Black Authors

Beasts of War

By: Ayana Gray

Narrated by: Benjamin Charles, Keylor Leigh & Alexander Cant...

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this epic conclusion to her New York Times bestselling series, Ayana Gray delivers a heart-pounding fantasy adventure filled with mythos, monsters, and mortal heroes who are astoundingly human.

Once a prisoner to Fedu, the vengeful god of death, Koffi has regained her freedom, but she is far from safe. Fedu will stop at nothing to hunt her... Read more

That Self-Same Metal

By: Brittany N. Williams

Narrated by: Patricia Allison

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning YA fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Justina Ireland, about a Black girl (and sword expert) fighting a Fae uprising in Shakespearean London.
Sixteen-year-old Joan Sands is a gifted craftswoman who creates and upkeeps the stage blades for William Shakespeare’s acting company, The King’s Men. Joan’s skill with her blades... Read more

Escaping Mr. Rochester

By: L.L. McKinney

Narrated by: Machelle Williams & Nneka Okoye

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

2025 Rainbow Book ListIn this fresh reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel by acclaimed author L. L. McKinney, Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason must save each other from the horrifying machinations of Mr. Rochester in this intrigue-filled, empowering young adult romance. Jane Eyre has no interest in a husband. Eager to make her own way in the... Read more

Brooklyn

By: Tracy Brown

Narrated by: Keyonni James

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn’t who murdered her; the question is who wouldn’t?

Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away,... 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

Black Boys Like Me

By: Matthew R. Morris

Narrated by: Matthew R. Morris

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD*

“Black Boys Like Me ignited parts of me I honestly didn't believe any book could ever know. . . . Seldom do incredibly titled books earn their titles. Matthew R. Morris earns this classic title with a classic book about our insides.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy


Startlingly... Read more

Brit(ish)

By: Afua Hirsch

Narrated by: Afua Hirsch

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Brit(ish): Why We Need to Talk About Race written and read by Afua Hirsch.

Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain. Her partner, daughter, sister and the vast majority of her friends are British. So why is her identity and sense of... Read more

Spectral Evidence

By: Gregory Pardlo

Narrated by: Gregory Pardlo

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY • A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic

Elegant, profound, and intoxicating—Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves... Read more

This Is the Honey

By: Kwame Alexander

Narrated by: Mahogany L. Brown & Joel Damany Steingold

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by Why Fathers Cry at Night author and #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander. In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a... Read more

Poemhood: Our Black Revival

By: Amber McBride, Erica Martin & Taylor Byas

Narrated by: Angel Pean & Greg Campbell

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

""A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry."" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)""This deep and complex assemblage of Black poetry culminates in a joyful, painful, and emotionally rich experience."" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)""An eclectic mix of Black experiences fills this unmatched anthology that features both... Read more

The Bookshop Sisterhood

By: Michelle Lindo-Rice

Narrated by: Ariel Blake

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“A book that will stay with the reader long after the last page. Absolutely brilliant.” —Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author

“This drama-packed page turner will warm your heart!” —Eliza Knight, USA Today bestselling author of The Mayfair Bookshop

When life rewrites the story, only friendship will see them through.

After years of hard... Read more

Coleman Hill

By: Kim Coleman Foote

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, it is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations. In 1916, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the... Read more

A Little Kissing Between Friends

By: Chencia C. Higgins

Narrated by: Lauryn Nichols & J. Shani Michaels

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Triumphantly Black, queer and contemporary… The dialogue snaps and shimmers.” —New York Times Book Review on D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding

Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the studio to the flirty femmes she fools around with. Her ever-rotating roster has never been a problem until her... Read more

Bless the Blood

By: Walela Nehanda

Narrated by: Walela Nehanda

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout.

When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into... Read more

Patternmaster

By: Octavia E. Butler

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An all-powerful ruler's son vies for control over the human race in this brilliant conclusion to the Patternist saga, from the critically acclaimed author of Parable of the Sower.
In the far future, the human race is divided into two groups striving for power. The Patternmaster rules over all, the leader of the telepathic Patternist race whose... Read more

Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

Narrated by: Renée Watson

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book

Odyssey Honor Audiobook

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.

In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender.

Using a variety of poetic... Read more

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human

By: Kimberly Lemming

Narrated by: Hazel Addison

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When a spirited young woman with a penchant for adventure finds herself locked away in a dragon’s tower, she realizes that fate has a peculiar sense of humor when it comes to her romantic prospects in this laugh-out-loud fantasy rom-com, perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and The Dragon's Bride.

All children are told fairytales. Some are... Read more

Blood Work

By: Anthony J. Carter

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Evangelical Christians often sing and preach about the blessed blood of Christ and the wonderful things it accomplishes for believers. To the uninformed ear, such language can convey the idea that Jesus’ blood had semi-magical qualities. Actually, Jesus’ blood was normal human blood, but the Bible refers to it in metaphorical terms to portray... Read more

The Gilded Ones #3: The Eternal Ones

By: Namina Forna

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The dazzling finale to the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Gilded Ones series. One girl holds the power to defeat the gods—but can she become one?

Mere weeks after confronting the Gilded Ones—the false beings she once believed to be her family—Deka is on the hunt. In order to kill the gods, whose ravenous competition for power is... Read more

All Hope is Found

By: Sarah Jakes Roberts

Narrated by: Sarah Jakes Roberts

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Hope is not a wish waiting to come true. It's not an external desire waiting to be realized. Hope is an ever-present reality regardless of how dire a situation may seem.
Undoubtedly, there are moments when hope is obscure. That's because hope has many hiding places. It hides behind heartbreak, camouflages in stress, and... Read more

Set Apart

By: Jessica Tucker

Narrated by: Jessica Tucker

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Fasting is a beautiful journey with the Lord that has blessed many people. Our Lord calls us into a life-giving relationship with Him, and through fasting we are able to lay aside the things that keep us from an intimate relationship with the Lord. Daniel provides an example of consecration-the setting apart of oneself--that will empower you... Read more

Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club)

By: DéLana R. A. Dameron

Narrated by: Ashley J. Hobbs, Robin Miles, De'Onna Prince, A...

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “[A] richly textured and deeply moving debut” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter’s coming of age in the 1990s.

“A triumph . . . Redwood Court is storytelling at its best: tender, vivid, and richly complicated.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New... Read more

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World

By: Shayla Lawson

Narrated by: Shayla Lawson

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America

Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major... Read more