Black Authors

The Davenports

By: Krystal Marquis

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

*Instant New York Times Bestseller*

The Davenports delivers a totally escapist, swoon-worthy romance while offering a glimpse into a period of African American history often overlooked.

"The perfect read for fans of escapist historical fiction.” —NBC’s TODAY

The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing... Read more

For Lamb

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome

Narrated by: Tyla Collier, Kevin R. Free, Rebecca Lee, Jaime...

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Lamb's family strives to better their lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in the late 1930s. Lamb’s mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she's a lesbian. Lamb’s brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north—if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature.... Read more

Family Business 6

By: La Jill Hunt & Carl Weber

Narrated by: K. Bernard, Ebony Ford, Ace Bentley, Sable Lyn ...

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Essence bestseller La Jill Hunt return with a story of love, money, power, and respect in the next addition of the popular Family Business series.

Five years ago, Orlando Duncan created the perfect drug in HEAT. It made the Duncans more than two hundred and fifty million dollars and was on its way... Read more

This Is Supposed to Be Fun

By: Myisha Battle

Narrated by: Myisha Battle

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A certified clinical sexologist’s radically inclusive guide to sex and dating 

Swipe. Match. Get ghosted. Repeat. Modern dating can quickly start to feel like an overwhelming slog. It’s easy to forget the point of it all: this is supposed to be fun. Enter professional sex and dating coach Myisha Battle. Drawing on an engaging and diverse... Read more

Hands

By: Torrey Maldonado

Narrated by: Torrey Maldonado

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"Gorgeous and gripping, Hands is a poetic page-turner. You might just finish it in one sitting. Torrey Maldonado understands the kids he writes for at the deepest level.” —Adam Gidwitz, Newbery Honor–winning author of The Inquisitor’s Tale

The author of What Lane? and Tight delivers a fast-paced read that packs a punch about a boy figuring out... Read more

Twice as Hard

By: Jasmine Brown

Narrated by: Wanda Rush

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in black history. It’s time to set the record straight

No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial... Read more

Black Founder

By: Stacy Spikes

Narrated by: Stacy Spikes

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the twenty-one most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and work—including the true story of what really happened to MoviePass—straight from the cofounder and former CEO himself.



Stacy Spikes knows what's it... Read more

Qualified

By: Mia Love

Narrated by: Mia Love & Jamie Renell

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This memoir from the first Black Republican congresswoman in America shows readers how to own their stories, find their voices, and lead with character as they empower others to do the same.  For so long, women—and Black women in particular—have been taught that they must have a stellar background, the highest degree of education, and the... Read more

The Many Dates of Indigo

By: Amber D. Samuel

Narrated by: Reina Mystique

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Standing on the sidelines of her sister’s third baby shower with her thirtieth birthday around the corner, Indigo is feeling the pressure about one thing she hasn’t yet mastered: a healthy long-term relationship. As owner of Houston’s hottest destination for luxury shoes and accessories, she excels at finding clients the perfect shoe, but she's... Read more

As You Walk On By

By: Julian Winters

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Breakfast Club meets Can't Hardly Wait with an unforgettable ensemble cast in another swoony YA contemporary from award-winning author Julian Winters!

Seventeen-year-old Theo Wright has it all figured out. His plan (well, more like his dad’s plan) is a foolproof strategy that involves exceling at his magnet school, getting scouted by college... Read more

Just Jerry

By: Jerry Pinkney

Narrated by: Scott Pinkney & Gloria Pinkney

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir of one of the most acclaimed children’s book illustrators of all time, sharing the story of a young artist who finds the courage to follow his passion against all odds.

Jerry’s vivid recollections and lively sketchbook drawings of his youth in postwar America tell an inspiring story of how a hardworking boy pursued his... Read more

Cool. Awkward. Black.

By: Karen Strong

Narrated by: Tashi Thomas, Langston Darby & Karen Strong

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Real or imaginary, geekdom is where it's at in this multi-genre YA anthology that celebrates "the geek," with stories by some of today's top bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors.

Contributors include Amerie, Kalynn Bayron, Terry J. Benton-Walker, Roseanne A. Brown, Elise Bryant, Tracy Deonn, Desiree S. Evans, Isaac Fitzsimons, Lamar... Read more

Friday I'm in Love

By: Camryn Garrett

Narrated by: Jade Wheeler

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

It's too late for a Sweet Sixteen, but what if Mahalia had a coming-out party? A love letter to romantic comedies, sweet sixteen blowouts, Black joy, and queer pride.

“A perfect ode to romantic comedies, wrapped in a dazzling rainbow dress.” —Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl

Mahalia... Read more

The Savvy Sistahs

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Amber, Carla and Brandy---known as the "ABCs"---are intelligent businesswomen who met in their business support group "The Savvy Sistahs Who Mean Business" and became the best of friends. They've bonded over lost loves, past hurts, and too many lonely nights. . .

Amber Stuart escaped an abusive marriage and now finds peace running her small... Read more

My Soul Is a Witness

By: Mari N. Crabtree

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its traumaMari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. African American victims and survivors had to find a way to live through and... Read more

That Dangerous Energy

By: Aya De León

Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming from a troubled youth, Morgan Faraday grabs every opportunity to up-level her life. So she definitely plans to keep oil-company heir Sebastian Reid interested...all the way to the altar. He’s brilliant and supportive and is turning his billion-dollar company green to make up for his ancestors’ exploitation. With him, Morgan can have love,... Read more

My Selma

By: Willie Mae Brown

Narrated by: Karen Chilton & Willie Mae Brown

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Karen Chilton conveys both powerful joy and profound grief in her narration of Willie Mae Brown's stories about growing up in Selma, Alabama, during the Civil Rights movement."- AudioFile

The preface and afterword are read by the author.

Combining family stories of the everyday and the extraordinary as seen through the eyes of her... Read more

Love Outside the Lines

By: Jimmy Rollins

Narrated by: Charles Ray & Rick N. Jones

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Discover Jesus' goals of togetherness, oneness, and unity in an increasingly divided world. When you learn to confront the areas in your heart that might not love as Jesus loved, you can help build a flourishing, Christ-like culture.Throughout his ministry, Jesus specifically bridged the gap with the ostracized, outcast, and... Read more

An American Story

By: Kwame Alexander

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestselling and award-winning author of The Undefeated, Kwame Alexander, pens a powerful picture book that tells the story of American slavery through the voice of a teacher struggling to help her students understand its harrowing history.

From the fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the... Read more

Death by Society

By: Sierra Elmore

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony & Emily Lawrence

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Mean Girls meets It’s Kind of a Funny Story as two teenage girls’ worlds collide when one attempts suicide to avoid toxic popularity.Carter Harper may have created an award-winning app and have a 3.93 grade point average, but her successes are overshadowed by brutal bullying, depression, and loneliness. Tired of being treated as the popular... Read more

The Rodeo Queen

By: Marcella Bell

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Bell brings the diverse world of competitive rodeo to life with vivid details and enhances the slow burn, opposites attract romance with chemistry and banter. Readers will be captivated." Publishers Weekly, starred review.

The rules of being a rodeo queen: no creases, no boyfriends, no mistakes.

With more crowns to her name than hairs on her... Read more

Trauma, Tresses, and Truth

By: Lyzette Wanzer

Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Black women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair.



From grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military squadrons, Black and Afro Latina natural hair continues to confound, transfix, and enrage members of White American society. Why, in 2022, is this still the case? Why have we not moved beyond that... Read more

Her Little Black Book

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s less than a week before Sonya Morrison’s wedding when she decides to pass her legendary little black book on to her cousin Courtney Andrews along with all of her best wishes. Courtney, who’s fast approaching thirty, thinks every woman she knows has somehow met a man who is husband material except for her. So Sonya’s little black book seems... Read more

Scatterlings

By: Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe

Narrated by: Christel Mutombo

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST NEW BOOK from *Vanity Fair *The Root *Vulture *People *The Washington Post *Christian Science Monitor *Los Angeles Times *EssenceA New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Pick! A New Yorker Best Book of the Year!A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning—and the most awarded debut title in South... Read more