Black Authors

J.D. and the Great Barber Battle

By: J. Dillard

Narrated by: Tivia Lynnell

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight-year-old J.D. turns a tragic home haircut into a thriving barber business in this hilarious new chapter book series

J.D. has a big problem--it's the night before the start of third grade and his mom has just given him his first and worst home haircut. When the steady stream of insults from the entire student body of Douglass Elementary... Read more

Never Too Soon

By: Tamika Christy

Narrated by: LK Burton

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Book 2 in the Anaya's World series.

Things are looking up for Anaya Goode after the deaths of her brother and mother. She is the youngest (and highest paid) executive in Alameda County. She is in an adoring relationship with the love of her life, her natural twists are on point, and she runs a six-minute mile. What else matters?

When Anaya is... Read more

Soulstar

By: C.L. Polk

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Aurora Award for Best NovelA Reader's Digest Top 25 Best Fantasy Series Ever WrittenWith Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, romance, and intrigue that began with the World Fantasy Award–winning Witchmark. Assassinations, deadly storms, and long-lost love haunt the pages... Read more

In My Grandmother’s House

By: Yolanda Pierce

Narrated by: Yolanda Pierce

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the most steadfast faith you'll ever encounter comes from a Black grandmother?



The church mothers who raised Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University School of Divinity, were busily focused on her survival. In a world hostile to Black women's bodies and spirits, they had to be. Born on a former cotton plantation and having fled the... Read more

Taming Clint Westmoreland

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In name only?

The moment ex-Texas Ranger Clint Westmoreland learned he was still married, he set the limits for his wife''s stay at his luxurious horse ranch. But when she arrived, Clint''s boundaries began to blur. He and Alyssa Barkley had thirty days to untangle the legal knot that had bound them together during an undercover assignment years... Read more

Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found

By: Rucker Moses & Theo Gangi

Narrated by: Sullivan Jones

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Magic has all but disappeared in Brooklyn, but one tenacious young magician is determined to bring it back in this exciting middle grade mystery.

Twelve-year-old Kingston has just moved from the suburbs back to Echo City, Brooklyn—the last place his father was seen alive. Kingston's father was King Preston, one of the world's greatest magicians.... Read more

Race, Work, and Leadership

By: David A. Thomas, Laura Morgan Roberts & Anthony...

Narrated by: Machelle Williams & David Sadzin

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations changing? How do we build inclusive organizations?



Inspired by and developed in conjunction with... Read more

Quade's Babies

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Quade Westmoreland''s one-night love affair with Cheyenne had branded him body and soul, but he''d never even learned her last name. Almost a year later, driven by memories and one incriminating photo, the sexy operative had finally tracked her down—and discovered three little babies bearing his features. Learning he was a father made Quade even... Read more

Taming Clint Westmoreland & Quade's Babies

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Taming Clint Westmoreland

In name only?

The moment ex-Texas Ranger Clint Westmoreland learned he was still married, he set the limits for his wife's stay at his luxurious horse ranch. But when she arrived, Clint's boundaries began to blur. He and Alyssa Barkley had thirty days to untangle the legal knot that had bound them together during an... Read more

Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail

By: Deborah D. Douglas

Narrated by: Deborah D. Douglas, Bree Newsome Bass & Rebecca...

Length: 17 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America's fight for freedom. From witnessing eye-opening landmarks to celebrating triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail.
Flexible Itineraries: Travel the entire trail through the South, or take shorter trips with... Read more

The Gift of Black Folk

By: W. E. B. Du Bois

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Negro worked as farm hand and peasant proprietor, as laborer, artisan, and inventor and as servant in the house, and without him, America as we know it, would have been impossible.”—W. E. B. Du BoisAlthough the Civil War marked an end to slavery in the United States, it would take another fifty years to establish the country’s civil rights... Read more

Wild Rain

By: Beverly Jenkins

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her captivating Women Who Dare series with a female rancher who forges her own path in the wake of the Civil War… Banished by her grandfather at the age of eighteen, Spring Lee has survived scandal to claim her own little slice of Paradise, Wyoming. She’s proud of working her ranch alone and... Read more

Crossing the Line

By: Kareem Rosser

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Landon Woodson delivers the story perfectly, bringing out its range of emotions...Woodson offers the right inflections at the right times for the author's words--the emotional swings range from grief at the loss of a loved one to the pride Rosser feels in his accomplishments on the field." -- AudioFile Magazine

An inspiring memoir of... Read more

'Til I Want No More

By: Robin W. Pearson

Narrated by: Donna Allen

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When the man she loved years ago returns to town, one young woman’s complicated past rises again, threatening to expose her well-kept secrets.

If Maxine could put her finger on the moment when her life went into a tailspin, she would point back twenty years to the day her daddy died. She tells herself he’s the only person who ever really knew... Read more

The Three Mothers

By: Anna Malaika Tubbs

Narrated by: Anna Malaika Tubbs

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them.

In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates... Read more

Blood Grove

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Walter Mosley's infamous detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new mystery to solve on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California.

Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los... Read more

Love Is a Revolution

By: Renée Watson

Narrated by: Renée Watson

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Love Is a Revolution written and read by Renée Watson.

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson comes a love story about not only a romantic relationship but how a girl finds herself and falls in love with who she really is.

When Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her... Read more

Surviving the White Gaze

By: Rebecca Carroll

Narrated by: Rebecca Carroll

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An Esquire Best Book of 2021

A “gorgeous and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir from cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood to forge her identity as a Black woman in America.

Rebecca Carroll grew up the only Black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at... Read more

Do Better

By: Rachel Ricketts

Narrated by: Rachel Ricketts

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
San Francisco Chronicle’s 10 Books to Pick * HelloGiggles’ 10 Books to Pick Up for a Better 2021 * PopSugar’s 23 Exciting New Books * Book Riot’s 12 Essential Books About Black Identity and History * Harper’s Bazaar’s 60+ Books You Need to Read in 2021

“A clear, powerful, direct, wise, and extremely helpful treatise on... Read more

Quarantine and Chill

By: Kenya Wright

Narrated by: Lacy Laurel & Vikas Adam

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

News of the coronavirus hit New York City, and LA-native Jade is stuck dog sitting in her best friend’s Brooklyn apartment. Her bestie Zora is on her honeymoon in the Maldives and may now be stuck there too. The island has canceled all flights. Only God knows when Zora will return and Jade can fly back to LA. Then Zora’s brother, Kamal, shows up... Read more

Black Magic

By: Chad Sanders

Narrated by: Chad Sanders

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A “daring, urgent, and transformative” (Brené Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead) exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest, provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists, and champions.

“I remember the day I realized I couldn’t play a white guy as well as a... Read more

Allies and Advocates

By: Amber Cabral

Narrated by: Amber Cabral

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to create an inclusive environment with this actionable and insightful resource



Allies and Advocates: Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Culture delivers a powerful and useful message about inclusion and diversity in everyday life. Author Amber Cabral, a celebrated inclusion strategist, speaker, and writer, shows listeners how to move... Read more

Ida B. the Queen

By: Michelle Duster

Narrated by: Michelle Duster

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize.

Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator.” In the annals of history, it makes her an icon.

... Read more

Beyond Temptation

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Sexy millionaire Morgan Steele will settle for nothing less than the perfect woman. And when he lays his arrogant eyes on sultry Lena Spears, he believes he''s found her. There''s only one problem, the lady in question seems totally immune to his charm.

Morgan is determined to convince the sassy career woman that he''s Mr. Right. He wines and... Read more