Black Authors

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

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Shayna Small, Gail Nelson-Holgate, Robin Eller,...

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories.

"Marvelous and wide-ranging." -- Los Angeles... Read more

Belle

By: Beverly Jenkins

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Belle Palmer is finally free! Separated from her father on the harrowing escape, Belle is lost and alone until she finds shelter with the Bests, the first free family she's ever known. For the first time in her sixteen years, Belle can speak her mind—except for her feelings for a certain dark-eyed young man—The Beau.



Educated and handsome, at... 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

Visiting Day

By: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this moving picture book from multi-award winning author Jacqueline Woodson, a young girl and her grandmother prepare for a very special day--the one day a month they get to visit the girl's father in prison. "Only on visiting day is there chicken frying in the kitchen at 6 a.m, and Grandma in her Sunday dress, humming soft and low." As the... Read more

The Salt Roads

By: Nalo Hopkinson

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue is renamed Haiti, a group of women gather to bury a stillborn baby. Led by a lesbian healer and midwife named Mer, the women's lamentations inadvertently release the dead infant's "unused vitality" to draw Ezili—the Afro-Caribbean goddess of sexual desire and love—into the physical... Read more

A Little Bit of Karma

By: ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The secrets and lies that exist within a seemingly perfect marriage are explored in this “second-chance tale of romantic suspense” (Booklist) from the nationally bestselling and award-winning author of The Stolen Daughter.

Meet Shannon and Jay Lovejoy—the rich and successful power couple who, to the millions of fans of their call-in radio show,... 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

Superheroes Are Everywhere

By: Kamala Harris

Narrated by: Kamala Harris

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From Vice President Kamala Harris comes a picture book with an empowering message: Superheroes are all around us--and if we try, we can all be heroes too. A #1 New York Times bestseller!

Before Kamala Harris was elected to the vice presidency and named the Democratic presidential nominee, she was a little girl who loved superheroes. And when she... 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

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

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

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

Johnathan Thurston

By: Johnathan Thurston

Narrated by: James Phelps

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling autobiography of a league legend.
Johnathan Thurston is widely regarded as rugby league's greatest player. This autobiography will follow Thurston's journey from a Brisbane kid who was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild to play professionally, to his debut with the Canterbury Bulldogs in 2003, to State of Origin... 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

Lives Laid Away

By: Stephen Mack Jones

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Detroit ex-cop August Snow takes up vigilante justice when his beloved neighborhood of Mexicantown is caught in the crosshairs of a human trafficking scheme. When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police Department wants the case closed out fast. Wayne... Read more

Ain't I a Woman

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must–read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, Hooks attempts to... Read more

They Were Her Property

By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.



Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that... Read more

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

By: Junauda Petrus

Narrated by: Junauda Petrus, Bahni Turpin & JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book

Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus's bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both.

Port of Spain, Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just found out... Read more

Obviously

By: Akilah Hughes

Narrated by: Akilah Hughes

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"A refreshingly funny and blisteringly unsentimental coming-of-age memoir." -John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All The Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars

In Akilah Hughes's world, family--and life--are often complicated, but always funny. Through intimate and hilarious essays, Akilah takes readers along on her journey... Read more

Reach for the Skai

By: Skai Jackson

Narrated by: Skai Jackson

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Actress, activist, and now Danicing with the Stars competitor Skai Jackson shares her lessons on life and her rise to stardom in this vibrant memoir about self-acceptance, girl empowerment, and the classy clapback.

Actress and activist Skai Jackson is a star! Her rise to fame started on the popular Disney Channel shows Bunk'd and Jessie. Her cool... Read more

The Dragon Thief

By: Zetta Elliott

Narrated by: Ron Butler, Soneela Nankani & Zetta Elliott

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Stealing a baby dragon was easy! Hiding it is a little more complicated, in this second book in the critically acclaimed Dragons in a Bag series.

Jaxon had just one job--to return three baby dragons to the realm of magic. But when he got there, only two dragons were left in the bag. His best friend's sister, Kavita, is a dragon thief!

Kavita only... Read more

Jackpot

By: Nic Stone

Narrated by: Nic Stone

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin--which Angie Thomas, the bestselling author of The Hate U Give, called "a must read"--comes a pitch-perfect romance that examines class, privilege, and how a stroke of good luck can change an entire life.

Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoon-shift cashier at the Gas 'n' Go,... 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