BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
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
View audiobookSpirit 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
View audiobookThe Light We Give
By: Simran Jeet Singh
Narrated by: Simran Jeet Singh
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A National Bestseller
“I love this book… It is rich in wisdom, religious and personal, and it is absolutely charming.” —Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow
An inspiring approach to a happier, more fulfilling life through Sikh teachings on love and service.
As a boy growing up in South Texas, Simran Jeet Singh and his... 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
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
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
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
View audiobookThe 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
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
View audiobookCircling 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
View audiobookHow 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
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
View audiobookIn 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
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
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
View audiobook100 Animals That Can F*cking End You
By: Mamadou Ndiaye
Narrated by: Mamadou Ndiaye
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A wittily informative field guide to the deadliest animals on Earth from a beloved "AnimalTok" star. Ever wonder how to tell if a moose is about to subtract you? Curious why you should be terrified of cassowaries, the “velociraptor that time forgot?” Questioning whether that cute baby hippo is actually a homicidal maniac in the making? Yea, so... Read more
View audiobookThe Darkening
By: Sunya Mara
Narrated by: Rachel Petladwala
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In this thrilling and epic YA fantasy debut the only hope for a city trapped in the eye of a cursed storm lies with the daughter of failed revolutionaries and a prince terrified of his throne.Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queen’s soldiers, they gave her a choice: death... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookOur 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
View audiobookSelf-Portrait with Ghost
By: Meng Jin
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
“A knockout short story collection...Each one of these 10 dizzyingly immersive stories offers up a heady and visceral portrait of what ails us, from isolation and self-doubt, to unrequited love and regret over what might have been, to what it means to be (and to be considered) an American."" -- San Francisco ChronicleMeng Jin’s critically... Read more
View audiobookMiss 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
View audiobookTake No Names
By: Daniel Nieh
Narrated by: Ewan Chung
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting thriller about a fugitive in search of a quick payday in Mexico City who finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme.Victor Li is a man without a past. To his new employer, Mark, he’s just an anonymous hired hand to help with the dirty work. Together, they break into storage units that contain the possessions... Read more
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