Black Authors

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes

By: Phoebe Robinson

Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A]nother hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Strikes the perfect balance of brutally honest and laugh out loud funny. I didn’t want it to end.”
—Mindy Kaling, New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me?

With sharp, timely insight, pitch-perfect pop culture references, and her always unforgettable... Read more

Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business)

By: Tabitha Brown

Narrated by: Tabitha Brown

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

 You are seen, you are loved, and you are heard!Before Tabitha Brown was one of the most popular personalities in the world, sharing her delicious vegan home cooking and compassionate wisdom with millions of followers across social media, she was an aspiring actress who in 2016 began struggling with undiagnosed chronic autoimmune pain. Her... Read more

For All Time

By: Shanna Miles

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt & Landon Woodson

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A Parade Magazine Best Young Adult Book of 2021

“A romance for the ages…one perfect little novel.” —Stacey Lee, award-winning author of The Downstairs Girl

The Sun Is Also a Star meets Outlander in this “unforgettable and artfully crafted romance” (Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin’) about two teens who relive their... Read more

Beasts of Prey

By: Ayana Gray

Narrated by: Keylor Leigh, Tovah Ott & Ronald Peet

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this blockbuster fantasy series, perfect for fans of Firekeeper’s Daughter and Iron Widow, fate binds two Black teenagers together as they journey into a magical jungle to hunt down a vicious monster.

“Rich in magic and mythos, Beasts of Prey is a feast for all the senses.” —Renée Ahdieh, New York Times bestselling author of The Beautiful

An... Read more

The Sweetest Remedy

By: Jane Igharo

Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When a woman travels to Nigeria to attend the funeral of the father she never knew, she meets her extravagant family for the first time, a new and inspiring love interest, and discovers parts of herself she didn't know were missing, from Jane Igharo, the acclaimed author of Ties That Tether.
 
Hannah Bailey has never known her father, the... Read more

Battle Cry

By: Jason Wilson

Narrated by: Jason Wilson

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Become a better husband, father, and leader when you learn to express your emotions in a healthy way.In a culture that tells men to suppress instead of express, join bestselling author, speaker, and leader Jason Wilson (featured in the award-winning ESPN documentary The Cave of Adullam) as he calls you to unlearn society's... Read more

Change Sings

By: Amanda Gorman

Narrated by: Amanda Gorman

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A lyrical audiobook from presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long
 
"I can hear change humming
In its loudest, proudest song.
I don't fear change coming,
And so I sing along."
 
In this stirring, much-anticipated audiobook by presidential inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman,... Read more

What Is Black Lives Matter?

By: Lakita Wilson & Who HQ

Narrated by: Karen Murray

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling series comes the latest title in the Who HQ Now format for trending topics. It tells the history of a political and social movement that advocates for non-violent civil disobedience and protests against incidents of police brutality--and all racially motivated violence--against Black people.

When a Black... Read more

Dovey Undaunted

By: Tonya Bolden

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Dovey Johnson Roundtree was most famous for her successful defense of an indigent Black man accused of the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a prominent white Washington, DC, socialite, in 1965. Despite her triumph in this high-profile case, Roundtree continued to represent the poor and the underserved. She was the first lawyer to bring a... Read more

Unbound

By: Tarana Burke

Narrated by: Tarana Burke

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tarana Burke, I just finished Unbound. Searing. Powerful. Needed!! Thank you." —Oprah

“Sometimes a single story can change the world. Unbound is one of those stories. Tarana’s words are a testimony to liberation and love.” —Brené Brown

One of BookPage's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2021

This program is read by the author.

From the founder and activist... Read more

Read Until You Understand

By: Farah Jasmine Griffin

Narrated by: Farah Jasmine Griffin

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A BRILLIANT SCHOLAR IMPARTS THE LESSONS BEQUEATHED BY THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND ITS REMARKABLE ARTISTS AND THINKERS.Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase “read until you understand,” a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of... Read more

The Half Has Never Been Told

By: Edward E Baptist

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 19 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleAmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but... Read more

Kneel

By: Candace Buford

Narrated by: Preston Butler III

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This fearless debut novel explores racism, injustice, and self-expression through the story of a promising Black football star in Louisiana.

The system is rigged.

For guys like Russell Boudreaux, football is the only way out of their small town. As the team’s varsity tight end, Rus has a singular goal: to get a scholarship and play on the national... Read more

Race Against Time

By: Keith Boykin

Narrated by: Keith Boykin

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Cold Civil War has engulfed the nation.

After a deadly pandemic, shocking incidents of police brutality, a racial justice crisis, and the fall of a dangerous demagogue, America remains more divided than at any time in decades. At the heart of this national crisis is the fear of a darkening America—a country in which there is no longer a... Read more

Chasing Me to My Grave

By: Winfred Rembert

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Karen Chilton

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager.He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife.... Read more

We Are Not Broken

By: George M Johnson

Narrated by: George M Johnson

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

George M. Johnson, activist and bestselling author ofAll Boys Aren't Blue, returns with a striking memoir that celebrates Black boyhood and brotherhood in all its glory.

This is the vibrant story of George, Garrett, Rall, and Rasul -- four children raised by Nanny, their fiercely devoted grandmother. The boys hold one another close through early... Read more

Moon and the Mars

By: Kia Corthron

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 22 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated new novel from the winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize examines NYC and America in the burgeoning moments before the start of the Civil War through the eyes of a young biracial girl.

In Moon and the Mars, set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857–1863, we experience... Read more

Dirty Plays

By: Emma Salah

Narrated by: Trei Taylor

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Aidan Thomas is staying at his brother’s apartment while his own home is being remodeled, but the apartment isn’t as vacant as he was led to believe. Pushed out of her own place by a rent increase, Letty Garcia, his sister’s gorgeous best friend, is staying there too. The involuntary cohabitation is a temporary solution, one they can both endure... Read more

Fast Pitch

By: Nic Stone

Narrated by: Nic Stone

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the field.

Shenice Lockwood, captain of the Fulton Firebirds, is hyper-focused when she steps up to the plate. Nothing can stop her from leading her team to the U12 fast-pitch... Read more

Bachelor Unclaimed

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Are his playboy days over for good?

In the wake of political defeat, former mayoral candidate Ainsley St. James does something totally out of character—she has a one-night stand with a seductive stranger. Never expecting to see him again, she accepts a job covering a breaking story in Hilton Head, South Carolina…only to discover that the island's... Read more

Bad Witch Burning

By: Jessica Lewis

Narrated by: Kamali Minter

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic as one girl's dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future.

Katrell can talk to the dead. And she wishes it made more money. She’s been able to support her unemployed mother—and Mom’s... Read more

100 Days of Believing Bigger

By: Marshawn Evans Daniels

Narrated by: Marshawn Evans Daniels

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Christian Book Award Finalist - Audio - 2022!!!

Have you been... limiting yourself? Maybe getting in the way of what heaven has for you due to doubt, fear, or feeling you're just too flawed?

Well, you are not alone. You were made to believe and live bigger, and this devotional journal can guide that discovery, drawing you confidently toward... Read more

Foolish Hearts

By: Synithia Williams

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Full of drama among the beautiful and powerful, the series would make a fabulous soap opera.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

All they need is a second chance…

It’s been three years since Ashiya Waters walked away from Russell—and made the biggest mistake of her life. She knows she shouldn’t dwell on the past. Love isn't meant to last…and nobody... Read more

The Confession of Copeland Cane

By: Keenan Norris

Narrated by: Roberto Antonio Martin, Adenrele Ojo, Keenan No...

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive... He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland’s life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity,... Read more