BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
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
View audiobookSpeaking 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
View audiobookEl 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
View audiobookScars 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
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
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
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
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
View audiobookPartners 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookBook 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
View audiobookFirewater
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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookRace Rebels
By: Robin DG Kelley
Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured—until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present. Read more
View audiobookBlack 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
View audiobookOn the Hustle
By: Adriana Herrera
Narrated by: Lola James & Sean Crisden
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"Adriana Herrera writes all my favorite things, and I’ll never get enough of her books!" --Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis
Alba Duarte is the queen of the side hustle.
As the eldest daughter in her crisis-prone family, she’s always stepped up to help. Her favorite gig is doing Instagram-worthy,... 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
Rain Is Not My Indian Name
By: Cynthia L. 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
View audiobookThe Sacrifice
By: Rin Chupeco
Narrated by: Pun Bandhu
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
An island oasis turns deadly when a terrifying legend threatens to kill off visitors one by one in this haunting novel from the highly acclaimed author of The Girl from the Well and the Bone Witch trilogy.Pristine beaches, lush greenery, and perfect weather, the island of Kisapmata would be the vacation destination … if not for the curse. The... Read more
View audiobookNikhil 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookJesus 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
Will Do Magic for Small Change
By: Andrea Hairston
Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal & Andre Santana
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
The Antiracist Kid
By: Tiffany Jewell
Narrated by: Channie Waites
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist, Tiffany Jewell, The Antiracist Kid is the essential guide to antiracism for empowering the young readers in your life!What is racism? What is antiracism? Why are both important to learn about? In this book, systemic racism and the antiracist tools to fight it are easily... Read more
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