BIPOC Authors

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

The Savvy Sistahs

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Amber, Carla and Brandy---known as the "ABCs"---are intelligent businesswomen who met in their business support group "The Savvy Sistahs Who Mean Business" and became the best of friends. They've bonded over lost loves, past hurts, and too many lonely nights. . .

Amber Stuart escaped an abusive marriage and now finds peace running her small... Read more

The Joy of Saying No

By: Natalie Lue

Narrated by: Natalie Lue

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Are you still playing a role you learned in childhood to please others, such as the Good Girl/Boy, the Overachiever, or the Helper? Though these kinds of roles may have gained us attention and affection, they prohibited us from becoming our true selves.People-pleasing--putting others ahead of ourselves to avoid something... Read more

Tears Over Russia

By: Lisa Brahin

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village,... Read more

The Dream Builders

By: Oindrila Mukherjee

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After living in the United States for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world.The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she learns that nothing―and... Read more

That Dangerous Energy

By: Aya De León

Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming from a troubled youth, Morgan Faraday grabs every opportunity to up-level her life. So she definitely plans to keep oil-company heir Sebastian Reid interested...all the way to the altar. He’s brilliant and supportive and is turning his billion-dollar company green to make up for his ancestors’ exploitation. With him, Morgan can have love,... Read more

My Selma

By: Willie Mae Brown

Narrated by: Karen Chilton & Willie Mae Brown

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Karen Chilton conveys both powerful joy and profound grief in her narration of Willie Mae Brown's stories about growing up in Selma, Alabama, during the Civil Rights movement."- AudioFile

The preface and afterword are read by the author.

Combining family stories of the everyday and the extraordinary as seen through the eyes of her... Read more

Unexpected

By: LaLa Thomas

Narrated by: Angel Pean & Bahni Turpin

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The bond between two best friends is put to the test when one of them gets pregnant in this “powerful and timely” (award-winning author Angela Johnson) contemporary young adult novel for fans of Angie Thomas and Elizabeth Acevedo.

Erykah was looking forward to junior year at East Prep High. She has a cute boyfriend, gets good grades, and has the... Read more

Have You Eaten Yet?

By: Cheuk Kwan

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brought delicious Chinese food across the globe. Unraveling a complex history of cultural migration and world politics, Cheuk Kwan describes a fascinating story of culture and place, ultimately revealing how an excellent meal always tells an even better... Read more

Love Outside the Lines

By: Jimmy Rollins

Narrated by: Charles Ray & Rick N. Jones

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Discover Jesus' goals of togetherness, oneness, and unity in an increasingly divided world. When you learn to confront the areas in your heart that might not love as Jesus loved, you can help build a flourishing, Christ-like culture.Throughout his ministry, Jesus specifically bridged the gap with the ostracized, outcast, and... Read more

The Color Line

By: Igiaba Scego

Narrated by: Chanté McCormick

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn't let that stop her. The daughter of a Native American woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the rare opportunity to study, travel, and follow... Read more

The Rodeo Queen

By: Marcella Bell

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Bell brings the diverse world of competitive rodeo to life with vivid details and enhances the slow burn, opposites attract romance with chemistry and banter. Readers will be captivated." Publishers Weekly, starred review.

The rules of being a rodeo queen: no creases, no boyfriends, no mistakes.

With more crowns to her name than hairs on her... Read more

Standoff

By: Bruce McIvor

Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada’s “reconciliation project” has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it.Widely known as... Read more

Welcome to the Cypher

By: Khodi Dill

Narrated by: Khodi Dill

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“WELCOME TO THE CYPHER is a delight to read—a story that will move every part of you to a wild and wonderful beat.” —Jael Richardson, Author and Executive Director, The Festival of Literary Diversity "WELCOME TO THE CYPHER is a beautiful, rhythmic exploration of the joy of language and self-expression. Our whole family loved how the bright... Read more

The Valentine's Hate

By: Sidney Halston

Narrated by: Karla Serrato & Sean Crisden

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful enemy to lovers/fake engagement rom-com themed around Valentine’s Day! Jennifer Lopez’s new movie Marry Me meets Erin Sterling’s holiday themed The Ex Hex.Cupid only strikes once. At least that’s what Lissette Alonso believes. Ever since the Most Disastrous Valentine’s Day of All Time™ she has hated all things V-day. But Lizzie’s... Read more

Frequently Asked White Questions

By: Ajay Parasram & Alex Khasnabish

Narrated by: Ajay Parasram & Alex Khasnabish

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you a white person with questions about how race affects different situations, but you feel awkward, shy, or afraid to ask the people of colour in your life? Are you a racialized person who is tired of answering the same questions over and over? This book is for you: a basic guide for people learning about racial privilege. In Frequently... Read more

Life Stages and Native Women

By: Kim Anderson

Narrated by: Marsha Knight & Maria Campbell

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities. The process of “digging up medicines” — of rediscovering the stories of the past — serves as a powerful healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. In Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the... Read more

Scatterlings

By: Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe

Narrated by: Christel Mutombo

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST NEW BOOK from *Vanity Fair *The Root *Vulture *People *The Washington Post *Christian Science Monitor *Los Angeles Times *EssenceA New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Pick! A New Yorker Best Book of the Year!A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning—and the most awarded debut title in South... Read more

A Million to One

By: Adiba Jaigirdar

Narrated by: Sohm Kapila

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

2024 Rainbow Book ListAdiba Jaigirdar, author of one of Time's Best YA books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean’s 8 makeover in this nail-biting heist set onboard the infamous ship. Josefa is an unapologetic and charismatic thief who loves the thrill of the chase. She has her eye on her biggest mark yet—the RMS Titanic, the most luxurious ship... Read more

Stacey's Remarkable Books

By: Stacey Abrams

Narrated by: Stacey Abrams

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller and NAACP Image Award winner Stacey's Extraordinary Words, from political leader Stacey Abrams.Stacey’s favorite day of the week is Thursday, when the whole class goes to the library and she gets to lose herself in her beloved books.On one of these special days, Stacey discovers that a new... Read more

Her Little Black Book

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s less than a week before Sonya Morrison’s wedding when she decides to pass her legendary little black book on to her cousin Courtney Andrews along with all of her best wishes. Courtney, who’s fast approaching thirty, thinks every woman she knows has somehow met a man who is husband material except for her. So Sonya’s little black book seems... Read more

Cast Into Doubt

By: Patricia MacDonald

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Shelby wants to give her daughter Chloe a gift she’ll never forget: a luxury cruise around the Caribbean. It will be the honeymoon Chloe and her husband Rob never got to take. Shelby will look after their little boy. Then the unthinkable happens: Shelby gets a call from a distraught Rob—Chloe is missing, fallen overboard. Everyone says she was... Read more

The Bird Tattoo

By: Dunya Mikhail

Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and... Read more