BIPOC Authors

Along the Shore

By: Rochelle Alers

Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on a charming North Carolina island, the latest novel in national bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ unforgettable, heartfelt Book Club series tells of one woman whose past comes calling—even as a new beginning beckons …Cherie Renee Thompson is finally ready to dive into change. After two summers vacationing on Coates Island, she’s now a... Read more

The House on Blueberry Lane

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"If there's one thing Jackson knows how to do, it's how to pluck those heartstrings."—BookPage

All he needs is a second chance

All she wants is no strings attached

The biggest mistake of Jaye Colfax’s life was letting Velvet Spencer leave. For three years, they were together exclusively and it was great—at least for Jaye. But Velvet wanted more.... Read more

The Elephant Girl

By: James Patterson & Ellen Banda-Aaku

Narrated by: Krystel Roche

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

James Patterson and award-winning author Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable story of a girl, an elephant, and their life-changing friendship. 
 
Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip—especially about the new boy, Leku—twelve-year-old Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village.... Read more

The Accidental Pinup

By: Danielle Jackson

Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Rival photographers are forced to collaborate on a body-positive lingerie campaign, but they might have to readjust their focus when sparks fly.

Photographer Cassie Harris loves her job—her company Buxom Boudoir makes people look beautiful and feel empowered with her modern twist on classic pinup photography. Cassie’s best friend, Dana, is about... Read more

Things We Do in the Dark

By: Jennifer Hillier

Narrated by: Carla Vega

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook includes a bonus conversation between the author and actor Brandi Cyrus.

Winner of Best Audiobook at the 2023 ITW (International Thriller Writers) Thriller Awards.

Things We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris... Read more

Sisters of the Yam

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle,... Read more

Spirit Hunters #3: Something Wicked

By: Ellen Oh

Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting conclusion to the acclaimed Spirit Hunters series!We Need Diverse Books cofounder Ellen Oh delivers the final book in her middle grade series Spirit Hunters, a gripping mystery and thrilling adventure, starring a Korean-American heroine and a diverse cast of characters.Harper is dealing with too many new changes in her house. Her... Read more

The Binding Room

By: Nadine Matheson

Narrated by: Diveen Henry

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Matheson’s voice is exciting, urgent… and, now more than ever, vital.”—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

Detective Anjelica Henley confronts a series of ritualistic murders in this heart-pounding thriller about race, power and the corrupt institutions that threaten us

When Detective Anjelica Henley is... Read more

In Bed with Her Boss

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

D'marcus Armstrong was demanding, autocratic and cranky as a boss. But as the star of her feverish nighttime fantasies, the man was simply divine. Still, Opal Lockhart had no chance with Detroit's self-made millionaire. What would a high roller like him want with a buttoned-up, naive secretary like her?

Enter the Lockhart sisters—for some... Read more

The Man Who Could Move Clouds

By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER  

From the author of the “original, politically daring and passionately written” (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.

For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s... Read more

Why Didn't You Tell Me?

By: Carmen Rita Wong

Narrated by: Carmen Rita Wong

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her identity, and her place in the world in this powerful and dramatic memoir

“Riveting . . . [Wong] tells her story in vivid conversational prose that will make readers feel they’re listening to a master storyteller on a long car trip. . . . Hers is a... Read more

Circling Back to You

By: Julie Tieu

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus & Reuben Uy

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Tieu, an exciting new and diverse voice in contemporary romance, returns with a hilarious and sexy new novel about colleagues who decide to take their relationship outside the office.Cadence Lim has transformed from behind-the-scenes number cruncher to an integral part of the sales team at Prism Realty. But despite moving up the corporate... Read more

Symptoms of a Heartbreak

By: Sona Charaipotra

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Doogie Howser, M.D. meets The Fault in Our Stars in this tender romcom." —Teen Vogue

The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds—and falls head over heels—in Sona Charaipotra's contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak.

Sixteen-year-old Saira has always juggled family, friendships, and her Girl Genius... Read more

The Last Beekeeper

By: Pablo Cartaya

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children Finalist Texas Bluebonnet Award List 2022-23Facing a world dually altered by climate change and those who profit from it, Yolanda Cicerón will have to fight to save the last known beehive from extinction in this stirring new adventure by award-winning author Pablo Cartaya.In a future shaken... Read more

My Boy Will Die of Sorrow

By: Efrén C. Olivares

Narrated by: José Antonio Rodríguez

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer—whose work on the front lines of the fight against family separations in South Texas intertwines with his own story of immigrating to the United States at thirteen—reframes the United States' history as a nation of immigrants but also a nation against immigrants. In the summer of 2018,... Read more

My Name Is a Story

By: Ashanti

Narrated by: Ashanti

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From Grammy Award-winning singer Ashanti comes an empowering story about a girl who learns to love her unique name. First days aren’t easy for a girl with a name like Ashanti. It feels like no one can pronounce it correctly! But with some encouragement from her mom, Ashanti spells her name and learns just how special it is.A is for awesome, S is... Read more

Illegally Yours

By: Rafael Agustin

Narrated by: Rafael Agustin

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin (Jane The Virgin) accidentally discovered he was undocumented and how that revelation turned everything he thought he knew about himself and his family upside down.

Growing up, Rafa’s parents didn't want him to feel different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should... Read more

How Maya Got Fierce

By: Sona Charaipotra

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In How Maya Got Fierce by Sona Charaipotra, The Bold Type meets Younger when a teen who gets her dream job at a fashion magazine, despite being only seventeen.

Maya dreams of working in magazines. But as the daughter of garlic farmers, her path is set: it’s off to Cow Camp instead. But when she ends up in the New York City area and realizes... Read more

Other Names for Love

By: Taymour Soomro

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

As Soomro moves his characters from urban Karachi to rural Abad to the faraway escape of London, Todiwala consistently and attentively distinguishes the changing cast with practiced ease." - Booklist

A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy’s life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire.

At... Read more

Sister Mother Warrior

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh & Robin Miles

Length: 18 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved... Read more

Our Gen

By: Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

“Our Gen is warm and smart, accessible yet meaningful, a beach read with strong writing and emotional heft.”—BookPageResidents of an active-living retirement community revert to lives of youthful indulgence, even as time-bomb secrets of their pasts tick toward explosion. The Gen—short for Sexagenarian—is an upscale fifty-five-plus community... Read more

Miss Aldridge Regrets

By: Louise Hare

Narrated by: Georgina Campbell

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Super cinematic and every bit as Agatha Christie-esque as its sounds... ifyou like murder mysteries, pick this one up!”
 
-Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers


Named A Most Anticipated Mystery of Summer by Betches, Essence, Crime Reads and more!

The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An... Read more

The Earthspinner

By: Anuradha Roy

Narrated by: Maya Saroya

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Lives We Never Lived, an incisive and moving novel about the struggle for creative achievement in a world consumed by growing fanaticism and political upheaval.One night, Elango has a dream that consumes him, driving him to give it shape. The potter... Read more

The Light Always Breaks

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt & Neill Thorne

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

As 1947 opens, Eva Cardon is the twenty-four-year-old owner of Washington, D.C.’s, most famous Black-owned restaurant. When her path crosses with Courtland, a handsome white senator from Georgia, both find themselves drawn to one another—but the danger of a relationship between a Black woman and a white man from the South could destroy them and... Read more