Black Authors

Hurricanes

By: Rick Ross & Neil Martinez-Belkin

Narrated by: Guy Lockard

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“A gripping journey.”—People

The highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami’s crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame.

Rick Ross is an indomitable presence in the music industry, but few people know his full story. Now, for the first time, Ross offers a... Read more

This Time for Keeps

By: Rochelle Alers

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

She’s in town for her family…

Could love find her in the most unexpected place?

Attorney Nicole Campos hasn’t spoken to local mechanic Fletcher Austen since their high school friendship went down in flames over a decade ago. But when her car breaks down during her return to Wickham Falls and Fletcher unexpectedly helps her out with a custody... Read more

Everything Inside

By: Edwidge Danticat

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • “Unforgettable tales of families and lovers—from Haiti to Miami, Brooklyn, and beyond—often struggling with grief, loss, and missed connections.”—Vanity Fair • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICKA romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends. A marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with... Read more

Color Me In

By: Natasha Díaz

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful coming-of-age novel pulled from personal experience about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds.

Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought... Read more

I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying

By: Bassey Ikpi

Narrated by: Bassey Ikpi

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie Finalist – Short Stories/CollectionsIn I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist—through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our... Read more

Speaking of Summer

By: Kalisha Buckhanon

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A sister seeks to uncover the truth about her twin’s disappearance in this critically acclaimed novel hailed as “a powerful song about what it means to survive as a woman in America” (Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award winner)On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer’s twin sister, Summer, walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and... Read more

Private Property

By: La Jill Hunt

Narrated by: Shari Peele

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to The Manors of Harrington Point; enter at your own risk. These mansions are home to the elite, the famous, the successful, and the eccentric. From the millionaire mega pastor and his wife to the former child star turned porn star, this neighborhood is filled with old money, new money, and everything and everyone in between. The tale of... Read more

Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem

By: Daniel R. Day

Narrated by: Omari Hardwick & Daniel R. Day

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn’t just about fashion. It’s about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hustle, love, and a singular determination to live our dreams out loud.”—Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, 13th, and A Wrinkle in Time

NAMED ONE OF THE... Read more

The King of Kindergarten

By: Derrick Barnes

Narrated by: Sullivan Jones

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A confident little boy takes pride in his first day of kindergarten, by the Newbery Honor-winning author of Crown.

The morning sun blares through your window like a million brass trumpets.It sits and shines behind your head--like a crown. Mommy says that today, you are going to be the King of Kindergarten!

Starting kindergarten is a big... Read more

The Sixth Man

By: Andre Iguodala & Carvell Wallace

Narrated by: Sullivan Jones & Andre Iguodala

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

**The Instant National Bestseller**

The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the Golden State Warriors.

Fresh off the Warriors’ fourth Finals win in eight years, Andre Iguodala long has been one of the most admired players in the NBA.

Off the court, Iguodala has earned respect, too—for his successful tech... Read more

Ghosts in the Schoolyard

By: Eve L. Ewing

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Eve L. Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures—they're an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring... Read more

The Lesson

By: Cadwell Turnbull

Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Ron Butler

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa... Read more

More Than Enough

By: Elaine Welteroth

Narrated by: Elaine Welteroth & Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Elaine gifts us all with a beautifully intimate and powerful retelling of her ever-unfolding journey. In sharing her joys, pitfalls, adventures, self-doubt, and successes, she reminds us that through uncovering and discovering the many facets of ourselves, we are more than enough.”
—Yara Shahidi
 
“Elaine’s book is a call for young women to... Read more

Burro Genius

By: Victor Villaseñor

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When Victor Villaseñor stood at the podium and looked at the group of teachers amassed before him, he became enraged. He had never spoken in public before. His mind was flooded with childhood memories filled with humiliation, misunderstanding, and abuse at the hands of his teachers. With his heart pounding, he began to speak of these incidents.... Read more

The Truths We Hold

By: Kamala Harris

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Adapted for young readers, Vice President Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life.

With her Democratic presidential nomination, her election to the vice presidency, her election to the U.S. Senate, and her position as attorney general of California, Kamala Harris has blazed trails throughout her... Read more

Before We Were Wicked

By: Eric Jerome Dickey

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey, “one of the most successful Black authors of the last quarter-century”* comes a novel about the how one chance meeting can change everything in this thrilling, sexy tale of star-crossed lust.

They say the love of money is the root of all evil, but for Ken Swift, it's the love of a... Read more

Heart and Hustle

By: Patricia Bright

Narrated by: Patricia Bright

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Patricia Bright is killing it right now’ Glamour ‘One of Britain’s biggest YouTube stars’ Huffington Post ‘I’m going to show you how to hustle like I do, using your head and heart. All it takes is three steps…’ YOUR BRAND: how you can use who you are to... Read more

My Name Is Sally Little Song

By: Brenda Woods

Narrated by: Asmeret Ghebremichael

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Sally Harrison and her family are slaves on a plantation in Georgia. But when Master decides to sell Sally and her brother, the family escapes to seek shelter with a tribe of Seminoles who are rumored to adopt runaway slaves. After a perilous journey, Sally’s family finds and joins the tribe. But while her father and brother easily adjust to... Read more

We Live for the We

By: Dani McClain

Narrated by: Dani McClain

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politics

In We Live for the We, first-time mother Dani McClain sets out to understand how to raise her daughter in what she, as a black woman, knows to be an unjust -- even hostile -- society. Black women are more likely to... Read more

Over the Fence

By: Mary Monroe

Narrated by: Beresford Bennett & Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this page-turning novel set in the Depression-era South, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe transports readers to a small Alabama town where home is not always a sanctuary, and two neighboring families let pleasantries mask increasing resentment …Bootlegging was Milton and Yvonne Hamilton’s ticket out of poverty, prison time, and... Read more

Jake the Fake Goes for Laughs

By: Craig Robinson & Adam Mansbach

Narrated by: Sullivan Jones

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the second book in the side-splitting series about a class clown faking his way to comedy stardom from comedian and film star Craig Robinson, #1 New York Timesbestselling author Adam Mansbach, and NAACP History Maker recipient and cartoonist Keith Knight.

"An absolute riot!" --LINCOLN PEIRCE,... Read more

Black Is the Body

By: Emily Bernard

Narrated by: Emily Bernard

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.” 

In these twelve deeply personal, connected... Read more

The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

Narrated by: Channie Waites

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In an alternate New Orleans caught in the tangle of the American Civil War, the wall-scaling girl named Creeper yearns to escape the streets for the air--in particular, by earning a spot on-board the airship Midnight Robber. Creeper plans to earn Captain Ann-Marie's trust with information she discovers about a Haitian scientist and a mysterious... Read more

Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

By: Temi Oh

Narrated by: Nneka Okoye

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet meets The 100 in this unforgettable debut by a brilliant new voice.

A century ago, scientists theorised that a habitable planet existed in a nearby solar system. Today, ten astronauts will leave a dying Earth to find it. Four are decorated veterans of the 20th century’s space-race. And six are teenagers,... Read more