BIPOC Authors

Coconut Drop Dead

By: Olivia Matthews

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Brooklyn’s annual Caribbean American Heritage Festival is finally here, and Spice Isle Bakery is thrilled to be one of the event’s food vendors. After all, the Murrays have been attending the festival for years. Co-owner Lyndsay Murray hopes their West Indian pastries and finger foods draw people back to the bakery in Little Caribbean. She’s... Read more

Candelaria

By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Narrated by: Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Your granddaughters are lost, Candelaria. Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life's work in Guatemala after her advisor seduced and deserted her. Paola, missing for over a decade, resurfaces in Boston as a brainwashed wellness cultist named Zoe. And Candy, the youngest, is a recovering addict who finds herself pregnant by a man... Read more

From From

By: Monica Youn

Narrated by: Monica Youn

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY



"Where are you from . . . ? No—where are you from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you'll never belong here, you're a perpetual foreigner, you'll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat.



Monica Youn's From From brilliantly... Read more

The Final Curtain

By: Keigo Higashino

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions.



Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to... Read more

Lost Seeds

By: Teresa Mosley Sebastian

Narrated by: Jamal West

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel chronicling the strained relationship between two brothers born into the remnants of their parents’ former enslavement. One brother seems to overcome, while the other descends further into adversity. What happens when they are forced to face each other?
Lost Seeds is the story of two brothers, Dublin and Timothy Brisco, born into poverty... Read more

If Found, Return to Hell

By: Em X. Liu

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Welcome to One Wizard! How may I help you?"



Being an intern at a wizarding firm sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yelled at by senior mages—and angry clients who've been turned into platypuses. So when Journeyman Wen receives a frantic call from a young man who's awoken to a talisman on his bedroom wall and no... Read more

The World's End

By: Rin Chupeco

Narrated by: Cassie Simone

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

It's been three months since the Snow Queen and OzCorp infiltrated Maidenkeep and nearly seized the Nine Maidens. Ryker is still unconscious and the rest of the group is feeling the effects of the prolonged war. Not to mention that Abigail Fey's curse has far-reaching consequences, and many in the Royal States have been using it to stir unrest... Read more

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1

By: Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon

Narrated by: Gail Maurice

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.

For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego... Read more

Like Thunder

By: Nnedi Okorafor

Narrated by: Délé Ogundiran

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Niger, West Africa, 2077



I am the Desert Magician; I bring water where there is none.



This book begins with Dikéogu Obidimkpa slowly losing his mind. Yes, that boy who can bring rain just by thinking about it is having some . . . issues. Years ago, Dikéogu went on an epic journey to save Earth with the shadow speaker girl, Ejii Ubaid, who became... Read more

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2

By: Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon

Narrated by: Gail Maurice

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.

For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego... Read more

Kenyatta's Escape

By: Donald Goines

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Kenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto of all drug traffic and gunning down all the racist white cops! But a black and white detective team, Benson and Ryan, is on his tail and has discovered the location of his army's camp. Armed with tanks, they bring a bloody doomsday to his followers. In Kenyatta's Escape, Goines continues his story... Read more

Lilac

By: Asia Monique

Narrated by: Mari & Winston James

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ezra wasn't picture perfect, but he was perfect for me." —Lilac

Lilac Baker wasn't against finding love, but love never seemed to be close enough for her to grasp. With her big sister pregnant and living out her happy ending, Lilac has high hopes for her own fairy-tale beginning. Then, with the shutter of his Canon EOS, Ezra Fields walks into... Read more

A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day

By: Jackie Lau

Narrated by: Khristine Rivière

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Amber Wong has landed her dream job at the Stratford Festival, and life is looking good. Sure, she hasn't had sex in so long that her condoms have expired, but she'll just pick up some new ones, along with discounted Christmas chocolate, at the grocery store.



And that's where she runs into Dr. Sebastian Lam, the son of her parents' close friends,... Read more

Journal of a Black Queer Nurse

By: Britney Daniels

Narrated by: Sanya Simmons

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19.



Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal... Read more

A Bright Heart

By: Kate Chenli

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Mingshin outsmarted three princes to help the man she loved become king. But she doesn’t see Ren’s betrayal coming, not until she’s lying in a pool of her own blood on the palace steps. As she’s dying, Mingshin makes a desperate plea to the gods to turn back time and give her a chance to make things right. Mingshin wakes up two years earlier,... Read more

We Are the Crisis

By: Cadwell Turnbull

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEThe long-awaited sequel to No Gods, No Monsters from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull, We Are the Crisis sees humans and monsters clash as civil rights collide with preternatural forces.Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca’s old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace.The... Read more

Barbacoa, Bomba, and Betrayal

By: Raquel V. Reyes

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

A surprise trip to Miriam's parents in Punta Cana, which should be filled with arroz con pollo and breezy days under the tamarind tree, quickly becomes a hunt for a possible property saboteur. But before Miriam can begin to uncover the person damaging the vacation rentals her parents manage, she’s called away to Puerto Rico to film a Three Kings... Read more

The Lunar New Year Surprise

By: Jade Wang

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

During the Lunar New Year festivities, can Gege find the perfect moment to present his handcrafted surprise to his little sister? This story will teach children what makes the Lunar New Year special, from the preparation responsibilities to the celebratory new moon signifying the first day of the holiday and the festivities that continue in the... Read more

Undisputed

By: Donovan Bailey

Narrated by: Donovan Bailey

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning world's fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.

From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to... Read more

Juego de libertad

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Aunque se debate cuándo y dónde se originó exactamente la capoeira, una forma de arte que combina las artes marciales, la danza, las acrobacias, la música y la espiritualidad, una cosa es segura: a principios del siglo XX Brasil era el único país en el mundo en el que se jugaba a la capoeira, y era practicada principalmente por personas de... Read more

Aster of Ceremonies

By: JJJJJerome Ellis

Narrated by: JJJJJerome Ellis

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The Clearing, a “lyrical celebration of and inquiry into the intersections of blackness, music, and disabled speech” (Claudia Rankine).Aster of... Read more

Organ Meats

By: K-Ming Chang

Narrated by: Jen Zhao & Annie Q

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“In the phenomenal Organ Meats, two friends are bound by a red string, dog bloodlines, and the violence that is being a girl” (Ms. magazine)—from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Gods of Want.

“Organ Meats possesses something of the febrile intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, their laser focus on female... Read more

Mind Over Matter

By: Jordin Tootoo & Stephen Brunt

Narrated by: Jordin Tootoo

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the bestselling success of the inspiring All the Way, pioneering Inuit NHLer Jordin Tootoo begins the process of healing in the wake of the suicide and violence that marks his family, only to discover the source of all that trauma in his father's secret past.

For some hockey players, retirement marks the moment when it’s all over. But... Read more

Life in Two Worlds

By: Ted Nolan

Narrated by: James Malloch

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

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In 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. But he wouldn’t work in pro hockey again for almost a decade. What happened?

Growing up on a First Nation reserve, young Ted Nolan built his own backyard hockey rink and wore skates many sizes too big. But poverty wasn’t his biggest challenge. Playing the game... Read more