BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
Hosea Williams
By: Rolundus R. Rice
Narrated by: Arnell Powell
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, "Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Through his actions, he helped liberate all of us."In this first comprehensive biography of Williams, Rolundus Rice demonstrates the truth in Lewis's words... Read more
View audiobookSomething's Guava Give
By: Carrie Doyle
Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Plum Lockhart went out on a limb when she ditched her corporate job in New York City and moved to the Caribbean island of Paraiso. Now the head of her own villa broker agency, she spends her days chasing down clients and lounging on white-sand beaches. But the sweet life turns sour when a publishing heiress is found dead at the mansion of... Read more
View audiobookAn Abolitionist's Handbook
By: Patrisse Cullors
Narrated by: Ariel Blake
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The audiobook features an introduction written and read by Prentis Hemphill as well as an exclusive bonus conversation with the author and adrienne maree brown.
In AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the... Read more
Living While Black
By: Guilaine Kinouani
Narrated by: Shirley Crabbe
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A Guardian “Best Book of 2021” Selection
A powerful look at the impacts of anti-Black racism and a practical guide for overcoming racial trauma through radical self-care as a form of resistance
Over the past 15 years, radical psychologist Guilaine Kinouani has focused her research, writing, and workshops on how racism affects both physical and... Read more
Loveboat Reunion
By: Abigail Hing Wen
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This companion novel to Abigail Hing Wen’s New York Times bestselling debut, Loveboat, Taipei, takes readers back to Taipei through the eyes of fan favorites Sophie and Xavier—on an unforgettable journey of glittering revelry and self-discovery that’s perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Mary H. K. Choi. Stream Love in Taipei, the movie adaptation... Read more
View audiobookMy Baby First Birthday
By: Jenny Zhang
Narrated by: Jenny Zhang
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born—without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce... Read more
View audiobookAugusta Savage
By: Marilyn Nelson
Narrated by: Marilyn Nelson & Grace Angela Henry
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful biography in poems about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance—with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du... Read more
Goliath
By: Tochi Onyebuchi
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White, JD Jackson, Juliana Vélez, ...
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"A diverse cast of narrators provides glimpses of a near-future Earth devastated by climate change, nuclear disaster, and disease."-AudioFile Magazine
“Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality, and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life. Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful... Read more
A Killer Sundae
By: Abby Collette
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Ice cream shop owner Bronwyn Crewse is in for two scoops of murder in this charming mystery from Abby Collette.
Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is gorgeous in the fall, and Bronwyn Crewse, owner of Crewse Creamery, knows just how to welcome the new season. At the annual Harvest Time Festival, residents will get a chance to enjoy hot-air balloons and... Read more
Never Tell
By: Stacey Abrams
Narrated by: January LaVoy & Stacey Abrams
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an author's note read by Stacey Abrams.
From popular former gubernatorial candidate, lawyer, and New York Times bestselling author Stacey Abrams comes an audiobook reissue of her romantic suspense novel, Never Tell, written under the name Selena Montgomery.
Criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott wants nothing more than to live... Read more
What Noise Against the Cane
By: Desiree C. Bailey
Narrated by: Desiree C. Bailey
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of... Read more
View audiobookGetting His Game Back
By: Gia De Cadenet
Narrated by: Jonathan Horvath
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
“A thoroughly satisfying love story with a big, beating heart.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“This book is emotional, steamy and sweet—a triple threat! De Cadenet tackles mental health, gender stereotypes, and interracial romance with care and creativity. I loved it!”—Chantel Guertin, author of Instamom
Khalil Sarda went through a rough... Read more
Miss Me With That
By: Rachel Lindsay
Narrated by: Rachel Lindsay
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A candid, witty, and inspiring collection of essays from The Bachelor’s first Black Bachelorette, exploring everything from relationships and love to politics and race
“The Bachelor gave me an opportunity, but I created my own happy ending.”
Rachel Lindsay rose to prominence as The Bachelor’s first Black Bachelorette and has since become one of... Read more
Culturally Responsive School Leadership
By: Muhammad Khalifa
Narrated by: David Sadzin & Mirron Willis
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Culturally Responsive School Leadership focuses on how school leaders can effectively serve minoritized students—those who have been historically marginalized in school and society. The book demonstrates how leaders can engage students, parents, teachers, and communities in ways that positively impact learning by honoring indigenous heritages... Read more
View audiobookAdmissions
By: Kendra James
Narrated by: Mela Lee
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A sharp-witted and deeply insightful look into the storied world of elite prep schools from the first African-American legacy student to graduate from The Taft School.
Early on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep... Read more
Letters to the Sons of Society
By: Shaka Senghor
Narrated by: Shaka Senghor
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs invites men everywhere on a journey of honesty and healing through this book of moving letters to his sons—one whom he is raising and the other whose childhood took place during Senghor's nineteen-year incarceration.
“A visceral and visual journey for the ages . . . the perfect road... Read more
Red Lip Theology
By: Candice Marie Benbow
Narrated by: Candice Marie Benbow & Karen Chilton
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A moving essay collection promoting freedom, self-love, and divine wholeness for Black women and opening new levels of understanding and ideological transformation for non-Black women and allies
“Candice Marie Benbow is a once-in-a-generation theologian, the kind who, having ground dogma into dust with the fine point of a stiletto, leads us into... Read more
Misogynoir Transformed
By: Moya Bailey
Narrated by: Moya Bailey
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogynyWhen Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. She had no idea that the term would go viral, touching a cultural... Read more
View audiobookFreedom!
By: Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Mar...
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Booklist Editors’ ChoiceWINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better WorldWINNER–International Literacy Association (ILA)–Young Adult NonfictionHONOR–2023 Malka Penn Award for Human RightsTop 10–In the Margins Book AwardThere is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place,... Read more
View audiobookManifesto
By: Bernardine Evaristo
Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activismBernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British... Read more
View audiobookBlack, Brown, Bruised
By: Ebony Omotola McGee
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM.
Black, Brown, Bruised reveals the challenges that underrepresented racially minoritized students confront in order to... Read more
A Good Name
By: Yejide Kilanko
Narrated by: Délé Ogundiran
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Twelve years in America and Eziafa Okereke has nothing to show for it. Desperate to rewrite his story, Eziafa returns to Nigeria to find a woman he can mold to his taste. Eighteen-year-old Zina has big dreams. An arranged marriage to a much older man isn't one of them. Trapped by family expectations, Zina marries Eziafa, moves to Houston, and... Read more
View audiobookYinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Narrated by: Ronke Adékoluejo
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Yinka is a lovable and relatable disaster—which is to say, she isn’t actually a disaster at all...I adore her.”—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers
“Feel good, funny, and clever, it’s got smash-hit written all over it!” –Josie Silver, New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December
Meet Yinka: a... Read more
All Day Is A Long Time
By: David Sanchez
Narrated by: Robb Moreira
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
One of The Millions' ""Most Anticipated Books of 2022"" One of PureWow’s ""10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in January"" One of BookShop.org's ""Notable New Releases"" One of The New York Times Book Review’s ""16 New Books Coming in January"" One of Poets & Writers' ""New and Noteworthy Books” ""David Sanchez's first novel—brilliant, lyrical,... Read more
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