I'm in the middle of trying to write a post in response to this challenge, and one of the canons I was intending to rec is Rivers of London. The audiobooks are really, really well done. The main character is a POC, and the reader of the audiobooks is too.
This is what my post will say about them:
Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith are some of the best audiobooks I've encountered. They're murder mystery/police procedural/fantasy, by an author who wrote a few (good) episodes of Doctor Who in the '80s. The main character is Peter Grant, a young mixed race PC in the Met, who winds up apprenticed to Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the last official wizard in Britain. Holdbrook-Smith brings Peter's first-person narrative to vivid life, but he's also great at voicing the other characters, including Nightingale, whose voice is the polar opposite of Peter's. The first book in the series is, naturally, 'Rivers of London', though it was retitled 'Midnight Riot' for its American release.
So yeah, if you're looking to listen to more audiobooks narrated by POC, I thoroughly recommend these.
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This is what my post will say about them:
Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith are some of the best audiobooks I've encountered. They're murder mystery/police procedural/fantasy, by an author who wrote a few (good) episodes of Doctor Who in the '80s. The main character is Peter Grant, a young mixed race PC in the Met, who winds up apprenticed to Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the last official wizard in Britain. Holdbrook-Smith brings Peter's first-person narrative to vivid life, but he's also great at voicing the other characters, including Nightingale, whose voice is the polar opposite of Peter's. The first book in the series is, naturally, 'Rivers of London', though it was retitled 'Midnight Riot' for its American release.
So yeah, if you're looking to listen to more audiobooks narrated by POC, I thoroughly recommend these.