2023 Audiobooks by Women of Color

Camp Zero

A Novel

By: Michelle Min Sterling
Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Greta Jung & Emily Tremaine
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick

Libby Book Award Winner for Best Diverse Author

In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of researchers collide in this mesmerizing and transportive debut that “delivers its big ideas with suspense,... Read more

Unexpected

A Novel

By: LaLa Thomas
Narrated by: Angel Pean & Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

The bond between two best friends is put to the test when one of them gets pregnant in this “powerful and timely” (award-winning author Angela Johnson) contemporary young adult novel for fans of Angie Thomas and Elizabeth Acevedo.

Erykah was looking forward to junior year at East Prep High. She has a cute boyfriend, gets good grades, and has the... Read more

Without a Doubt

How to Go from Underrated to Unbeatable

By: Surbhi Sarna
Narrated by: Surbhi Sarna
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

“An inspiring blueprint to overcome challenges—and thrive” (Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO of Thrive Global), and turn doubt into rocket fuel to achieve your dreams, from entrepreneur, CEO, and healthcare investor Surbhi Sarna.

The very qualities that make you an outlier are, in fact, your strengths. Or so Surbhi Sarna discovered after a... Read more

My Nemesis

A Novel

By: Charmaine Craig
Narrated by: Charmaine Craig
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Prize, comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples.Tessa is a successful white woman writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person,... Read more

Night Wherever We Go

A Novel

By: Tracey Rose Peyton
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library JournalA gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their ownersOn a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under... Read more

Central Places

A Novel

By: Delia Cai
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

A PHENOMENAL BOOK CLUB PICK • “A sensitive, sharp-eyed, slyly funny novel of venturing back into the foreign country that is your past—and discovering that you can never really shake the places and people that shaped you.”—Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts
 
A young woman’s past and present collide when she... Read more

Brotherless Night

A Novel

By: V. V. Ganeshananthan
Narrated by: Nirmala Rajasingam
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this “heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war” (Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half).

“This book, a careful, vivid exploration of what’s lost within a... Read more

Bad Cree

A Novel

By: Jessica Johns
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

“If you love a good supernatural horror story AND you’ve ever wondered if, just maybe, your dreams may have a deeper meaning, you’ve GOT to read Bad Cree! This book had me overthinking every strange dream I’ve ever had, especially the one about a giant rat trying to eat my pet cat… This book touches on themes of grief, familial bonds, and... Read more

Hijab Butch Blues

A Memoir

By: Lamya H
Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

“This memoir absolutely blew me away. Structured around stories from the Qur'an, Lamya H beautifully explores the intersections between faith, identity, culture, and belonging. I learned so much while reading this book, and really valued Lamya's unique perspective on queerness and religion. Incredibly raw and honest, this is a memoir I will be... Read more

When Trying to Return Home

Stories

By: Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Narrated by: Psalm Morant & Andréa Agosto
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in this collection dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free from her damaging influence during a desperate and disastrous attempt to rescue her brother from foster care. A man, his wife, and his mistress each... Read more

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior

By: Carole Lindstrom
Narrated by: Carole Lindstrom
Length: 14 minutes

This program is read by the author.

From New York Times bestselling author Carole Lindstrom comes Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior, an inspiring biography about two Indigenous Rights Activists, Josephine Mandamin and Autumn Peltier.

The seventh generation is creating
A sea of change.

It was a soft voice, at first.
Like a ripple.
But with practice it... Read more

Policing the Womb

Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

By: Michele Goodwin
Narrated by: Robin Eller
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the... Read more

Mr Kato Plays Family

A Novel

By: Milena Michiko Flašar
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

"Tokyo-born-and-raised multilingual Nishii makes an ideal cipher for the recently retired Mr Katō..."- Booklist

Milena Michiko Flašar's Mr Katō Plays Family is an eccentric second-lease-on-life novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

Mr Katō—a curmudgeon and recent retiree—finds his only solace during his daily... Read more

The Sun and the Void

By: Gabriela Romero Lacruz
Narrated by: Natalia Castellanos
Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

"Evocative and captivating. An enthralling tale of ancient gods, dangerous magic, family and love." ―​Sue Lynn Tan, author of Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Two women embark on a unforgettable quest that draws them into a world of dark gods and ancient magic in this sweeping fantasy debut inspired by the history and folklore of colonial South... Read more

Dust Child

By: Que Mai Phan Nguyen
Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga about family secrets, hidden trauma, and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Việt Nam. 
 
In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become... Read more

Against the Currant

By: Olivia Matthews
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

“Shy baker and kick boxer Lyndsay opens a West Indian bakery in Brooklyn and has to defend herself from suspicion of murder- of another baker! A delightfully cozy mystery, with a wonderful family at its center. I loved the character development, the light (and bloodless) murder mystery and the warm, enveloping bakery vibes. And there are recipes!... Read more

Hope's Path to Glory

The Story of a Family's Journey on the Overland Trail

By: Jerdine Nolen
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

In Alexandria, Virginia, in the mid-19th century, a slave-owning family is facing financial trouble. The eldest son, Jason, thinks going to California to mine for gold might be the best way to protect his father’s legacy. He’ll need a cook, a laundress, and a hostler for the journey, and one of them is twelve-year-old Clementine, whose mother... Read more

The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto

By: Adrianna Cuevas
Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite role-playing game, than face his father’s increasing restrictions and his mother’s fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never... Read more

The Year of Cecily

From Sunset Park, With Love: Book #1

By: Lisa Lin
Narrated by: Kat Riley
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

San Francisco attorney Cecily Chang is ready to tackle the New Year head on, so she creates a list of resolutions guaranteed to reboot her life—right after her dutiful visit home to Sunset Park, Brooklyn, for the Lunar New Year. Cecily prepares to face her critical, meddling mother, nosy relatives, and the chaos and drama family togetherness... Read more

The Faithless

By: C. L. Clark
Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri
Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

In the second installment of C.L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca's throne and to face the consequences of dismantling an empire.

The rebels have won, and the empire is withdrawing from Qazal. But undoing the tangled web that binds the two nations will not be easy,... Read more