Black Authors
Listen to audiobooks by Black authors.
![My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite](http://covers.libro.fm/9780525643289_1120.jpg)
![My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite](http://covers.libro.fm/9780525643289_1120.jpg)
My Sister, the Serial Killer
By: Oyinkan Braithwaite
Narrated by: Adepero Oduye
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan...This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember."--NEW YORK TIMES
"The wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to."--MARIE CLAIRE
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S... Read more
![You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549105401_1120.jpg)
![You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549105401_1120.jpg)
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
By: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Narrated by: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism.
Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black... Read more
![Noor by Nnedi Okorafor](http://covers.libro.fm/9781666138320_1120.jpg)
![Noor by Nnedi Okorafor](http://covers.libro.fm/9781666138320_1120.jpg)
Noor
By: Nnedi Okorafor
Narrated by: Délé Ogundiran
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thoughtful rumination on biotechnology, destiny, and humanity in a near-future Nigeria.
Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt . . . natural, and that's putting... Read more
![Beloved by Toni Morrison](http://covers.libro.fm/9780739342138_1120.jpg)
![Beloved by Toni Morrison](http://covers.libro.fm/9780739342138_1120.jpg)
Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.
This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
Sethe... Read more
![Here for It by R. Eric Thomas](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593167663_1120.jpg)
![Here for It by R. Eric Thomas](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593167663_1120.jpg)
Here for It
By: R. Eric Thomas
Narrated by: R. Eric Thomas
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • From the creator of Elle’s “Eric Reads the News,” a heartfelt and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding unexpected hope, and experiencing every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way.
“Pop culture–obsessed, Sedaris-level... Read more
![An American Marriage by Tayari Jones](http://covers.libro.fm/9781681688343_1120.jpg)
![An American Marriage by Tayari Jones](http://covers.libro.fm/9781681688343_1120.jpg)
An American Marriage
By: Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Sean Crisden & Eisa Davis
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve... Read more
View audiobook![Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797107110_1120.jpg)
![Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797107110_1120.jpg)
Big Friendship
By: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
Narrated by: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.
Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their... Read more
![Luster by Raven Leilani](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250752864_1120.jpg)
![Luster by Raven Leilani](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250752864_1120.jpg)
Luster
By: Raven Leilani
Narrated by: Ariel Blake
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
"There is a universal appeal to [Narrator Ariel] Blake's performance as Edie, a protagonist who may be her own worst antagonist. Blake's delivery has an immensely human, relatable quality that makes the listener want the best for Edie as she struggles to make her way in the world." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
AN INSTANT NEW... Read more
![A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250807731_1120.jpg)
![A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250807731_1120.jpg)
A Master of Djinn
By: P. Djèlí Clark
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Narrator Suehyla] El-Attar expertly creates a vibrant version of Cairo that captures a heady blend of the cosmopolitan and the supernatural that will win many new fans." -- AudioFile Magazine
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn
Cairo,... Read more
![The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797118505_1120.jpg)
![The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797118505_1120.jpg)
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
By: Dawnie Walton
Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Bahni Turpin, James Langton, An...
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
2022 FICTION AUDIE AWARD WINNER!
An electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their sensational breakup, and the dark secrets unearthed when they try to reunite decades later for one last tour.
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY BARACK OBAMA * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR *... Read more
![Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250350749_1120.jpg)
![Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250350749_1120.jpg)
Another Word for Love
By: Carvell Wallace
Narrated by: Carvell Wallace
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
“Carvell Wallace narrates his beautiful memoir with poignant urgency-- and a whole lot of love…His voice, like his prose, has a poetic cadence. At times, his narration seems to fly, reaching higher and higher before culminating in an emotional crescendo.”—AudioFile
A transformative memoir that reimagines the... Read more
![Sink by Joseph Earl Thomas](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668613146_1120.jpg)
![Sink by Joseph Earl Thomas](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668613146_1120.jpg)
Sink
By: Joseph Earl Thomas
Narrated by: Joseph Earl Thomas
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture.
Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack... Read more
![Inciting Joy by Ross Gay](http://covers.libro.fm/9781649041326_1120.jpg)
![Inciting Joy by Ross Gay](http://covers.libro.fm/9781649041326_1120.jpg)
Inciting Joy
By: Ross Gay
Narrated by: Ross Gay
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights
In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores... Read more
![Unprotected by Billy Porter](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705041574_1120.jpg)
![Unprotected by Billy Porter](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705041574_1120.jpg)
Unprotected
By: Billy Porter
Narrated by: Billy Porter
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“This is not a coming-out story. It’s not a down-low story either. I never could have passed for straight, even if I’d wanted to, and so I never had the dubious luxury of living a lie.”
From the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing
It’s easy to be yourself... Read more
![A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668623473_1120.jpg)
![A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668623473_1120.jpg)
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
By: Tia Williams
Narrated by: Mela Lee & Preston Butler
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In this enchanting love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-spirited florist and an enigmatic musician are irreversibly linked through the history, art, and magic of Harlem.
“The book’s calculus of love and loss is brutal, and grounds the dazzling prose and light magical element.” –– The New York Times
... Read more
![Briefly Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063240049_1120.jpg)
![Briefly Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063240049_1120.jpg)
Briefly Perfectly Human
By: Alua Arthur
Narrated by: Alua Arthur
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s most visible death doula.""A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world.... There is no one I'd... Read more
View audiobook![One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063114975_1120.jpg)
![One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063114975_1120.jpg)
One of Us Knows
By: Alyssa Cole
Narrated by: Susan Dalian
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comes a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer—and the ghosts of her past. Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical... Read more
View audiobook![The Book of Delights by Ross Gay](http://covers.libro.fm/9781980013068_1120.jpg)
![The Book of Delights by Ross Gay](http://covers.libro.fm/9781980013068_1120.jpg)
The Book of Delights
By: Ross Gay
Narrated by: Ross Gay
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. Ross Gay's The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays- some as short as a paragraph; some as long as... Read more
View audiobook![That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human by Kimberly Lemming](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668635667_1120.jpg)
![That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human by Kimberly Lemming](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668635667_1120.jpg)
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
![My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix by Kalynn Bayron](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250877239_1120.jpg)
![My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix by Kalynn Bayron](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250877239_1120.jpg)
My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix
By: Kalynn Bayron
Narrated by: Clifford Samuel
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Clifford Samuel's low, melodious voice sounds like it was made for this atmospheric queer retelling of the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde story." - AudioFile Magazine
A teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance—and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger—in misty Victorian London, in Kalynn Bayron's My... Read more
![Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250907103_1120.jpg)
![Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250907103_1120.jpg)
Wonderland
By: Jennifer Hillier
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of the hugely popular thrillers Things We Do in the Dark, Little Secrets, and Jar of Hearts comes Wonderland, a roller coaster of a listen. Now in audio for the first time!
After a personal tragedy and professional scandal forces homicide detective Vanessa Castro out of Seattle, she takes a new job in Seaside,... Read more
![Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz](http://covers.libro.fm/9781696603331_1120.jpg)
![Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz](http://covers.libro.fm/9781696603331_1120.jpg)
Milk Blood Heat
By: Dantiel W. Moniz
Narrated by: Machelle Williams
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each... Read more
View audiobook![Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko](http://covers.libro.fm/9781094149226_1120.jpg)
![Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko](http://covers.libro.fm/9781094149226_1120.jpg)
Raybearer
By: Jordan Ifueko
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The epic debut YA fantasy from an incredible new talent—soon to be a Netflix prestige series produced and directed by Gina Atwater (Westworld, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Nothing is more important than loyalty. But what if you’ve sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy?Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was... Read more
View audiobook![The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin](http://covers.libro.fm/9781611134414_1120.jpg)
![The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin](http://covers.libro.fm/9781611134414_1120.jpg)
The Killing Moon
By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Assassin priests, mad kings, and the goddess of death collide in the first book of the Dreamblood Duology by NYT bestselling and three time Hugo-Award winning author N. K. Jemisin.
The city burned beneath the Dreaming Moon.
In the ancient city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Upon its rooftops and amongst the shadows of its cobbled... Read more
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