Loyalty Book Clubs

How the Word Is Passed

A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

By: Clint Smith
Narrated by: Clint Smith
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

“Smith has crafted a resource, narrative and detailed explanation into how we teach the legacy of slavery. He recounts visits from everywhere from NYC to the Whitney Plantation, integrating stories of people and visitors today. This book is lays a beautiful written foundation for interrogating the history we've been taught. Particularly... Read more

Homegoing

A novel

By: Yaa Gyasi
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

“Homegoing is an epic narrative that is sure to become a treasured staple. Two sisters in Ghana are marked by fiery tragedy: one is married off to an English slave trader, and the other is sold to be a slave in America. The story follows their descendants generation by generation. Homegoing will break your heart over and over, impress you with... Read more

Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones

A Memoir

By: Priyanka Mattoo
Narrated by: Priyanka Mattoo
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman’s search for home, from Kashmir to England to Saudi Arabia to Michigan to Rome and, finally, to Los Angeles—standalone essays that together form a sweeping portrait of a peripatetic life.

"I would follow Priyanka Mattoo to the ends of the earth, because she would know what to eat... Read more

A Reason to See You Again

A Novel

By: Jami Attenberg
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own. The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. After the death of their patriarch, Rudy,... Read more

All About Love

New Visions

By: bell hooks
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

“There’s nothing I can say about bell hooks that hasn’t already been said. This book is excellent and did cause me to think about love in a different way. It’s beautifully-written and philosophically brilliant. Read more

Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

“Possibly one of the most important books I've read in the last decade. Caste examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America. Wondering how America came to this? This book has brutal, unflinching answers. Read more

Somebody's Husband

By: Robbi Renee
Narrated by: Dylan Ford
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

A grieving doctor and a nurturing professor join forces on a potentially
groundbreaking medical study that sparks a profound connection neither saw
coming in this unconventional romantic drama from the author who brought
you the book club favorite Somebody’s Wife.
Dr. Dresden Xavier moved his family back to his hometown of Monroe City after
an... Read more

Only For The Week

By: Natasha Bishop
Narrated by: J. Shani Michaels & Winston James
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

“This beautiful story is about black love, family dynamics, overcoming familial trauma, and realizing your worth. Winston James and J. Shani Michaels brought Janelle and Rome to life so vividly that it felt like having a telenovela play out in my ears. The new traditional pub version of OFTW also has the bonus epilogue that was previously on her... Read more

Sleeping with the Frenemy

Vega Family Love Stories: Book #3

By: Natalie Caña
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

“Irresistible… A vibrant second-chance love story about repairing community and romantic connection.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on A Dish Best Served Hot

The third book in the riotously funny Vega Family Love Stories finds self-assured firefighter Leo Vega trying to reignite the embers of a love gone cold.

Leo Vega’s love life has been on... Read more

A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke

Las Leonas: Book #3

By: Adriana Herrera
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

He's not like other dukes…

Paris, 1889

Physician Aurora Montalban Wright takes risks in her career, but never with her heart. Running an underground women’s clinic exposes her to certain dangers, but help arrives in the unexpected form of the infuriating Duke of Annan. Begrudgingly, Aurora accepts his protection,... Read more

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human

By: Kimberly Lemming
Narrated by: Hazel Addison
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

When a spirited young woman with a penchant for adventure finds herself locked away in a dragon’s tower, she realizes that fate has a peculiar sense of humor when it comes to her romantic prospects in this laugh-out-loud fantasy rom-com, perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and The Dragon's Bride.

All children are told fairytales. Some are... Read more

Looking for a Sign

A Novel

By: Susie Dumond
Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

“A sweet and spicy story about found family, taking chances on love, and getting through your Saturn return.”—Elissa Sussman, bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask

A newly single queer woman moves to New Orleans and sets off on a mission to find her most compatible match by going on a date with someone of each astrological sign in this... Read more

Something Cheeky

A Novel

By: Thien-Kim Lam
Narrated by: Vyvy Nguyen & David Lee Huynh
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

A steamy new rom-com from the popular author of Happy Endings and Full Exposure, where two friends get the opportunity to work together on their dream project—a Cinderella rock musical with an all-Asian cast—and discover that falling in love was the easy part…“Lam is... the queen of sex-positive multiracial romance.” —BooklistZoe Tran is living... Read more

Curvy Girl Summer

Curve: Book #1

By: Danielle Allen
Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

“AHMAD IS SUCH A HOT MMC OMFG!!! This book started off with a bang (literally) and had some of the funniest banter I’ve read between love interests. I listened to the audio book of this one and LOVED the narrator, she made this such a fun book to listen to! Aaliyah is determined to find a boyfriend before her 30th birthday, leading to a string of... Read more

Icarus

By: K. Ancrum
Narrated by: Kirt Graves
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

* FIVE STARRED REVIEWS *Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this suspenseful queer YA romance from critically acclaimed author K. Ancrum reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and the son of the man he’s been stealing from—think Portrait of a... Read more

Reel

Hollywood Renaissance

By: Kennedy Ryan
Narrated by: Eboni Flower, Jakobi Diem & Nicole Small
Length: 17 hours 13 minutes

“Anytime I'm in the mood to sob, I pick up a Kennedy Ryan book. I loved the Hollywood feel of this book and how perfectly Ryan was able to get me to visual the scenes she wrote. This book felt so alive and the depths of these characters was so impressive. I truly think everyone needs to read this novel so they can experience just how beautiful... Read more

Matriarch: Oprah's Book Club

A Memoir

By: Tina Knowles
Narrated by: Tina Knowles, Beyoncé, Solange, Kelly Rowland & Angie Beyincé
Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A revealing personal life story like no other—enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering—and a testament to the world-making power of Black motherhood

“A fascinating memoir of Tina Knowles’s journey to become the global figure she is today.”—Oprah Winfrey

“You are Celestine,” she said. She... Read more

James

A Novel

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

“James is a gripping retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in which Jim is the main character. This time, the story is told by the runaway slave’s point of view, and Percival Everett, far from what Twain presupposed, gives Jim the depth of character that was erased in the first novel. With James, Everett gives a proud voice to one of... Read more

Gather Me

A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

By: Glory Edim
Narrated by: Glory Edim
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.

“A beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed by an expansive and ever-growing love for words and for... Read more

Set Boundaries, Find Peace

A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

By: Nedra Glover Tawwab
Narrated by: Nedra Glover Tawwab
Length: 8 hours

“Enjoyed listening to these tips and tricks to setting boundaries within family and work relationships. Learning about all the ways I could be taking better care of myself is always a welcome experience. Read more