BIPOC Authors

The World's End

By: Rin Chupeco

Narrated by: Cassie Simone

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

It's been three months since the Snow Queen and OzCorp infiltrated Maidenkeep and nearly seized the Nine Maidens. Ryker is still unconscious and the rest of the group is feeling the effects of the prolonged war. Not to mention that Abigail Fey's curse has far-reaching consequences, and many in the Royal States have been using it to stir unrest... Read more

Ghosts of Christmas

By: Kenya Wright

Narrated by: Ruthie Bowles

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Due to a traumatic family event on a past winter, Ivy doesn’t do emotions, love, or Christmas. Unfortunately, this year her best friend is having a destination Christmas wedding in Lapland, Finland—a winter wonderland full of holiday spirit. There, the air is fresh, crisp, and full of magic. Additionally, Ivy is the maid of honor, and she’ll be... Read more

Like Thunder

By: Nnedi Okorafor

Narrated by: Délé Ogundiran

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Niger, West Africa, 2077



I am the Desert Magician; I bring water where there is none.



This book begins with Dikéogu Obidimkpa slowly losing his mind. Yes, that boy who can bring rain just by thinking about it is having some . . . issues. Years ago, Dikéogu went on an epic journey to save Earth with the shadow speaker girl, Ejii Ubaid, who became... Read more

Kenyatta's Escape

By: Donald Goines

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Kenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto of all drug traffic and gunning down all the racist white cops! But a black and white detective team, Benson and Ryan, is on his tail and has discovered the location of his army's camp. Armed with tanks, they bring a bloody doomsday to his followers. In Kenyatta's Escape, Goines continues his story... Read more

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2

By: Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon

Narrated by: Gail Maurice

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.

For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego... Read more

A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day

By: Jackie Lau

Narrated by: Khristine Rivière

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Amber Wong has landed her dream job at the Stratford Festival, and life is looking good. Sure, she hasn't had sex in so long that her condoms have expired, but she'll just pick up some new ones, along with discounted Christmas chocolate, at the grocery store.



And that's where she runs into Dr. Sebastian Lam, the son of her parents' close friends,... Read more

Lilac

By: Asia Monique

Narrated by: Mari & Winston James

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ezra wasn't picture perfect, but he was perfect for me." —Lilac

Lilac Baker wasn't against finding love, but love never seemed to be close enough for her to grasp. With her big sister pregnant and living out her happy ending, Lilac has high hopes for her own fairy-tale beginning. Then, with the shutter of his Canon EOS, Ezra Fields walks into... Read more

A Bright Heart

By: Kate Chenli

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Mingshin outsmarted three princes to help the man she loved become king. But she doesn’t see Ren’s betrayal coming, not until she’s lying in a pool of her own blood on the palace steps. As she’s dying, Mingshin makes a desperate plea to the gods to turn back time and give her a chance to make things right. Mingshin wakes up two years earlier,... Read more

Journal of a Black Queer Nurse

By: Britney Daniels

Narrated by: Sanya Simmons

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19.



Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal... Read more

The Lunar New Year Surprise

By: Jade Wang

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

During the Lunar New Year festivities, can Gege find the perfect moment to present his handcrafted surprise to his little sister? This story will teach children what makes the Lunar New Year special, from the preparation responsibilities to the celebratory new moon signifying the first day of the holiday and the festivities that continue in the... Read more

A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

Narrated by: Michelle Porter, Jani Lauzon, Tara Sky, Tantoo ...

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them.

Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women... Read more

We Are the Crisis

By: Cadwell Turnbull

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEThe long-awaited sequel to No Gods, No Monsters from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull, We Are the Crisis sees humans and monsters clash as civil rights collide with preternatural forces.Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca’s old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace.The... Read more

Barbacoa, Bomba, and Betrayal

By: Raquel V. Reyes

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

A surprise trip to Miriam's parents in Punta Cana, which should be filled with arroz con pollo and breezy days under the tamarind tree, quickly becomes a hunt for a possible property saboteur. But before Miriam can begin to uncover the person damaging the vacation rentals her parents manage, she’s called away to Puerto Rico to film a Three Kings... Read more

Undisputed

By: Donovan Bailey

Narrated by: Donovan Bailey

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning world's fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.

From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to... Read more

Organ Meats

By: K-Ming Chang

Narrated by: Jen Zhao & Annie Q

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“In the phenomenal Organ Meats, two friends are bound by a red string, dog bloodlines, and the violence that is being a girl” (Ms. magazine)—from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Gods of Want.

“Organ Meats possesses something of the febrile intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, their laser focus on female... Read more

Juego de libertad

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Aunque se debate cuándo y dónde se originó exactamente la capoeira, una forma de arte que combina las artes marciales, la danza, las acrobacias, la música y la espiritualidad, una cosa es segura: a principios del siglo XX Brasil era el único país en el mundo en el que se jugaba a la capoeira, y era practicada principalmente por personas de... Read more

Aster of Ceremonies

By: JJJJJerome Ellis

Narrated by: JJJJJerome Ellis

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The Clearing, a “lyrical celebration of and inquiry into the intersections of blackness, music, and disabled speech” (Claudia Rankine).Aster of... Read more

Thriving with Anxiety

By: David H. Rosmarin

Narrated by: Mark Smeby

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the founder of Center for Anxiety and Harvard associate professor David H. Rosmarin, PhD, a practical guide to transforming your anxiety from a burden to a benefit.Those of us who suffer from anxiety either exhaust ourselves trying to cure it or resign ourselves to a lifetime of fear and worry. What if, instead of fighting our anxiety, we... Read more

Mind Over Matter

By: Jordin Tootoo & Stephen Brunt

Narrated by: Jordin Tootoo

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the bestselling success of the inspiring All the Way, pioneering Inuit NHLer Jordin Tootoo begins the process of healing in the wake of the suicide and violence that marks his family, only to discover the source of all that trauma in his father's secret past.

For some hockey players, retirement marks the moment when it’s all over. But... Read more

Life in Two Worlds

By: Ted Nolan

Narrated by: James Malloch

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

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In 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. But he wouldn’t work in pro hockey again for almost a decade. What happened?

Growing up on a First Nation reserve, young Ted Nolan built his own backyard hockey rink and wore skates many sizes too big. But poverty wasn’t his biggest challenge. Playing the game... Read more

House Gone Quiet

By: Kelsey Norris

Narrated by: James Fouhey, Jade Wheeler, Machelle Williams &...

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence | Named a Best Book of 2023 by Library Journal and Debutiful

An eerie, irresistible debut story collection about the bonds and bounds of community and what it means to call a place home, “perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood and Carmen Maria Machado” (Booklist).

“A writer to watch if there ever... Read more

One Hundred Days

By: Alice Pung

Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“A powerhouse story, a powerhouse voice, that wrestles with intragenerational fractures and complicated entanglements. At the center of the book is an obsessive kind of love, a love that gives but also takes, but a love that only forms from bonds forged in fire.”—Weike Wang, award-winning author of Joan Is Okay and ChemistryFrom one of... Read more

I Hope You Fail

By: Pinky Cole

Narrated by: Pinky Cole

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Pinky Cole—founder of the wildly successful restaurant chain Slutty Vegan—takes you back to your moments that seemed hopeless to help you discover how filled with possibility they really were.We've all been told we can't do it. That we're not enough. That we grew up in the wrong neighborhood or had the wrong parents or made... Read more

Just a Pinch of Magic

By: Alechia Dow

Narrated by: Renee Dorian & Amber Dekkers

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Wini's family of enchanters runs a little bakery, but with the prices of magical ingredients skyrocketing, they're going under. Desperate to save her family's business, Wini takes a risk by casting a (sort of illegal) spell that would allow them to gather their own supply of their most needed magical ingredient: love. But the spell doesn't work.... Read more