Black Authors

Nana

By: Brandon Massey

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Monica Stephens never knew her birth mother. Raised by a strict but loving adoptive parent, she blossomed into a woman with a thriving career as a pediatrician and a family of her own. But sometimes, she wondered about her origins. Especially her biological mother.



Until Grace arrives.



Confessing to be the birth mother Monica had long wanted to... Read more

The Marathon Don't Stop

By: Rob Kenner

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

This “beautiful tribute to a legendary artist” (Quincy Jones) is the first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip-hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy—before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhood... Read more

1919

By: Eve L. Ewing

Narrated by: Eve L. Ewing

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event—which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries—through poems recounting the... Read more

Homie

By: Danez Smith

Narrated by: Danez Smith

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Danez Smith is our president



Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a... Read more

Don't Call Us Dead

By: Danez Smith

Narrated by: Danez Smith

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry



Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection



Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where... Read more

Grand

By: Charles Johnson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award winner and MacArthur Genius Fellow Charles Johnson reflects on the joys of being a grandparent in this warm, inspiring collection of wisdom and life lessons—the ideal gift for any new parent or grandparent

An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has held... Read more

Jake the Fake Keeps His Cool

By: Craig Robinson & Adam Mansbach

Narrated by: Sullivan Jones

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the third book in this laugh-out-loud series about a class clown faking his way through middle school from comedian and film star Craig Robinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach, and NAACP History Maker recipient and cartoonist Keith Knight.

Life couldn't be better for Jake.... 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

Blacktop Wasteland

By: S. A. Cosby

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Books of 2020

"Narrator Adam Lazarre-White's voice exudes confidence and depth; his performance is an example of how the best audiobooks deliver pure storytelling." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

A husband, a father, a son, a business owner…And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.

This... Read more

And the Stars Were Burning Brightly

By: Danielle Jawando

Narrated by: Kenton Thomas & Melissa Vaughan

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary novel about loss, understanding and the importance of speaking up when all you want to do is shut down. From a multi-award-winning author, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas, Gayle Foreman, Jennifer Niven and Nikesh Shukla.

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize
Shortlisted for the... Read more

Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid

By: Mikaila Ulmer

Narrated by: Mikaila Ulmer

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A business memoir from fifteen year-old lemonade entrepreneur and one of TIME Magazine's Top 30 Most Influential Teens, Mikaila Ulmer, and her advice for life and business.

When Mikaila Ulmer was four, she was stung by a bee--twice in one week. She was terrified of going outside, so her parents encouraged her to learn more about bees so she... Read more

Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero

By: Kelly J. Baptist

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A coming-of-age tale about a boy who discovers a love of poetry after finding his late father's journal. Adapted from a story that first appeared in Flying Lessons & Other Stories and perfect for fans of The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson.

Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His... Read more

How We Fight White Supremacy

By: Akiba Solomon & Kenrya Rankin

Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge, Vallea Woodbury, Je Nie Flemi...

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -- and ideas for how each of us can contribute

Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're Black in the US, this is not new. As Colorlines... Read more

Living in Color

By: Tommy Davidson

Narrated by: Tommy Davidson

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Abandoned as an infant on the streets of Greenville, Mississippi, and rescued by a loving white family, Tommy Davidson spent most of his childhood unaware that he was different from his brother and sister. All that changed as he came of age in a society of racial barriers—ones that he was soon to help break. On a fledgling network, Tommy joined... Read more

Punching the Air

By: Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam

Narrated by: Ethan Herisse

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor * Walter Award Winner * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the... Read more

The Last Negroes at Harvard

By: Kent Garrett & Jeanne Ellsworth

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen "Negro" boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later,... Read more

A Crown So Cursed

By: L.L. McKinney

Narrated by: Jacob York, Jeanette Illidge & Thomas Durham

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"The fantasy series I've been waiting for my whole life."
—Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Hate U Give

Alice must save Wonderland from itself in A Crown So Cursed, the long-awaited third audiobook in L.L. McKinney's Nightmare-Verse series.

Alice and her crew are doing their best to recover from the last boss battle, but... Read more

Opening My Eyes Underwater

By: Ashley Woodfolk

Narrated by: Ashley Woodfolk

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Author Ashley Woodfolk's voice is clear and bright, making this a pleasant listening experience." - AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

Inspired by the life and quotations of former first lady Michelle Obama, Opening My Eyes Underwater is a collection of essays by bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk.

Essays of bullying,... Read more

Driving While Black

By: Gretchen Sorin

Narrated by: Gretchen Sorin & Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life—the true history beyond the Best Picture–winning movie.



The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African... Read more

I Am Every Good Thing

By: Derrick Barnes

Narrated by: Joshua David Scarlett

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An upbeat, empowering, important audiobook from the team that created the award-winning Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

I am
a nonstop ball of energy.
Powerful and full of light.
I am a go-getter. A difference maker. A leader.

The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is. He's got big plans, and no doubt... Read more

Trouble is What I Do

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Morally ambiguous P.I. Leonid McGill is back -- and investigating crimes against society's most downtrodden -- in this installment of the beloved detective series from an Edgar Award-winning and bestselling crime novelist.

Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York investigative scene. His seemingly infallible... Read more

Class Act

By: Jerry Craft

Narrated by: Nile Bullock, Jesus Del Orden, Guy Lockard, Mar...

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. The audiobook was a 2020 Audie Awards Finalist for Middle Grade and named an Audible Best Audiobook of the Year. This time, it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center... Read more

Remembered

By: Yvonne Battle-Felton

Narrated by: Yvonne Battle-Felton

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

It is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning.The last place Spring wants to be is in the run-down, colored section of a hospital surrounded by the groans of sick people and the ghost of her dead sister. But as her son Edward lays dying, she has no other choice.There are whispers that Edward drove a streetcar into a shop window. Some people think it... Read more

The Colors of Culture

By: MelindaJoy Mingo

Narrated by: Machelle Williams

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

How diverse are your friendships?



We are living in a time where fear and mistrust among people of different cultural and ethnic groups is becoming the norm rather than the exception. It appears that cultural and racial divides are expanding rather than shrinking. What can we do?



We can learn to see every human being from God's perspective and... Read more