BIPOC Authors

Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

Narrated by: Renée Watson

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.

In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes
about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender.

Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections... Read more

Smoke and Ashes

By: Amitav Ghosh

Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most... Read more

A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic

By: Yi Shun Lai

Narrated by: Jade Wheeler

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Two starred reviews!

A teen’s fight for suffrage turns into one of survival when her crew’s Antarctic expedition ship gets stuck in the ice in this historical “gripping—and sometimes gut-wrenching—adventure tale” (Shelf Awareness, starred review) told in journal entries perfect for fans of Gary Paulsen and The Downstairs Girl.

November 1914.
... Read more

The Roof Beneath Their Feet

By: Geetanjali Shree

Narrated by: Anuj Datta & Mala Mangla

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this beautifully crafted novel, roofs have a special place; they are meant for wild things, for romance and for play, they are places to dry pickles and grains while exchanging gossip about quiet caresses. But above all, they are realms of freedom. In The Roof Beneath their Feet, Chachcho and Lalna use their roofs to build a friendship that... Read more

Ten Bridges I've Burnt

By: Brontez Purnell

Narrated by: Brontez Purnell

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In Ten Bridges I've Burnt, Brontez Purnell—the bard of the underloved and overlooked—turns his gaze inward. A storyteller with a musical eye for the absurdity of his own existence, he is peerless in his ability to find the levity within the stormiest of crises. Here, in his first collection of genre-defying verse, Purnell reflects on his... Read more

The Expiration Date

By: Kimberly Brown

Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith & J. Shani Michaels

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Audrey Pilar is a master in the art of breaking up. Her friends have dubbed her ritual of leaving men as “The Expiration Date.” Hurt from her past has caused Audrey to protect her heart at all costs, even if it means self sabotage. She’s developed the habit of looking for red flags, and it seems to work for her—until she meets Sullivan Santiago.... Read more

This is How You Fall in Love

By: Anika Hussain

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents This is How You Fall in Love by Anika Hussain, read by Aysha Kala.

Best friends Zara and Adnan must navigate the twists and turns of fake dating, family dynamics and cultural stereotypes in this swoon-worthy YA Desi rom-com.

Zara loves love in all forms: rom-coms and romance novels and grand sweeping gestures. She's desperate... Read more

White Supremacy Is All Around

By: Akilah Cadet

Narrated by: Akilah Cadet

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Founder and CEO of consulting firm Change Cadet Dr. Akilah Cadet shares a powerful, incisive look at where we are in the fight to dismantle white supremacy—and what we urgently need to do next​.

This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me... Read more

The Things We Didn't Know

By: Elba Iris Pérez

Narrated by: Marisa Blake

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The USA TODAY bestselling inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical and “wonderfully compelling” (Judith Simon Prager, author of What the Dolphin Said) cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores a young girl’s childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small... Read more

Make Your Own Rules

By: Andrew Huang

Narrated by: Andrew Huang

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

USA TODAY Bestseller

YouTube sensation Andrew Huang offers practical tips and hard-won advice for creatives seeking financial stability while staying authentic.

How does a musician with acute hearing loss, a refusal to perform live, and no industry connections carve a path to millions of followers and lucrative royalty checks? In Make Your Own... Read more

Dysfunction Junction

By: Robin W. Pearson

Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Frances Mae Livingston’s firm grip of her family’s destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she’s losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and her mama that she’s enough. There’s no way she’ll repeat her mama’s mistakes, even if it kills her. Annabelle McMillan didn’t have trouble kicking the... Read more

Girls with Bad Reputations

By: Xio Axelrod

Narrated by: Benjamin Charles & Tyla Collier

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time, the pressure to be the perfect daughter her demanding mother needed nearly broke Mikayla Whitman. Desperate to find an outlet, she picked up a pair of drumsticks, forever altering the rhythm of her life. Since then, she’s been determined to make her own way, finding her home with her bandmates even as she fights to keep her... Read more

Drawing Deena

By: Hena Khan

Narrated by: Reena Dutt

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Amina’s Voice and Amina’s Song comes a “nuanced and quietly powerful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) middle grade novel about a young Pakistani American artist determined to manage her anxiety and forge her own creative path.

Deena’s never given a name to the familiar knot in her stomach that appears when her... Read more

Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club)

By: DéLana R. A. Dameron

Narrated by: Ashley J. Hobbs, Robin Miles, De'Onna Prince, A...

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “[A] richly textured and deeply moving debut” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter’s coming of age in the 1990s.

“A triumph . . . Redwood Court is storytelling at its best: tender, vivid, and richly complicated.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New... Read more

Confrontations

By: Simone Atangana Bekono

Narrated by: Ella Dacres

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Confrontations by Simone Atangana Bekono, read by Ella Dacres.

A bold, unsettling, surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling.

Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile detention center to... Read more

This Is the Honey

By: Kwame Alexander

Narrated by: Mahogany L. Brown & Joel Damany Steingold

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by Why Fathers Cry at Night author and #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander. In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a... Read more

How to See

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Reach true clarity and insight by looking deeply, minimizing misperceptions, and having the courage to see things as they really are.The seventh book in the bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh that introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness... Read more

Far Beyond Gold

By: Sydney McLaughlin

Narrated by: Sydney McLaughlin

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.What fears are standing in your way or holding you back? How do you want to become stronger? Olympic and World champion hurdler Sydney McLaughlin wants to help you answer these questions as she shares her personal story of struggles and victories, of faith and transformation.Sydney McLaughlin knows about facing down obstacles.... Read more

Hybrid Heart

By: Iori Kusano

Narrated by: Sarah Skaer

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A pop idol in near future Japan. Her every move controlled in the present and haunted by the past.



The stage is the surveillance society of near-future Tokyo. In order to become an idol, Rei has sacrificed her private life as she focuses on her solo activities. Haunted by guilt, the insidious manipulations of a controlling talent manager, and the... Read more

Spectral Evidence

By: Gregory Pardlo

Narrated by: Gregory Pardlo

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY • A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic

Elegant, profound, and intoxicating—Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves... Read more

The Words That Remain

By: Stênio Gardel

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome Cícero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has long been unable to read. As young men, he and Cícero fell in love, only to have Raimundo’s... Read more

Root Fractures

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

Narrated by: Diana Khoi Nguyen

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

*One of LitHub’s Poetry Books to Read in 2024*
*One of The Millions’s Must Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024*

National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations.

In Root... Read more

Poemhood: Our Black Revival

By: Amber McBride, Erica Martin & Taylor Byas

Narrated by: Angel Pean & Greg Campbell

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

""A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry."" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)""This deep and complex assemblage of Black poetry culminates in a joyful, painful, and emotionally rich experience."" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)""An eclectic mix of Black experiences fills this unmatched anthology that features both... Read more

HBCU Made

By: Ayesha Rascoe

Narrated by: Ayesha Rascoe, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Brandon...

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this joyous essay collection edited by NPR's Ayesha Rascoe, celebrities and other alumni provide testimonials about their experience attending historically Black college universities–which shaped their lives and made them who they are today.

With a diverse set of contributors, including Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, and Branford Marsalis,... Read more