Awards & Accolades

Audie Award

Baldwin: A Love Story — History/Biography — 2025

Audie Award Nominees

The 1619 Project — Audiobook of the Year — 2023
The 1619 Project — Best Multi-Cast Performance — 2023
Generation Wonder — Best Short Story Collection — 2023
Four Hundred Souls — Full Cast — Multi-Voiced Performance — 2022 Class Act — Full Cast — 2022
King & The Dragonflies — Middle Grade — 2021
The Lesson — With Janina Edwards — 2020
New Kid — Full Cast — 2020
Roller Girl — Full Cast — 2020
Miguel Street — Literary Fiction & Classics — 2019
The Stars at October Bend — With Candice Moll — Young Adult — 2019
Black Man White House — Humor — Full Cast — 2017
Til The Well Runs Dry — With Bahni Turpin — Literary Fiction & Classics — 2016

AudioFile Magazine Best Audiobooks of the Year

Baldwin: A Love Story — 2025
Four Hundred Souls — Full Cast — 2021
King & The Dragonflies — 2020
Beautiful Country Burn Again — Nonfiction — 2018 Chasing Space — Memoir — 2017

AudioFile Earphones Awards

Baldwin: A Love Story — 2025
Three Poets of The Harlem Renaissance — Multi-cast — 2023
Devil Makes Three — 2023
The New Earth — Multi-cast — 2023
Rachel: A Play in Three Acts — Multi-cast — 2023
The Cartographers — Multi-cast — 2022
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America — Multi-cast — 2022 The 1619 Project — Full Cast — 2021
Four Hundred Souls — Full Cast — 2021
Class Act — Full Cast — 2021
King & The Dragonflies — 2020
Conviction — 2019
Sorry For Your Loss — 2019
How Long ’Til Black Future Month — 2018
A Very Merry Romance — 2018
Beautiful Country Burn Again — 2018
Playing Changes — 2018
Fresh Ink — 2018
The Stars at October Bend — 2018
High Risers — 2018
Hoodoo — 2017
Black Gun, Silver Star — 2016
Black Man White House — Full Cast — 2016
Til The Well Runs Dry — With Bahni Turpin — 2015

Audible Best Of / Editor’s Picks

The 1619 Project — Full Cast — Best of 2021
Four Hundred Souls — Full Cast — Best of 2021
Class Act — Full Cast — Best of 2021
The Lesson — Editors Select, June 2019
New Kid — Top 5 Children’s Audiobook — 2019
The Red & The Blue — Best Politics Audiobook — 2018

Coretta Scott King Honor Book

King & The Dragonflies — 2021

YALSA – Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

Yesterday Is History — Nomination — 2021
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America — 2020
How Long ’Til Black Future Month — 2020
Roller Girl — 2020

ALSC – Notable Children’s Recordings

Roller Girl — 2020
New Kid — 2020
Rebound — 2019

Junior Library Guild Selection Booklist Editors’ Choice

Sauerkraut — 2019

Booklist Editors Choice

Rebound — Best YA Audiobook — 2018