BIPOC Authors

You Are More Than You've Been Told

By: Hosanna Wong

Narrated by: Hosanna Wong

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author with pre-recorded spoken word performances of “I Have a New Name” and “Greatly Loved”!A Publisher's Weekly and ECPA bestsellerYou don't have to live disconnected from yourself or from God.Have you ever felt unseen, unwanted, or unworthy? If so, you're not crazy. You've been told lies your whole life. From the beginning of... Read more

Adversity for Sale

By: Jeezy

Narrated by: Jay "Jeezy" Jenkins

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author. NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERTo Jeezy’s legion of fans, his name is synonymous with hustle, grit, and the integrity to go out there and achieve your dreams. In his first book, Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe, Jeezy shares never heard stories of what it took for him to beat the odds and get out of the... Read more

How to Sit

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sit” = “Meditate.” Here are clear, simple directions for anyone wanting to explore mindfulness meditation.This first book in the Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness practice. In short, single-paragraph chapters, Nhat Hanh... Read more

Only the Dead Know Peace

By: Alberto Mansur

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Only the Dead Know Peace is a powerhouse book. An adrenaline-fueled epic that is authentic, propulsive, timely, and unforgettable. It will keep you on the edge of your seat till the very last page.” – Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling authorIn the spirit of The Cartel, The Little Drummer Girl, and I Am Pilgrim, Alberto Mansur’s debut... Read more

Kinauvit?

By: Norma Dunning

Narrated by: Norma Dunning

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"From the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System
In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the... Read more

I Will Greet the Sun Again

By: Khashayar J. Khabushani

Narrated by: Sean Rohani

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] masterful debut . . . a novel of survival and longing and love, and in many ways a modern portrait of an artist as a young man . . . a book written for us, we Iranian Americans whom you don’t often hear about.”—Porochista Khakpour, The Washington Post (Best Books of the Year)

“A triumph . . . a book of astonishing accomplishment and... Read more

Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

Narrated by: Nathaniel Curtis & Octavia Nyombi

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM BOOKRIOT AND BOOKPAGE

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is... Read more

Policing the Womb

By: Michele Goodwin

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the... Read more

Eco Girl

By: Ken Wilson-Max

Narrated by: Jade Wheeler

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Eve loves living next to a forest because it means being close to her favorite baobab trees. Doing her best to imitate them, Eve practices patience. She feeds and shelters birds, just as her beloved trees do, stretching toward the sky as if her arms were branches. Eve longs to communicate with the leafy giants she admires, and while she can’t... Read more

The Sun and the Void

By: Gabriela Romero Lacruz

Narrated by: Natalia Castellanos

Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Evocative and captivating. An enthralling tale of ancient gods, dangerous magic, family and love." ―​Sue Lynn Tan, author of Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Two women embark on a unforgettable quest that draws them into a world of dark gods and ancient magic in this sweeping fantasy debut inspired by the history and folklore of colonial South... Read more

For the Loot

By: Han Yang & Pearce Adams

Narrated by: Evan Sibley

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Bogart casts aside his humble origins, becoming an adventurer. He must gain levels in the guild and fight alongside his allies, both within and outside the law. For fame and fortune! Maybe even to save the world. But mostly for fame and fortune! You only get one chance at the big leagues, and nobody knows it better than Bogart. He's going... Read more

The Saad Truth about Happiness

By: Gad Saad

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor and “de facto global therapist” to an ever-growing audience of hundreds of thousands of people builds on national bestseller The Parasitic Mind to argue that happiness is not merely a changeable mood but a process toward which we can strive by following some basic steps that have been known to humans for millennia.Happiness is a factIt... Read more

Abeni's Song

By: P. Djèlí Clark

Narrated by: Funmi James

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

IN DARKNESS, A SONG CAN LEAD THE WAY. BEWARE WHICH ONE YOU LISTEN TO.

Abeni's Song by award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark is the enchanting beginning of an epic West African and African Diaspora-inspired fantasy adventure for middle-grade listeners about a reluctant apprentice to magic and the stolen villagers she sets out to save.

“Lush and... Read more

Doom Guy

By: John Romero

Narrated by: John Romero

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring autobiography of video game designer and DOOM cocreator John RomeroDoom Guy: Life in First Person is the long-awaited autobiography of gaming’s original rock star and the cocreator of DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein—some of the most recognizable and important titles in video game history. Credited with the invention of the... Read more

Telephone

By: Percival Everett

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area—the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon—he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college where... Read more

I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom

By: Shannon C. F. Rogers

Narrated by: Jensen Olaya

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Packed with voice, I’d Rather Burn than Bloom is a powerful young adult novel about a Filipina-American teen who tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother’s death.Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and... Read more

Those Who Saw the Sun

By: Jaha Nailah Avery

Narrated by: Jaha Nailah Avery, Arnell Powell & Kim Staunton

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our present day, but we would be wrong.

Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in... Read more

Unorthodox Love

By: Heidi Shertok

Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-nine year-old Penina longs for true love and marriage, but being infertile in the Orthodox Jewish community means she’s rarely matched with the cream of the crop—or even skim milk two weeks past its expiration date. Matchmakers either set her up with men twice her age or those with serious mommy issues. At this point, she might as well... Read more

Beyond the Story

By: BTS & Myeongseok Kang

Narrated by: Kim Young-Gi & Park Chan-won

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK—
Published in celebration of BTS’s 10th Anniversary, stories that go beyond what you already know about BTS.

After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut in June 2023. They have risen to the peak as an iconic global artist and during this... Read more

Goodbye Earl

By: Leesa Cross-Smith

Narrated by: Mela Lee, Kamali Minter, Sarah Beth Goer, Erin ...

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Four women take fate into their own hands in this big-hearted story of friendship, resilience, and revenge on monstrous men, from the award-winning author of Half-Blown Rose. 

Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart.
 
In 2004, Rosemarie,... Read more

The Archive Undying

By: Emma Mieko Candon

Narrated by: Yung-I Chang

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction.

WHEN AN AI DIES, ITS CITY DIES WITH IT
WHEN A CITY FALLS, IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHIND
WHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF, ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACK

When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed... Read more

The Blue Is Where God Lives

By: Sharon Sochil Washington

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing, powerful work of Afro-magic realism that reclaims the promise of a family's destiny through the bending of time

Blue’s daughter, Tsitra, is dying a violent and horrific death while, thousands of miles away, Blue feels the slowing of time and hears voices, followed by a stillness that befalls her for eighteen months.

More than a... Read more

black girl, no magic

By: Kimberly McIntosh

Narrated by: Kimberly McIntosh

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff ‘Witty, fresh and full of life’ Liv Little Kimberly McIntosh has lived a full life, with a loving family, messy friendships, mind-expanding travel and all-night... Read more

Decolonizing the Body

By: Kelsey Blackwell

Narrated by: Patryce Williams

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

As a woman of color, you are more likely to experience oppression, discrimination, and physical or sexual violence in your lifetime. In addition, your family may have experienced generational trauma and systemic racism going back for centuries. This old and new trauma can manifest in both the mind and body. However, there are ways you can free... Read more