Black Authors

The Bone and Sinew of the Land

By: Anna-Lisa Cox

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-hidden truth about America’s black pioneers, the frontier they settled, and their fight for a better nationThe American frontier is one of our most cherished and enduring national images. We think of the early pioneers who settled the wilderness as courageous, independent—and white.This version of history is simply wrong. Starting in... Read more

Teacup Full of Roses

By: Sharon Bell Mathis

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year.

Joe's decision to leave home is prompted by despair over his Mother's blindness to his younger brother's talents and his older brother's drug addiction. Read more

No Ashes in the Fire

By: Darnell L Moore

Narrated by: Darnell L Moore

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.

When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It... Read more

The Road to Dawn

By: Jared A. Brock

Narrated by: Jared A. Brock & Ryan Vincent Anderson

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin.

-He rescued 118 enslaved people
-He won a medal at the first World's Fair in London
-Queen Victoria invited him to Windsor Castle
-Rutherford B. Hayes entertained him... Read more

Undead Girl Gang

By: Lily Anderson

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"A fun, fast read...it will resonate with readers who dabble in any sort of arts, dark or otherwise." --NPR.org

"With a singular and hilariously cutting teen voice, UNDEAD GIRL GANG is sure to be one of the most talked-about YA novels of the year." --BookPage

Veronica Mars meets The Craft when a teen girl investigates the suspicious deaths of... Read more

All the Dreams We’ve Dreamed

By: Rus Bradburd

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall’s struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fired... Read more

An American Quilt

By: Rachel May

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When we think of slavery, most of us think of the American South. We think of back-breaking fieldwork on plantations. We don’t think of slavery in the North, nor do we think of the grueling labor of urban and domestic slaves. Rachel May’s rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in... Read more

The House on Harbor Hill

By: Shelly Stratton

Narrated by: Susan Spain

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

She's generous, kind, and compassionate-yet Delilah Grey will forever be an outcast in the small seaside town of Camden Beach, Maryland. She takes in women shattered by abuse, poverty, illness, or events beyond their control. But no matter how far she's come or how many she's helped find their way back, there is no safe place for Delilah.... Read more

One House Over

By: Mary Monroe

Narrated by: James Shippy & Kentra Lynn

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns to the 1930s era of her acclaimed novel The Upper Room with a dazzling portrait of two very different couples whose fast friendship is no match for shattering betrayal …A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community—Joyce and Odell Watson have... Read more

Jazmin's Notebook

By: Nikki Grimes

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Jazmin Shelby was "born with clenched fists"-which is okay, since she's got a lot of fighting ahead of her. Her dad died a couple of years back, and now that her mom's in the hospital, it's just her and her big sister, CeCe. But that's fine by Jazmin. She's got her friends, her school, lots of big plans for the future-and a zest for life and... Read more

The Beauty That Remains

By: Ashley Woodfolk

Narrated by: Jackie Chung, Michael Crouch & Alisha Wainwright

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Told from three diverse points of view, this story of life and love after loss is one Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give, believes "will stay with you long after you put it down."

We've lost everything...and found ourselves.

Loss pulled Autumn, Shay, and Logan apart. Will music bring them back together?

Autumn always knew exactly who she... Read more

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

By: Virginia Hamilton

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The first time Teresa saw Brother was the way she would think of him ever after. Tree fell head over heels for him. It was love at first sight in a wild beating of her heart that took her breath. But it was a dark Friday three weeks later when it rained, hard and wicked, before she knew Brother Rush was a ghost.

Why had he come to her, with his... Read more

White like Her

By: Gail Lukasik

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century... Read more

Song of the Trees

By: Mildred D. Taylor

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

With the depression bearing down on her family, there isn’t much that Cassie Logan can count on anymore. 

But there is one thing that hasn’t changed—the whispering trees outside her window. Cassie’s trees, which... Read more

The Road to Memphis

By: Mildred D. Taylor

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cassie recounts harrowing events during late 1941. An engrossing picture of fine young people endeavoring to find the right way in a world that persistently wrongs them." --Kirkus Reviews Read more

Down the River unto the Sea

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year: bestselling author Walter Mosley "is back with a whole new character to love...As gorgeous a novel as anything he's ever written" (Washington Post). 

Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until he was framed for sexual assault by unknown enemies within the force. A decade... Read more

The Gold Cadillac

By: Mildred D. Taylor

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

A drive South becomes dangerous for ‘lois and her family. 

'Lois and Wilma are proud of their father's brand-new gold Cadillac, and excited that the family will be driving it all the way from Ohio to Mississippi.... Read more

Mississippi Bridge

By: Mildred D. Taylor

Narrated by: Danny Gerard

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

A day of conflict and tragedy.

Jeremy Simms watches from the porch of the general store as the weekly bus from Jackson comes through his town. His neighbor Stacey Logan and Stacey's brothers and sister are there... Read more

Let the Circle Be Unbroken

By: Mildred D. Taylor

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson!

It is a frightening and turbulent time for the Logan family. First, their friend T.J. must go on trial for murder--and confront an all-white jury. Then, Cousin Suzella tries to pass for... Read more

Amos Fortune, Free Man

By: Elizabeth Yates

Narrated by: Roslyn Ruff

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Newbery Medal Winner

When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction. Although his freedom had been taken, Amos never lost his dinity and courage. For 45 years, Amos worked as a slave and dreamed of freedom. And, at age 60, he finally began to see those... Read more

Brit(ish)

By: Afua Hirsch

Narrated by: Afua Hirsch

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Brit(ish): Why We Need to Talk About Race written and read by Afua Hirsch.

Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain. Her partner, daughter, sister and the vast majority of her friends are British. So why is her identity and sense of... Read more

Black Fortunes

By: Shomari Wills

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties—self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller,... Read more

The Darkest Child

By: Delores Phillips

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with a new introduction In 1958 Georgia, the shade of a 13-year-old black girl's skin can make the difference in her fate. Tangy Mae is the smartest of her mother's ten children, but she is also the darkest-complected. The Quinns-all different skin shades, all with unknown fathers-live with... Read more

The Journey of Little Charlie

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Christopher Paul Curtis

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis brings his trademark humor and heart to the story of a boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils.

Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His dad just died, the share crops are dry, and Cap'n Buck--the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina--has come to collect a... Read more