Black Authors
Listen to audiobooks by Black authors.
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
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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 audiobookThe Poet X
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Don't miss this acclaimed audiobook, read by the author—winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner!The Poet X is also the winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award.Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for... Read more
View audiobookHow We Fight For Our Lives
By: Saeed Jones
Narrated by: Saeed Jones
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.
One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times; The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The... Read more
Just Mercy
By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more
Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The Sky
By: Kwame Mbalia
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods.
Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he... Read more
The First Ladies
By: Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
Narrated by: Robin Miles & Tavia Gilbert
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The Instant New York Times Bestseller!
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian.
The daughter of... Read more
The Kiss Countdown
By: Etta Easton
Narrated by: Angel Pean
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A struggling event planner and a sinfully hot astronaut must decide if their fake relationship is worth a shot at happily-ever-after, in this starry debut.
Risk-averse event planner Amerie Price is jobless, newly single, and about to lose her apartment. With no choice but to gamble on her shaky start-up, the last thing she needed was to run into... Read more
Rosewater
By: Tade Thompson
Narrated by: Bayo Gbadamosi
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Rosewater is the start of an award-winning trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices.
*Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, winner
*Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel, winner
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents... Read more
Midnight Rooms
By: Donyae Coles
Narrated by: Georgina Campbell
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of novels like Catherine House and Crimson Peak, a spine-chilling debut historical thriller from a fresh voice in the genre that will leave you questioning who, or what, you can trust . . . including your own sanity. England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope... Read more
View audiobookSoulstar
By: C.L. Polk
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Aurora Award for Best Novel
A Reader's Digest Top 25 Best Fantasy Series Ever Written
With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, romance, and intrigue that began with the World Fantasy Award–winning Witchmark. Assassinations, deadly storms, and long-lost love haunt the pages... Read more
Delicious Monsters
By: Liselle Sambury
Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“A haunted house thriller packed with cryptic mystery, dark humor, and bone-chilling twists.” —Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston
The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this “genuinely terrifying” (School Library Journal, starred review) psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating... Read more
No Name in the Street
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin’s fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works.In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders of Martin... Read more
View audiobookCongratulations, The Best Is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
Narrated by: R. Eric Thomas
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of “funny and compulsively readable” (Vogue), “hilarious and incisive” (Time) essays about what happens after happily ever after.
“How is it possible that I liked this book even more than his last one? Phenomenal.”—Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more
Bloodmarked
By: Tracy Deonn
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 22 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
“Deonn expertly weaves together a universe that both shines a light on the pervasive nature of racism and also harnesses the complexity of Black identity within this space. Deonn writes so much more than simple fantasies or Arthurian retellings.” —Booklist (starred review)
The “worthy successor to an... Read more
Red at the Bone
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Pet...
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by LitHub and The Millions.
Called one of the Top 10 Literary Fiction titles of Fall by Publishers Weekly.
An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl... Read more
Will
By: Will Smith
Narrated by: Will Smith
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of one of the most amazing rides through the... Read more
View audiobookI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By: Maya Angelou
Narrated by: Maya Angelou
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute... Read more
I'm So (Not) Over You
By: Kosoko Jackson
Narrated by: Timothy Bell Reese
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
"Shine[s] with a beautiful, blooming sense of wonder.”—New York Times Book Review
A 2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER!
One of...
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Buzzfeed’s Highly Anticipated LGBTQ... Read more
Sister Outsider
By: Audre Lorde
Narrated by: Robin Eller
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action... Read more
View audiobookAbeni's Song
By: P. Djèlí Clark
Narrated by: Funmi James
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
IN DARKNESS, A SONG CAN LEAD THE WAY. BEWARE WHICH ONE YOU LISTEN TO.
Abeni's Song by award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark is the enchanting beginning of an epic West African and African Diaspora-inspired fantasy adventure for middle-grade listeners about a reluctant apprentice to magic and the stolen villagers she sets out to save.
“Lush and... Read more
A Little Kissing Between Friends
By: Chencia C. Higgins
Narrated by: Lauryn Nichols & J. Shani Michaels
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
“Triumphantly Black, queer and contemporary… The dialogue snaps and shimmers.” —New York Times Book Review on D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the studio to the flirty femmes she fools around with. Her ever-rotating roster has never been a problem until her... Read more
Miss Pearly's Girls
By: ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley comes an intriguing, heartfelt tale about long held family secrets, truths that won’t stay hidden, and how facing the ultimate loss can force us to find our own ways to make amends and heal …Raising four very different daughters on her own in rural Arkansas wasn’t easy for Miss Pearly Bell. And... Read more
View audiobookThe Dead Don't Need Reminding
By: Julian Randall
Narrated by: Julian Randall
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This “inventive, poetic, vulnerable, and sincere” book from an acclaimed author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-culture (Kirkus).
The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall’s return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his... Read more
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