BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
Metaracism
By: Tricia Rose
Narrated by: Mela Lee & Tricia Rose
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives
In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and... Read more
The Only Constant
By: Najwa Zebian
Narrated by: Najwa Zebian
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
You can become the change driver of your own life. The celebrated poet, educator, and author of Welcome Home shows you how in this practical, wise, and tender guide to all of life’s changes.
“Change is hard—but Najwa shows you what’s on the other side, and she’s the one you want to lead you through it.”—Melissa Urban, New York Times bestselling... Read more
Gigi Shin Is Not a Nerd
By: Lyla Lee
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
This first book in a sparkling middle grade series “reminiscent of Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club books” (Kirkus Reviews) follows a young Korean American girl who starts a business with her best friends to support her artistic dreams.
Jiyoung “Gigi” Shin loves to create, from her zany outfits to self-executed haircuts. She dreams of becoming... Read more
American Negra
By: Natasha S. Alford
Narrated by: Natasha S. Alford
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY.In smart, vivid prose, Alford illustrates... Read more
View audiobookThe Washington Book
By: Carlos Lozada
Narrated by: Carlos Lozada
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion columnist at The New York Times and “an absolutely original genius” (Bob Woodward, The Washington Post) Carlos Lozada explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in doing so, illuminate the personal, political, and cultural conflictions driving Washington and the... Read more
View audiobookFathomfolk
By: Eliza Chan
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of revolution and magic set against the glittering, semi-submerged city of Tiankawi.
Welcome to Tiankawi – shining pearl of human civilization and a safe haven for those fleeing civil unrest. Or at least, that’s how it first appears.
But in the... Read more
The Three-Body Problem
By: Cixin Liu
Narrated by: Rosalind Chao
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by Rosalind Chao, who stars as Ye Wenjie in the Netflix adaptation, 3 Body Problem.
WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
Over 1 million copies sold in North America
“A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fascinating.”—TIME • “Extraordinary.”—The New... Read more
A Woman of Pleasure
By: Kiyoko Murata
Narrated by: Susan Momoko Hingley
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power... Read more
View audiobookBrooklyn
By: Tracy Brown
Narrated by: Keyonni James
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn’t who murdered her; the question is who wouldn’t?
Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away,... Read more
The American Daughters
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
“An enthralling tale of a secret resistance movement run by Black women in pre-Civil War New Orleans.”—Time
“Stirring . . . In telling this important, neglected history with imagination-fueled research, The American Daughters offers an inspiring story of people who show a way forward with their perseverance, bravery and love.”—The New York Times... Read more
Finally Heard
By: Kelly Yang
Narrated by: Sunny Lu & Kelly Yang
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes the sequel to Finally Seen “that tackles tweenhood and technology woes head-on” (School Library Journal, starred review) when Lina tries to navigate social media, only to discover not everything online is what it seems.
When ten-year-old Lina Gao sees her mom’s video on social media... Read more
Dawning And Resurgence
By: K.C. Mills
Narrated by: Reina Mystique & Winston James
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
“I’ll never ask for you to be with me, to love me, to appreciate me and what I have to offer. Everything I do will be for you. I will be unabashedly devoted to making you happy. The choice will always have to be yours. But if you continue to choose me? I promise to give you everything I am, everything I will ever be, everything you can even... Read more
View audiobookJoyFull
By: Radhi Devlukia-Shetty
Narrated by: Radhi Devlukia-Shetty
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
More than 125 plant-based recipes and a practical approach to making deeply flavorful food for feeling your best.
“What you eat—along with your daily habits and the thoughts you think—has the ability to completely transform every aspect of your health.” —Radhi Devlukia-Shetty
A passionate self-taught cook and... Read more
The Tennis Partner
By: Abraham Verghese
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend... Read more
View audiobookOutspoken
By: Sima Samar
Narrated by: Wajma Soroor & Sally Armstrong
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women.
“I have three strikes against me. I’m a woman, I speak out for women, and I’m Hazara, the most... Read more
And
By: Felicia Murrell
Narrated by: Felicia Murrell
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
While others often respond to the cares and concerns of our day through anger, And: The Restorative Power of Love in an Either/Or World attempts to offer a response steeped in the heartbeat of Love.
This book is an invitation to encounter the lived experience and philosophical musings of another as a human, not as a project or agenda to... Read more
But You Don't Look Arab
By: Hala Gorani
Narrated by: Hala Gorani
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt... Read more
View audiobookBatshit Seven
By: Sheung-King
Narrated by: Derek Kwan
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From Governor General's Award-nominated author Sheung-King comes a novel about a millennial living through the Hong Kong protests, as he struggles to make sense of modern life and the parts of himself that just won’t gel.
Glen Wu (aka Glue) couldn’t care less about his job. He’s returned to Hong Kong, the city he grew up in, and he’s... Read more
LatinoLand
By: Marie Arana
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 18 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
“A perfect representation of Latino diversity” (The Washington Post), LatinoLand draws from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research to give us both a vibrant portrait and the little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority, in “a work of prophecy, sympathy, and courage” (Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning... Read more
View audiobookSun of Blood and Ruin
By: Mariely Lares
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there’s a new vigilante in town serving justice. This reimagining of Zorro—featuring a heroic warrior sorceress—weaves Mesoamerican mythology and Mexican history two decades after the Spanish conquest into a swashbuckling, historical debut fantasy with magic, intrigue, treachery, and... Read more
View audiobookThe Temple of Persephone
By: Isabella Kamal
Narrated by: Susan Duerden
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Bridgerton meets Greek mythology in Isabella Kamal’s delightful historical romance debut, The Temple of Persephone.Persephone Honeyfield is witty, intelligent, and very aware that the only way to escape the monotony of the life she shares with her father and sister in the English countryside—and the wagging, ever-critical tongues of the people... Read more
View audiobookThe Diablo's Curse
By: Gabe Cole Novoa
Narrated by: Vico Ortiz
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Bargain and Most Ardently comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill--about a teen demon who wants to be human, a boy cursed to die young, and the murderous island destined to bury them both.
Dami is a demon determined to cancel every deal they've ever... Read more
Slow Noodles
By: Chantha Nguon
Narrated by: Clara Kim
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen.
Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and one wholesale... Read more
Sito
By: Laurence Ralph
Narrated by: Andre Santana
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting and heart-wrenching story of violence, grief and the American justice system, exploring the systemic issues that perpetuate gang participation in one of the wealthiest cities in the country, through the story of one teenager.
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the... Read more
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