BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
This Could Be Us
By: Kennedy Ryan
Narrated by: Ines del Castillo, Jakobi Diem & Kennedy Ryan
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
āHeart-searing, sensual, and life affirming.ā āEMILY HENRY, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything.Ā She designs everything. SheĀ fixesĀ everything. Sheās a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one... Read more
The Idea of You
By: Robinne Lee
Narrated by: Robinne Lee
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
SolĆØne Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of an art gallery in Los Angeles, is reluctant to take her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band. But since her divorce, she's more eager than ever to be close to Isabelle. The last thing SolĆØne expects is to make a connection with one of the members of the world-famous August Moon. But... Read more
View audiobookFevered Star
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, N...
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
USA TODAY Bestseller
Return to The Meridian with New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorseās sequel to the most critically hailed epic fantasy of 2020 Black Sunāfinalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, and Locus awards.
There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. āTeek saying
The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun... Read more
The Light We Carry
By: Michelle Obama
Narrated by: Michelle Obama
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
2024 GrammyĀ® Award Winner ā¢ #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERĀ ā¢Ā In an inspiring follow-up to herĀ acclaimedĀ memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in todayās highly uncertain world.
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There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to lifeās big... Read more
An Immense World
By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Ed Yong
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢Ā A āthrillingā (The New York Times), ādazzlingā (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prizeāwinning science journalist Ed Yong
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āOne of this yearās finest works of narrative... Read more
Knife
By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduringāand survivingāan attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
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On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the... Read more
How Far the Light Reaches
By: Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
AĀ fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World). A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Divide
By: Cristina Henriquez
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick! A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored thereIt is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers... Read more
View audiobookThe Cartographers
By: Peng Shepherd
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu, Karen Chilton, Ron ...
Length: 14 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From the critically acclaimed author ofĀ The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased fatherās belongings holds an incredible, deadly secretāone that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her familyās dark history.Ā What is the purpose of a map?Ā Nell... Read more
View audiobookThe Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Amy Tan & Evan Sibley
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club ā¢ With a foreword by David Allen Sibley
āUnexpected and spectacularā āAnn Patchett, best-selling author of These Precious Days
"The drawings and essays in this book do a lot more... Read more
Solito
By: Javier Zamora
Narrated by: Javier Zamora
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller ā¢ Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today ā¢ Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography ā¢ Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award
A young poet tells the inspiring story of hisĀ migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in thisĀ āgripping... Read more
What My Bones Know
By: Stephanie Foo
Narrated by: Stephanie Foo
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life
āAchingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.āāLori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should... Read more
Leslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
Narrated by: Leslie Jones & Chris Rock
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER withĀ 5+ hours of bonus material not found in the print version and read by Leslie Jones. AudioFile Magazine awarded the recording an āEarphones Awardā, saying: āNo listener can leave this memoir unaffected as Jones laughs and sobs, sharing the highs and lows, joys and sorrows of her full life.ā
Hey you guys, itās... Read more
Briefly Perfectly Human
By: Alua Arthur
Narrated by: Alua Arthur
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from Americaās most visible death doula.""A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world.... There is no one I'd... Read more
View audiobookThe Woman in the Library
By: Sulari Gentill
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quietāuntil the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who'd happened to sit at the same table,... Read more
View audiobookThe Fox Wife
By: Yangsze Choo
Narrated by: Yangsze Choo
Length: 14 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"Choo narrates the book herself with a grace of voice and manner that is rare in authors. Further, she delivers Chinese names and phrases with the intonation of a native speaker, lending another level of authenticity to this odd and wonderful tale."āThe Washington Post
"Yangsze Choo again takes on narration... Read more
Rest Is Resistance
By: Tricia Hersey
Narrated by: Tricia Hersey
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy by connecting to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to elevate rest as a form of resistance and a divine human right.
What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too... Read more
The Mystery Writer
By: Sulari Gentill
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime... Read more
View audiobookThe Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICKĀ ā¢Ā A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly usefulāuntil other women in the village start asking for her helpĀ getting rid of their own husbandsāin this razor-sharp debut.
"A radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of... Read more
Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xochitl Gonzalez
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Armando Riesco & InƩs del Castillo
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
"All three narrators are Puerto Ricanāborn and deliver the Spanish passages with musical grace, thereby enhancing an already fine novel." āThe Washington Post
āThe narratorsā accents and code-shifting create a vibrant auditory experience. In particular, Guerraās luscious voice conveys Olgaās transformation from fighter to a compassionate woman as... Read more
Our Missing Hearts
By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Lucy Liu & Celeste Ng
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant New York Times bestsellerĀ ā¢Ā A New York Times Notable Book ā¢Ā Named a Best Book of 2022 by People, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Oprah Daily, and moreĀ ā¢Ā A Reese's Book Club PickĀ ā¢ New York Times Paperback Row Selection
From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes the... Read more
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
By: Angie Cruz
Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell & Rossmery Almonte
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
This program features original sound design.
"Together, [narrators] Almonte and Wetherell are the key to this exceptional novel. A brilliantly narrated immigrant story, spiked with heart and flair, that will have patrons rooting for Caraās success." - Library Journal
"Rossmery Almonte's pitch-perfect narration of Angie Cruz's inventive new novel... Read more
Finding Me
By: Viola Davis
Narrated by: Viola Davis
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording!Audie Award Winner for Audiobook of the Year!Narrated by Viola DavisIn my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central... Read more
View audiobookDaughter of the Moon Goddess
By: Sue Lynn Tan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 15 hours
Abridged: No
The acclaimed national and international bestsellerāEpic, romantic, and enthralling from start to finish.āāStephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval seriesāAn all-consuming work of literary fantasy that is breathtaking both for its beauty and its suspense.""āBookPage, starred reviewA captivating and romantic debut... Read more
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