BIPOC Authors

In the Shadow of the Mountain

By: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Narrated by: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life—one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us.”—Elizabeth Gilbert

This audiobook is read by the author.

"Through her narration, Vasquez-Lavado, whose first language... Read more

Black Love Matters

By: Jessica P. Pryde

Narrated by: Jessica P. Pryde, Gina Daniels, Julienne Irons,...

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde.
 
Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in... Read more

This Woven Kingdom

By: Tahereh Mafi

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! Clashing empires, forbidden romance, and a long-forgotten queen destined to save her people—Tahereh Mafi’s first in an epic, romantic trilogy inspired by Persian mythology.To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide... Read more

Go Back to Where You Came From

By: Wajahat Ali

Narrated by: Wajahat Ali

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!

This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but now an unaffordable place to live? Or
Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century... Read more

The Kindred

By: Alechia Dow

Narrated by: Dominique Moore & Amin El Gamal

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Utterly swoony…an endearing reminder that true love can change the world”
—J. Elle, New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Ebony

To save a galactic kingdom from revolution, Kindred mind-pairings were created to ensure each and every person would be seen and heard, no matter how rich or poor…

Joy Abara knows her place. A commoner from the... Read more

Honor

By: Thrity Umrigar

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

THE JANUARY 2022 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

“In the way A Thousand Splendid Suns told of Afghanistan’s women, Thrity Umrigar tells a story of India with the intimacy of one who knows the many facets of a land both modern and ancient, awash in contradictions.” —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours 

In this... Read more

Alien: Seventh Circle

By: Philippa Ballantine & Clara Čarija

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

As human colonies are obliterated by the dark pathogen and hideous monstrosities proliferate, a family of scavengers find an amnesiac who may hold the secrets to the forces tearing apart the galaxy.Life amongst the stars is brutal. Human colonies are being obliterated by a dark pathogen launched from mysterious ships, which turns whole... Read more

Boraleashe

By: A.E. Via

Narrated by: Troy Duran

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Boraleashe Cavalerie was the opposite of his titan brothers. He was stoic, disagreeable, and his attitude towards others was just as biting as his frost. All titans were required to gift their pure hearts to another—to fall in love—as praise to the divinities for their dominion over an element. Refusal to pledge their heart was considered an act... Read more

Rani Choudhury Must Die

By: Adiba Jaigirdar

Narrated by: Shubhangi Karmakar

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this sapphic dual POV romance by Adiba Jaigirdar, Meghna and Rani (ex-best-friends-turned-rivals) realize they're dating the same guy, so they team up to beat and expose him at a big science competition!

"Both narrators deliver exactly the kind of authentic, well-characterized performances needed for a story of hard-won... Read more

Gather Me

By: Glory Edim

Narrated by: Glory Edim

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

An inspiring 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 language.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This... Read more

Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe.In Neil deGrasse Tyson’s delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike. Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet... Read more

Taken by the Pikosa Warlord

By: Elizabeth Stephens

Narrated by: Tempest Mensah & James Cavenaugh

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

I'm awoken after a thousand's year sleep to a brutal world ruled by a male who may be the devil himself—Ero. Strange that, though so much has changed, language hasn't lost its roots. Because of that, I'm able to interpret his tongue—the only one who can. I plan to use my strengths to free the captive tribes from Ero's brutality or, better yet,... Read more

Dreamer

By: Nazem Kadri

Narrated by: Nazem Kadri

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, Dreamer is the moving story of the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality.

No one who knows the game is unfamiliar with the story of the NHL’s  first Muslim Stanley Cup winner, Nazem Kadri, nor does anyone... Read more

Blackness Is a Gift I Can Give Her

By: R. Renee Hess

Narrated by: R. Renee Hess

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the founder of Black Girl Hockey Club, a collection of deeply insightful and piercing essays shedding light on the history of Black excellence in hockey, the future of Black joy within the sport, and the ways we can all do better when it comes to recognizing—and upheaving—systemic and institutionalized racism.

Growing up, R. Renee Hess... Read more

Devils Kill Devils

By: Johnny Compton

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Certain Dark Things and Southern gothic horror. Johnny Compton brings his trademark terror and dread that listeners fell in love with in The Spite House to a new roster of monsters—angels, devils, vampires—and a heart-pounding race to save the world.

When all hell breaks loose, you... Read more

The Beautiful Dream

By: Atiba Hutchinson

Narrated by: Odario Williams

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“A captivating read from one of our country’s greatest athletes.”
―Christine Sinclair, former captain of the Canadian Women's National Soccer Team and National Bestselling Author of Playing the Long Game


Out of the Toronto suburb of Brampton comes an irresistible story of trials, perseverance, the limelight of international... Read more

Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras

By: Odie Henderson

Narrated by: Odie Henderson

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema—the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre—from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism



In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, an... Read more

Motherlands

By: Weijia Pan

Narrated by: Weijia Pan

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, this engrossing debut interrogates history, identity, and the power of poetry to elucidate both.Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. “In summer I write. Two lines at a time, two vying souls / running up the wall.” The collection follows this speaker-poet through a childhood in post-Maoist... Read more

American Ghoul

By: Michelle McGill-Vargas

Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A wildly entertaining debut from Michelle McGill-Vargas, American Ghoul deftly combines horror and social commentary—with a dash of buddy comedy—in an innovative twist on the vampire genre.You can’t kill someone who’s already dead.That’s what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer after—allegedly—killing her mistress, Simone Arceneau. But how could... Read more

First in the Family

By: Jessica Hoppe

Narrated by: Jessica Hoppe

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe, Latinx writer, advocate, and creator of NuevaYorka.

“A powerful thunderclap of a memoir.” —Lilliam Rivera, author of Dealing in Dreams

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Today.com, LupitaReads, Electric Literature, Esquire, Publishers Weekly

In... Read more

Team Park

By: Angela Ahn

Narrated by: Tony Kim

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Evan Park has always faced obstacles in getting his father's approval, but an actual obstacle race has some surprising results. A new middle-grade novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Peter Lee's Notes from the Field.

Unlike his dad, Evan Park does not like team sports — no matter how hard he tries. And when an accident causes Evan... Read more

The Parlour Wife

By: Foluso Agbaje

Narrated by: Precious Mustapha

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Kehinde must put everything on the line to find herself during a time of war. Lagos, 1939 With the announcement of World War Two and a change that sends shockwaves through her family, Kehinde is forced to put aside her dreams of writing and become the third wife of Mr... Read more

Being Black in America's Schools

By: Brian Rashad Fuller

Narrated by: Brian Rashad Fuller

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In a polarizing and racially divided America, what do children of color learn about themselves before they even go to school? How do they see themselves and is that image only exacerbated by spending twelve years in a public education system that perpetuates negative stereotypes? Brian Rashad Fuller personally knows that the impact of low... Read more

The Truth About Dragons

By: Julie Leung

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Truth About Dragons features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the giggles from hobgoblins and the sounds of waterfalls!

A Caldecott Honor Winner

The Truth About Dragons follows a young child on a journey guided by his mother's bedtime storytelling. He quests into two very different forests,... Read more