Rad Riot Reads Migration

Prairie Ostrich

By: Tamai Kobayashi
Narrated by: Tamai Kobayashi
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Not every story has a happy ending.Since her brother's death, eight-year-old Egg Murakami has been living day-to-day on the family ostrich farm near Bittercreek, discovering life to be an ever-perplexing condition. Mama Murakami has curled up inside a bottle, and Papa has exiled himself to the barn with the birds. Big sister Kathy tells stories... Read more

Shut Up You’re Pretty

Stories

By: Téa Mutonji
Narrated by: Jemeni
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Finalist, Rogers Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother... Read more

The Art of Leaving

A Memoir

By: Ayelet Tsabari
Narrated by: Ayelet Tsabari
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

An intimate memoir in essays by an award-winning Israeli writer who travels the world, from New York to India, searching for love, belonging, and an escape from grief following the death of her father when she was a young girl

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS

This searching collection opens with the death of Ayelet... Read more

An Ocean of Minutes

A Novel

By: Thea Lim
Narrated by: Lisa Rost-Welling
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

“Polly signs on as a bondswoman with a time travel company to save the life of her boyfriend, Frank. They plan to meet in the future, but Polly is off by five years and arrives disoriented, vulnerable, and alone, with Frank nowhere to be found. This imagined future is as disorienting to the reader as it is to Polly, as Lim leaves us with no hints... Read more

Shame on Me

An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

By: Tessa McWatt
Narrated by: Tessa McWatt
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
 
Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction.

Tessa McWatt has been called Susie Wong, Pocahontas and "black bitch," and... Read more

Inside Out and Back Again

By: Thanhha Lai
Narrated by: Doan Ly
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Vietnam-born author Thanhha Lai bursts onto the literary scene with Inside Out Back Again-her National Book Award-winning debut. Written in rich, free-verse poems, this moving tale follows a young Vietnamese girl as she leaves her war-torn homeland for America in 1975. With Saigon about to fall to the communists, 10-year-old HA, her mother, and... Read more

The House on Mango Street

By: Sandra Cisneros
Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

In hardcover for the first time--on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication--the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters. Read more

The Book of Unknown Americans

A novel

By: Cristina Henríquez
Narrated by: Various
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

“A triumph of storytelling. Henríquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.” —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
 
A boy and... Read more

Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club)

A Novel

By: Imbolo Mbue
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

“This might be the best audiobook I've ever listened to. It's definitely the one I recommend the very most. Prentice Onayem does such a delicious job of showcasing the beautiful nuance of different voices and accents and the production inserts just enough music to make sure that the audience is able to really feel immersed into the story. There's... Read more