BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
The Portal Keeper
By: David A. Robertson
Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Eli and Morgan experience life-changing revelations in this new adventure in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series.
While exploring World’s End, an area in Aski they've just discovered, Morgan and Emily delight in their developing relationship, while Eli struggles to understand his new-found power: the ability... Read more
Separados no somos iguales
By: Duncan Tonatiuh
Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Siete años antes de Brown v. Board of Education, la familia Méndez luchó para acabar con la segregación en las escuelas de California. Descubre su increíble historia en este libro para niños del galardonado creador Duncan Tonatiuh. ¡Mención de Honor del Premio Pura Belpré al Ilustrador! Cuando su familia se mudó al pueblo de Westminster,... Read more
View audiobookThe Leftover Woman
By: Jean Kwok
Narrated by: Sura Siu & Caroline Hewitt
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Recommended by The New York Times • Elle • Good Morning America • TIME • People • New York Post • Real Simple • Goodreads • LibraryReads • and many more! An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women—from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie... Read more
View audiobookHomeward
By: Angela Jackson-Brown
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and no one—will ever be the same.Georgia, 1962. Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband and pregnant with another man’s baby. After tragedy strikes her husband in the war overseas, a numb Rose is left with pieces of who she used to be... Read more
View audiobookFamily Meal
By: Bryan Washington
Narrated by: André Santana, Bryan Washington & Jake Choi
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington Post
The ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's... Read more
Roommates
By: Ola Tundun
Narrated by: Savannah Davies
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Ariella Mason has the perfect life. Perfect job? Check. Perfect home? Check. Perfect fiancé? Check. None of this is by accident. Ariella is a card-carrying perfectionist. On the other side of the city lives Ariella’s polar opposite. Caleb Black is an unrepentant smart-ass, seat-of-his-pants, arrogant party-boy getting through life on... Read more
View audiobookBlack Grief/White Grievance
By: Juliet Hooker
Narrated by: Joana Garcia
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Joana Garcia reveals how race shapes expectations about whose losses matter
In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can’t always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up by white supremacy, whites (as a group) are... Read more
Dirty Flowers
By: Kenya Wright
Narrated by: Lacy Laurel & Tristan Josiah
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
As Emily and Kazimir navigate parenthood, darkness emerges to shatter their peace. The unspeakable has occurred, triggering the Lion to roar. Yet, when one thinks that the Lion and Mouse could never come back from the horror, they are empowered by not only their love, but also the undying support of their friends and family, who are just as... Read more
View audiobookOut of the Far North
By: Amir Tsarfati & Steve Yohn
Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Tensions are at a breaking point. The Western markets that once relied on Russian gas have turned to Israel for their energy needs. Furious at this interference in its control over the West, Russia demands that Israel stop its defensive military strikes against Iranian weapons transported into Syria. Weapons Israel knows are meant for the... Read more
View audiobookThe Lion and Mouse, Books #1-3
By: Kenya Wright
Narrated by: Ellis Evans & Shari Peele
Length: 27 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Included in this bundle are the first three books in Kenya Wright's The Lion and Mouse series: Book 1: Dirty Kisses Steamy romance and mind-blowing suspense collide in this BWWM romance about a Russian mafia boss and the one street smart woman he can’t control. Book 2: Dirty Love In book two of The Lion and Mouse, there are hearts to protect,... Read more
View audiobookThe Girl with Special Shoes
By: Hilda Bih Muluh
Narrated by: Hilda Bih Muluh
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Hilda’s family didn’t know she had muscular dystrophy. They just knew their preschooler was losing her ability to walk. But they were determined to find a cure.
Being disabled in Cameroon meant not only obstacles to transport, but visits to diviners and evangelists, threats of sexual assault, discrimination, and a crisis of faith. Despite the... Read more
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett
I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier.
Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man... Read more
Vlad, the Fabulous Vampire
By: Flavia Z. Drago
Narrated by: Marisa Blake
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Vlad is a vampire with the misfortune of having rosy cheeks that—gasp!—make him look abysmally alive. But being the fabulous vampire that he is (and hoping to avoid rejection), he hides his rosy complexion behind elaborate vampire outfits in traditional black. That is, he does until he finds out that his best friend has a pink secret of her... Read more
View audiobookVlad, el vampirito fabuloso
By: Flavia Z. Drago
Narrated by: Marisa Blake
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
¡A Vlad le fascina un atuendo estupendo! Y como a sus vampíricos amigos, le encanta vestirse de negro de pies a cabeza. Pero, a diferencia de todos los demás vampiros, Vlad tiene un par de mejillas rosas que lo hacen lucir horripilantemente vivo. ¿Cómo le hará para encajar con las demás criaturas paranormales? Vlad, siempre a la moda, intenta... Read more
View audiobookLandscapes
By: Christine Lai
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An entrancing and prismatic debut novel by Christine Lai, set in a near future fraught with ecological collapse, Landscapes brilliantly explores memory, empathy, preservation, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal.
In the English countryside—decimated by heat and drought—Penelope archives what remains of an estate's once notable... Read more
The Darkened Light of Faith
By: Melvin L. Rogers
Narrated by: Diontae Black
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Diontae Black gives a powerful account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy
Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to doubt America’s democratic... Read more
Lucky Girl
By: Scout Bassett
Narrated by: Scout Bassett
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Sprinter, long jumper, and Paralympian Scout Bassett shares the lessons she’s learned battling the toughest challenges facing young women today.
As an infant in China, Scout Bassett survived a fire that took her right leg. She spent the next seven years in an orphanage before being adopted and whisked away to the United States, where she felt... Read more
The Bodies Keep Coming
By: Dr. Brian H. Williams
Narrated by: Dr. Brian H. Williams
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to... Read more
View audiobookForever Home
By: Anh Lin
Narrated by: Anh Lin
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.Most of my childhood was spent in transition. . .Anh Lin knows something about displacement and belonging. When she was four, her family left their home in Vietnam and migrated to the United States where Anh experienced difficult, transient living situations, the inherited traumas of her parents, and—the summer before she... Read more
View audiobookViper's Dream
By: Jake Lamar
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Harlem, 1936. Clyde “The Viper” Morton boards a train from Alabama to Harlem to chase his dreams of being a jazz musician. When his talent fails him, he becomes caught up in the dangerous underbelly of Harlem’s drug trade, leaving him to decide what he's willing to give up and what he wants to fight for. A heartbreaking and fast-paced story... Read more
View audiobookAll Hope is Found
By: Sarah Jakes Roberts
Narrated by: Sarah Jakes Roberts
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.Hope is not a wish waiting to come true. It's not an external desire waiting to be realized. Hope is an ever-present reality regardless of how dire a situation may seem.
Undoubtedly, there are moments when hope is obscure. That's because hope has many hiding places. It hides behind heartbreak, camouflages in stress, and... Read more
Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior
By: Carole Lindstrom
Narrated by: Carole Lindstrom
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
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
The Garden Within
By: Dr. Anita Phillips
Narrated by: Anita Phillips & Sarah Jakes Roberts
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERFeatured on SUPER SOUL PODCAST hosted by Oprah Winfrey. Read by the author.Too often we’ve been taught to view our emotions with suspicion, seeing them as something to be suppressed, managed, or mastered. This isn’t true. Emotions are not your enemy. Internal war is not your destiny. You... Read more
View audiobookMay We Meet in the Heavenly World
By: Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Through both the biographical essay and the selections from Lemuel Haynes’s writings, readers are sure to perceive an Edwardsian sense of spirituality that ever lived in view of eternity. Well acquainted with difficulties, suffering, and death, Haynes’s ministry was infused with the unfailing hope of heaven. Read more
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