BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
How to Fight Racism Young Reader's Edition
By: Jemar Tisby
Narrated by: Jemar Tisby
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Kids deal with racism and social justice issues every day; give them the tools to effectively fight injustices using Christian principles and practical tools. In this adaptation of How to Fight Racism, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Jemar Tisby helps young readers ages 8-12 understand how everyday prejudice affects them, what they can do... Read more
View audiobookFiona and Jane
By: Jean Chen Ho
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A TIME, NPR, VOGUE, OPRAH DAILY, AND VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)
One of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022
“Ho's debut work is the perfect modern example of great American fiction. . . . You will love it.” —Jake Tapper
“Intimate, cinematic. . . . The world Ho creates between the two women feels like one friend reading the other’s story,... Read more
Raising Free People
By: Akilah S. Richards
Narrated by: Akilah S. Richards
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy cause for some, it is not enough for countless others still trying to navigate the tyranny of what schooling has always been. Raising Free People argues that we need to build and work within systems designed for any human to... Read more
View audiobookThe Bride Experiment
By: MiMi Jefferson
Narrated by: Khalid Hill
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
James is days away from being married when he learns his fiancé Raquel has been keeping an explosive secret. Humiliated and with his reputation on the line, he sets out to destroy Raquel. The bride-to-be strikes back with a blow so intense it leaves James defenseless, with his life spiraling out of control.Within days, he is a shell of the... Read more
View audiobookOn Bended Knee
By: Brittney Holmes
Narrated by: D. S. VanNiel
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Nineteen-year-old Devon Torres has lived the past several years of his life dealing drugs and running the streets of South Atlanta. Separating himself from his family and clinging to his business, Devon recruits young teens throughout his neighborhood to help maintain order in the community. He seems to have everything figured out—until he meets... Read more
View audiobookYoung and Hungry
By: Michel Moore & Marlon P. S. White
Narrated by: Khalid Hill
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death …Not only is the city of Detroit bankrupt, it also has one of the highest murder rates in the country. When government-enforced power restrictions are applied, hell on earth becomes hotter in the already anything-goes, cutthroat city. Even the predators become prey. No loyalty, no... Read more
View audiobookDon’t Ask, Don’t Tell
By: M. T. Pope, Tina Brooks McKinney, Brenda Hampto...
Narrated by: Khalid Hill & Rhyan Neco
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married man who thinks he’s left his homosexual experiences in his past. What he didn’t count on was the high-ranking officer who forces a sexual relationship with him.After breaking off a relationship with her abusive girlfriend, Lauren Burns has finally made her dreams come true by becoming a member of the US... Read more
View audiobookSearching for Right
By: Brittney Holmes
Narrated by: D. S. VanNiel
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Lauren, Jayda, Danielle, and Brenda are finishing their senior year of high school. They seem to have perfect lives, but these girls have more to worry about than finals and college applications.Lauren has an inextinguishable infatuation with her history teacher, and she will do whatever it takes to get what she wants, even if it means hurting... Read more
View audiobookLose Your Mother
By: Saidiya Hartman
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of... Read more
View audiobookThey Don’t Play Fair
By: Clifford “Spud” Johnson
Narrated by: Tony Isabella
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Papio and Special are back! Their love for one another has withstood the drama and turmoil of their chaotic lives, but their thirst for the dollar has once again set them on a crash course for mayhem. They’ve accumulated a long list of enemies, and now it’s time to do battle. Calling on some strong allies to assist them, they insist that no one... Read more
View audiobookBecoming Abolitionists
By: Derecka Purnell
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day.Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: the police cannot... Read more
View audiobookAmira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds
By: Samira Ahmed
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From bestselling author Samira Ahmed comes a thrilling fantasy adventure intertwining Islamic legend and history, perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the Land of Stories.
On the day of a rare super blue blood moon eclipse, twelve-year-old Amira and her little brother, Hamza, can’t stop their bickering while attending a special exhibit on medieval... Read more
It Takes Two to Mango
By: Carrie Doyle
Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
After Plum Lockhart's job as a travel magazine editor is eliminated in corporate cuts, she decides she's sick of cold winters in NYC and fruitless swiping on dating apps?what she needs is a dramatic change of scenery. On a whim, she accepts a job as a villa broker and moves to a beautiful Caribbean island. However, paradise isn't as perfect as... Read more
View audiobookThe Passing Playbook
By: Isaac Fitzsimons
Narrated by: Jamie K. Brown
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
Love, Simon meets Bend It Like Beckham in this feel-good contemporary romance about a trans athlete who must decide between fighting for his right to play and staying stealth.
“A sharply observant and vividly drawn debut. I loved every minute I spent in this story, and I’ve never rooted harder for a jock in my life.” – New York Times bestselling... Read more
The Girl With Stars in Her Eyes
By: Xio Axelrod
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese & Tamika Simone
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Her name's Antonia "Toni" Bennette (yeah, she's heard all the jokes before) and she's not a rock star. Neither are the Lillys—not yet. But the difference between being famous and being almost famous can be a single wrong note... or the start of something that'll change your life forever. Growing up in dive bars up and down the East Coast, Toni... Read more
View audiobookJackson
By: LaQuette
Narrated by: Eboni Flowers
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
Aja Everett longs to turn her old family ranch into a place where anyone can find rest and healing. But her big heart's bound to get her in trouble if she's not careful—someone wants her gone, and they'll do whatever it takes to drive her away from the land that's her lifeblood. Whether she's willing to admit it or not, she needs help. She needs... Read more
View audiobookCrossfire
By: Staceyann Chin
Narrated by: Staceyann Chin
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book. According to The New York Times, Chin is “sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking.” The Advocate says that her poems “combine hilarious one-liners with a refusal to conform” and note “Chin is out to... Read more
View audiobookPen Pal (Prison Letters From A Free Spirit On Slow Death Row)
By: Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
Narrated by: Carl Weathers, Jack Daniel, Wendy Shapero, Lanc...
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Tiyo Attallah Salah-El died in 2018 on “Slow Death Row” while serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. He was a man with a dizzying array of talents and vocations: author, scholar, teacher, musician, and activist: he was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons. He was also, as is apparent from the letters written over... Read more
View audiobookForty Million Dollar Slaves
By: William C. Rhoden
Narrated by: William C. Rhoden
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says former New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the... Read more
View audiobookThe Leavers
By: Lisa Ko
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 14 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a... Read more
View audiobookGames without Rules
By: Tamim Ansary
Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan—a tribal universe of village republics... Read more
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