BIPOC Authors

Soul Culture

By: Remica Bingham-Risher

Narrated by: Delva Roline

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footsteps

Acclaimed Cave Canem poet and essayist Remica Bingham-Risher interweaves personal essays and interviews she conducted over a decade with 10 distinguished Black poets, such as... Read more

The Rancher Returns

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A rancher comes home to a passionate hero’s welcome—from a perfect stranger!

Discover New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson’s The Westmoreland Legacy…

Returning from active duty to find his ranch being dug up by a beautiful stranger isn’t the homecoming navy SEAL Gavin Blake expected. Dr. Layla Harris is convinced there’s buried... Read more

The Curse on Spectacle Key

By: Chantel Acevedo

Narrated by: Edward A. Mendoza

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweetly spooky ghost story about a Cuban American boy who befriends a pair of spirits and tries to break the curse on his island home . . . only to discover a seemingly lost piece of his family’s history in the process. This new middle grade standalone mystery from the author of the Muse Squad series is perfect for fans of Doll Bones and The... Read more

Do You Take This Man

By: Denise Williams

Narrated by: January LaVoy & Teddy Hamilton

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Do You Take This Man has one of the steamiest, most addictive, most satisfyingly hard-earned happily-ever-after I’ve read in ages!"—Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of Love on the Brain

A wedding officiant who doesn't believe in love and an event planner who's been burned agree to say "I do" to being enemies with benefits.

... Read more

Rules of Engagement

By: Stacey Abrams & Selena Montgomery

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Love is a game of chance in this romantic suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author and American politician and activist Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name, Selena Montgomery.

Dr. Raleigh Foster, an operative for a top-secret intelligence organization, knows that her undercover work has its risks. So she doesn't hesitate when... Read more

The Two Lives of Sara

By: Catherine Adel West

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Ms. Magazine, The Root, Popsugar, Bustle, and many more!

“An utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves.” — Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times Bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee
 

In 1960s Memphis, a young mother... Read more

Black Folk Could Fly

By: Randall Kenan

Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction.



Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking... Read more

Three Kisses, One Midnight

By: Roshani Chokshi, Sandhya Menon & Evelyn Skye

Narrated by: Becca Q. Co, Ewan Chung & Shiromi Arserio

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling authors Roshani Chokshi, Evelyn Skye, and Sandhya Menon craft a spellbinding audiobook about discovering the magic of true love on one fateful, magical night in Three Kisses, One Midnight.

The town of Moon Ridge was founded 400 years ago and everyone born and raised there knows the legend of the young woman who perished... Read more

No More Playas

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Lance Montgomery, renowned relationship expert, has perfected the art of being a playa. His acclaimed workshops and bestselling books prove it. His most popular title, The Playa’s Handbook, caused a major uproar among black women and men, and shot to the top of the bestseller list.
 
Then he met Dr. Asia Fowler, a colleague whose views on love are... Read more

Black Hamptons

By: La Jill Hunt & Carl Weber

Narrated by: Michael Rishawn, Chante Ellison, Dylan Ford, Eb...

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When a piece of land comes up for sale in this exclusive community, it sparks a war between the Brittons and the Johnsons. It’s old money versus new money, and neither family seems willing to compromise. Will the tension between them shatter any hopes of a peaceful summer?Hidden away near the end of Long Island, New York, is a community where... Read more

The Wind Rises

By: Timothée de Fombelle

Narrated by: Waceke Wambaa

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

1786. Isolated from the rest of the world, thirteen-year-old Alma lives with her family in a lush African valley. She spends her days exploring their blissful homeland. But everything changes when her little brother finds a secret way out of the valley. Alma sets out to find him, but she soon must face terrible dangers in a continent ravaged by... Read more

Murder in Westminster

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Chanté McCormick

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Discovering a body on her property presents Lady Abigail Worthing with more than one pressing problem. The victim is Juliet, the wife of her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson. Although Abigail has little connection with the lady in question, she expects to be under suspicion. Abigail's skin color and her mother's notorious past have earned her a... Read more

Double O Stephen and the Ghostly Realm

By: Angela Ahn

Narrated by: Tony Kim

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ghosts, pirates and family secrets — Stephen gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out adventure in the ghostly realm, for fans of When You Trap a Tiger.

Stephen loves pirates. What he doesn’t love is his name: Stephen Oh-O’Driscoll. He believes when his Korean mother and Irish father gave him this name, that it was just one cruel setup... Read more

Walking in My Joy

By: Jenifer Lewis

Narrated by: Jenifer Lewis

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood.Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful... Read more

Man or the Monster

By: Aamna Qureshi

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

She made her decision. Now she has to live with it.Durkhanai Miangul sealed her lover’s fate when she sent him through a door where either a lady or a lion awaited him. But her decision was only the beginning of her troubles. Durkhanai worries that she might not be the queen her people need or deserve when conflict threatens her kingdom.
Her... Read more

Marrying My Billionaire Boss

By: Nadia Lee

Narrated by: Tim Paige & Savannah Peachwood

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

I had a plan: move to LA, get a job, find the love of my life, and live happily ever after. I was on track, but being an assistant to gorgeous billionaire philanthropist Nate Sterling suddenly got a whole lot more complicated. It's a dream job...until he asks me to save him from a fur-bikini-wearing psycho ex-girlfriend who is determined to win... Read more

Perish

By: LaToya Watkins

Narrated by: Jeremy Michael Durm, Keyonni James, Chanté McCo...

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Watkins’s prose is effortless and forthright. . . . This is an impressive feat of storytelling. . . . It’s a difficult read and a tender story of silences and secrets. It’s a novel about coming home, despite that home being broken. And it’s a brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it.”
—The New York Times Book... Read more

Freedom Dreams

By: Robin D.G. Kelley

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet

First published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots... Read more

Racial Innocence

By: Tanya Katerí Hernández

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“Profound and revelatory, Racial Innocence tackles head-on the insidious grip of white supremacy on our communities and how we all might free ourselves from its predation. Tanya Katerí Hernández is fearless and brilliant . . . What fire!”—Junot Díaz

The first comprehensive book about anti-Black bias in the Latino community that unpacks the... Read more

Strictly Confidential Attraction

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"I need you, Alli."

Did Mark mean what Alison Lind hoped? Was her boss declaring his passion for her? Did he really feel the same way she secretly felt for him? Apparently not. Instead of asking her to be his lover, he was asking her to be temporary nanny to his baby niece. Not an ounce of desire in sight. Or was there? Living together, spending... Read more

Scenes from My Life

By: Michael K. Williams & Jon Sternfeld

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • A “gripping, revelatory” (NPR) memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give back—from the late iconic actor beloved for his roles in The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, and Lovecraft Country
 
“Williams’s cool rasp leaps off every page, his story told in... Read more

Afterlives

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

Narrated by: Damian Lynch

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022

A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAGE, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

“Superb. . . . A celebration of a place and time when people held onto their own ways, and basked in ordinary joys even as... Read more

Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds

By: Margaret Kerrison

Narrated by: Margaret Kerrison

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The emerging discipline of immersive storytelling recognizes the power of creative works that put the viewer at the center of the action. Theme-park designer Margaret Kerrison shares tips and tricks for writers on teams tasked with bringing a narrative to life. How do you take an idea from inspiration to manifestation? How do you move from... Read more

The Other

By: Daniela Pierre-Bravo

Narrated by: Daniela Pierre-Bravo

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This important book focuses on how women of color, children of immigrants, and other minoritized groups are predisposed to workplace imposter syndrome—and charts a path forward for self-advocacy and advancement.​

For women of color and children of immigrants, who are the “the other” at work, there's a different threshold of belonging that... Read more