BIPOC Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
This Could Be Us
By: Kennedy Ryan
Narrated by: Ines del Castillo, Jakobi Diem & Kennedy Ryan
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
âHeart-searing, sensual, and life affirming.â âEMILY 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. Sheâs a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one... Read more
Solito
By: Javier Zamora
Narrated by: Javier Zamora
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller ⢠Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today ⢠Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography ⢠Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award
A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this âgripping... Read more
The Woman in the Library
By: Sulari Gentill
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quietâuntil the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who'd happened to sit at the same table,... Read more
View audiobookThe Light We Carry
By: Michelle Obama
Narrated by: Michelle Obama
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
2024 GrammyÂŽ Award Winner ⢠#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER â˘Â In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in todayâs highly uncertain world.
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There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to lifeâs big... Read more
How Far the Light Reaches
By: Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
AÂ fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World). A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation... Read more
View audiobookLeslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
Narrated by: Leslie Jones & Chris Rock
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER with 5+ hours of bonus material not found in the print version and read by Leslie Jones. AudioFile Magazine awarded the recording an âEarphones Awardâ, saying: âNo listener can leave this memoir unaffected as Jones laughs and sobs, sharing the highs and lows, joys and sorrows of her full life.â
Hey you guys, itâs... Read more
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
By: Kimberly Lemming
Narrated by: Hazel Addison
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Spice trader Cinnamon's quiet life is turned upside down when she ends up on a quest with a fiery demon in this irreverently quirky rom-com fantasy that is sweet, steamy, and funny as hellâperfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and The Dragon's Bride.Â
All she wanted to do was live her life in peaceâmaybe get a cat, expand the family spice... Read more
The Idea of You
By: Robinne Lee
Narrated by: Robinne Lee
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of an art gallery in Los Angeles, is reluctant to take her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band. But since her divorce, she's more eager than ever to be close to Isabelle. The last thing Solène expects is to make a connection with one of the members of the world-famous August Moon. But... Read more
View audiobookOcean'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. âA thrilling, transportive ride from a powerful and evocative new voice.â âLena Waithe, Rishi Rajani, and Naomi Funabashi, Hillman Grad Books Ocean Yoon has never... Read more
View audiobookThe Cartographers
By: Peng Shepherd
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu, Karen Chilton, Ron ...
Length: 14 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased fatherâs belongings holds an incredible, deadly secretâone that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her familyâs dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell... Read more
View audiobookMaster Slave Husband Wife
By: Ilyon Woo
Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Leon Nixon
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography
âA rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where they... Read more
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
By: Sue Lynn Tan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 15 hours
Abridged: No
The acclaimed national and international bestsellerâEpic, romantic, and enthralling from start to finish.ââStephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval seriesâAn all-consuming work of literary fantasy that is breathtaking both for its beauty and its suspense.""âBookPage, starred reviewA captivating and romantic debut... Read more
View audiobookFinding Me
By: Viola Davis
Narrated by: Viola Davis
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording!Audie Award Winner for Audiobook of the Year!Narrated by Viola DavisIn my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central... Read more
View audiobookThe Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the GarcĂa Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.
Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesnât want to end up like her... Read more
The Spear Cuts Through Water
By: Simon Jimenez
Narrated by: Joel de la Fuente
Length: 17 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds.
âA beguiling fantasy not to be missed.ââEvelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author of The Crownâs Game
WINNER OF THE IAFA CRAWFORD AWARD ⢠WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD â˘... Read more
Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xochitl Gonzalez
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Armando Riesco & InĂŠs del Castillo
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
"All three narrators are Puerto Ricanâborn and deliver the Spanish passages with musical grace, thereby enhancing an already fine novel." âThe Washington Post
âThe narratorsâ accents and code-shifting create a vibrant auditory experience. In particular, Guerraâs luscious voice conveys Olgaâs transformation from fighter to a compassionate woman as... Read more
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 Americaâs 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 audiobookskin & bones
By: RenĂŠe Watson
Narrated by: Zenzi Williams
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and ultimately what gets passed down from one generation to the next
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At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in lifeâbetween wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away,... Read more
An Immense World
By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Ed Yong
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â˘Â A âthrillingâ (The New York Times), âdazzlingâ (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prizeâwinning science journalist Ed Yong
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âOne of this yearâs finest works of narrative... Read more
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Amy Tan & Evan Sibley
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club ⢠With a foreword by David Allen Sibley
âUnexpected and spectacularâ âAnn Patchett, best-selling author of These Precious Days
"The drawings and essays in this book do a lot more... Read more
Bits and Pieces
By: Whoopi Goldberg
Narrated by: Whoopi Goldberg
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life.If it werenât for Emma Johnson, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. Emma gave her children the loving care and wisdom they needed to succeed in life,... Read more
View audiobookHappiness Falls (Good Morning America Book Club)
By: Angie Kim
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Thomas Pruyn...
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK â˘Â When a father goes missing, his familyâs desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another in this thrilling page-turner, a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis from the award-winning author of Miracle Creek.
OPRAH DAILYâS #1 NOVEL OF... Read more
The Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK â˘Â A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly usefulâuntil other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbandsâin this razor-sharp debut.
"A radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of... Read more
Disability Intimacy
By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.
What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating... Read more
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