BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
Decolonizing Wellness
By: Dalia Kinsey
Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The lack of BIPOC and LGBTQ representation in the fields of health and nutrition has led to repeated racist and unscientific biases that negatively impact the very people they purport to help. Many representatives of the increasingly popular body-positivity movement actually add to the body-image concerns of queer people of color by emphasizing... Read more
View audiobookSouth to America
By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsAn essential, surprising journey... Read more
View audiobookDown with the System
By: Serj Tankian
Narrated by: Serj Tankian
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian.
Serj Tankian will be the first to admit that his band, System Of A Down, was “unlikely a chart-topper as had ever existed in modern music history: a band of... Read more
The Ones That Got Away
By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Rich Miller
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out.
A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exactly what she needs, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby monitor that shouldn't be... Read more
Lone Women
By: Victor LaValle
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.
“Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep... Read more
Madness
By: Antonia Hylton
Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America’s mental healthcare system.
On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the... Read more
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human
By: Kimberly Lemming
Narrated by: Hazel Addison
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
When a spirited young woman with a penchant for adventure finds herself locked away in a dragon’s tower, she realizes that fate has a peculiar sense of humor when it comes to her romantic prospects in this laugh-out-loud fantasy rom-com, perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and The Dragon's Bride.
All children are told fairytales. Some are... Read more
Violeta [English Edition]
By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
“An immersive saga about a passion-filled life.”—People
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar,... Read more
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
By: Michiko Aoyama
Narrated by: Hanako Footman, Susan Momoko Hingley, Kenichiro...
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers’ life.
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the... Read more
The Book Eaters
By: Sunyi Dean
Narrated by: Katie Erich
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"Katie Erich’s riveting and emotionally rich realization of Dean’s strange and vivid world makes this an entrancing listen from start to finish; we hope to hear much more from author and narrator alike." - The Seattle Times
"Katie Erich narrates Devon with the voice of a true storyteller, providing a mesmerizing performance that communicates the... Read more
Nightcrawling
By: Leila Mottley
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of There There).
A BEST BOOK OF... Read more
Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Award
Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, ESQUIRE,... Read more
Better Living Through Birding
By: Christian Cooper
Narrated by: Christian Cooper
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.
"Wondrous . . . captivating.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World
Christian Cooper is a self-described... Read more
Erasure
By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now as the Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross.
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more... Read more
He Who Drowned the World
By: Shelley Parker-Chan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 18 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Natalie Naudus is an admirable guide through a complicated plot with multiple points of view...She illuminates the few tender moments amid the overall violence and sets a quick, smooth pace that never lags." —AudioFile
The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping... Read more
Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places
By: Claire Kann
Narrated by: Zenzi Williams
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“Swoony and spooky.”—NPR
Love brings down the haunted house in this captivating romance from the acclaimed author of The Romantic Agenda.
Lucky Hart has a special affinity for the supernatural but almost no one takes parapsychology seriously. She’s estranged from her family, lost her friends, and has been rejected from graduate school. Twice.... Read more
Court of Wanderers
By: Rin Chupeco
Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
Length: 15 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Remy Pendergast and his royal vampire companions return to face an enemy that is terrifyingly close to home in Rin Chupeco’s queer, bloody Gothic epic fantasy series for fans of Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree and the adult animated series Castlevania.
Remy Pendergast, vampire hunter, and his unexpected companions, royal vampires... Read more
Bad Witches
By: H. B. Akumiah
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In H. B. Akumiah’s lively and charming debut, three young women discover the unbelievable: they’re witches, and their newfound magic may be the key to saving the world …The Witch Sphere is in turmoil. In the years since a stunning betrayal sent shock waves through society, the Sphere was hit with a crisis: witches are giving birth to more typics... Read more
View audiobookReal Self-Care
By: Pooja Lakshmin, MD
Narrated by: Pooja Lakshmin, MD
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
National Bestseller featured by Good Morning America, NPR's Code Switch, The New York Times, and The Guardian
NPR's "Books We Love for 2023"
Forbes' "Greatest Self-Help Books of All Time"
"Realistic and trustworthy" -- InStyle
"This isn’t just another self-help book. It gives us a clear-eyed look at the way social systems drain our energy, and a... Read more
The Joy of Saying No
By: Natalie Lue
Narrated by: Natalie Lue
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.Are you still playing a role you learned in childhood to please others, such as the Good Girl/Boy, the Overachiever, or the Helper? Though these kinds of roles may have gained us attention and affection, they prohibited us from becoming our true selves.People-pleasing--putting others ahead of ourselves to avoid something... Read more
View audiobookThe Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
By: Shubnum Khan
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE
"Rich and swoony...an ambitious delight, with rich characters and some exceptionally lovely writing...This is the start of a major career." -- The New York Times Book Review
AN INDIE NEXT PICK
A LIBRARY READS PICK
“A dark and heady dream of a book” (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the... Read more
Thunder Song
By: Sasha LaPointe
Narrated by: Sasha LaPointe
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taq?š?blu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and... Read more
View audiobookWe Are the Crisis
By: Cadwell Turnbull
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEThe long-awaited sequel to No Gods, No Monsters from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull, We Are the Crisis sees humans and monsters clash as civil rights collide with preternatural forces.Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca’s old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace.The... Read more
View audiobookI Am Not Sidney Poitier
By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett
I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier.
Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man... Read more
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