BIPOC Authors

Behind Her Lives

By: Briana Cole

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrets, suspense, and a missing sister—who may not want to be found—are at the center of Briana Cole's latest enthralling multicultural drama. Will appeal to fans of psychological suspense, gritty drama, and listeners of De'Nesha Diamond, Kiki Swinson, Saundra, Wahida Clark, Ashley & JaQuavis, Victoria Christopher Murray, and Shelly... Read more

Origins, Revised and Updated

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Donald Goldsmith

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and crosspollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This revised and updated edition features such startling discoveries as... Read more

Uphill

By: Jemele Hill

Narrated by: Jemele Hill

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"[Hill] narrates the facts of her path with understandable pride but without bragging. Even difficult career choices, such as her decision to leave ESPN, are presented in a thoughtful way, though it is clear that Hill still feels deeply about the choices she made. Every story told is more powerful for being... Read more

Running While Black

By: Alison Mariella Désir

Narrated by: Alison Mariella Désir

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing exposé on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimagine the industry

“Runners know that running brings us to ourselves. But for Black people, the simple act of running has never been so simple. It is a declaration of the right to move through the world. If running is claiming public space, why, then,... Read more

El eclipse total de Néstor López

By: Adrianna Cuevas

Narrated by: Zac Aleman

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Después de que el papá de Néstor se marcha a otra misión, el muchacho y su mamá se mudan a un nuevo pueblo a vivir con su abuela. Néstor planea pasar desapercibido, y de ninguna manera quiere que nadie sepa su secreto más profundo: que puede hablar con los animales. Pero cuando los animales del pueblo comienzan a desaparecer, la abuela de... Read more

Speaking my Soul

By: John Russell Rickford

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its... Read more

Black Women Will Save the World

By: April Ryan

Narrated by: April Ryan

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this long-overdue celebration of Black women’s resilience and unheralded strength, the revered, trailblazing White House correspondent reflects on “The Year That Changed Everything”—2020—and African-American women’s unprecedented role in upholding democracy.“I am keenly aware that everyone and everything has a story,” April D. Ryan... Read more

The Bennetts' Christmas

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s been fifteen years and now those Bennett girls are all grown up, finished with college and ready to take on the world in their new careers. Close as ever, Kennedy, Victoria, Monica and Sebrina decide not to return to Georgia, but to move north to St. Paul, Minnesota. They have plans to succeed at all of their goals. Falling in love isn’t on... Read more

Scars and Stars

By: Jesse Thistle

Narrated by: Jesse Thistle

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of the #1 bestselling memoir From the Ashes.

Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout this bestselling memoir. In Scars and Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is... Read more

Let Your Light Shine

By: Ali Smith, Atman Smith & Andres Gonzalez

Narrated by: Ali Smith, Atman Smith, Andres Gonzalez & Sean ...

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This story of three men's work helping traumatized kids in one of America’s most underserved cities reveals how mindfulness tools can help children and communities not only survive but thrive

 In this inspiring book, founders of The Holistic Life Foundation Ali Smith, Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez describe how they have spent the past twenty... Read more

Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)

By: Samanta Schweblin

Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi, Gisela Chipe, Ines del Castil...

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature

A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine

The seven houses in these... Read more

Partners in Crime

By: Alisha Rai

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Shahjehan Khan

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Indian Matchmaking meets Date Night in this fun, romantic adventure by Alisha Rai -- “One of the very brightest romance writers working right now.” (Entertainment Weekly)Mira Patel’s got a solid accounting career, good friends, and a whole lot of distance between her and her dysfunctional family. All that’s missing is a stable romantic... Read more

Book of Wings

By: Tawhida Tanya Evanson

Narrated by: Athena Karkanis

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one’s own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist traces a global journey from Vancouver to the United States, Caribbean, Paris, and Morocco as a relationship... Read more

Firewater

By: Harold R. Johnson

Narrated by: Kairyn Potts

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol—its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many... Read more

Will Do Magic for Small Change

By: Andrea Hairston

Narrated by: Andre Santana & Tamika Katon-Donegal

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea Hairston’s historical fantasy Will Do Magic for Small Change presents a tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other.Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire, but she’s always been theatrically challenged. That won’t... Read more

Rain Is Not My Indian Name

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Narrated by: Rainy Fields

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In a voice that resonates with insight and humor, New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith tells the story of a teenage girl who must face down her grief and reclaim her place in the world with the help of her intertribal community. It's been six months since Cassidy Rain Berghoff’s best friend, Galen, died, and up until now she... Read more

Sinister Graves

By: Marcie R. Rendon

Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Minnesota, 1970s: A snowmelt has sent floodwaters down to the fields of the Red River Valley, dragging the body of an unidentified Native woman into the town of Ada. The only evidence the medical examiner recovers is a torn piece of paper inside her bra: a hymn written in English and Ojibwe.Cash Blackbear, a 19-year-old, tough-as-nails Ojibwe... Read more

Jesus and the Disinherited

By: Howard Thurman

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Famously known as the text that Martin Luther King Jr. sought inspiration from in the days leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott, Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited helped shape the civil rights movement and changed our nation’s history forever.

In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader... Read more

Black Panther

By: Sheree Renée Thomas & Marvel

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow Wakanda’s high-tech king across the savannah, into the deepest jungles, and up snow-capped mountains in this prose adaptation of the landmark comics series by Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, and Billy Graham. This arc expands on the life and culture of the Wakandans, also introducing us to Panther’s historic enemies. See T’Challa channel the... Read more

The Impatient

By: Djaili Amadou Amal

Narrated by: Liz Femi

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, heartrending, and insightful novel of a trio of women in Cameroon who dare to rebel against oppressive, long-held cultural traditions—including polygamy and domestic abuse—that define and limit their lives.Three women, three stories, three linked destinies . . .In North Cameroon, well-to-do young Ramla is torn from her true love and... Read more

The Picture Bride

By: Lee Geum-yi

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"With the mellifluous tones of shakuhachi music setting the story, listeners are taken to a time and place far from the current era. Aurally illustrating the young bride’s quietly independent nature, Osmanski’s performance draws listeners into Willow’s story." - Library Journal

“Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history... Read more

The Essential Dick Gregory

By: Dick Gregory

Narrated by: Joe Morton, Christian Gregory, Andre Gaines & A...

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Narrated by Audie, Emmy, and NAACP® Image Award-winning actor, Joe Morton, and joined by Christian Gregory and Afrika K. Kenjyatta. A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography... Read more

Nikhil Out Loud

By: Maulik Pancholy

Narrated by: Maulik Pancholy

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Middle GradeFrom the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor–winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. For fans of Merci Suárez Changes Gears and Better Nate Than Ever.Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah... Read more

Viral Justice

By: Ruha Benjamin

Narrated by: Ruha Benjamin

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Ruha Benjamin offers an inspiring and uniquely personal vision of how we can build a more just world one small change at a time"A book as urgent as the moment that produced it."—Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism SchoolLong before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and... Read more