Black Authors

The Fake Boyfriend Fiasco

By: Talia Hibbert

Narrated by: Rooke Kingston & Harvey Fuller

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Footballing legend Nik Christou leads a charmed life. Rich, successful, and internationally adored, no woman (or man) has ever rejected him—until a tattooed goddess blows his mind and captures his heart with just one kiss. Distrustful of men and disdainful of love, Aria Granger’s tongue is as sharp as her winged eyeliner. She knows from... Read more

Delicious Monsters

By: Liselle Sambury

Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“A haunted house thriller packed with cryptic mystery, dark humor, and bone-chilling twists.” —Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston

The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this “genuinely terrifying” (School Library Journal, starred review) psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating... 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 Novel

A Reader's Digest Top 25 Best Fantasy Series Ever Written

With 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

Red at the Bone

By: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Pet...

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by LitHub and The Millions.

Called one of the Top 10 Literary Fiction titles of Fall by Publishers Weekly.

An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl... Read more

Cobalt Red

By: Siddharth Kara

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an author's note read by the author.

An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the... Read more

Don't Cry for Me

By: Daniel Black

Narrated by: Daniel Black

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't miss Daniel Black's next novel Isaac's Song coming January 2025

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE, THE MILLIONS AND BOOKISH


"Don't Cry for Me is a perfect song."—Jesmyn Ward

A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for... Read more

Ander & Santi Were Here

By: Jonny Garza Villa

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Avi] Roque's warm and musical narration is utter perfection. They capture Ander and Santi's fear with vivid immediacy and also infuse their voices with bubbly happiness. In moments of tenderness, their breath catches. They switch easily between Spanish and English and use a half-dozen unique accents for different characters. This audiobook is... Read more

The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell

Narrated by: Shayna Small & Tananarive Due

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a foreword by author, educator, and Jordan Peele collaborator, Tananarive Due.

A YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one.

Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and... Read more

Sankofa

By: Chibundu Onuzo

Narrated by: Sara Powell

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The exhilarating story of a mixed-race woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew.



After years of being a daughter, a wife, and a mother, Anna finally has the time to wonder who she really is. But the only person who can tell her—her mother, the only parent who raised her—is dead.



Searching through her mother's belongings one... Read more

Memorial

By: Bryan Washington

Narrated by: Bryan Washington & Akie Kotabe

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, O, the Oprah Magazine, Esquire, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, and... Read more

Before the Ever After

By: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by: Guy Lockard

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD

WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies.

For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a... Read more

This Is My America

By: Kim Johnson

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin

The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.

Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help... Read more

You Should See Me in a Crown

By: Leah Johnson

Narrated by: Alaska Jackson

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Becky Albertalli meets Jenny Han in a smart, hilarious, black girl magic, own voices rom-com by a staggeringly talented new writer.Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever:... Read more

Within These Wicked Walls

By: Lauren Blackwood

Narrated by: Nneka Okoye

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE'S BOOK CLUB FALL 2021 YA PICK

"Lauren Blackwood’s can’t-miss debut is a magical, Ethiopian-inspired remix of Jane Eyre." - Harper's Bazaar

What the heart desires, the house destroys...

Andromeda is a debtera—an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn’t thrown her out before she... Read more

Memorial Drive

By: Natasha Trethewey

Narrated by: Natasha Trethewey

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyleA chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter... Read more

Friday Black

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Narrated by: Corey Allen & Carra Patterson

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

PEN/Jean Stein Award
Carnegie Medal
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The acclaimed debut collection from the author of Chain Gang All Stars; a piercingly raw and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it’s like to be young and Black in America.

From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt... Read more

Love Radio

By: Ebony LaDelle

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt & JaQwan J. Kelly

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Readers won’t be able to get enough of these dope-ass characters.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, author of Clap When You Land

Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this “mega swoon-worthy, effortlessly cool” (Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can... Read more

Clean Getaway

By: Nic Stone

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a timely middle-grade road-trip story through landmarks of the Civil Rights movement and the map they lay for contemporary race relations.

How to Go on an Unplanned Road Trip with Your Grandma:
Grab a Suitcase: Prepacked from the big spring break trip that got CANCELLED.
Fasten Your... Read more

We're Alone

By: Edwidge Danticat

Narrated by: Edwidge Danticat

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental... Read more

Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

By: Phoebe Robinson

Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

DON’T MISS PHOEBE ROBINSON’S COMEDY SERIES EVERYTHING’S TRASH—NOW ON FREEFORM!

New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our world.

Wouldn't it be great if life came with instructions? Of course, but... Read more

Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by award-winning narrator Dion Graham.

"Devil Is Fine is self-deprecatingly tender, often bracingly hilarious, and at its heart is a runaway train through the haunted house of us. And I loved it. Don't miss it." —Dion Graham

"Graham’s rich, inviting, sigh-inducing voice magically weaves another irresistible aural web...Graham... Read more

Another Country

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable... Read more

The Secret Library

By: Kekla Magoon

Narrated by: Nekia Renee Martin

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Travel through time with National Book Award Finalist Kekla Magoon in a page-turning fantasy adventure about family secrets and finding the courage to plot your own life story.

Since Grandpa died, Dally’s days are dull and restricted. She’s eleven and a half years old, and her exacting single mother is already preparing her to take over the... Read more

What the Fireflies Knew

By: Kai Harris

Narrated by: Zenzi Williams

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An NAACP Image Award Nominee
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize
A Marie Claire Book Club pick

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by *Marie Claire* *Teen Vogue* *Buzzfeed* *Essence* *Ms. Magazine* *NBCNews.com* *Bookriot* *Bookbub* and more! 

“Harris rewrites the coming-of-age story with Black girlhood at the center.”
—New... Read more