Black Authors

Escaping Mr. Rochester

By: L.L. McKinney

Narrated by: Machelle Williams & Nneka Okoye

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fresh reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel by acclaimed author L. L. McKinney, Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason must save each other from the horrifying machinations of Mr. Rochester in this intrigue-filled, empowering young adult romance. Jane Eyre has no interest in a husband. Eager to make her own way in the world, she accepts... Read more

No Reservations

By: Sheryl Lister

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Warm and wise--a feel good story. Sheryl Lister's No Reservations is a heartfelt tribute to sisterhood and found-family. The feelings linger long after the last page." --Vanessa Riley, Award-winning author of Island Queen and Queen of ExilesTrue friendship never ends.Best friends forever. That's the vow Joy, Diane, Rochelle and Yvette made when... Read more

Besaydoo

By: Yalie Saweda Kamara

Narrated by: Yalie Saweda Kamara

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home—as place, as people, as body, and as language.A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with “a story pulsing in every blood cell.” In Besaydoo, Kamara serves as griot for the... Read more

Courageous Faith

By: Debbye Turner Bell

Narrated by: Debbye Turner Bell

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

You're not good enough. You don't have what it takes. You're second best. When voices in your life beat you down, telling you that you don't measure up, what do you do? There are moments when you're going to want to give up. Set-backs, failures, and fatigue impacts us all. Miss America 1990 shares her experiences as an African American woman... Read more

Coconut Drop Dead

By: Olivia Matthews

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Brooklyn’s annual Caribbean American Heritage Festival is finally here, and Spice Isle Bakery is thrilled to be one of the event’s food vendors. After all, the Murrays have been attending the festival for years. Co-owner Lyndsay Murray hopes their West Indian pastries and finger foods draw people back to the bakery in Little Caribbean. She’s... Read more

Glorifying and Enjoying God

By: William Boekestein, Jonathan Landry Cruse & And...

Narrated by: Marcus Jackman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

For centuries, the Westminster Shorter Catechism has helped Christians young and old to know their "chief end." Now, authors William Boekestein, Jonathan Landry Cruse, and Andrew J. Miller value this venerable catechism and winsomely introduce a new generation to its powerful message. Dividing the catechism into 52 brief devotions, they explain... Read more

Gaslight

By: Femi Kayode

Narrated by: Cary Hite & Yinka Ladeinde

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this follow-up to Kayode's "action-packed and spirited debut" Philip Taiwo returns to solve a missing-persons case, and in so doing, uncovers dark secrets the church has worked tirelessly to hide (Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer).

A shadow has fallen over the megachurch in Ogun State, Nigeria: the beloved Bishop... Read more

Healing the Divides

By: Jason Roach & Jessamin Birdsall

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A biblical perspective on race and how Christians and churches can advance God’s vision for racial unity and justice.

The Bible paints a compelling picture of a diverse people united in worship of Jesus. In a society that is divided along lines of race, culture and class, such a vision can feel out of reach. But in the power of the Holy Spirit,... Read more

Shadows and Whispers

By: K.C. Mills

Narrated by: Charlie L. Wood & Myles Washington

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Elias Omari exists in the darkness that clouds his mind. Cress Devereaux exists in the light that inspires her soul. Together, they create beautiful shades of gray. An arranged marriage forces two families to smooth the edges of their jagged past with the hopes of a new beginning. But can a union tainted with secrets and uncertainty promise an... Read more

The New Naturals

By: Gabriel Bump

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed, for readers of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Jennifer Egan's The Candy House, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found an underground Utopia.

An abandoned restaurant on a hill off the highway in Western Massachusetts doesn't look like much. But to Rio, a young Black woman bereft after the loss of her... Read more

The Invisible Ache

By: Courtney B. Vance & Dr. Robin L. Smith

Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance & Dr. Robin L. Smith

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning actor and a #1 bestselling author, a unique combination of moving memoir and practical tools that offers guidance for Black men seeking to reclaim their mental well-being–and, ultimately, to live wholeheartedly.

In America, we teach that strength means holding back tears and shaming your own feelings. In the Black... Read more

The Sun Sets in Singapore

By: Kehinde Fadipe

Narrated by: Dami Olukoya

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

 A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick

Basking in Singapore’s nonstop sunshine, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the glamorous expat dream—until a mysterious (not to mention handsome) new arrival infiltrates their tight-knit community and ruins everything: "Wanderlust-inducing" (Lola Akinmade Åkerström, international bestselling author).
... Read more

Aster of Ceremonies

By: JJJJJerome Ellis

Narrated by: JJJJJerome Ellis

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The Clearing, a “lyrical celebration of and inquiry into the intersections of blackness, music, and disabled speech” (Claudia Rankine).Aster of... Read more

Holding

By: Alexandria House

Narrated by: Jakobi Diem & Wesleigh Siobhan

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Childhood neighbors, enemies, best friends, lovers, enemies, Sires lineman Terrence Ford and his ex-wife, Krystle, have meant all these things to each other.
Once believing their union was indestructible, they find themselves unhappily apart.
Maybe what they see as an ending is really the beginning of a stronger bond and a deeper understanding of... Read more

Phillis Wheatley

By: Simonetta Carr

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

No one could have imagined that the frail, seven-year-old slave girl who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1761 would become the first published African American, achieving fame for her poetry in both America and England. Upon her arrival, Phillis quickly learned to read the Bible and other classic literature, publishing her first poem in... Read more

Ways to Build Dreams

By: Renée Watson

Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Ways to Build Dreams by Renée Watson, read by Sisi Aisha Johnson.

Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Renée Watson continues her bestselling young middle grade series starring Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit and sunshine.

Middle school is just around the corner for Ryan Hart, which means it's time to start... Read more

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

By: Sly Stone

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Achievement in Audiobook Production.

"Throughout, narrator Dion Graham sustains an authentic cool. His voice subtly slows down, pauses, and cracks as Stone expounds upon his older years. It’s a kind of music unto itself." —AudioFile

Combining three never-before-heard songs, jingles from when Sly... Read more

I Hope You Fail

By: Pinky Cole

Narrated by: Pinky Cole

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Pinky Cole—founder of the wildly successful restaurant chain Slutty Vegan—takes you back to your moments that seemed hopeless to help you discover how filled with possibility they really were.We've all been told we can't do it. That we're not enough. That we grew up in the wrong neighborhood or had the wrong parents or made... Read more

Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

Narrated by: André Santana, Bryan Washington & Jake Choi

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington Post

The ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's... Read more

The Vanquishers: Secret of the Reaping

By: Kalynn Bayron

Narrated by: Ecstasia Sanders

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Vanquishers: Secret of the Reaping by Kalynn Bayron, read by Ecstasia Sanders.

The Vanquishers are back and ready to defend their town against the undead in this spooky middle grade from New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron.

Boog and her best friends, Cedrick, Jules, and Aaron—aka the Squad—stick together, no... Read more

Activate Your Greatness

By: Alex Toussaint

Narrated by: Alex Toussaint

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Alex Toussaint, the rising Peloton star who counts everyone from Roger Federer and the Golden State Warriors to the Today Show’s Carson Daly as fans, hops off the bike and gives readers the inspiration and motivation they need to activate their greatness in every aspect of their lives.

Alex Toussaint is known... Read more

Homeward

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and no one—will ever be the same.Georgia, 1962. Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband and pregnant with another man’s baby. After tragedy strikes her husband in the war overseas, a numb Rose is left with pieces of who she used to be... Read more

Songs of Irie

By: Asha Ashanti Bromfield

Narrated by: Asha Ashanti Bromfield

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"Author and narrator Asha Bromfield offers an engrossing performance of this coming-of-age audiobook. Bromfield's experience as an actress and her ease with Jamaican Patois will draw listeners into a story that has multiple levels of emotional intensity." —AudioFile on Hurricane Summer

Perfect for fans of The... Read more

The Forest Demands Its Due

By: Kosoko Jackson

Narrated by: Desean Terry

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A Lesson in Vengeance meets The Taking of Jake Livingston in this page-turning dark academia novel about a queer Black teen who discovers the sinister history of his boarding school and the corrupt powers behind it all. A USA Today bestseller!Regent Academy has a long and storied history in Winslow, Vermont, as does the forest that surrounds it.... Read more