BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
Ellie Engle Saves Herself
By: Leah Johnson
Narrated by: Rocky Anicette
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning YA author Leah Johnson comes her middle grade debut: a laugh-until-you-cry, cry-until-you-laugh story about friendship, change, and the power we have to love ourselves. Ellie Engle doesn't stand out. Not at home, where she's alone with her pet fish since her dad moved away and her mom has to work around the clock . Not at the... Read more
View audiobookMott Street
By: Ava Chin
Narrated by: Ava Chin
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
* TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Winner of the Chinese American Librarians... Read more
Prisoner #1056
By: Roy Ratnavel
Narrated by: Roy Ratnavel
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
BRONZE MEDALIST IN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY FOR THE AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS
An incredible immigrant story from a prominent Canadian Tamil who fled torture and imprisonment, arrived in Canada with $50 in his pocket, then rose from the mailroom to the executive suite of the country’s largest independent asset management company.
Roy... Read more
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Tara Sky & Jessica Matten
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series.
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her... Read more
Wonderland
By: Jennifer Hillier
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of the hugely popular thrillers Things We Do in the Dark, Little Secrets, and Jar of Hearts comes Wonderland, a roller coaster of a listen. Now in audio for the first time!
After a personal tragedy and professional scandal forces homicide detective Vanessa Castro out of Seattle, she takes a new job in Seaside,... Read more
The Witch and the Vampire
By: Francesca Flores
Narrated by: Bailey Carr & Mary Helen Gallucci
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Ava and Kaye used to be best friends—until one night two years ago when vampires broke through the magical barrier protecting their town and, in the ensuing attack, Kaye’s mother was killed and Ava was turned into a vampire. Since then, Ava has been trapped in her house. Her mother Eugenia needs her: Ava still has her witch powers, and Eugenia... Read more
View audiobookMy Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix
By: Kalynn Bayron
Narrated by: Clifford Samuel
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Clifford Samuel's low, melodious voice sounds like it was made for this atmospheric queer retelling of the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde story." - AudioFile Magazine
A teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance—and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger—in misty Victorian London, in Kalynn Bayron's My... Read more
The Islands
By: Dionne Irving
Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism on what they call the Island. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters. In one... Read more
View audiobookA Country You Can Leave
By: Asale Angel-Ajani
Narrated by: Amanda Cordner
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"From page one, A Country You Can Leave is a riveting, exasperating, and deeply heartbreaking tale of mother-daughter strife and resilience." —Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming
A stunning debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black, biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the... Read more
Against the Currant
By: Olivia Matthews
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Little Caribbean, Brooklyn, New York: Lyndsay Murray is opening Spice Isle Bakery with her family, and it’s everything she’s ever wanted. The West Indian bakery is her way to give back to the community she loves, stay connected to her Grenadian roots, and work side-by-side with her family. The only thing getting a rise out of Lyndsay is Claudio... Read more
View audiobookRiver Sing Me Home
By: Eleanor Shearer
Narrated by: Debra Michaels & Eleanor Shearer
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together is a “celebration of motherhood and female resilience” (The Observer).
Named One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • A Dayton Literary... Read more
Promise Boys
By: Nick Brooks
Narrated by: Alfred Vines, Anthony Lopez, Brad Sanders, Chri...
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2024 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production for Young Adults!
"Skilled vocal performances from more than a dozen narrators immerse listeners in a schoolyard murder mystery involving race, wealth, and power."- AudioFile
This audiobook features a full cast, musical accompaniment, and sound design. Listen along and become... Read more
Moonrise Over New Jessup
By: Jamila Minnicks
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the... Read more
Liar, Dreamer, Thief
By: Maria Dong
Narrated by: Hannah Choi
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A young woman’s carefully constructed fantasy world implodes in this brilliantly conceived novel that blurs distinctions between right and wrong, comedy and tragedy, imagination and reality: "Surreal . . . leaves you with the creeping certainty that there is a different world lurking just under the surface of our own, filled with technicolor... Read more
View audiobookLunar Love
By: Lauren Kung Jessen
Narrated by: Raechel Wong
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This sweet, enemies-to-lovers debut rom-com filled with Chinese astrology will undoubtedly prove to be a perfect match with readers of Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, and Helena Hunting.
Always a matchmaker, never a match...
Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother’s matchmaking business. But when she... Read more
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Amina Koroma & Jonathan Andrew Hume
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the great outdoors—and each other.
Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He’s a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top... Read more
Whiteout
By: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Ston...
Narrated by: Danielle Shemaiah, Nic Stone, Shayna Small, Bah...
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Atlanta is blanketed with snow just before Christmas, but the warmth of young love just might melt the ice in this novel of Black joy, and cozy, sparkling romance—by the same unbeatable team of authors who wrote the New York Times bestseller Blackout!As the city grinds to a halt, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic... Read more
View audiobookEven Though I Knew the End
By: C.L. Polk
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago’s divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.
An exiled auspex who... Read more
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
By: Baek Sehee
Narrated by: Jully Lee
Length: 3 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee, read by Jully Lee.
The internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur.
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don’t know, I’m – what’s the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a... Read more
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
Narrated by: Franny Choi
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending,... Read more
View audiobookInto the Riverlands
By: Nghi Vo
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find... Read more
View audiobookDon't Look Back
By: Achut Deng & Keely Hutton
Narrated by: Nedra Marie Taylor
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up.
I want life.
After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in... Read more
When the Dark Spoke to Me
By: Christabelle Marbun
Narrated by: Christabelle Marbun
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A profound poetry collection shrouded in tenderness and empathy, created to comfort the growing pains we all experience in life.
Teen breakout poet Christabelle Grace Marbun brings her latest collection When the Dark Spoke to Me to life through words wise beyond her years. Her uniquely positive perspective on life, death, and everything in... Read more
Savor
By: Fatima Ali & Tarajia Morrell
Narrated by: Nikhaar Kishnani & Deepa Samuel
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an “inspiring” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to Manhattan and beyond.
“Ali’s strength and passion for food and her culture shines... Read more
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