BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
Can't Help but Love You
By: Tay Mo'nae
Narrated by: Elena Campbell & Winston James
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Aisha owns her own printing company, creating custom shirts, mugs, and other things. She's guarded and has a hard time allowing men to get close to her on a serious level. One heartbreak was enough for her. She eventually learns the only one who can heal that hurt she felt years ago is the same guy who caused it. But is that possible knowing the... Read more
View audiobookThe True Story of Pocahontas
By: Dr. Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow & Angela L. ...
Narrated by: Rainy Fields
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people. Read more
View audiobookWealth Warrior
By: Linda Garcia
Narrated by: Linda Garcia
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This much-needed conversational guide to the stock market by a financial expert empowers you to heal money wounds, establish financial literacy, and make your money work for you.
Financial educator Linda García breaks down one of the most elusive yet effective financial systems in existence. A single mother at a young age, Linda struggled to... Read more
The Recall Paradox
By: Julian Ray Vaca
Narrated by: Sophia Courage & Tyler Kwiatkowski
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
What if everything you remember is a lie?Freya Izquierdo and Fletcher Cohen believe they’re done with top-secret memory knifing. After successfully hacking a terrorist’s memories and foiling the Memory Ghosts’ next attack, they spend their school break intending to clear Fletcher’s dad of being accused of colluding with the radical... Read more
View audiobookTalking Back
By: Bell Hooks
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In childhood, Bell Hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, Hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy. Among her discoveries is that moving from silence... Read more
View audiobookThe Ghosts of Rancho Espanto
By: Adrianna Cuevas
Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite role-playing game, than face his father’s increasing restrictions and his mother’s fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never... Read more
View audiobookAn Appetite for Miracles
By: Laekan Zea Kemp
Narrated by: André Santana & Stacy Gonzalez
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp’s heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must come together to heal the pain from their pasts, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nicola Yoon.
Danna Mendoza Villarreal’s grandfather is slowly losing himself as his memories fade, and Danna’s not sure her plan to help him remember through... Read more
Promposal
By: RaeChell Garrett
Narrated by: Henriette Zoutomou
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
An overachiever must decide if risking her heart by working with her former crush turned enemy is worth the reward in this snappy rom-com, perfect for fans of Tweet Cute and Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry.
High school senior Autumn Reeves has been waitlisted at her dream school. Determined to move to the top of the list, she must find a way to... Read more
Con Cuba en el bolsillo
By: Adrianna Cuevas
Narrated by: Juan Manuel Acuña Rodriguez
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Cuando la fallida invasión de Bahía de Cochinos en 1961 solidifica el poder de Castro en Cuba, la familia de Cumba, de 12 años, toma la difícil decisión de enviarlo a la Florida solo. Ante la idea de vivir en otro país por sí mismo, Cumba intenta recordar el sonido del clarinete de su padre, el olor del perfume de lavanda de su madre. La vida en... Read more
View audiobookPride
By: Victoria Christopher Murray
Narrated by: Lacy Laurel
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The 7 Deadly Sins series that inspired four Lifetime original movies continues with this unputdownable novel following mortgage broker Journee Alexander as she tries to escape the secrets of her past without losing all she has worked to build in the present.
Journee Alexander grew up believing that the only person she could depend on was... Read more
River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
Narrated by: Waceke Wambaa
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
When Akuany and her brother Bol are orphaned in a village raid in South Sudan, they’re taken in by a young merchant Yaseen who promises to care for them, a vow that tethers him to Akuany through their adulthood. As a revolutionary leader rises to power—the self-proclaimed Mahdi, prophesied redeemer of Islam—Sudan begins to slip from the grasp of... Read more
View audiobookA Living Remedy
By: Nicole Chung
Narrated by: Jennifer Kim
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKWinner, Tillie Olsen Award for Creative WritingNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * TodayFrom the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a... Read more
View audiobookButter
By: Gayl Jones
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares
“Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a Black woman writer, her truth-telling, filled with... Read more
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
By: Jeremie Harris
Narrated by: Jeremie Harris
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE 2024 NON-FICTION KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS OF CANADA AWARD
An entertaining and accessible dive into the riveting world described by quantum mechanics, from physicist, AI risk expert, and Hollywood “alternative reality” consultant Jérémie Harris.
Are human beings immortal? Are... Read more
Camp Zero
By: Michelle Min Sterling
Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Greta Jung & Emily Tremaine
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick
Libby Book Award Winner for Best Diverse Author
In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of researchers collide in this mesmerizing and transportive debut that “delivers its big ideas with suspense,... Read more
The Kevin Powell Reader
By: Kevin Powell
Narrated by: Kevin Powell
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Kevin Powell is one of the most prolific and acclaimed American writers, thinkers, activists, and public speakers of the past three decades. His writings are important contributions to our national conversations on race, gender, class, politics, pop culture, celebrity, hip-hop, and the past, present, and future of the United States.
The Kevin... Read more
Why Am I Like This?
By: Kobe Campbell
Narrated by: Kobe Campbell
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.Why does our past pain continue to affect our present?Though many of us can point to patterns of brokenness in our lives, we don’t know why they're there. No matter how hard we work, we can’t seem to outrun the very things that break our hearts. That's because our everyday setbacks are rooted in our unaddressed wounds.In Why... Read more
View audiobookTies That Bind
By: Brenda Jackson
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
It all started in college, in the turbulent sixties, when Randolph and Jenna became lovers. Randolph knew the moment he saw Jenna Haywood that he had to make her his. But the path to love is not an easy one. His wealthy Grandmother Julia disapproves of the match and unbeknowst to him, his brother’s seemingly docile fiancee has a few plans of her... Read more
View audiobookMurder on Bamboo Lane
By: Naomi Hirahara
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning author of the Japantown Mysteries, trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle . . .
Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it's still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate.
At... Read more
A Realistic Blacktopia
By: Derrick Darby
Narrated by: Diontae Black
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The United States is dogged by racism and racial disparities in income, wealth, health, education, and criminal justice. Philosophers disagree on what kind of politics is needed to address this problem. Do we pursue race-specific remedies to undo racism or do we assume the permanence of racism and opt for non-race-specific remedies in pursuit of... Read more
View audiobookWires that Sputter
By: Britta Badour
Narrated by: Britta Badour
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful debut collection from an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet.
Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Finalist
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Shortlist
Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Shortlist
Raymond Souster Award, Longlist
With propulsive, intimate stylings and an eye toward Black liberations, pop culture, sports, and familial fractures,... Read more
Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
Narrated by: Ainsleigh Barber, Aoife Hinds & Ioanna Kimbook
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a multicast narration.
"Aoife Hinds, Ioanna Kimbook, and Ainsleigh Barber perform this stunning debut historical novel, which follows three orphaned Vietnamese refugees." - AudioFile Magazine
"A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope."—Ocean Vuong
A boldly imagined debut novel about three... Read more
Outlaw Culture
By: Bell Hooks
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore Bell Hooks's electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As Hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture... Read more
View audiobookWorking to Restore
By: Esha Chhabra
Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2023 Porchlight Business Book Award and Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award winner
Dispatches from the regenerative landscape, where pioneering entrepreneurs use their businesses as catalysts of change to go beyond sustainability and solve social and environmental problems
Political upheaval and social turmoil have peeled back the glitzy layers of... Read more
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