Books by Women of Color to Read in 2025

Homeseeking: A GMA Book Club Pick

By: Karissa Chen
Narrated by: Katharine Chin & Kenneth Lee
Length: 17 hours 12 minutes

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

“Sweeping and epic…An impactful love story, told against the backdrop of historical events…One of the best debut novels of this century.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Like any tried-and-true epic (think “Pachinko” or “The Joy Luck Club”… Homeseeking is just a genuine pleasure to read.”—San Francisco Chronicle

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Good Girl

A Novel

By: Aria Aber
Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

“This story follows 19 year old Nila as she rejects and finds her identity as the daughter of Afghan refugees living in Berlin. She feels a desire to be liberated from what’s expected of her and grapples with feelings of grief, shame and loneliness. This all comes to a head through parties, drugs, an older American writer and, ultimately Berlin’s... Read more

Hunchback

A Novel

By: Saou Ichikawa
Narrated by: Yuriri Naka
Length: TBA

A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a defiant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life—“not only a major achievement in disability literature but great literature period” (Johanna Hedva)

“Uproariously funny, unflinching, and merciless.”—Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share... Read more

I'll Love You Forever

Notes from a K-Pop Fan

By: Giaae Kwon
Narrated by: Giaae Kwon
Length: 9 hours

Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror meets Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings in a meditation that blends memoir and cultural criticism to explore how the author’s love affair with K-pop has shaped her sense of self, charting K-pop’s complex coming-of-age through some of its biggest idols. I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan is a smart,... Read more

The Unworthy

A Novel

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

“Bazterrica has done it again! In this shockingly vile but somehow deeply moving portrait of a woman at the end of the world, we are treated to casual cruelty, societal collapse, cultish debasement, and impetuous, frenetic love. I genuinely didn’t want this fraught look into a convent-style apocalyptic encampment to end. Read more

The Dream Hotel

A Novel

By: Laila Lalami
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Barton Caplan
Length: TBA

From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.

Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the... Read more

Death Takes Me

A Novel

By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio, Ines del Castillo, Fabiola Stevenson, Carlotta Brentan, Mark Sanderlin & Victoria Villarreal
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Esquire, Ms. Magazine, Lit Hub, The AV Club

A city is always a cemetery.

A professor named... Read more

Black in Blues

How a Color Tells the Story of My People

By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, USA Today, People, AARP, Today.com, BookRiot, Bustle, LitHub, BookPage, Our Culture, and VultureA surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani PerryThroughout history, the concept of Blackness has been... Read more

We Do Not Part

A Novel

By: Han Kang
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

“A feverish story, in a state between dream and reality, this novel lays bare the pain, wounds and trauma of a dark event in Koran history: the massacre of the Jeju uprising in 1948. I loved how past and present are skillfully intertwined in this unexpected and beautifully written story that shows we can’t and shouldn’t look away. There are... Read more

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

By: Sangu Mandanna
Length: TBA

A whimsical and heartwarming novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers—and her life—back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.

Sera Swan used to be one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Then she resurrected her great-aunt Jasmine from the (very recently)... Read more

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)

A Vera Wong Novel: Book #2

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: TBA

Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.…

Ever since a man was found dead in Vera's teahouse, life has been good. For Vera that is. She’s surrounded by loved ones, her shop is bustling, and best of all, her son, Tilly, has a girlfriend! All thanks to Vera, because Tilly's... Read more

Harlem Rhapsody

By: Victoria Christopher Murray
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

“A gripping narrative, don't miss this historical fiction about the woman who kicked off the Harlem Renaissance.”—People Magazine

“A page turner and history lesson at once, Harlem Rhapsody reminds us that our stories are our generational wealth.”—Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club Pick)

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Good Dirt

A Novel

By: Charmaine Wilkerson
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

“Thank you to Libro.fm and Penguin Random House Audiobooks for the ALC. Another great read by Charmaine Wilkerson! I became a fan of her debut, Black Cake, and just like that book, this one was also amazing. A tragedy reshapes the Freeman family's history, influencing their journey through perception, trauma, resentment, and redemption,... Read more

Yours, Eventually

A Novel

By: Nura Maznavi
Narrated by: Farah Kidwai
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

A mesmerizing debut novel set in a tightly knit Pakistani American community where a young doctor gets an unexpected second chance with the first love she never got over when he becomes one of the most eligible bachelors in town.

The Ibrahim family is facing a crucial moment: Their patriarch just lost his fortune as the result of a Ponzi... Read more

Fundamentally

A Novel

By: Nussaibah Younis
Length: TBA

A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with a one-of-a-kind job offer—only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself.

When Dr. Nadia Amin, a long-suffering academic, publishes an article on the possibility of rehabilitating ISIS brides, the United Nations comes... Read more

The Love Lyric

The Greene Sisters: Book #3

By: Kristina Forest
Narrated by: J. Shani Michaels & Ian Hackney
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

An R&B singer and a corporate executive find love that hits the right notes in this romance by Kristina Forest, USA Today bestselling author of The Partner Plot.

Iris Greene used to be a woman with a plan. But all of that changed after she met the love of her life at twenty-five, got pregnant and married…and then became a widow and a single... Read more

Happy Land

By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Length: TBA

A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family’s ties to it—in this enthralling new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.

Named a Most Anticipated book of 2025 by People ∙ Harper's Bazaar ∙ PopSugar ∙ Reader's Digest ∙ SheReads ∙ Woman’s World ∙ BookBrowse... Read more

The Manor of Dreams

By: Christina Li
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

“The Manor of Dreams is a book with layers. It is told from multiple points of view and multiple timelines that weave together an intriguing tale of a family that might seem ideal to the outside viewer. In reality, the deeper you get into the story, the darker their secrets become. This book will suck you in and consume your attention until the... Read more

Immortal

By: Sue Lynn Tan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

“What an emotional roller coaster this romance fantasy is! It is rich in world-building, with complex characters and unexpected twists that keep you on the edge of your seat. The female main character, Liyen, is stubborn, brave, determined, calculating, yet extremely vulnerable. Her grief over her grandfather is so emotional and real. Her family... Read more

The Original Daughter

A Novel

By: Jemimah Wei
Length: TBA

In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.

Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an... Read more