BIPOC Authors

Half-Blown Rose

By: Leesa Cross-Smith

Narrated by: Mela Lee & Tim Campbell

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husband’s betrayal leads to a year of travel, art, and passion in Paris, from the award-winning author of This Close to Okay.
 
Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and... Read more

Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster

By: Andrea Mosqueda

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this voice-driven young adult debut by Andrea Mosqueda, Maggie Gonzalez needs a date to her sister's quinceañera - and fast.

Growing up in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, Maggie Gonzalez has always been a little messy, but she’s okay with that. After all, she has a great family, a goofy group of friends, a rocky romantic history, and dreams of... Read more

Siren Queen

By: Nghi Vo

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR NGHI VO COMES A DAZZLING NEW NOVEL WHERE IMMORTALITY IS JUST A CASTING CALL AWAY

"Natalie Naudus's skilled narration adds to the luminous and otherworldly qualities of Vo's historical fantasy." -AudioFile on Siren Queen

It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic.

"No maids, no funny talking, no fainting... Read more

No Escape

By: Nury Turkel

Narrated by: Stewart Lang

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing... Read more

Disrupting the Game

By: Reggie Fils-Aimé

Narrated by: Reggie Fils-Aimé

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERIncludes an audiobook-exclusive conversation with video game journalist Geoff Keighley!Read by the author.LESSONS FROM A BOSS-LEVEL DISRUPTOR AND GAMING LEGENDReggie Fils-Aimé, retired President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America Inc., shares leadership lessons and inspiring stories from his unlikely... Read more

Where the Children Take Us

By: Zain E. Asher

Narrated by: Zain E. Asher

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother’s strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There’s been a fatal car crash, and one of them is... Read more

Memphis: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Tara M. Stringfellow

Narrated by: Karen Murray, Adenrele Ojo & Tara Stringfellow

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy.

“A rhapsodic hymn to Black women.”—The New York Times Book Review

“I fell in love with this family, from... Read more

The Emergency

By: Thomas Fisher

Narrated by: Thomas Fisher

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind

“Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are,... Read more

Troublemaker

By: John Cho

Narrated by: John Cho

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Troublemaker follows the events of the LA Riots through the eyes of 12-year-old Jordan as he navigates school and family. This book will highlight the unique Korean American perspective.

12-year-old Jordan feels like he can't live up to the example his older sister set, or his parent's expectations. When he returns home from school one day hoping... Read more

Lakelore

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz & Avi Roque

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half water, half air. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who’ve been there. Bastián grew up both above the lake and in the otherworldly space beneath it. Lore’s seen the world under the lake only once, but that... Read more

Like a Sister

By: Kellye Garrett

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "crackling domestic suspense" filled with "wry humor and deft pacing" (Alyssa Cole), no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead—except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth.

Edgar Award Finalist for Best Novel • Lefty Award Winner for Best... Read more

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

Narrated by: Warsan Shire

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire

“The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist

“Warsan Shire is our ultimate modern poet. . . . This is our... Read more

Cold

By: Mariko Tamaki

Narrated by: Katharine Chin & Raymond J. Lee

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A boy, a body, a girl, a secret. From award-winning author Mariko Tamaki, Cold is a haunting YA audiobook about a shocking murder in a quiet town and four students who knew too much and said too little.

This is the story of a boy who died—and a girl who wants to know why.

Todd Mayer is dead. Now he's some sort of ghost, hovering over his body,... Read more

Black Love Matters

By: Jessica P. Pryde

Narrated by: Jessica P. Pryde, Gina Daniels, Julienne Irons,...

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde.
 
Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in... Read more

In the Shadow of the Mountain

By: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Narrated by: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life—one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us.”—Elizabeth Gilbert

This audiobook is read by the author.

"Through her narration, Vasquez-Lavado, whose first language... Read more

Go Back to Where You Came From

By: Wajahat Ali

Narrated by: Wajahat Ali

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!

This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but now an unaffordable place to live? Or
Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century... Read more

Honor

By: Thrity Umrigar

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

THE JANUARY 2022 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

“In the way A Thousand Splendid Suns told of Afghanistan’s women, Thrity Umrigar tells a story of India with the intimacy of one who knows the many facets of a land both modern and ancient, awash in contradictions.” —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours 

In this... Read more

The Kindred

By: Alechia Dow

Narrated by: Dominique Moore & Amin El Gamal

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Utterly swoony…an endearing reminder that true love can change the world”
—J. Elle, New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Ebony

To save a galactic kingdom from revolution, Kindred mind-pairings were created to ensure each and every person would be seen and heard, no matter how rich or poor…

Joy Abara knows her place. A commoner from the... Read more

Afterlife

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents comes “a stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own.” (Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award–winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X)Antonia Vega, the... Read more

Alien: Seventh Circle

By: Clara Čarija & Philippa Ballantine

Narrated by: Nikki Massoud

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

As human colonies are obliterated by the dark pathogen and hideous monstrosities proliferate, a family of scavengers find an amnesiac who may hold the secrets to the forces tearing apart the galaxy.Life amongst the stars is brutal. Human colonies are being obliterated by a dark pathogen launched from mysterious ships, which turns whole... Read more

Boraleashe

By: A.E. Via

Narrated by: Troy Duran

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Boraleashe Cavalerie was the opposite of his titan brothers. He was stoic, disagreeable, and his attitude towards others was just as biting as his frost. All titans were required to gift their pure hearts to another—to fall in love—as praise to the divinities for their dominion over an element. Refusal to pledge their heart was considered an act... Read more

Gather Me

By: Glory Edim

Narrated by: Glory Edim

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.

“A beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed by an expansive and ever-growing love for words and for... Read more

Taken by the Pikosa Warlord

By: Elizabeth Stephens

Narrated by: Tempest Mensah & James Cavenaugh

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

I'm awoken after a thousand's year sleep to a brutal world ruled by a male who may be the devil himself—Ero. Strange that, though so much has changed, language hasn't lost its roots. Because of that, I'm able to interpret his tongue—the only one who can. I plan to use my strengths to free the captive tribes from Ero's brutality or, better yet,... Read more

Blackness Is a Gift I Can Give Her

By: R. Renee Hess

Narrated by: R. Renee Hess

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the founder of Black Girl Hockey Club, a collection of deeply insightful and piercing essays shedding light on the history of Black excellence in hockey, the future of Black joy within the sport, and the ways we can all do better when it comes to recognizing—and upheaving—systemic and institutionalized racism.

Growing up, R. Renee Hess... Read more