2023 Audiobooks by Women of Color

The Garden Within

Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins

By: Dr. Anita Phillips
Narrated by: Anita Phillips & Sarah Jakes Roberts
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERFeatured on SUPER SOUL PODCAST hosted by Oprah Winfrey.  Read by the author.Too often we’ve been taught to view our emotions with suspicion, seeing them as something to be suppressed, managed, or mastered. This isn’t true. Emotions are not your enemy. Internal war is not your destiny. You... Read more

Surrender Your Story

Ditch the Myth of Control and Discover Freedom in Trusting God

By: Tara Sun
Narrated by: Tara Sun
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Read by the author.“I could not think of a better read and better reminder that He writes the best stories.”—Sadie Robertson Huff, New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and founder of Live Original There’s a lie masquerading as truth that’s running rampant in our culture. It goes something like this: you are powerful enough to control your... Read more

My Sunday Best

Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style

By: La Verne Ford Wimberly
Narrated by: Machelle Williams
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Includes an audiobook-exclusive interview with the author!After posting selfies in her Sunday best for fifty-two consecutive weeks during the pandemic, octogenarian Dr. La Verne Ford Wimberly became a viral sensation during Easter 2021, appearing everywhere from the Washington Post to CNN to Fox News.Her hats made us smile.Her smile gave us... Read more

Moonrise Over New Jessup

By: Jamila Minnicks
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
 
It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the... Read more

Lunar Love

By: Lauren Kung Jessen
Narrated by: Raechel Wong
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

This sweet, enemies-to-lovers debut rom-com filled with Chinese astrology will undoubtedly prove to be a perfect match with readers of Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, and Helena Hunting.

Always a matchmaker, never a match...
Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother’s matchmaking business. But when she... Read more

Bet on Black

The Good News about Being Black in America Today

By: Eboni K. Williams
Narrated by: Eboni K. Williams
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Journalist, attorney, and star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York reshapes the cultural landscape of achievement by showing why Black unity is crucial to individual and collective success.

When The Real Housewives of New York City hired its first black cast member after more than 13 years on the air, attorney, speaker, and journalist... Read more

I Am Debra Lee

A Memoir

By: Debra Lee
Narrated by: Debra Lee
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

From the former CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET), a riveting "must-read" memoir about the glamorous and ugly moments of being a high-powered Black female executive in the entertainment industry (Alicia Keys).

Debra Lee has been the visionary responsible for elevating Black images and storytelling for decades with timeless television... Read more

Wealth Warrior

8 Steps for Communities of Color to Conquer the Stock Market

By: Linda Garcia
Narrated by: Linda Garcia
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

This much-needed conversational guide to the stock market by a financial expert empowers you to heal money wounds, establish financial literacy, and make your money work for you.
 
 Financial educator Linda García breaks down one of the most elusive yet effective financial systems in existence. A single mother at a young age, Linda struggled to... Read more

This Is Supposed to Be Fun

How to Find Joy in Hooking Up, Settling Down, and Everything in Between

By: Myisha Battle
Narrated by: Myisha Battle
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

A certified clinical sexologist’s radically inclusive guide to sex and dating 

Swipe. Match. Get ghosted. Repeat. Modern dating can quickly start to feel like an overwhelming slog. It’s easy to forget the point of it all: this is supposed to be fun. Enter professional sex and dating coach Myisha Battle. Drawing on an engaging and diverse... Read more

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Tara Sky & Jessica Matten
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

“Winifred is a 16-year old girl who lives in a cemetery where her father works and her mother's ashes are buried. It's her 'Summer of Humiliation' and everything is going wrong. On top of being rejected by her best friend/crush and losing her beloved aunt, her father's job is in jeopardy, meaning she could lose the only home she's ever known. The... Read more

The Faraway World

Stories

By: Patricia Engel
Narrated by: Gisela Chipé, Frankie Corzo, Inés del Castillo, Cynthia Farrell, Dominique Franceschi, George Newbern, Anthony Rey Perez, Aida Reluzco, Alejandra Reynoso, Gary Tiedemann & Patricia Engel
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

A New York Times Editors’ Choice * One of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2023 * One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year * A LitHub Best Book of 2023

From the author of Infinite Country—a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick—comes a “rich and compelling” (The Washington Post) collection... Read more

Finally Seen

By: Kelly Yang
Narrated by: Cindy Kay & Kelly Yang
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes a “involving, realistic” (Booklist, starred review) middle grade novel about a young girl who leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, and learns about family, friendship, and the power of being finally seen.

My sister got to grow up with my parents.... Read more

Delicious Monsters

By: Liselle Sambury
Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

“A haunted house thriller packed with cryptic mystery, dark humor, and bone-chilling twists.” —Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston

The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this “genuinely terrifying” (School Library Journal, starred review) psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating... Read more

The Black Guy Dies First

Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar

By: Robin R. Means Coleman & Mark H. Harris
Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising success of Get Out, Candyman, and Lovecraft Country from creators behind the acclaimed documentary, Horror Noire.

The Black Guy Dies First explores the Black journey in modern horror cinema, from the fodder epitomized by Spider Baby to the... Read more

Pride

7 Deadly Sins

By: Victoria Christopher Murray
Narrated by: Lacy Laurel
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

The 7 Deadly Sins series that inspired four Lifetime original movies continues with this unputdownable novel following mortgage broker Journee Alexander as she tries to escape the secrets of her past without losing all she has worked to build in the present.

Journee Alexander grew up believing that the only person she could depend on was... Read more

Dyscalculia

A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

By: Camonghne Felix
Narrated by: Camonghne Felix
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

“Powerful . . . a poetic meditation on how love or attempts at loving can drive us to madness.”—The Boston Globe
 
“We learn about the cracks in Felix’s upbringing, the hurt from the breakup itself, and a pain that spans a lifetime, all through a sharp millennial voice.”—Time

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, Chicago Public Library, Electric... Read more

The House of Eve

By: Sadeqa Johnson
Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Nicole Lewis & Sadeqa Johnson
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

“Amazing…I was completely surprised by the ending of this beautifully told and written book.” —Reese Witherspoon

“A triumph of historical fiction” (The Washington Post), an instant New York Times bestseller, and a Reese’s Book Club pick, set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how... Read more

Last Violent Call

A Foul Thing; This Foul Murder

By: Chloe Gong
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 7 hours

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes two captivating new novellas surrounding the events of Foul Lady Fortune and following a familiar cast of characters from the These Violent Delights Duet!

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a... Read more

The Dream Builders

A Novel

By: Oindrila Mukherjee
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

After living in the United States for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world.The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she learns that nothing―and... Read more

Stash

My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins
Narrated by: Laura Cathcart Robbins
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

“An emotionally absorbing and swiftly paced multisensory experience.” —The New York Times Book Review

Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Elle

In the vein of Somebody’s Daughter, this wild, vivid addiction memoir from the host of the podcast The Only One in the Room “will inspire, awe, entertain, educate, and help so many readers” (Christie Tate,... Read more