BIPOC Authors

Hard Dough Homicide

By: Olivia Matthews

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Spice Isle Bakery owner Lyndsay Murray is always looking for new ways to grow her family’s business. But she already regrets agreeing to host the retirement dinner for local high-school principal Emily Smith. The tyrant used to be her mother's boss, and they did not get along. Six guests arrive for the celebration, but only five survive. Emily... Read more

Now I Become Myself

By: Ken Shigematsu

Narrated by: Ken Shigematsu

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Becoming who you were before the world told you who you had to be.You're not alone when it comes to experiencing shame or fear of not being enough. Shame isn't felt only by those who have gone through failure or trauma or been told they'll never amount to anything. Many people—even those who are considered successful—struggle... Read more

The Anxiety Opportunity

By: Curtis Chang

Narrated by: Curtis Chang

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What if instead of battling anxiety, you saw your worries as a doorway to spiritual transformation? Challenging the assumption that anxiety is the enemy, theologian, popular podcaster, and fellow sufferer of chronic anxiety Curtis Chang gives you a different framework for approaching fears. You will discover profound new ways of relating to... Read more

The Rachel Experiment

By: Lisa Lin

Narrated by: Kat Riley

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

As a financial analyst, Rachel Bai is more comfortable with numbers than people. When her boss promotes her to head a team in San Francisco, his message is clear—she has one year to build a successful team and become an effective leader. Rachel sets out to discover how to be more comfortable interacting with people, but a drunken night meant for... Read more

Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success

By: Jessica Parra

Narrated by: Karla Serrato

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Graduation is only a few months away, and Rubi Ramos’s “recipe for success” to get into prestigious Alma University is already off track. When Alma waitlists Rubi’s application, Rubi will need to be distraction-free to make the grade and keep her parents—who have wanted this for her for years—from finding out. And that means falling for her cute... Read more

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

By: Jane Wong

Narrated by: Jane Wong

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An Audible Best Memoir Audiobook of 2023An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry... Read more

We Don't Swim Here

By: Vincent Tirado

Narrated by: iiKane

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay. A chilling new novel for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Lamar Giles, and Ryan Douglass.



Bronwyn is only supposed to be in rural Hillwoods for a year. Her grandmother is in hospice, and her father needs to get her affairs in order. And they're all meant to make some final... Read more

The Art of Overcoming

By: Tim Timberlake

Narrated by: Tim Timberlake

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Life is full of everyday setbacks. In The Art of Overcoming, you will learn how to process these moments and triumphantly move beyond them. The Art of Overcoming explores how we deal with loss, grief, and hurt, and challenges readers to keep what looks like endings from discouraging or derailing us. The pain we experience is... Read more

A Burning House

By: Brandon Washington

Narrated by: Charles Ray & Rick N. Jones

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite the civil rights progress he fought for and saw on the horizon in the 1950s and '60s, Martin Luther King Jr.—increasingly concerned by America's moral vision, admitted—"I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."In A Burning House, Brandon Washington contends that American Evangelicalism is a house ablaze: burning... Read more

Mixed

By: Eli Bonilla Jr.

Narrated by: Eli Bonilla Jr. & Tom Parks

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Many of us feel like we don't belong or are out of touch with our true identity. Discover how you can gain a stronger sense of who God made you to be and step confidently into every relationship, fully owning your unique distinctions and celebrating the differences of others.Group dynamics can be based on the simplest forms of... Read more

Gentleman of Jazz

By: Ramsey Lewis & Aaron Cohen

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This immersive new autobiography provides insight into the early life and illustrious career of the late great Ramsey Lewis, one of the most popular jazz pianists of all time.Beginning with his childhood growing up in Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood, Ramsey Lewis recounts his memories of the music in his parents’ church and his early piano... Read more

At the Frontier of God's Empire

By: Ji Li

Narrated by: Kathleen Li

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the early twentieth century, At the Frontier of God's Empire adds the remarkable story of Alfred Marie Caubrière (1876–1948). A French Catholic missionary, Caubrière arrived in Manchuria on the eve of the Boxer Uprising in 1899 and was murdered on the eve of the birth of the... Read more

Grandma's Tipi

By: S. D. Nelson

Narrated by: Jashaun St. John

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Now that Clara is almost in third grade, she’s finally old enough to spend her first summer away from home visiting her grandma, Unci, and her cousin at their home in Standing Rock Reservation. To welcome her visit, Uncle Louie brings an extra-special surprise in his pickup truck: the tipi that’s been passed down through their family for... Read more

The Thing About Home

By: Rhonda McKnight

Narrated by: Yinka Ladeinde

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Bitter and Sweet, an emotional love story about a woman who returns to the South to find her roots that combines the "vivid low country history" (Publisher's Weekly) of the Lowcountry with a story of love and family.Home is not a place--it's a feeling.Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renewal ceremony... Read more

A Shadow Crown

By: Melissa Blair

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off.To the kingdom, Keera is the king’s Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow—the dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on... Read more

The Vibes You Feel

By: Kierra Sheard-Kelly

Narrated by: Kierra Sheard-Kelly

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Read by the author.This inspiring book for teens and young women explores what it means to listen to God’s voice, better understand the “vibes” and intuition the Spirit uses as guidance, and live a life that proclaims your heavenly truth. Filled with personal lessons from author and Grammy-nominated artist Kierra “Kiki” Sheard-Kelly and... Read more

Sugar, Spice, and Can't Play Nice

By: Annika Sharma

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Payal Mehra's detached parents insist she marry fellow Londoner and serial dater Ayaan Malhotra in order to save their own company, she has a choice: get disowned from the luxurious life they've funded and put her dreams on hold while she works a soul-sucking day job...or get engaged to save her family's fortune and maybe rescue her own... Read more

Laws of Wrath

By: Eriq La Salle

Narrated by: Eriq La Salle

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

There are those who fight the devil within them. And those who worship it.The butchered body of a cross-dresser is found in a dumpster in Chinatown, New York. Nothing out of the ordinary for the NYPD, except, this time, the victim is Detective Phee Freeman’s brother. At first the slaying looks like the random act of a vicious killer, but when it... Read more

Jana Goes Wild

By: Farah Heron

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly acclaimed author of Accidentally Engaged delivers a delightful rom-com of one woman trying to shed her perfect image at a destination wedding with hilarious—and moving—results, perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez and Jasmine Guillory.

Jana Suleiman has never really fit in—everyone always sees her as too aloof, too cool, too perfect. The... Read more

The Mill House Murders

By: Yukito Ayatsuji

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A hugely enjoyable classic Japanese mystery with an ingenious conclusion from the author of The Decagon House Murders, translated into English for the first time



Don't miss this beautifully constructed, highly entertaining and atmospheric murder mystery—its propulsive plot makes for a compelling listen.



As they do every year, a small group of... Read more

A History of Burning

By: Janika Oza

Narrated by: Lipica Shah & KP Upadhyayula

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This epic, sweeping historical novel full of "wondrous complexity” spans continents and a century, and reveals how one act of survival can reverberate through generations (Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin). ​

In 1898, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor for the British on the East African... Read more

Joy is My Justice

By: Tanmeet Sethi

Narrated by: Tanmeet Sethi

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Reclaim your joy and personal power and find healing in this radical guide to powerful stories and meditations rooted in neuroscience.Your pain is not fair or just. You are not broken because you feel it deeply. Yet every footstep you take toward Joy, even while still living with fear or rage, is a radical act of Justice that defies the... Read more

That Self-Same Metal

By: Brittany N. Williams

Narrated by: Patricia Allison

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning YA fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Justina Ireland, about a Black girl (and sword expert) fighting a Fae uprising in Shakespearean London.
Sixteen-year-old Joan Sands is a gifted craftswoman who creates and upkeeps the stage blades for William Shakespeare’s acting company, The King’s Men. Joan’s skill with her blades... Read more

Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

Narrated by: Christina Sharpe

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman).

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about... Read more