Black Authors

Baseball's Leading Lady

By: Andrea Williams

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, Negro Leagues Baseball was the only game in town for black athletes. And those leagues owed their existence and success to savvy businesspeople like Effa Manley, the black female co-owner of the Newark Eagles. Effa was the team's business manager, leading her team to win... Read more

My Little Black Book: A Blacktionary

By: Maggie Semple & Jane Oremosu

Narrated by: Maggie Semple & Jane Oremosu

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Through their work with organisations and companies across the world, Maggie Semple and Jane Oremosu found that there was a need to help people as they discussed difference, race and inclusion. My Little Black Book: A Blacktionary aims to do just that.

This A-Z pocket guide is for people who are entering the workplace... Read more

Viper's Dream

By: Jake Lamar

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Harlem, 1936. Clyde “The Viper” Morton boards a train from Alabama to Harlem to chase his dreams of being a jazz musician. When his talent fails him, he becomes caught up in the dangerous underbelly of Harlem’s drug trade, leaving him to decide what he's willing to give up and what he wants to fight for. A heartbreaking and fast-paced story... Read more

Fat Time and Other Stories

By: Jeffery Renard Allen

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen, reimagined and transformed to bring us news of America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Along with them are characters of Allen's invention:... Read more

Telephone

By: Percival Everett

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area—the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon—he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college where... Read more

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett



I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier.



Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man... Read more

Shadow Speaker

By: Nnedi Okorafor

Narrated by: Délé Ogundiran

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A deluxe, expanded edition of an out-of-print early novel from Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor, with a brand-new introduction from the author.



Niger, West Africa, 2074



It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great change has happened all over the planet, and the laws of physics aren't what they used to be.



Within all... Read more

American Negra

By: Natasha S. Alford

Narrated by: Natasha S. Alford

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY.In smart, vivid prose, Alford illustrates... Read more

Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

Narrated by: Kirt Graves

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

* FIVE STARRED REVIEWS *Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this suspenseful queer YA romance from critically acclaimed author K. Ancrum reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and the son of the man he’s been stealing from—think Portrait of a... Read more

The Changing Man

By: Tomi Oyemakinde

Narrated by: Afolabi Alli & Fola Evans-Akingbola

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school’s decades-old legend in The Changing Man, this debut Young Adult speculative thriller by Tomi Oyemakinde

Face front. Watch your back. BE BRAVE.

If it was left to her, Ife Adebola wouldn’t be starting at Nithercott School. Because despite her being in the Urban... Read more

The American Queen

By: Vanessa Miller

Narrated by: Angel Pean

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

AS SEEN ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA: GMA 15 New Books to Read | 2024 American Fiction Award WINNER for African American Fiction AND Historical Fiction | 2025 Audie Awards WINNER for Best Faith-Based Fiction or Non-Fiction"Miller brings to enthralling life a hidden gem in American history." --Publishers Weekly
There is only one known queen who truly... Read more

The American Daughters

By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“An enthralling tale of a secret resistance movement run by Black women in pre-Civil War New Orleans.”—Time

“Stirring . . . In telling this important, neglected history with imagination-fueled research, The American Daughters offers an inspiring story of people who show a way forward with their perseverance, bravery and love.”—The New York Times... Read more

Metaracism

By: Tricia Rose

Narrated by: Mela Lee & Tricia Rose

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives

In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and... Read more

Power Moves

By: Sarah Jakes Roberts

Narrated by: Sarah Jakes Roberts

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller!Read by the author.Unleash the superpower of being yourself. Sarah Jakes Roberts, bestselling author of Woman Evolve, will help you craft a language toward your issues with intentionality.Stripping our minds of the expectations that inundate our world has never been more difficult. One quick scroll of our phones... Read more

Extra Nos

By: FLAME

Narrated by: FLAME

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

GRAMMY®-nominated and Stellar Award-winning hip-hop artist FLAME invites you to step up to his mic as he takes you through his life, from the streets of Saint Louis, Missouri, as a young man in youth group to a renowned Christian rapper on the red carpet. Read how God continually pushed FLAME in his faith journey, striving to find the path... Read more

Hearts of Fire 2

By: The Voice of the Martyrs

Narrated by: Nancy Wu, Natasha Soudek, Cassandra Campbell, D...

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

*****Audiobook format of Hearts of Fire 2 - ECPA's 2024 Biography & Memoir Award Nominee*****

Shortly after Tamara and her husband moved to the city of Isfara, Tajikistan, a delegation of Muslim women paid her a visit. After welcoming the women into her home, Tamara realized their visit was not a friendly one. The women knew she and her... Read more

The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

Narrated by: RuPaul

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing... Read more

After Botham

By: Allisa Charles-Findley & Jeremiah Cobra

Narrated by: Reina Mystique

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On September 6, 2018, White Dallas police officer Amber Guyger opened the door of Apartment 1478. Inside, Botham Jean lay on his couch, having hung up from his daily call with his sister, Allisa. She’d encouraged her brother to stay home for the night’s opening Dallas Cowboys game as sports bars would be too dangerous. Guyger instantly assumed... Read more

The Kiss Countdown

By: Etta Easton

Narrated by: Angel Pean

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A struggling event planner and a sinfully hot astronaut must decide if their fake relationship is worth a shot at happily-ever-after, in this starry debut.

Risk-averse event planner Amerie Price is jobless, newly single, and about to lose her apartment. With no choice but to gamble on her shaky start-up, the last thing she needed was to run into... Read more

To Build a Black Future

By: Christopher Paul Harris

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Landon Woodson shares how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one... Read more

With Love, Miss Americanah

By: Jane Igharo

Narrated by: Joy Ofodu

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

With Love, Miss Americanah—the Young Adult contemporary romance debut from Jane Igharo—sees a teenager move from Nigeria to America and navigate her senior year with the help of classic teen movies and a new crush, all while working through grief and the rigid expectations of her mother.

17-year-old Enore Adesuwa doesn’t dive into things, she... Read more

The Darkened Light of Faith

By: Melvin L. Rogers

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Diontae Black gives a powerful account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to doubt America's democratic... Read more

The Boy Who Found His Voice

By: Tyler Gordon

Narrated by: Tyler Gordon

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author and features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of painting and classmates' cheers.

From teen activist and artistic prodigy Tyler Gordon comes a heartwarming audiobook inspired by his own life about a boy with a speech difference who learns the power... Read more

Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places

By: Claire Kann

Narrated by: Zenzi Williams

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Swoony and spooky.”—NPR

Love brings down the haunted house in this captivating romance from the acclaimed author of The Romantic Agenda.

Lucky Hart has a special affinity for the supernatural but almost no one takes parapsychology seriously. She’s estranged from her family, lost her friends, and has been rejected from graduate school. Twice.... Read more