BIPOC Authors

Ajay and the Treasure of Thar

By: Varsha Shah

Narrated by: Susheel Kumar

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When eight-year-old Kai – custodian of a legendary treasure map – asks the Mumbai Sun team for help, Ajay knows he has landed on his next story.

The team is propelled into a journey through the Blue City of Jodhpur, to the temples of Ranakpur, and the desert city of Jaisalmer.

But a dastardly billionaire treasure hunter has heard of the map too .... Read more

Dancers of the Dawn

By: Zulekhá A. Afzal

Narrated by: Safiyya Ingar

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Deep in the desert a storm is brewing. The first in a slow burning YA romantasy.

'Enchanting.' Katharine Corr, co-author of Daughter of Darkness

Under the blazing sun, an elite troupe of dancers are trained to harness their magic. They are the queen's most formidable assassins. Aasira has one of the rarest talents – for she is a flame-wielder.... Read more

Better Must Come

By: Desmond Hall

Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Barely Missing Everything meets American Street in this fiercely evocative, action-packed young adult thriller that looks at the darker side of light-filled Jamaica and how a tragedy and missing drug money helplessly entangle the lives of two teens who want to change their fate.

Deja is a “barrel girl”—one of the Jamaican kids who get barrels... Read more

The Spindle of Fate

By: Aimee Lim

Narrated by: Jennifer Sun Bell

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When Evie Mei discovers that her recently passed mother was the head of a guild of magical weavers, she enters the Chinese netherworld to try and bring her back in this middle-grade debut. Twelve-year-old Evie Mei Huang never did like helping in her mom’s tailor shop. She hated dyeing and spooling the thread and how the measuring tape gets all... Read more

Farewell, Amethystine

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From “master of the genre” (Washington Post) Walter Mosley, Detective Easy Rawlins’ latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia—blinding him to reason and risk.

January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations.  He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a... Read more

Gay the Pray Away

By: Natalie Naudus

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Valerie Danners is in a cult. She just doesn’t know it yet. When she finds a queer book at the library and smuggles it home, her conservative Christian homeschooling world begins to crack. And when the cutest girl she’s ever met shows up to Bible class, she starts to question everything.Riley is so confident and kind, and she and Valerie bond... Read more

Bow Down

By: Authoress Masterpiece

Narrated by: Jamal Roque & Charlie L. Wood

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

She never thought that she would beg or even bow… Markela, aka Bossi, is in a league of her own. She has written off love based on her past and what was displayed to her as a child. She is a beautiful full-figured woman thriving and maintaining her rehab clinics that were passed down to her from her mother. Trauma keeps her locked into a world... Read more

Pardon My Frenchie

By: Farrah Rochon

Narrated by: J.Y. Kora & Redd Vines

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

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

12 Trips in 12 Months

By: Jen Ruiz

Narrated by: Jen Ruiz

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A LibraryReads pick for Notable NonfictionOne of Book Riot’s 10 Best New Nonfiction Books for AdultsBestselling author Jen Ruiz takes readers on a trip around the globe in 12 Trips in 12 Months, defying societal expectations of what a woman is supposed to be—and empowering others to do the same.The year before her thirtieth birthday, Jen Ruiz... Read more

Everything and Nothing at Once

By: Joél Leon

Narrated by: Joél Leon

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author and combines several original tracks from Joél Leon and his collaborators, Arthur Lewis and Trevon Squirewell, and a thought-provoking collection of essays. Everything and Nothing at Once is an all-encompassing audio experience.

For readers of Heavy, Punch Me Up to The Gods, and A Little Devil in America, a... Read more

Understanding the Purpose and Power of Authority

By: Myles Monroe

Narrated by: Preston Butler

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We often view authority as something oppressive, stifling, even fearful. And sometimes—perhaps too often—those impressions bear out in reality. We live in an era of overstepped boundaries and abuse in many fields of life, so that authority has become the enemy.
 
We may also have a limited idea of what authority means. Even with legitimate... Read more

¡Vamos! Let's Go Read

By: Raúl The Third

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival that the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone.... Read more

The War We Won Apart

By: Nahlah Ayed

Narrated by: Nahlah Ayed

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII.

On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing... Read more

A Little Kissing Between Friends

By: Chencia C. Higgins

Narrated by: Lauryn Nichols & J. Shani Michaels

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Triumphantly Black, queer and contemporary… The dialogue snaps and shimmers.” —New York Times Book Review on D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding

Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the studio to the flirty femmes she fools around with. Her ever-rotating roster has never been a problem until her... Read more

Goddess of the River

By: Vaishnavi Patel

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from Vaishnavi Patel, author of the instant New York Times bestseller Kaikeyi.

A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world.

Ganga, joyful goddess of the river, serves as... Read more

Consecrated Ground

By: Virginia Black

Narrated by: Trei Taylor

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Consecrated Ground is a multiracial lesbian paranormal tour de force that will leave you wary of the shadows and absolutely breathless.



Like her father before her, Joan Matthews is a witch. For generations, their family of binder witches has protected Calvert, Oregon from vampires by strengthening the land with spellcraft. Pushing back against... Read more

Freeset

By: Sarina Dahlan

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Sequel to the #1 bestseller Reset, Freeset is an intricate sci-fi story about found family, building hope, and learning to trust your inner voice.Can true love break you free?When calamity destroyed most of humanity, the Four Cities survived by carefully predicting and meticulously controlling everything in the survivors’ lives—even love. As... Read more

A Gamble at Sunset

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Bianca Drew

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgina Wilcox, a wallflower with hidden musical talents, is furious when her reclusive older sister—the recently widowed Viscountess—refuses sorely needed help from the Duke of Torrance, the only gentleman who has shown kindness to the bereft Wilcox sisters. Georgina decides to get back at her sister and shock the Viscountess by kissing the... Read more

How to Tell the Truth

By: Preston Perry

Narrated by: Preston Butler

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Preston Perry’s path toward God. A hope-filled apologetics and evangelism book written by the popular cohost of the podcast, With the Perrys. Includes a foreword by Jackie Hill Perry.

In this compelling and gripping book, Preston tells the story of how God chased him. The streets of Chicago were his home, and it was there that he... Read more

Finders Keepers

By: Sandra Kitt

Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As a charter-school director, Olivia Cameron is no stranger to everyday unexpected surprises. But when she finds money (and lots of it) hidden behind false walls in the home she inherited, an extremely unusual problem falls into her lap. Now, she's under the watchful eye of local FBI agent Sloan Kendrick as he investigates where the money came... Read more

Until I'm Yours

By: Kennedy Ryan

Narrated by: Jill Redfield & Connor Crais

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Ryan delivers a scorching romance where one man must earn the trust of a woman with diamond-hard defenses in order to win her heart.

The world knows her face . . .

Mean girl. Goddess. Bitch. Supermodel Sofie Baston has earned those labels . . . yet they don't scratch the surface of who she really is. Before she... Read more

The DIVA Principle

By: McKinney Michelle Hammond

Narrated by: McKinney Michelle Hammond

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep inside the heart of every woman is a diva just waiting to be released. It lies underneath all of the other things she has supposedly “learned” about herself—truth, fiction, deception, or just the superimposed bad feelings of others who’ve tried to smother the diva within. Although the word diva now evokes the image of a vain or... Read more

The Third Perspective

By: Africa Brooke

Narrated by: Africa Brooke

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In our deeply divided, binary world, honest discussion is stressful for all sides. Entrepreneur and thought leader Africa Brooke charts a path for understanding in this groundbreaking guide for finding common ground.

In this manifesto, Africa teaches us how to return to critical thinking and reduce societal divides by opening our minds and being... Read more

The Dangerous Ones

By: Lauren Blackwood

Narrated by: Angel Pean & Jay Ben Markson

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"A perfect mix of MAGIC, VAMPIRES, STAR-CROSSED LOVE, and writing as SHARP AND DEADLY a spear." - Nisha J. Tuli, author of Trial of the Sun Queen

THE THRILLING ROMANTASY FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LAUREN BLACKWOOD!

One vampire to kill. Another to love.

War doesn’t scare Jerusalem. She’s a Saint. Thanks to powerful demigod-style... Read more