BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
JoyFull
By: Radhi Devlukia-Shetty
Narrated by: Radhi Devlukia-Shetty
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
More than 125 plant-based recipes and a practical approach to making deeply flavorful food for feeling your best.
“What you eat—along with your daily habits and the thoughts you think—has the ability to completely transform every aspect of your health.” —Radhi Devlukia-Shetty
A passionate self-taught cook and... Read more
American Negra
By: Natasha S. Alford
Narrated by: Natasha S. Alford
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY.In smart, vivid prose, Alford illustrates... Read more
View audiobookBrooklyn
By: Tracy Brown
Narrated by: Keyonni James
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn’t who murdered her; the question is who wouldn’t?
Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away,... Read more
The American Daughters
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
“An enthralling tale of a secret resistance movement run by Black women in pre-Civil War New Orleans.”—Time
“Stirring . . . In telling this important, neglected history with imagination-fueled research, The American Daughters offers an inspiring story of people who show a way forward with their perseverance, bravery and love.”—The New York Times... Read more
Dawning And Resurgence
By: K.C. Mills
Narrated by: Reina Mystique & Winston James
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
“I’ll never ask for you to be with me, to love me, to appreciate me and what I have to offer. Everything I do will be for you. I will be unabashedly devoted to making you happy. The choice will always have to be yours. But if you continue to choose me? I promise to give you everything I am, everything I will ever be, everything you can even... Read more
View audiobookThe Washington Book
By: Carlos Lozada
Narrated by: Carlos Lozada
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion columnist at The New York Times and “an absolutely original genius” (Bob Woodward, The Washington Post) Carlos Lozada explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in doing so, illuminate the personal, political, and cultural conflictions driving Washington and the... Read more
View audiobookOutspoken
By: Sima Samar
Narrated by: Wajma Soroor & Sally Armstrong
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women.
“I have three strikes against me. I’m a woman, I speak out for women, and I’m Hazara, the most... Read more
And
By: Felicia Murrell
Narrated by: Felicia Murrell
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
While others often respond to the cares and concerns of our day through anger, And: The Restorative Power of Love in an Either/Or World attempts to offer a response steeped in the heartbeat of Love.
This book is an invitation to encounter the lived experience and philosophical musings of another as a human, not as a project or agenda to... Read more
Sun of Blood and Ruin
By: Mariely Lares
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there’s a new vigilante in town serving justice. This reimagining of Zorro—featuring a heroic warrior sorceress—weaves Mesoamerican mythology and Mexican history two decades after the Spanish conquest into a swashbuckling, historical debut fantasy with magic, intrigue, treachery, and... Read more
View audiobookSlow Noodles
By: Chantha Nguon
Narrated by: Clara Kim
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen.
Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and one wholesale... Read more
But You Don't Look Arab
By: Hala Gorani
Narrated by: Hala Gorani
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt... Read more
View audiobookLatinoLand
By: Marie Arana
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 18 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
“A perfect representation of Latino diversity” (The Washington Post), LatinoLand draws from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research to give us both a vibrant portrait and the little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority, in “a work of prophecy, sympathy, and courage” (Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning... Read more
View audiobookThe Diablo's Curse
By: Gabe Cole Novoa
Narrated by: Vico Ortiz
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Bargain and Most Ardently comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill--about a teen demon who wants to be human, a boy cursed to die young, and the murderous island destined to bury them both.
Dami is a demon determined to cancel every deal they've ever... Read more
Batshit Seven
By: Sheung-King
Narrated by: Derek Kwan
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From Governor General's Award-nominated author Sheung-King comes a novel about a millennial living through the Hong Kong protests, as he struggles to make sense of modern life and the parts of himself that just won’t gel.
Glen Wu (aka Glue) couldn’t care less about his job. He’s returned to Hong Kong, the city he grew up in, and he’s... Read more
Sito
By: Laurence Ralph
Narrated by: Andre Santana
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting and heart-wrenching story of violence, grief and the American justice system, exploring the systemic issues that perpetuate gang participation in one of the wealthiest cities in the country, through the story of one teenager.
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the... Read more
The Temple of Persephone
By: Isabella Kamal
Narrated by: Susan Duerden
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Bridgerton meets Greek mythology in Isabella Kamal’s delightful historical romance debut, The Temple of Persephone.Persephone Honeyfield is witty, intelligent, and very aware that the only way to escape the monotony of the life she shares with her father and sister in the English countryside—and the wagging, ever-critical tongues of the people... Read more
View audiobookDenison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
Narrated by: Christina Wong
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for 2024 Canada Reads Longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medals for Excellence through the American Library Association A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders Bringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes... Read more
View audiobookThe Power of Du'a
By: Aliyah Umm Raiyaan
Narrated by: Aliyah Umm Raiyaan
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
What seems impossible can become possible through du’a
In The Power of Du’a, Sunday Times bestselling author and revert, Aliyah Umm Raiyaan takes you on a journey that shows how faith and practising du’a (a personal supplication) can transform your life.
Featuring inspirational real-life stories from those who have... Read more
What Have We Here?
By: Billy Dee Williams
Narrated by: Billy Dee Williams
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, from Brian’s Song to Lando in the Star Wars universe—unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed.
Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household... Read more
Thick with Trouble
By: Amber McBride
Narrated by: Amber McBride
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanhood in the American South
In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being “trouble”—difficult, unruly, fearsome, defiant—is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the Hoodoo... Read more
Rebel Skies
By: Ann Sei Lin
Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Ann Sei Lin's enchanting and action-packed debut, first in a series, will sweep readers away to an aerial world of magic, danger and political intrigue. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Lim, Kalynn Bayron and the films of Studio Ghibli.
Kurara has never known any other life than being a servant onboard the Midori, a flying ship serving the military... Read more
Swimming into Trouble
By: Angela Ahn
Narrated by: Vicki Kim
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Temporarily sidelined from her swim team by an earache, Julia won't be kept down in this buoyant novel for ages 7 to 10 by acclaimed writer Angela Ahn.
As a member of the Vipers Swim Team, Julia Nam's always in the pool. Mountainview Community Center is like her second home, not only because swimming at the aquatic center is her favorite thing in... Read more
The Rooftop Garden
By: Menaka Raman-Wilms
Narrated by: Alison Deon
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The Rooftop Garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from his Toronto home, and Nabila travels to Berlin to find him and try to bring him back. The story is interspersed with scenes from their childhood, when... Read more
View audiobookstay up
By: Khodi Dill
Narrated by: Khodi Dill
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice. Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don’t know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy... Read more
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