BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
Plum Bun
By: Jessi Redmon Fauset
Narrated by: Jasmin Walker
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes is her only obstacle to opportunity. What... Read more
View audiobookBlack American Refugee
By: Tiffanie Drayton
Narrated by: Tiffanie Drayton
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Named "most anticipated" book of February by Marie Claire, Essence, and A.V. Club
"…extraordinary and representative."—NPR
"Drayton explores the ramifications of racism that span generations, global white supremacy, and the pitfalls of American culture."—Shondaland
After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic... Read more
Soul Love
By: Aja
Narrated by: Leon Nixon & Shari Peele
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Zoe comes from a line of clairvoyant, empathic women. Each one, including Zoe, is deeply connected to the world around them. Zoe's gifts are much more intense and hard to go unnoticed by those who get close to her so she often hides what she knows to avoid being seen as unstable. She's always known who the love of her life was going to be, she... Read more
View audiobookThe Chandler Legacies
By: Abdi Nazemian
Narrated by: Abdi Nazemian & Vikas Adam
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a revelatory novel about the enclosed world of privilege and silence at an elite boarding school and the unlikely group of friends who dare to challenge the status quo through their writing. Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Kathleen Glasgow, and Jandy Nelson, with crossover... Read more
View audiobookLifePass
By: Payal Kadakia
Narrated by: Payal Kadakia
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Introducing The LifePass Method: A unique method of goal setting from the founder of ClassPass that will help you hone in on your feelings, screen out unnecessary distractions, and live a successful and fulfilling life based on your deepest desires.
Grant yourself permission to have the life you most want to live. When Payal Kadakia let go of the... Read more
The ABCs of Black History
By: Rio Cortez
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In rhyming couplets, Cortez leads readers on a journey through Black life that acknowledges pain and struggle while building confidence with examples of triumph. It’s a tricky maneuver when writing for children, but Cortez pulls it off.” – The New York Times"A uniquely crafted ABC book that portrays some of the most... Read more
View audiobookNobody's Magic
By: Destiny O. Birdsong
Narrated by: Mela Lee, Tracey Leigh & Jasika Nicole
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
“The magic here is not the supernatural kind, but rather an attention to the grace of the ordinary. It is the magic of watching these women come into their power.”—New York Times
A GMA Buzz Pick!
A Most Anticipated Book by Essence · The Millions · Atlantic Journal Constitution · Glamour · Teen Vogue · Bustle · BookPage · Nashville Scene · Ms.... Read more
The Great Mrs. Elias
By: Barbara Chase-Riboud
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours
Abridged: No
The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history.
A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias’ glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park... Read more
Mirror Girls
By: Kelly McWilliams
Narrated by: Deanna Anthony, Carmen Jewel Jones & Robin Eller
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil... Read more
View audiobookCherish Farrah
By: Bethany C. Morrow
Narrated by: Angel Pean
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by PopSugar, Ms. magazine, Medium, Book Riot, BookPage, CrimeReads, Tor Nightfire, Bookshop, Book Talk, BiblioLifestyle, and more!
AN APRIL 2022 BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK
“Morrow uses her heroine’s warped perspective to examine painful truths about race and class in America, but this isn’t a book intended to... Read more
Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity
By: Angela Velez
Narrated by: Adriana Santos & Sol Madariaga
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this Latinx road trip adventure—a big-hearted, voice-driven YA about two sisters who couldn’t be more different, but become begrudging partners on their school’s cross-country college trip—from debut author Angela Velez. Perfect for fans of Lilliam Rivera, Jenny Han, and Sandhya Menon. Overachiever Luz “Lulu”... Read more
View audiobookThe Healing Power of African-American Spirituality
By: Stephanie Rose Bird
Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a fabulous resource for anyone who wants to understand African American spirituality, shamanism, and indigenous spiritual practices and beliefs. It is designed to be informative while providing hands-on recipes, rituals, projects, and resources to help you become an active participant in its wonderfully soulful traditions.
Inside you... Read more
Colors of Awesome!
By: Eva Chen
Narrated by: Eva Chen
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
From Kamala Harris' white pantsuit to Judy Garland's ruby slippers to Mamie Johnson's blue baseball uniform, powerful and inspiring women from throughout history have proved that "awesome" comes in all colors!
A Is for Awesome provided an ABC of amazing women from throughout history. 3 2 1 Awesome counted down... Read more
Deep Purpose
By: Ranjay Gulati
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Forbes, Best Business Books of 2022The Next Big Idea Club, Best Leadership Books of 2022Thinkers50 Top 10 Best New Management Books for 2022Axiom Award Bronze Medalist for Business EthicsA distinguished Harvard Business School professor offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast... Read more
View audiobookRace Crazy
By: Charles Love
Narrated by: Charles Love
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
When did America become obsessed with racial differences? After decades of progress healing real-world prejudices and anger, we suddenly live in an America where we’re expected to view every single thing through the lens of race.Children are taught the politics of racial resentment and fear in schools. Films, novels, and even comic books are... Read more
View audiobookSo Simple a Beginning
By: Raghuveer Parthasarathy
Narrated by: Anand Jagatia
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Anand Jagatia reveals the hidden unity behind nature’s breathtaking complexity
The form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. A human being is very different from a bacterium or a zebra. The living world is a realm of dazzling variety, yet a shared set of physical principles shapes... Read more
Fortune
By: Lisa Sharon Harper
Narrated by: Lisa Sharon Harper
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on her lifelong journey to know her family's history, leading Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair.
Harper has spent three decades researching ten generations of her family history through DNA research,... Read more
Black Faces in High Places
By: Randal D. Pinkett & Jeffrey A. Robinson
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries and, just as importantly, to stay there.Black Faces in High Places is the essential guide for Black professionals who are moving up through their organizations or industries but need a roadmap for how to get to the top and stay there. Based... Read more
View audiobookThe Keeper
By: Guadalupe García McCall
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by a terrifying true story, acclaimed author Guadalupe Garcia McCall creates a twisty tale about a boy desperately trying to survive in a new town with a secret past. James always knew moving from Texas to Oregon was going to be horrible.. But no sooner have he and his family arrived in their ""perfect"" new home in their ""perfect""... Read more
View audiobookThe Salt Eaters
By: Toni Cade Bambara
Narrated by: Mia Ellis
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times).
Set in a fictional city in the American South, the novel also "inhabits the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion” (The New York Times Book Review).
Though they all... Read more
Dream, Annie, Dream
By: Waka T. Brown
Narrated by: Sophie Oda
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams.As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the... Read more
View audiobookLeather and Lace
By: Rebel Carter
Narrated by: Marya Freeman
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Time is running out for Mary Sophia James, who has come to the frontier town of Gold Sky, Montana at her mother's insistence. Mary needs to find a husband fast – before her condition becomes too obvious. When Mary spots the gorgeous Alex Pierce across the town square one day though, her world is turned upside down. Not only is Alex beautiful and... Read more
View audiobookBird Brother
By: Rodney Stotts
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Rodney grew up during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration an accepted part of daily life for nearly everyone he knew. To rent his own apartment, he needed a paycheck—something the money from dealing drugs didn't provide. For that, he took a position in 1992 with a new nonprofit, the Earth Conservation Corps.... Read more
View audiobookLight of Darkness
By: Ebenezer O. Makinde
Narrated by: Casey Raiha
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
As Good and Evil sit precariously weighing in the balance, swaying back and forth with the whims and spirit of humanity, many continue to ask: what is it that gives us purpose? Who truly matters in this age of adversity? Are we coincidental masses of flesh and blood, or were we put on this earth for a reason?Such impassable questions have been... Read more
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