BIPOC Authors

Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)

By: Samanta Schweblin

Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi, Gisela Chipe, Ines del Castil...

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature

A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine

The seven houses in these... Read more

Scars and Stars

By: Jesse Thistle

Narrated by: Jesse Thistle

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of the #1 bestselling memoir From the Ashes.

Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout this bestselling memoir. In Scars and Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is... Read more

El eclipse total de Néstor López

By: Adrianna Cuevas

Narrated by: Zac Aleman

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Después de que el papá de Néstor se marcha a otra misión, el muchacho y su mamá se mudan a un nuevo pueblo a vivir con su abuela. Néstor planea pasar desapercibido, y de ninguna manera quiere que nadie sepa su secreto más profundo: que puede hablar con los animales. Pero cuando los animales del pueblo comienzan a desaparecer, la abuela de... Read more

Black Women Will Save the World

By: April Ryan

Narrated by: April Ryan

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this long-overdue celebration of Black women’s resilience and unheralded strength, the revered, trailblazing White House correspondent reflects on “The Year That Changed Everything”—2020—and African-American women’s unprecedented role in upholding democracy.“I am keenly aware that everyone and everything has a story,” April D. Ryan... Read more

Speaking my Soul

By: John Russell Rickford

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its... Read more

Partners in Crime

By: Alisha Rai

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Shahjehan Khan

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Indian Matchmaking meets Date Night in this fun, romantic adventure by Alisha Rai -- “One of the very brightest romance writers working right now.” (Entertainment Weekly)Mira Patel’s got a solid accounting career, good friends, and a whole lot of distance between her and her dysfunctional family. All that’s missing is a stable romantic... Read more

The Bennetts' Christmas

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s been fifteen years and now those Bennett girls are all grown up, finished with college and ready to take on the world in their new careers. Close as ever, Kennedy, Victoria, Monica and Sebrina decide not to return to Georgia, but to move north to St. Paul, Minnesota. They have plans to succeed at all of their goals. Falling in love isn’t on... Read more

Let Your Light Shine

By: Ali Smith, Atman Smith & Andres Gonzalez

Narrated by: Ali Smith, Atman Smith, Andres Gonzalez & Sean ...

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This story of three men's work helping traumatized kids in one of America’s most underserved cities reveals how mindfulness tools can help children and communities not only survive but thrive

 In this inspiring book, founders of The Holistic Life Foundation Ali Smith, Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez describe how they have spent the past twenty... Read more

Firewater

By: Harold R. Johnson

Narrated by: Kairyn Potts

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol—its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many... Read more

Book of Wings

By: Tawhida Tanya Evanson

Narrated by: Athena Karkanis

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one’s own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist traces a global journey from Vancouver to the United States, Caribbean, Paris, and Morocco as a relationship... Read more

Black Panther

By: Sheree Renée Thomas & Marvel

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow Wakanda’s high-tech king across the savannah, into the deepest jungles, and up snow-capped mountains in this prose adaptation of the landmark comics series by Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, and Billy Graham. This arc expands on the life and culture of the Wakandans, also introducing us to Panther’s historic enemies. See T’Challa channel the... Read more

The Impatient

By: Djaili Amadou Amal

Narrated by: Liz Femi

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, heartrending, and insightful novel of a trio of women in Cameroon who dare to rebel against oppressive, long-held cultural traditions—including polygamy and domestic abuse—that define and limit their lives.Three women, three stories, three linked destinies . . .In North Cameroon, well-to-do young Ramla is torn from her true love and... Read more

Viral Justice

By: Ruha Benjamin

Narrated by: Ruha Benjamin

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Ruha Benjamin offers an inspiring and uniquely personal vision of how we can build a more just world one small change at a time

“A book as urgent as the moment that produced it.”—Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School

Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and... Read more

On the Hustle

By: Adriana Herrera

Narrated by: Lola James & Sean Crisden

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Adriana Herrera writes all my favorite things, and I’ll never get enough of her books!" --Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

Alba Duarte is the queen of the side hustle.

As the eldest daughter in her crisis-prone family, she’s always stepped up to help. Her favorite gig is doing Instagram-worthy,... Read more

Rain Is Not My Indian Name

By: Cynthia L. Smith

Narrated by: Rainy Fields

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In a voice that resonates with insight and humor, New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith tells the story of a teenage girl who must face down her grief and reclaim her place in the world with the help of her intertribal community. It's been six months since Cassidy Rain Berghoff’s best friend, Galen, died, and up until now she... Read more

The Picture Bride

By: Lee Geum-yi

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"With the mellifluous tones of shakuhachi music setting the story, listeners are taken to a time and place far from the current era. Aurally illustrating the young bride’s quietly independent nature, Osmanski’s performance draws listeners into Willow’s story." - Library Journal

“Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history... Read more

The Essential Dick Gregory

By: Dick Gregory

Narrated by: Joe Morton, Christian Gregory, Andre Gaines & A...

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Narrated by Audie, Emmy, and NAACP® Image Award-winning actor, Joe Morton, and joined by Christian Gregory and Afrika K. Kenjyatta. A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography... Read more

Sinister Graves

By: Marcie R. Rendon

Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Minnesota, 1970s: A snowmelt has sent floodwaters down to the fields of the Red River Valley, dragging the body of an unidentified Native woman into the town of Ada. The only evidence the medical examiner recovers is a torn piece of paper inside her bra: a hymn written in English and Ojibwe.

Cash Blackbear, a 19-year-old, tough-as-nails Ojibwe... Read more

Will Do Magic for Small Change

By: Andrea Hairston

Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal & Andre Santana

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea Hairston’s historical fantasy Will Do Magic for Small Change presents a tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other.

Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire, but she’s always been theatrically challenged. That won’t... Read more

The Sacrifice

By: Rin Chupeco

Narrated by: Pun Bandhu

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An island oasis turns deadly when a terrifying legend threatens to kill off visitors one by one in this haunting novel from the highly acclaimed author of The Girl from the Well and the Bone Witch trilogy.Pristine beaches, lush greenery, and perfect weather, the island of Kisapmata would be the vacation destination … if not for the curse. The... Read more

Race Rebels

By: Robin DG Kelley

Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured—until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present. Read more

Nikhil Out Loud

By: Maulik Pancholy

Narrated by: Maulik Pancholy

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Middle GradeFrom the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor–winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. For fans of Merci Suárez Changes Gears and Better Nate Than Ever.Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah... Read more

Jesus and the Disinherited

By: Howard Thurman

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Famously known as the text that Martin Luther King Jr. sought inspiration from in the days leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott, Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited helped shape the civil rights movement and changed our nation’s history forever.

In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader... Read more

The Empress of Time

By: Kylie Lee Baker

Narrated by: Rebecca Yeo

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ren Scarborough is no longer the girl who was chased out of England—she is the Goddess of Death ruling Japan’s underworld. But Reapers have recently been spotted in Japan, and it’s only a matter of time before Ivy, now Britain’s Death Goddess, comes to claim her revenge. Ren’s last hope is to appeal to the god of storms and seas, who can turn... Read more