BIPOC Authors

Unorthodox Love

By: Heidi Shertok

Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-nine year-old Penina longs for true love and marriage, but being infertile in the Orthodox Jewish community means she’s rarely matched with the cream of the crop—or even skim milk two weeks past its expiration date. Matchmakers either set her up with men twice her age or those with serious mommy issues. At this point, she might as well... Read more

I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom

By: Shannon C. F. Rogers

Narrated by: Jensen Olaya

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Packed with voice, I’d Rather Burn than Bloom is a powerful young adult novel about a Filipina-American teen who tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother’s death.Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and... Read more

Those Who Saw the Sun

By: Jaha Nailah Avery

Narrated by: Jaha Nailah Avery, Arnell Powell & Kim Staunton

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our present day, but we would be wrong.

Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in... Read more

Beyond the Story

By: BTS & Myeongseok Kang

Narrated by: Kim Young-Gi & Park Chan-won

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK—
Published in celebration of BTS’s 10th Anniversary, stories that go beyond what you already know about BTS.

After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut in June 2023. They have risen to the peak as an iconic global artist and during this... Read more

Goodbye Earl

By: Leesa Cross-Smith

Narrated by: Mela Lee, Kamali Minter, Sarah Beth Goer, Erin ...

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Four women take fate into their own hands in this big-hearted story of friendship, resilience, and revenge on monstrous men, from the award-winning author of Half-Blown Rose. 

Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart.
 
In 2004, Rosemarie,... Read more

The Blue Is Where God Lives

By: Sharon Sochil Washington

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing, powerful work of Afro-magic realism that reclaims the promise of a family's destiny through the bending of time

Blue’s daughter, Tsitra, is dying a violent and horrific death while, thousands of miles away, Blue feels the slowing of time and hears voices, followed by a stillness that befalls her for eighteen months.

More than a... Read more

The Archive Undying

By: Emma Mieko Candon

Narrated by: Yung-I Chang

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction.

WHEN AN AI DIES, ITS CITY DIES WITH IT
WHEN A CITY FALLS, IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHIND
WHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF, ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACK

When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed... Read more

black girl, no magic

By: Kimberly McIntosh

Narrated by: Kimberly McIntosh

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff ‘Witty, fresh and full of life’ Liv Little Kimberly McIntosh has lived a full life, with a loving family, messy friendships, mind-expanding travel and all-night... Read more

Mr Kato Plays Family

By: Milena Michiko Flašar

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tokyo-born-and-raised multilingual Nishii makes an ideal cipher for the recently retired Mr Katō..."- Booklist

Milena Michiko Flašar's Mr Katō Plays Family is an eccentric second-lease-on-life novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

Mr Katō—a curmudgeon and recent retiree—finds his only solace during his daily... Read more

Sixty-One

By: Chris Paul

Narrated by: Chris Paul

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Paul, "The Point God," a member of the NBA's 75th Anniversary Team and current point guard for the Phoenix Suns, narrates this compelling memoir. Deeply affected by the untimely death of his grandfather, Nathaniel "PaPa Chili" Jones, Paul recounts the inspiration and influence PaPa Chili continues to play in his life and career.

A powerful... Read more

An Echo in the City

By: K. X. Song

Narrated by: Christina Ho & Ewan Chung

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Two star-crossed teenagers fall in love during the Hong Kong protests in this searing contemporary novel about coming-of-age in a time of change.
 
Sixteen-year-old Phoenix knows her parents have invested thousands of dollars to help her leave Hong Kong and get an elite Ivy League education. They think America means big status, big dreams, and... Read more

Decolonizing the Body

By: Kelsey Blackwell

Narrated by: Patryce Williams

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

As a woman of color, you are more likely to experience oppression, discrimination, and physical or sexual violence in your lifetime. In addition, your family may have experienced generational trauma and systemic racism going back for centuries. This old and new trauma can manifest in both the mind and body. However, there are ways you can free... Read more

Much Ado About Nada

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

Narrated by: Farah Kidwai

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion...
 
Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she’s still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother’s unsubtle pleas to get married already. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it’s a... Read more

The Braid Girls

By: Sherri Winston

Narrated by: Erin Ruth Walker, Tyla Collier & Jade Wheeler

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Maggie's world is turned upside down when she learns that her father, whom she admires, has a second daughter, Callie, whom no one knew existed. But she won't let a new family member get in the way of her summer plans with her best friend, Daija. They're determined to make tons of money braiding hair for kids around the neighborhood. Daija's... Read more

Something More

By: Jackie Khalilieh

Narrated by: Parmida Vand

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism diagnosis while navigating her first year of high school, for fans of Jenny Han and Samira Ahmed.

Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make... Read more

An International Affair

By: Iris Bolling

Narrated by: Winston James

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when dysfunctional families meet the Lassiters? They all learn the meaning of love . . . love is kind, love is patience, and love . . . lasts for a lifetime.



The Lassiter siblings have been blessed with an internal detector identified as the love gene. Now that they have found love, one obstacle after another is threatening their... Read more

Notalus

By: A.E. Via

Narrated by: Troy Duran

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Patrons of the Autumn Realm, All Hail, Notalus Cavalerie! The last of the Horsemen and Harbingers of Justice. The Overseer of the Harvest and Creator of New Life. He is the Titan of Tir an Fhomhair and Lord of the South Wind.



After two thousand years of providing peace for his people, Notalus was ready to pass on his kingdom to his heir and live... Read more

A Quitter's Paradise

By: Elysha Chang

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Quitter’s Paradise, the darkly humorous debut by bold, new voice Elysha Chang, a young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother’s death, even as unearthed family secrets become increasingly inextricable from her own. Eleanor is doing just fine. Yes, she’s hiding things from her husband. Sure, she quit her PhD program and is now... Read more

African American Magick

By: Stephanie Rose Bird

Narrated by: Sanya Simmons

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

African American Magick infuses ancient techniques, rituals, and methods from around the world to use each season's inherent energies to supplement the health and well-being of body, mind, and soul.



The changing of the seasons can feel magical—greens changing to browns and golds, snow melting to show fresh buds. We all recognize these telltale... Read more

The Nameless Restaurant

By: Tao Wong

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a restaurant in Toronto. Its entrance is announced only by a simple unadorned wooden door, varnished to a beautiful shine but without paint, hidden beside dumpsters and a fire escape. There is no sign, no indication of what lies behind the door. If you do manage to find the restaurant, the décor is dated and worn—homey, if one were to... Read more

The Astromancer

By: Witi Ihimaera

Narrated by: Witi Ihimaera

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Astromancer is looking for four new apprentices to learn about Matariki and the Maramataka calendar. She chooses three boys and an orphan girl, Aria, who will come only if she can bring her smelly dog. Aria, though, is bored by the lessons, and she doesn’t want to be told what to do. But these are dangerous times, and Ruatapu the Ravenous... Read more

The Light at the End of the World

By: Siddhartha Deb

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan & Neil Shah

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Delhi, the near future: Bibi, a low-ranking employee of a global consulting firm, is tasked with finding a man long thought to be dead but who now appears to be the source of a vast collection of documents. The trove purports to reveal the secrets of the Indian government, including
detention centers, mutated creatures, engineered viruses,... Read more

Girls Like Girls

By: Hayley Kiyoko

Narrated by: Brandon Flynn, Hayley Kiyoko, Katie Gavin, Mali...

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by an all-queer cast: the author, Hayley Kiyoko; Natalie Naudus; Malia Pyles; Katie Gavin; and Brandon Flynn.

"This quaint performance by a five-narrator ensemble will tug at the heartstrings."- AudioFile

Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her... Read more

Murder Under a Red Moon

By: Harini Nagendra

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest novel in the acclaimed Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murthy uncovering a new murder during the blood moon eclipse.



When new bride Kaveri Murthy reluctantly agrees to investigate a minor crime to please her domineering mother-in-law—during the blood moon eclipse, no less—she doesn't expect, once again, to... Read more