BIPOC Authors

It's Always Been Ours

By: Jessica Wilson MS, RD

Narrated by: Jessica Wilson MS, RD

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This “necessary book” (Roxanne Gay, New York Times bestselling author, Bad Feminist and Hunger) shares an essential look at the ways in which Black women are left out of conversations about “diet culture,” health, and wellness. In It’s Always Been Ours, eating disorder specialist and storyteller Jessica Wilson challenges us to rethink the... Read more

Hope's Path to Glory

By: Jerdine Nolen

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In Alexandria, Virginia, in the mid-19th century, a slave-owning family is facing financial trouble. The eldest son, Jason, thinks going to California to mine for gold might be the best way to protect his father’s legacy. He’ll need a cook, a laundress, and a hostler for the journey, and one of them is twelve-year-old Clementine, whose mother... Read more

Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

Narrated by: Maya Soroya

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot... Read more

NerdCrush

By: Alisha Emrich

Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ramona Lambert is a typical shy, artistic sixteen-year-old. She has a best friend whom she’s known since they were in diapers, parents who love her, a love for cosplay, and a crush on the cute boy in her class. The only problem? Her best friend moved away, her parents don't quite understand her love of cosplay, and she is pretty sure her crush... Read more

The Davenports

By: Krystal Marquis

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

*Instant New York Times Bestseller*

The Davenports delivers a totally escapist, swoon-worthy romance while offering a glimpse into a period of African American history often overlooked.

"The perfect read for fans of escapist historical fiction.” —NBC’s TODAY

The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing... Read more

Meditations of the Heart

By: Howard Thurman

Narrated by: Suan Dalian

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“As poet, prophet, and priest, Thurman builds upon a powerful legacy of ancestral hope: belief in a liberating God who can always be found ‘in and among the struggling.’”
—Yolanda Pierce

A universal beacon of hope and endurance for people of all faiths seeking to meet the challenges, uncertainties, and joys of life

Howard Thurman’s Meditations of... Read more

The Whale Rider

By: Witi Ihimaera

Narrated by: Witi Ihimaera

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An international bestseller that was made into a multiple award-winning film. Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is focused on his duties as chief of a Maori tribe in Whangara, on the East Coast of New Zealand - a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. In every generation since the... Read more

Children of Stardust

By: Edudzi Adodo

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Zero was a mass of conflicting emotions. This would be his first mission. What if they failed to find the Mask of the Shaman King? The entire galaxy was at stake.

Zero Adedji dreams of joining one of the Saba guilds—groups of intergalactic explorers. Instead, he must scrape by as a guide to travelers stranded on his home planet of Anansi 12. Then... Read more

Jawbone

By: Mónica Ojeda

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?"



Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?



When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta... Read more

Bet on Black

By: Eboni K. Williams

Narrated by: Eboni K. Williams

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist, attorney, and star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York reshapes the cultural landscape of achievement by showing why Black unity is crucial to individual and collective success.

When The Real Housewives of New York City hired its first black cast member after more than 13 years on the air, attorney, speaker, and journalist... Read more

The Year of Cecily

By: Lisa Lin

Narrated by: Kat Riley

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

San Francisco attorney Cecily Chang is ready to tackle the New Year head on, so she creates a list of resolutions guaranteed to reboot her life—right after her dutiful visit home to Sunset Park, Brooklyn, for the Lunar New Year. Cecily prepares to face her critical, meddling mother, nosy relatives, and the chaos and drama family togetherness... Read more

This Is Supposed to Be Fun

By: Myisha Battle

Narrated by: Myisha Battle

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A certified clinical sexologist’s radically inclusive guide to sex and dating 

Swipe. Match. Get ghosted. Repeat. Modern dating can quickly start to feel like an overwhelming slog. It’s easy to forget the point of it all: this is supposed to be fun. Enter professional sex and dating coach Myisha Battle. Drawing on an engaging and diverse... Read more

Twice as Hard

By: Jasmine Brown

Narrated by: Wanda Rush

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in black history. It’s time to set the record straight

No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial... Read more

The Faraway World

By: Patricia Engel

Narrated by: Gisela Chipé, Frankie Corzo, Inés del Castillo,...

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Editors’ Choice * One of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2023 * One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year * A LitHub Best Book of 2023

From the author of Infinite Country—a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick—comes a “rich and compelling” (The Washington Post) collection... Read more

The White Mosque

By: Sofia Samatar

Narrated by: Sofia Samatar

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small... Read more

A Thousand Miles to Graceland

By: Kristen Mei Chase

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The journey of a thousand miles begins with sequins and a beehive wig in this sharply funny and achingly tender debut novel about mothers, daughters, and the surprising power of Elvis.

Grace Johnson can’t escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot—until her husband announces he’s done with their marriage. Grace has a choice: wallow in... Read more

I’m Going to Have a Good Day!

By: Tiania Haneline

Narrated by: Tiania Haneline & Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

I am beautiful. I am kind. I am loved.In this uplifting picture book, young readers will discover how they can use daily affirmations to remind them of who they are and what makes them special. Join TikTok sensation Scarlett Gray and Tiania Haneline as they repeat exuberant affirmations that empower Scarlett throughout the day and inspire those... Read more

Black Founder

By: Stacy Spikes

Narrated by: Stacy Spikes

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the twenty-one most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and work—including the true story of what really happened to MoviePass—straight from the cofounder and former CEO himself.



Stacy Spikes knows what's it... Read more

Too Sweet to Be Good

By: K.M. Jackson

Narrated by: Dioni Michelle Collins

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Between the bustling local bakery, helpful neighbors, and down-home wisdom, Sugar Lake is a delicious place to call home—and love is the sweetest risk …

Alexandrea Gale put her acting career on hold to help keep her family’s bakery in business—and gave it a few eye-catching updates while she was at it. To earn money to return to New York, she... Read more

The Age of Goodbyes

By: Li Zi Shu

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

By one of Southeast Asia's most exciting writers, The Age of Goodbyes is a wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace of storytelling.



In 1969, in the wake of Malaysia's deadliest race riots, a woman named Du Li An secures her place in society by marrying a gangster. In a parallel narrative, a critic... Read more

Qualified

By: Mia Love

Narrated by: Mia Love & Jamie Renell

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This memoir from the first Black Republican congresswoman in America shows readers how to own their stories, find their voices, and lead with character as they empower others to do the same.  For so long, women—and Black women in particular—have been taught that they must have a stellar background, the highest degree of education, and the... Read more

Brotherless Night

By: V. V. Ganeshananthan

Narrated by: Nirmala Rajasingam

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this “heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war” (Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half).

“This book, a careful, vivid exploration of what’s lost within a... Read more

Willie Horton: 23

By: Willie Horton & Kevin Allen

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling autobiography from one of Detroit's favorite sons



At fifteen, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At twenty, he smacked his first major-league home run. At twenty-four, Horton stood in full uniform on the hood of his car, in the midst of burning homes and overturned vehicles, and... Read more

The Pain We Carry

By: Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT

Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma—such as discrimination, race-related verbal assault, racial stigmatization, poverty, sexual trauma, or interpersonal violence—you may struggle with intense feelings of anger, mistrust, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or struggle with building and... Read more