BIPOC Authors

This Could Be Us

By: Kennedy Ryan

Narrated by: Ines del Castillo, Jakobi Diem & Kennedy Ryan

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming.” ―EMILY HENRY, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one... Read more

The Stardust Thief

By: Chelsea Abdullah

Narrated by: Nikki Massoud, Sean Rohani & Rasha Zamamiri

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, this book weaves together the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince, and a dangerous quest across the desert to find a legendary, magical lamp.Neither here nor there, but long ago . . . Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn... Read more

This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

Narrated by: Kausar Mohammed

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

★ “[Ahmed] employs high stakes, increasing tensions, romantic near-misses, and adult hypocrisy to powerful effect.” –Publisher's Weekly, starred review

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspense novel about book banning, activism, and standing up for what you believe. 

After her dad... Read more

The House of Rust

By: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber

Narrated by: Waceke Wambaa

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father.

The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar’s... Read more

Hollow Fires

By: Samira Ahmed

Narrated by: Samira Ahmed, Soneela Nankani & Amin El Gamal

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful, gripping thriller from a New York Times bestselling author shows the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthing hidden truths—and the undeniable power of hope.
 
Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she’s learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist’s job is to find the... Read more

How to Grow

By: Marcus Bridgewater

Narrated by: Marcus Bridgewater

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“Garden Marcus is not only a trove of information if you’re looking to flex your green thumb, but a balm for the chaos happening in the world.”—Vogue“Bridgewater’s planting tips are just as valuable when applied to life.”—The RootIn this transformative guide, TikTok’s most popular gardener, Marcus Bridgewater—aka Garden Marcus—offers lessons for... Read more

Decolonial Marxism

By: Walter Rodney

Narrated by: Terrence Kidd

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era

Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North... Read more

Class Dismissed

By: Anthony Abraham Jack

Narrated by: Anthony Abraham Jack

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Anthony Abraham Jack reveals the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excel

Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But when the twin pandemics of COVID-19... Read more

Woman of Light

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Narrated by: Melinna Bobadilla

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina
 
“Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re... Read more

Crook Manifesto

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.

A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, BookPage

“Dazzling” –Walter Mosley, The New... Read more

American Ghoul

By: Michelle McGill-Vargas

Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A wildly entertaining debut from Michelle McGill-Vargas, American Ghoul deftly combines horror and social commentary—with a dash of buddy comedy—in an innovative twist on the vampire genre.You can’t kill someone who’s already dead.That’s what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer after—allegedly—killing her mistress, Simone Arceneau. But how could... Read more

Ocean's Godori

By: Elaine U. Cho

Narrated by: Judy Alice Lee

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Becky Chambers meets Firefly in this big-hearted Korean space opera debut about a disgraced space pilot struggling to find her place while fighting to protect the people she loves. “A thrilling, transportive ride from a powerful and evocative new voice.” —Lena Waithe, Rishi Rajani, and Naomi Funabashi, Hillman Grad Books Ocean Yoon has never... Read more

The Atlas Paradox

By: Olivie Blake

Narrated by: Alexandra Palting, Andy Ingalls, Caitlin Kelly,...

Length: 18 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six—guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos.

Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime.
Five are now members of the Society.
Two paths lay before them.

All must pick a... Read more

Decolonizing Therapy

By: Jennifer Mullan, PsyD

Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones

Length: 17 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens.



An essential work that centers colonial and historical trauma in a framework for healing, Decolonizing Therapy illuminates that all therapy is—and always has been—inherently political. To better understand the mental health oppression and... Read more

The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang

Narrated by: Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao & Telly Leung

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"A sweeping triumph in queer romance." –Booklist

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?”

In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor—but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex... Read more

Honey and Spice

By: Bolu Babalola

Narrated by: Weruche Opia

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • A TIKTOK BOOK CLUB PICK""Sexy, messy and wry, Honey and Spice more than delivers."" — New York Times Book Review""A vibrant debut novel . . . Babalola is incisively funny, capturing the kick and sweetness of her title with her words."" — Entertainment WeeklyNamed a Best Book of the Year by... Read more

Yerba Buena

By: Nina LaCour

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Full of sensory details, vivid characters, and moment after moment of gorgeously rendered ordinary life, this audiobook is a queer must-listen." -AudioFile

This program is masterfully narrated by award-winning "Golden Voice" narrator Julia Whelan.

Yerba Buena is the debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour,... Read more

Don't Fear the Reaper

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc, Jane Levy, Alexis Floyd,...

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A Locus Award Finalist
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

December 12th, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this “superb” (Publishers Weekly) sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author... Read more

The House of Eve

By: Sadeqa Johnson

Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Nicole Lewis & Sadeqa Johnson

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“Amazing…I was completely surprised by the ending of this beautifully told and written book.” —Reese Witherspoon

“A triumph of historical fiction” (The Washington Post), an instant New York Times bestseller, and a Reese’s Book Club pick, set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how... Read more

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

By: Roshani Chokshi

Narrated by: Steve West & Sura Siu

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

""A fairy tale in the oldest and truest sense: a haunting dream full of blood and love, vicious truths and beautiful lies. It swallowed me whole, and I went willingly."" — Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House“Decadence laced with horror . . . A delightfully meta fairy tale . . . Magic emanates from every... Read more

Memphis

By: Tara M. Stringfellow

Narrated by: Karen Murray, Adenrele Ojo & Tara Stringfellow

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy.

“A rhapsodic hymn to Black women.”—The New York Times Book Review

“I fell in love with this family, from... Read more

The House in the Pines

By: Ana Reyes

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller!

“This is an absolute, can’t-put-it-down thriller. . . . It’s truly a wild ride that had me flying through chapter after chapter—which I think is the perfect way to kick off your year of reading.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick January 2023)

Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago... Read more

Calling for a Blanket Dance

By: Oscar Hokeah

Narrated by: Oscar Hokeah & Rainy Fields

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. 

Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands... Read more

Heart of the Sun Warrior

By: Sue Lynn Tan

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The stunning sequel to Daughter of the Moon Goddess delves deeper into beloved Chinese mythology, concluding the epic story of Xingyin—the daughter of Chang’e and the mortal archer, Houyi—as she battles a grave new threat to the realm, in this powerful tale of love, sacrifice, and hope. After winning her mother’s freedom from the Celestial... Read more