BIPOC Authors

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her... Read more

Midnight Rooms

By: Donyae Coles

Narrated by: Georgina Campbell

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“An immersive horror fairy tale marrying Crimson Peak to Pan’s Labyrinth upon strange foundations. You’re never really safe here, with Midnight Rooms wondrously defying expectation and refusing obedience. Donyae Coles leads us into a house of sinister magic, full of corners for peeking around, but careful—these walls have claws. A feverish,... Read more

The Diablo's Curse

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Bargain and Most Ardently comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill--about a teen demon who wants to be human, a boy cursed to die young, and the murderous island destined to bury them both.

Dami is a demon determined to cancel every deal they've ever... Read more

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie—about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself—a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence—until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man... Read more

A Love Like the Sun

By: Riss M. Neilson

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER! 

“Perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez, Kennedy Ryan, and Carley Fortune (aka me).”
–Emily Henry

“Beautifully blending beloved tropes and smooth, often lyrical prose… Two lovers navigate challenges related to mental health, racial identity, grief, and a chronic illness” –NPR

Lifelong best friends spend a fateful summer... Read more

How We Heal

By: Alexandra Elle

Narrated by: Alexandra Elle

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved wellness author and teacher Alexandra Elle shares this practical and empowering guide to self-healing.

In How We Heal, bestselling author Alexandra Elle offers a life-changing invitation to heal yourself and reclaim your peace. In these pages, readers will discover essential techniques for self-healing, including journaling rituals to... Read more

Race After Technology

By: Ruha Benjamin

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.

Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen... Read more

A Shadow Crown

By: Melissa Blair

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off.To the kingdom, Keera is the king’s Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow—the dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on... Read more

Nightcrawling

By: Leila Mottley

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of There There).

A BEST BOOK OF... Read more

Take My Hand

By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Narrated by: Lauren J. Daggett

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction

“Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze…an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption.”—Celeste Ng

Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the... Read more

A Million to One

By: Adiba Jaigirdar

Narrated by: Sohm Kapila

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

2024 Rainbow Book ListAdiba Jaigirdar, author of one of Time's Best YA books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean’s 8 makeover in this nail-biting heist set onboard the infamous ship. Josefa is an unapologetic and charismatic thief who loves the thrill of the chase. She has her eye on her biggest mark yet—the RMS Titanic, the most luxurious ship... Read more

Raiders of the Lost Heart

By: Jo Segura

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An Indie Next and LibraryReads Pick!

Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers—and hearts—in ruins.

Archaeologist Dr. Socorro “Corrie” Mejía has a bone to pick. Literally. 

It’s been Corrie’s life goal to lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle in search of the long-lost remains of her... Read more

Farewell, Amethystine

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From “master of the genre” (Washington Post) Walter Mosley, Detective Easy Rawlins’ latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia—blinding him to reason and risk.

January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations.  He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a... Read more

Bite by Bite

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or... Read more

The 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

A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Named an ELLE BEST BOOK OF 2024Named a BEST or MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR by Readers’ Digest, Elle Magazine, CondeNast Traveler, Publishers’ Weekly, Indigo, ZibbyMag, Goodreads, BookBub & more “A deeply moving, layered portrait of the hopes, dreams and fears a family carries as ‘other’ in the face of the modern American Dream."" --... Read more

The Final Curtain

By: Keigo Higashino

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions.



Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to... Read more

888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers

By: Abraham Chang

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Eunice Wong breathes life into the diverse cast of characters with an energetic precision that gives this audiobook the feeling of a lively radio drama."—AudioFile

“Abraham Chang’s novel, packed with pop culture, is wonderfully alive. This is a beautifully tender and funny examination of love, of identity, of making your way in a world... Read more

Raising Free People

By: Akilah S. Richards

Narrated by: Akilah S. Richards

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy cause for some, it is not enough for countless others still trying to navigate the tyranny of what schooling has always been. Raising Free People argues that we need to build and work within systems designed for any human to... Read more

Bad Witches

By: H. B. Akumiah

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In H. B. Akumiah’s lively and charming debut, three young women discover the unbelievable: they’re witches, and their newfound magic may be the key to saving the world …The Witch Sphere is in turmoil. In the years since a stunning betrayal sent shock waves through society, the Sphere was hit with a crisis: witches are giving birth to more typics... Read more

F the Fairy Tale

By: Damona Hoffman

Narrated by: Damona Hoffman

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From a popular dating coach and podcast host, a guide to dismantling the myths that get in the way of finding love  Does dating feel like you’re chasing a “happily ever after” that always seems out of reach? You’re not alone: many modern daters are stuck following old rules, hung up on ideas like instant chemistry and “the One.” In F the Fairy... Read more

Just Another Epic Love Poem

By: Parisa Akhbari

Narrated by: Nikki Massoud & Elena Rey

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance.

"The heartache and longing of witnessing a beloved character pine hopelessly over her best friend has never brought me this much unadulterated joy." –National Book Award Finalist Sonora Reyes, author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School

Over the... Read more

The Centre

By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

Narrated by: Balvinder Sopal

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly comic, speculative debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost. Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of “great works of literature,” but instead mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies,... Read more

Ghosts of Christmas

By: Kenya Wright

Narrated by: Ruthie Bowles

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Due to a traumatic family event on a past winter, Ivy doesn’t do emotions, love, or Christmas. Unfortunately, this year her best friend is having a destination Christmas wedding in Lapland, Finland—a winter wonderland full of holiday spirit. There, the air is fresh, crisp, and full of magic. Additionally, Ivy is the maid of honor, and she’ll be... Read more