2024 Audiobooks by Black Women

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By: Renée Watson
Narrated by: Zenzi Williams
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

“I loved main character Lena and could empathize with a lot of her struggles. She's not perfect, but she's growing and that's my favorite. Plus, I loved getting to know about Black culture in Portland and getting to love a fat protagonist. Read more

My Black Country

A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future

By: Alice Randall
Narrated by: Alice Randall
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.

Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history:... 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

When I Think of You

By: Myah Ariel
Narrated by: DeWanda Wise
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

“Myah Ariel's debut novel is an absolute beaut - and I'm not just talking about the cover. When I Think of You is a second chance story between college exes, Kaliya and Danny, as their sudden reunion quickly turns into working together on a movie. This book is funny and raw, and explores topics of grief, race and personal growth with such an... Read more

One of Us Knows

A Thriller

By: Alyssa Cole
Narrated by: Susan Dalian
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

“A creepy castle on a secluded island, post-pandemic hangover, childhood trauma and a murder mystery. It's a lot, in a good way. Read more

Monday's Not Coming

By: Tiffany D. Jackson
Narrated by: Imani Parks
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

“My heart ached as the teenaged protagonist Claudia struggled to make sense of why her best friend Monday is simply gone. As Claudia reaches out to peers and adults again and again, you can feel her frustration with things out of her control. The actor on the audio book was a perfect choice to narrate. The book serves as an important reminder... Read more

A Run at Love

Love in the Spotlight: Book #2

By: Toni Shiloh
Narrated by: Dioni Michelle Collins
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

A CONTENDER RUNNING FOR THE ROSES

As a Black woman in a field with little diversity, Piper McKinney is determined to make her mark on the horse-racing world. Raised on a Thoroughbred farm in Kentucky, Piper’s dream is for her horse to win the prestigious Kentucky Derby.
With the help of her best friend and trainer, Tucker Hale, she gains national... Read more

Missing White Woman

By: Kellye Garrett
Narrated by: Ariel Blake
Length: 12 hours

A "propulsive page-turner" (Alyssa Cole) and "thriller not to be missed" (Michael Connelly) from the award-winning author of Like a Sister, in which a woman thinks she’s waking up to a romantic vacation—only to find a body in her rental home and her boyfriend gone.

The truth is never skin deep.
 
It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend... Read more

This Could Be Us

Skyland

By: Kennedy Ryan
Narrated by: Ines del Castillo, Jakobi Diem & Kennedy Ryan
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

“Kennedy Ryan does such a great job at creating characters you cannot help but fall in love with. I did not think it was possible for her to write a book that reached higher heights than Before I Let Go but she proved me wrong. This Could Be Us is the perfect combination of the catastrophe the wrong person can bring to your life, learning to love... Read more

Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club)

Fiction

By: DéLana R. A. Dameron
Narrated by: Ashley J. Hobbs, Robin Miles, De'Onna Prince, Aaron Goodson & Dominic Hoffman
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “[A] richly textured and deeply moving debut” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter’s coming of age in the 1990s.

“A triumph . . . Redwood Court is storytelling at its best: tender, vivid, and richly complicated.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New... Read more

The Risk it Takes to Bloom

On Life and Liberation

By: Raquel Willis
Narrated by: Raquel Willis
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation.
In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women’s March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the... Read more

Swift River

A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Essie Chambers
Narrated by: Shayna Small, Janina Edwards & Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

“Diamond is such a raw and worthy character, I loved every minute of her. Read more

Pardon My Frenchie

By: Farrah Rochon
Narrated by: J.Y. Kora & Redd Vines
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author of Almost There delivers the start of a new rom-com series with an enemies-to-lovers romance, perfect for readers of Abby Jimenez and Jasmine Guillory.

Ashanti Wright is thrilled over the success of her doggie daycare, Barkingham Palace. But handling the business and taking care of her teen twin sisters is a... Read more

The Kiss Countdown

By: Etta Easton
Narrated by: Angel Pean
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

A struggling event planner and a sinfully hot astronaut must decide if their fake relationship is worth a shot at happily-ever-after, in this starry debut.

Risk-averse event planner Amerie Price is jobless, newly single, and about to lose her apartment. With no choice but to gamble on her shaky start-up, the last thing she needed was to run into... Read more

Beasts of War

By: Ayana Gray
Narrated by: Benjamin Charles, Keylor Leigh & Alexander Cantrell
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

In this epic conclusion to her New York Times bestselling series, Ayana Gray delivers a heart-pounding fantasy adventure filled with mythos, monsters, and mortal heroes who are astoundingly human.

Once a prisoner to Fedu, the vengeful god of death, Koffi has regained her freedom, but she is far from safe. Fedu will stop at nothing to hunt her... Read more

The Partner Plot

The Greene Sisters: Book #2

By: Kristina Forest
Narrated by: Aure Nash & Benjamin Charles
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Two former high school sweethearts get a second chance in this marriage of convenience in this USA Today bestselling romance by Kristina Forest.

To Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As a successful celebrity stylist, she travels all over the world, living out her dreams. Professionally, she’s thriving, but her personal life is in shambles.... Read more

Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson
Narrated by: Renée Watson
Length: 51 minutes

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book

Odyssey Honor Audiobook

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.

In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender.

Using a variety of poetic... Read more

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By: Tia Williams
Narrated by: Mela Lee & Preston Butler
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

“I loved the gorgeous writing with many a lush garden scene and floral puns galore interwoven with blasts to 1920s Harlem. A great read for fans of historical fiction, fated mates, found family, dual POVs and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. FUNNY. MAGICAL. ROMANTIC! Read more

The Bookshop Sisterhood

By: Michelle Lindo-Rice
Narrated by: Ariel Blake
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

“A book that will stay with the reader long after the last page. Absolutely brilliant.” —Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author

“This drama-packed page turner will warm your heart!” —Eliza Knight, USA Today bestselling author of The Mayfair Bookshop

When life rewrites the story, only friendship will see them through.

After years of hard... Read more

The Gilded Ones #3: The Eternal Ones

The Gilded Ones: Book #3

By: Namina Forna
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

The dazzling finale to the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Gilded Ones series. One girl holds the power to defeat the gods—but can she become one?

Mere weeks after confronting the Gilded Ones—the false beings she once believed to be her family—Deka is on the hunt. In order to kill the gods, whose ravenous competition for power is... Read more