BIPOC Authors

Before Your Memory Fades

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Narrated by: Kevin Shen

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

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The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time.

On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is... Read more

Lost to the World

By: Shahbaz Taseer

Narrated by: Adam Karim

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Shahbaz Taseer’s memoir of his five-year-long captivity at the hands of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

In late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Taliban-affiliated Uzbek terrorist group.... Read more

Faith Still Moves Mountains

By: Harris Faulkner

Narrated by: Harris Faulkner & Minnie Belle

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From FOX News anchor and author Harris Faulkner comes a collection of powerful, true-life stories of resilience, healing, rescue, and protection.We need reminders of God’s power now more than ever.We often think about prayer as a wish list, with God as Santa Claus. The reality is that the power of prayer reminds us not only how small we are, but... Read more

The Idea of Prison Abolition

By: Tommie Shelby

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by J. D. Jackson offers an incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment

Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences... Read more

Pride and Protest

By: Nikki Payne

Narrated by: Kacie Rogers & Ron Nery, Jr.

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Phenomenal Book Club pick for November 2022!

A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood in this fresh and modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by debut author Nikki Payne.
 
Liza B.—the only DJ who gives a jam—wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer... Read more

Idol, Burning

By: Rin Usami

Narrated by: Mirai

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

""Akari’s obsession is fatalistic and intense, and Usami’s prose (translated by Asa Yoneda) renders it and the hold it has on her tenuous life ably and affectingly. . . . it will especially resonate with readers familiar with real-life superfandoms such as One Direction’s at the height of its fame, down to details such as sought-after exclusive... Read more

The Good Fight

By: Shirley Chisholm

Narrated by: Marcella Cox

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman and person of color—a work of immense historical importance that both captures and transcends its times, newly reissued to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of her campaign.“Shirley Chisholm created a... Read more

Aliens: Vasquez

By: V. Castro

Narrated by: Lauren Rodriguez

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking Latinx Aliens novel by a rising star Latina author, featuring the fan-favorite character PFC Jenette Vasquez from the hit movie Aliens and the family she is forced to leave behindEven before the doomed mission to Hadley’s Hope on LV-426, Jenette Vasquez had to fight to survive. Born to an immigrant family with a long military... Read more

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom

By: Rabia Chaudry

Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!”
—Valerie Bertinelli

From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes... Read more

Defend Us in Battle

By: George Monsoor

Narrated by: Zach Hoffman & John Behrens

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

On September 29, 2006, Michael Monsoor and three SEAL snipers watched vigilantly for enemy activity from their rooftop post in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. When a grenade thrown from insurgents bounced off Michael's chest, he could have escaped. Instead, he threw himself onto the live grenade, shielding his fellow soldiers from the immediate explosion.... Read more

Never Name the Dead

By: D.M. Rowell

Narrated by: Katie Anvil Rich

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so wrong that she catches the next plane to Oklahoma. She never expected to be plunged into a web of theft,... Read more

The Stories We Tell

By: Joanna Gaines

Narrated by: Joanna Gaines

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

READ BY THE AUTHORAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERImagine if all the worn-out, untrue, painful chapters of our lives started to quiet, and the beautiful, unique pieces of who we are were to rise. Imagine if the stories we tell brought us back to our true selves, back to one another. Imagine if they spoke of how we loved and lost and tried... Read more

Love Led by the Spirit

By: Pat Simmons

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Minister Rossi Tolliver is ready to settle down, but there is a good reason he isn't married. Besides the outward attraction, he desires a woman who is sweet, humble, and loves the Lord. As the family minister, everybody had an opinion about what type of woman would be his perfect mate: one not prone to anger, have a gentle spirit, be kind to... Read more

The Artisans

By: Shen Fuyu

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family of farmers. Years later, Shen, now a writer, returned to his hometown to capture the village's rich history in the face of industrialization.



Through his own childhood memories and those of his ancestors, Shen resurrects the working life of Shen Village through interlinked... Read more

Witnesses for the Dead

By: Gary Phillips

Narrated by: Robertson Dean, Graciela Jones, Tamika Katon-Do...

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by recent true events, the all-original stories in Witnesses for the Dead are set in motion by the act of witnessing. The characters who populate these pages are not themselves the perpetrators of crimes, but find their lives indelibly
changed by what they see as they grapple with coming forward, taking action, or retreating into the... Read more

Unbought and Unbossed

By: Shirley Chisholm

Narrated by: Marcella Cox

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic work—a blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today—the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New York’s dynamic representative Shirley Chisholm, traces her extensive political struggle and examines the problems that have long plagued the American system of... Read more

Marked for Life

By: Isaac Wright, Jr.

Narrated by: Isaac Wright, Jr.

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author, Isaac Wright Jr.

An empowering memoir of courage and hope in the face of injustice—and the basis for the ABC television show, For Life—Marked for Life is the true story of Isaac Wright Jr.’s battle to win his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and a critical indictment of... Read more

How We Heal

By: Alexandra Elle

Narrated by: Alexandra Elle

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved wellness author and teacher Alexandra Elle shares this practical and empowering guide to self-healing.

In How We Heal, bestselling author Alexandra Elle offers a life-changing invitation to heal yourself and reclaim your peace. In these pages, readers will discover essential techniques for self-healing, including journaling rituals to... Read more

Morning Sun in Wuhan

By: Ying Chang Compestine

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What was the pandemic of the century like at the start? This swift, gripping novel captures not only the uncertainty and panic when COVID first emerged in Wuhan, but also how a community banded together. Weaving in the tastes and sounds of the historic city, Wuhan’s comforting and distinctive cuisine comes to life as the listener... Read more

Better than Fiction

By: Alexa Martin

Narrated by: Nicole Lewis

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you think life is better than fiction, then you haven’t read Alexa Martin’s fiction."—NPR

One of...
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Love isn’t always by the book... Read more

A Sweet Lowcountry Proposal

By: Preslaysa Williams

Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Preslaysa Williams, author of the “emotionally stirring debut” A Lowcountry Bride (Oprah Daily), returns to the Lowcountry with a heartwarming story about a second chance romance.
It was supposed to be the happiest day of Jaslene Simmons’ life, the day she’d say “I do” to Marcus Clark. But when her sister dies in a tragic accident everything... Read more

Two Old Broads

By: Dr. M. E. Hecht & Whoopi Goldberg

Narrated by: Devon O'Day & Jackie Schlicher

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by renowned surgeon and expert on the art of aging, Dr. M.E. Hecht, with her friend Whoopi Goldberg lending her unique point of view, Two Old Broads is laugh out loud funny and?tells it like it is for all of us who left middle age in the dust and want to be present, positive, and as extraordinary as ever in our golden years.Whoopi joins... Read more

The Real Odessa

By: Uki Goñi

Narrated by: Pat Grimes

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

As Russian forces closed in on Berlin and Hitler’s premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goñi unravels the complex network that led them to Argentina. Relying on international support—in Scandinavia, Switzerland, and Italy—and the enthusiasm of... Read more

The Best American Food Writing 2022

By: Sohla El-Waylly & Silvia Killingsworth

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah, Pun Bandhu, Ashley Bryant, Dani ...

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of... Read more