BIPOC Authors

The Anti-Viral Gut

By: Robynne Chutkan, MD

Narrated by: Robynne Chutkan, MD

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A practical plan for strengthening the incredible antiviral defenses located in your gut and resolving symptoms—from a renowned gastroenterologist and the author of Gutbliss.

Multiple studies have now confirmed a dramatic link between the health of our microbiome—the trillions of bacteria that live in our digestive tract—and our likelihood of... Read more

Brave Enough to Be Broken

By: Toni Collier

Narrated by: Toni Collier

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author with an audiobook-exclusive episode of Still Coloring with Toni Collier and bonus prayers for women in ministry and those going through divorce.None of us are perfect. And that is okay!  Trauma, abuse, childhood wounds, and toxic relationships have broken us. But there is no shame in brokenness. In fact, it’s in our brokenness... Read more

Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon

Narrated by: Terrence Kidd

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of listeners.



A major influence on civil rights,... Read more

Hold You Down

By: Tracy Brown

Narrated by: Patryce Williams

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Hold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties that bind…

New York City. Late 1980s to early 1990s.

Mercy and Lenox Howard have always only had each other. Growing up on the mean streets of Harlem with an absentee mother meant that they had to have each other's backs. Now young, smart mothers they... Read more

A Quiet Teacher

By: Adam Oyebanji

Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Abimbola is a language teacher at the prestigious Calderhill Academy in Pittsburgh. Only that's not his real name or the only secret he's hiding. Greg has a closetful. When the murder of a wealthy parent on school premises shines an unwanted spotlight on Calderhill Academy, Greg is determined to avoid attention—that is until the closest... Read more

The Best American Essays 2022

By: Alexander Chee & Robert Atwan

Narrated by: Ewan Chung, William DeMeritt, Tyla Collier, Rai...

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. Read more

A Black Theology of Liberation

By: James H. Cone

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

With the publication of his two early works, Black Theology & Black Power (1969) and A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), James Cone emerged as one of the most creative and provocative theological voices in North America. His books offered a searing indictment of white theology and society and introduced a radical presentation of the... Read more

Building a Family of Faith

By: Andy Dooley

Narrated by: Andy Dooley

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Whether your family has been doing devotions for years or this is your first time introducing them, Building a Family of Faith--recently featured on GMA3--is just what you need to help your family connect with one another, grow in faith, and learn how physical activity can influence your relationships and your faith.Who better... Read more

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Jaime Green

Narrated by: Tracey Leigh, Jennifer Aquino, Ulka Simone Moha...

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green. Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, renowned marine biologist and co-founder of the All We Can Save climate initiative, compiles the best science and nature writing of the... Read more

Someday, Maybe

By: Onyi Nwabineli

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB PICK • A LIBRARYREADS PICK

“If you are someone who gravitates toward emotional gut punch reads, allow me to introduce you to this spectacular debut…”—BuzzFeed

Here are three things you should know about my husband: He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going... Read more

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Marple: The Complete Story Collection gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It’s an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest short form fiction in the crime fiction field, and is... Read more

The Game

By: Micah Richards

Narrated by: Delon Jessop

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

‘The game isn’t what it seems from the outside. The game isn’t quite what I was expecting. The game doesn’t always work like the people on television think it does. The game is better, worse and stranger than you can imagine, and that is coming from someone who saw it all with their own eyes.’ ... Read more

Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking

By: Raquel V. Reyes

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Fall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking-show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school's Fall Festival the day before. Miriam's luck does not improve. Her passive-aggressive mother-in-law puts her in... Read more

Working Girls

By: Trixie Mattel & Katya

Narrated by: Trixie Mattel & Katya

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova took the world by storm with their Guide to Modern Womanhood, a book of expert advice on beauty, homemaking, and relationships. Now they’re tackling an even bigger challenge: finding success in the modern workplace.

In Working Girls, Trixie and Katya dole out both savvy and satirical advice for every stage... Read more

Anywhere You Run

By: Wanda M. Morris

Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Shayna Small & Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As Seen on The TODAY Show!Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * CrimeReadsFrom the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in... Read more

The Seven Circles

By: Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins

Narrated by: Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this revolutionary self-help guide, including audiobook exclusive exercises, two beloved Native American wellness activists offer wisdom for achieving spiritual, physical, and emotional wellbeing rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge.When wellness teachers and husband-wife duo Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins founded their Indigenous... Read more

Uphill

By: Jemele Hill

Narrated by: Jemele Hill

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"[Hill] narrates the facts of her path with understandable pride but without bragging. Even difficult career choices, such as her decision to leave ESPN, are presented in a thoughtful way, though it is clear that Hill still feels deeply about the choices she made. Every story told is more powerful for being... Read more

Origins, Revised and Updated

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Donald Goldsmith

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and crosspollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This revised and updated edition features such startling discoveries as... Read more

The Outlaw's Claim

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

These friends with benefits are about to become parents…and all bets are off! A Westmoreland Legacy: The Outlaws story from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson.

From friends to lovers to…

having a baby?

Maverick Outlaw is a man who knows his own mind—and he knew from the beginning that a fling with longtime friend Sapphire Bordella... Read more

Behind Her Lives

By: Briana Cole

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrets, suspense, and a missing sister—who may not want to be found—are at the center of Briana Cole's latest enthralling multicultural drama. Will appeal to fans of psychological suspense, gritty drama, and listeners of De'Nesha Diamond, Kiki Swinson, Saundra, Wahida Clark, Ashley & JaQuavis, Victoria Christopher Murray, and Shelly... Read more

The Read Aloud Factor

By: Rekha S. Rajan

Narrated by: Subhadra Newton

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

New neuroscience research is showing us the long-term impact that reading aloud has on children, stretching all the way into adulthood. We have always known that reading aloud is an important way to bond with your baby and develop language skills. But the latest research, led by author Rekha S. Rajan, shows that individuals who were read to more... Read more

A Touch of Moonlight

By: Yaffa S. Santos

Narrated by: Diana Pou

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

""A delicious culinary romance."" —BooklistFrom the author of A Taste of Sage comes another charming and engrossing novel in which a young woman must navigate her family’s expectations, the demands of her job, a new love, and a secret about her magical identity.Larimar Cintrón works hard at three things: her job as brand manager for Beacon Café,... Read more

All Roads Home

By: Bryan Trottier

Narrated by: Sheldon Elter, Jesse Thistle, Lindsy Ruthven & ...

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada's most decorated Indigenous athlete.

Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion (four with the New York Islanders, two with the... Read more

Running While Black

By: Alison Mariella Désir

Narrated by: Alison Mariella Désir

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing exposé on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimagine the industry

“Runners know that running brings us to ourselves. But for Black people, the simple act of running has never been so simple. It is a declaration of the right to move through the world. If running is claiming public space, why, then,... Read more