2022 BIPOC Audiobooks

Life Stages and Native Women

Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine

Critical Studies in Native History: Book #15

By: Kim Anderson
Narrated by: Marsha Knight & Maria Campbell
Length: 6 hours

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities. The process of “digging up medicines” — of rediscovering the stories of the past — serves as a powerful healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. In Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the... Read more

Welcome to the Cypher

By: Khodi Dill
Narrated by: Khodi Dill
Length: 6 minutes

“WELCOME TO THE CYPHER is a delight to read—a story that will move every part of you to a wild and wonderful beat.” —Jael Richardson, Author and Executive Director, The Festival of Literary Diversity "WELCOME TO THE CYPHER is a beautiful, rhythmic exploration of the joy of language and self-expression. Our whole family loved how the bright... Read more

Frequently Asked White Questions

By: Ajay Parasram & Alex Khasnabish
Narrated by: Ajay Parasram & Alex Khasnabish
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Are you a white person with questions about how race affects different situations, but you feel awkward, shy, or afraid to ask the people of colour in your life? Are you a racialized person who is tired of answering the same questions over and over? This book is for you: a basic guide for people learning about racial privilege. In Frequently... Read more

Standoff

Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It

By: Bruce McIvor
Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada’s “reconciliation project” has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it.Widely known as... Read more

How Far the Light Reaches

A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“This book is just wow. Sabrina Imbler describes the most diverse sea creatures and combines them with stories and reports from their lives. This book is not about validating human existence through nature, but about allowing closeness between different lives. Read more

The Atlas Paradox

Atlas Series: Book #2

By: Olivie Blake
Narrated by: Alexandra Palting, Andy Ingalls, Caitlin Kelly, Damian Lynch, Daniel Henning, David Monteith, James Patrick Cronin, Munirih Grace, Siho Ellsmore & Steve West
Length: 18 hours 27 minutes

“Please tell me there's another book coming in this series because I NEED MORE! I loved this book, maybe even more than the first one. Finally, our magicians have made it through initiation after their first year of the Alexandrian Society, and now comes their studies. What the characters decide to do from this point on could determine the fate... Read more

South to America

A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

“The spirit and essence of “America” are things quintessentially, essentially elusive. In South to America, Imani Perry—native Black Southerner, award-winning author, Princeton professor—submits a gorgeously written, eminently worthy entry in the search. Crafting a compelling balance between recorded history, current events, and personal... Read more

The World Record Book of Racist Stories

By: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Narrated by: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

A new collection of hilarious, intergenerational anecdotes full of absurd detail about everyday experiences of racism from the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedian Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey.

Families may not always see eye to eye; we get on each other’s nerves, have different... Read more

Firewater

How Alcohol is Killing My People (And Yours)

By: Harold R. Johnson
Narrated by: Kairyn Potts
Length: 5 hours 1 minute

A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol—its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many... Read more

Book of Wings

By: Tawhida Tanya Evanson
Narrated by: Athena Karkanis
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one’s own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist traces a global journey from Vancouver to the United States, Caribbean, Paris, and Morocco as a relationship... Read more

The Recruiter

By: Alexander Mukte
Narrated by: James Shippy & Cortney Wright
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

This new thought fiction series explores pursuing your higher self, transcending ego and fear, the interconnectedness of all things in nature, and the importance of listening to the universe.
Read by an Earphones Award-winner as part of a dual narrator performance, this 2022 International Book Awards Winner is “one of those well-written, nuanced... Read more

Deeply Rooted Dreams

By: Alexander Mukte
Narrated by: Cortney Wright & James Shippy
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Woven into another fast-paced, topical mystery, the second installment of this new thought fiction series explores overcoming fear in the pursuit of purpose and the interconnectedness of all things in nature.
Read by an Earphones Award-winner as part of a dual narrator performance, this sequel to The Recruiter unveils more of the universal trial... Read more

How We Heal

Uncover Your Power and Set Yourself Free

By: Alexandra Elle
Narrated by: Alexandra Elle
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Beloved wellness author and teacher Alexandra Elle shares this practical and empowering guide to self-healing.

In How We Heal, bestselling author Alexandra Elle offers a life-changing invitation to heal yourself and reclaim your peace. In these pages, readers will discover essential techniques for self-healing, including journaling rituals to... Read more

The Song of the Cell

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize!

Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!

In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning... Read more

Talking about Race

Gospel Hope for Hard Conversations

By: Isaac Adams
Narrated by: Rick N. Jones
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Conversations about racism are as important as they are hard for American Christians.Yet the conversation often gets so ugly, even among the faithful who claim unity in Jesus. Why is that the case? Why does it matter? Can things get better, or are we permanently divided?In this honest and hopeful book, pastor Isaac Adams doesn't just show you... Read more

Peace Is a Practice

An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

By: Morgan Harper Nichols
Narrated by: Morgan Harper Nichols
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Read by the author.When you breathe in all the grace available to you and release everything that is outside of your control, you'll discover peace that surpasses your circumstances. All it takes is practice.If you feel overwhelmed with anxiety about the future, you're far from alone. For many of us, when we're not worrying about what is to... Read more

The 2% Way

How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery

By: Dr. Myron L. Rolle
Narrated by: Charles Ray
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

You don't have to change your life overnight--instead, you can make small changes that leave a lasting impact. In The 2% Way, discover the simple, revolutionary practice behind the against-the-odds success story of Dr. Myron L. Rolle.Dr. Rolle has led a remarkable life: from earning a scholarship to a prestigious private high school to becoming... Read more

Your Purpose Is Calling

Your Difference Is Your Destiny

By: Dharius Daniels
Narrated by: Dr. Dharius Daniels
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Read by the author.Discover exactly who you were created to be and what you were created to do by learning to see yourself the way God sees you. The key to understanding, embracing, and unleashing your God-given uniqueness is possessing an accurate picture of your true identity. After all, if you don't know who you are, how could you ever know... Read more

Take Back Your Power

10 New Rules for Women at Work

By: Deborah Liu
Narrated by: Deborah Liu
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Read by the author.You can't make the world fair, but you can take back your power. As a woman in Silicon Valley who worked her way to the top of the corporate ladder--she's a former VP at Facebook and the current president and CEO of Ancestry--Deborah Liu knows firsthand the challenges and obstacles in the workplace that keep the deck stacked... Read more

Killing Comparison

Reject the Lie You Aren't Good Enough and Live Confident in Who God Made You to Be

By: Nona Jones
Narrated by: Piper Jones
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Read by the author.It's time to leave behind the discontent of comparative thinking and discover a free and joyful life in the security of God’s love.If you find yourself filled with feelings of insecurity, sure that others are better off or more worthy than you are…then you’re in good company! In today’s image-driven world, nearly all of us... Read more