Black Voices

Devil Is Fine

A Novel

By: John Vercher
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

“A novel of grief, immediate and generational, takes us deep into the mind of our narrator, a biracial man dealing with the death of his son and a legacy of slavery and violence. Lines between reality and fantasy, dreamworld and consciousness, imagination and haunting are artfully blurred and erased in this deeply moving and often funny story of... Read more

God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

A Novel

By: Joseph Earl Thomas
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

An "intoxicating, propulsive...utterly mesmerizing" novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student (Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!)

After a deployment in the Iraq War, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student and EMS worker,... Read more

Hood Wellness

Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land

By: Tamela J. Gordon
Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

What does self-care look like when struggling to make ends meet, living with a disability, or navigating intersectional marginalization? How can you prioritize well-being while divesting from systems built to destroy you? The answer: Hood Wellness, a groundbreaking exploration that challenges the oppressive systems deeply rooted in health and... Read more

Make It Count

My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner

By: CeCé Telfer
Narrated by: CeCé Telfer
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

This "moving, deeply human" memoir tells the inspiring story of the first openly transgender woman to win a NCAA title, following the obstacles she overcame to achieve her Olympic dreams (The Cut).

CeCé Telfer is a warrior. She has contended with transphobia on and off the track since childhood. Now, she stands at the crossroads of a national... Read more

Night Flyer

Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

Significations

By: Tiya Miles
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand

Harriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth... Read more

We Alive, Beloved

Poems

By: Frederick Joseph
Narrated by: Frederick Joseph
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

NYT Bestselling Author, Frederick Joseph, explores a new genre in this captivating poetry collection that seeks to find joy in moments of difficulty whether through illuminating the beauty of being Black, highlighting the hope that can be found in childhood, or by sharing intimate truths revealed on a mental health journey. This book will appeal... Read more

Negotiating While Black

Be Who You Are to Get What You Want

By: Damali Peterman
Narrated by: Damali Peterman
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Winner of the 2024 “Most Useful” Book by the Non-Obvious Book Awards

A real-world, one-of-a-kind resource for anyone who has ever been underestimated, overlooked, or misunderstood at the negotiating table.

There’s no shortage of negotiation books that advise you to “get to yes,” urge you to “never split the difference,” and push you to “ask for... Read more

Black Candle Women

A Novel

By: Diane Marie Brown
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show

“If you like Practical Magic… you will love Black Candle Women.” —Jenna Bush Hager

Named a Best Book of the Month by: Shondaland, MS. Magazine, TODAY.com, Reader’s Digest, Katie Couric Media, AARP Sisters, Goodreads, BookRiot

A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four... Read more

Rise to the Sun

By: Leah Johnson
Narrated by: Lexi Underwood & Alaska Jackson
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

From the author of You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson delivers a stunning novel about being brave enough to be true to yourself, and learning to find joy even when times are unimaginably dark.Olivia is an expert at falling in love . . . and at being dumped. But after the fallout from her last breakup has left her an outcast at school and... Read more

Better Must Come

By: Desmond Hall
Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Barely Missing Everything meets American Street in this “well-plotted, taut page-turner” (Booklist, starred review) that looks at the darker side of light-filled Jamaica and how a tragedy and missing drug money helplessly entangle the lives of two teens who want to change their fate.

Deja is a “barrel girl”—one of the Jamaican kids who get... Read more

We Refuse

A Forceful History of Black Resistance

By: Kellie Carter Jackson
Narrated by: Kellie Carter Jackson
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

“"Black people have consistently, from the beginning of this country, blown their whistles and called out the strong tides of the hypocrisy, violence, greed, and absurdity of white supremacy." - Postscript, Kellie Carter Jackson. In this powerful exploration of Black-led remedies to white supremacy, Jackson describes the five facets of resistance... Read more

The Blackwoods

By: Brandy Colbert
Narrated by: Alaska Jackson
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

From Boston Globe/Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert comes the story of four generations of a Hollywood family—an unforgettable tale of ambition, fame, struggle, loss, and love in America.The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name.Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would become... Read more

Alex Wise vs. the End of the World

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker
Narrated by: Torian Brackett
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Welcome to the summer of the apocalypse. One 12-year-old boy leads the charge against the forces of evil as he tries to stop the Four Horsemen from taking over the world in the start to a wildly funny and addictive fantasy series about accepting yourself and finding your inner hero.

Alex Wise feels like his world is ending. His best friend,... Read more

Crook Manifesto

A Novel

By: Colson Whitehead
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

“Colson Whitehead is a singular talent, (talent isn't a big enough word though.) Crook Manifesto is so rich and evocative. With Dion Graham's narration, it's as if we're also seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, feeling and sometimes fearing along with the characters. Whitehead give us an unvarnished look at the people and goings on in 1970's... Read more

Black in Blues

How a Color Tells the Story of My People

By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, USA Today, People, AARP, Today.com, BookRiot, Bustle, LitHub, BookPage, Our Culture, and VultureA surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani PerryThroughout history, the concept of Blackness has been... Read more

I Am Nobody's Slave

How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free

By: Lee Hawkins
Narrated by: Lee Hawkins
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

A 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer exhaustively examines his family’s legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience, in this riveting memoir—a soulful, shocking, and spellbinding read that blends the raw power of Natasha Tretheway’s Memorial Drive and the insights of Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed. I Am... Read more