2024 Tuma's Books - Monthly Diverse Reads

The Volcano Daughters

A Novel

By: Gina María Balibrera
Narrated by: Gisela Chipe, Elena Rey, Alma Cuervo, E. A. Castillo & Ines del Castillo
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide—which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco’s Cannery Row—each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories

“Gripping and spellbinding...Unforgettable.”—Brit Bennett,... Read more

A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter
Narrated by: Michelle Porter, Jani Lauzon, Tara Sky, Tantoo Cardinal, Dakota Ray Hebert, Bernard Starlight, Elle-Màijà Tailfeathers, Wesley French, Jenny Pudavick, Lisa Cromarty, Monique Mojica, Alison Deon, Jacob MacInnis, Yolanda Bonnell, Brefny Caribou & Kiawentiio
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them.

Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women... Read more

Tales of Polynesia

By: Yiling Changues
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Explore the enchanting world of Polynesian folklore in this beautifully illustrated collection of traditional stories.

A woman falls in love with the king of the sharks. Two powerful sorcerers compete in a battle of magical wits. The king of Maui's fastest messenger races to bring a young woman back from the dead. In these traditional tales, the... Read more

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

The heart-warming Korean sensation

By: Hwang Bo-reum
Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
Length: 8 hours

Bloomsbury presents Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, read by Rosa Escoda.

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell's Pick of the Month * A Bookshop Best Book of the Year So Far

The Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a... Read more

My Parents' Marriage

A Novel

By: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Narrated by: Ekua Ekumah
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Acclaimed children’s author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated adult debut with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding told through three generations of one Ghanian family.Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents’ turbulent, confusing marriage, Kokui marries a man far different from her... Read more

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

By: Natalia Sylvester
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body.Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability.... Read more

The Future Is Disabled

Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and... Read more

The God of Good Looks

A Novel

By: Breanne Mc Ivor
Narrated by: Varia Williams & Alexis Rodney
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

“This is a captivating debut novel set in modern day Trinidad that I read in one sitting. A fun read that doesn’t shy away from discussing real issues and with a cast of characters that I was truly invested in. Mc Ivor’s writing is ebullient but not frothy, conversational but not trite, engrossing, transportive, delicious and above all— so very... Read more

Womb City

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase
Narrated by: Christel Mutombo
Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid’s Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman’s right to her own body.

Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless... Read more

Flirty Little Secret

By: Jessica Lepe
Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez & Will Collyer
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

You’ve Got Mail meets Abbott Elementary in this sweet, sexy romantic comedy for fans of Lynn Painter and Lyssa Kay Adams. 

School counselor Lucy Galindo has a secret.

To her coworkers, friends, and even family, she’s shy, sweet, and constantly struggling to hold off disaster (read: manage her anxiety and depression). But online? She’s bold,... Read more

The Best That You Can Do

Stories

By: Amina Gautier
Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connections



Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico,... Read more

The Storm We Made

A Novel

By: Vanessa Chan
Narrated by: Samantha Tan
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

“An incredible book from a strong new voice, focusing on the choices that a mother makes in the middle of colonial occupation during WWII. Vanessa Chan touches upon the murky grey areas of survival in a time of oppression and upheaval. Read more

The 5 Resets

Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience

By: Aditi Nerurkar
Narrated by: Aditi Nerurkar
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

As seen on Good Morning America and The Today Show with Hoda and Jenna“The key is managing stress, so we can lead healthier, happier lives. The 5 Resets will help you do just that.”  — Katie Couric, Journalist and Founder and CEO, Katie Couric Media  ""A masterful approach to rewire our brains and bodies from the inside out.""    — Arianna... Read more

The Afterpains

By: Anna Julia Stainsby
Narrated by: Hailey Gillis, Dianne Aguilar, Rebecca Auerbach & Diana Pou
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD
“Powerful and unrelenting prose.... I loved this book.” —Reema Patel, author of Such Big Dreams



Gorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland—told in the voices of four distinct narrators.

Nearly... Read more

The Shadow King

By: Maaza Mengiste
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Elle, Time, and more, The Shadow King is an “unforgettable epic from an immensely talented author who’s unafraid to take risks” (Michael Schaub, NPR).

Set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first... Read more

This Is the Honey

An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

By: Kwame Alexander
Narrated by: Mahogany L. Brown & Joel Damany Steingold
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by Why Fathers Cry at Night author and #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander. In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a... Read more

The American Queen

A Novel Based on the True Story of Appalachia’s Kingdom of the Happy Land

By: Vanessa Miller
Narrated by: Angel Pean
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

AS SEEN ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA: GMA 15 New Books to Read | 2024 American Fiction Award WINNER for African American Fiction AND Historical Fiction | 2025 Audie Awards WINNER for Best Faith-Based Fiction or Non-Fiction"Miller brings to enthralling life a hidden gem in American history." --Publishers Weekly
There is only one known queen who truly... Read more

No Reservations

A Novel of Friendship

By: Sheryl Lister
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

"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

The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min
Narrated by: Eunice Wong & Kayla Min Andrews
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

“'Mom [Katherine Min] liked intense, unconventional characters and beautiful prose...the novels we read together were moments of transcendent power...[where] an essential truth about the human condition is revealed.' - Kayla Min Andrews, Afterword. Following the revenge machinations of now-motherless Kyoko, the physical decline of musician Alma,... Read more