free from her damaging influence during a desperate and disastrous attempt to rescue her brother from foster care. A man, his wife, and his mistress each... Read more

The Wounded World

By: Chad L. Williams

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois’s reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I―and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writersWhen W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to “close ranks” and support the Allied cause in... Read more

The Journey Prize Stories 33

By: David Chariandy

Narrated by: Beau Dixon, Patrice Henry, Colton Royce, Emerja...

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada's premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country's best emerging Black writers.

For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction... Read more

Black Founder

By: Stacy Spikes

Narrated by: Stacy Spikes

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the twenty-one most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and work—including the true story of what really happened to MoviePass—straight from the cofounder and former CEO himself.



Stacy Spikes knows what's it... Read more