Biography * Memoir: Women & Persons of Color

Camgirl

by Isa Mazzei; read by Isa Mazzei

Entertainment Weekly Biggest Fall Books

From the "former sex worker taking Hollywood by storm" (The Daily Beast), comes a candid and hilarious memoir of sex work, shame, and self-discovery set in the colorful world of live-streaming camgirls. Learn More

The Covent Garden Ladies

by Hallie Rubenhold; read by Lucy Rayner

The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose complicated and colorful lives were brought together by the publication of Harris's List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics, and "specialties." Learn More

Ordinary Girls

by Jaquira Diaz; read by Almarie Guerra

Indie Next List
Oprah Magazine's 33 Must-Read Books of Fall 2019

A fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author. Learn More

Five

by Hallie Rubenhold; read by Louise Brealey

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Amazon Editors' Pick

Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Learn More

Motherhood So White

by Nefertiti Austin; read by Allyson Johnson

In this unflinching account of her parenting journey, Nefertiti Austin examines the history of adoption in the African American community, faces off against stereotypes of single, black motherhood, and confronts the reality of raising children of color in racially charged, modern-day America. Learn More

Cherry on Top

by Bobbie Brown & Caroline Ryder; narrated by Bobbie Brown

Life isn't easy when you're single, pushing fifty, and still haunted by the ghosts of your rock 'n' roll past—but if anyone can find the funny in it, Bobbie can. Learn More

Yale Needs Women

by Anne Gardiner Perkins; read by Erin Bennett

Anne Gardiner Perkins's unflinching account of a group of young women striving for change is an inspiring story of strength, resilience, and courage that continues to resonate today. Learn More

How to Treat People

by Molly Case; read by Henrietta Meire

A fascinating and poignant memoir of the body and its care, told through the experiences of a young nurse. Learn More

Lima :: Limon

by Natalie Scenters-Zapico; read by Kyla Garcia

In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things. Learn More

Pay Day

by ReShonda Tate Billinglsey & Richelle Denise; read by Janina Edwards & Leon Nixon

When the office lotto pool lands the winning ticket for four friends, each will embark on journeys that change their lives forever. Learn More

Mukiwa

by Peter Godwin; read by Peter Godwin

The author shares his experiences as a white child growing up in an African colony rapidly collapsing into chaos, in a memoir of Africa seen through the eyes of a child as a magical, frightening place and then through the haunted eyes of an adolescent soldier. Learn More

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda

by F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Fitzgerald; Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks; read by Mike Chamberlain & Amy Landon

Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for over twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, we have the story of their love in the couple's own letters. Learn More

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

by Sady Doyle; read by Chloe Cannon

Sady Doyle, hailed as "smart, funny, and fearless" by the Boston Globe, takes listeners on a tour of the female dark side, from the biblical Lilith to Dracula's Lucy Westenra, from the T-Rex in Jurassic Park to the teen witches of The Craft. Learn More

In the Country of Women

by Susan Straight; read by Donna Postel

In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. Learn More

Sisters and Rebels

by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall; read by Karen White

2020 PEN America Literary Award Winner

Grounded in decades of research, Sisters and Rebels unfolds an epic narrative of American history through the lives and works of three Southern women. Learn More

Body Leaping Backward

by Maureen Stanton; read by Coleen Marlo

Body Leaping Backward is the haunting and beautifully drawn story of a self-destructive girlhood, of a town and a nation overwhelmed in a time of change, and of how life-altering a glimpse of a world bigger than the one we come from can be. Learn More

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