BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
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
Getting His Game Back
By: Gia De Cadenet
Narrated by: Jonathan Horvath
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
âA thoroughly satisfying love story with a big, beating heart.ââPublishers Weekly (starred review)
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âThis book is emotional, steamy and sweetâa triple threat! De Cadenet tackles mental health, gender stereotypes, and interracial romance with care and creativity. I loved it!ââChantel 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 Bachelorâs first Black Bachelorette, exploring everything from relationships and love to politics and race
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âThe Bachelor gave me an opportunity, but I created my own happy ending.â
Rachel Lindsay rose to prominence as The Bachelorâs first Black Bachelorette and has since become one of... Read more
Goliath
By: Tochi Onyebuchi
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White, JD Jackson, Juliana VĂŠlez, ...
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
âOnyebuchi 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
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
Ahead of the Game
By: Kevin J. Ryan
Narrated by: Charles Ray
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Prepare to be inspired by the story of Delane Parnell, the unlikeliest of CEOs now leading a gaming empire at the center of the booming, multibillion-dollar esports industry. This audiobook edition includes an exclusive interview between the author and Delane!Delane Parnell is not your typical tech entrepreneur. He was raised in a gang-riddled... Read more
View audiobookThe Daily Check-In
By: Michelle Williams
Narrated by: Michelle Williams
Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.In The Daily Check-In, singer and actress Michelle Williams helps you process the emotions that cause you to feel overwhelmed and gives you powerful strategies for discovering freedom and wholeness.In her book Checking In, Michelle Williams shared the painful seasons of struggle that left her feeling like she couldn't go on.... 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 ABOLITIONISTâS 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
Admissions
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 Jamesâ 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
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 PureWowâs ""10 Books We Canât Wait to Read in January"" One of BookShop.org's ""Notable New Releases"" One of The New York Times Book Reviewâs ""16 New Books Coming in January"" One of Poets & Writers' ""New and Noteworthy Booksâ ""David Sanchez's first novelâbrilliant, lyrical,... Read more
View audiobookA Good Name
By: Yejide Kilanko
Narrated by: DĂŠlĂŠ 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 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
Manifesto
By: Bernardine Evaristo
Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling and Booker Prizeâwinning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristoâs memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activismBernardine Evaristoâs 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British... Read more
View audiobookHunger
By: Lan Samantha Chang
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Not since Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan has a fiction writer explored with such powerful intensity the experience of being Asian American. The characters who inhabit this extraordinary fictional debut are caught between the burden of their past history and the fragility of their unchartered future. Hunger illuminates how first-generation... Read more
View audiobookRed 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
âCandice 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
How We Can Win
By: Kimberly Jones
Narrated by: Kimberly Jones
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, âHow Can We Win.â
âSo if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if... Read more
Freedom!
By: Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Mar...
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Booklist Editorsâ Choice
WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World
WINNERâInternational Literacy Association (ILA)âYoung Adult Nonfiction
HONORâ2023 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights
Top 10âIn the Margins Book Award
There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place,... Read more
You Donât Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
By: Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates & Genevie...
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author.âOne of the greatest... Read more
View audiobookYinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Narrated by: Ronke AdĂŠkoluejo
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
âYinka is a lovable and relatable disasterâwhich is to say, she isnât actually a disaster at all...I adore her.ââEmily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers
âFeel good, funny, and clever, itâs got smash-hit written all over it!â âJosie Silver, New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December
Meet Yinka: a... 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 sonsâone whom he is raising and the other whose childhood took place during Senghor's nineteen-year incarceration.
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âA visceral and visual journey for the ages . . . the perfect road... 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 studentsâthose 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 audiobookStrong Mama
By: Robin ArzĂłn
Narrated by: Robin ArzĂłn
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Mama and baby make one incredible team in this new picture book from New York Times bestselling author and Peloton instructor extraordinaire Robin ArzĂłn.
Before I met you, I dreamed of you. This is the story of how we first met.Â
Ultramarathons. Bike sprints. Squats and deadlifts. Naps. Kitchen dance parties! All of it is in preparation for... Read more
Righteous Troublemakers
By: Al Sharpton
Narrated by: Al Sharpton
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
âThis is the time. We wonât stop until we change the whole system of justice.â âReverend Al Sharpton
In the summer of 2020, Reverend Al Sharpton stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his âI Have a Dreamâ speech, preparing to give the keynote address of theGet Your Knee Off Our NecksCommitment March.... Read more
A Hero of Our Time
By: Naben Ruthnum
Narrated by: Raoul Bhaneja
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Yellowface and American Fiction, A Hero of Our Time is a vicious takedown of superficial diversity initiatives and tech culture, with a beating heart of broken sincerity that the Toronto Star calls "a powerful, unexpected reading experience."
Osman Shah is a pitstop on his white colleague Olivia Robinsonâs quest for corporate... Read more
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