BIPOC Authors

The First

By: Kipjo Ewers

Narrated by: Tyla Collier

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

After spending four years on death row for the brutal murder of her husband, Sophia Dennison takes her final walk in the Mountain View Facility in Gatesville and is put to death by lethal injection at 12:00 a.m. Several hours after Sophia's execution, FBI agent Mark Armitage is called to investigate a serious disturbance at the prison. Upon... Read more

Boo Can't Poo

By: Xiao Jing "Iris" Wang, M.D.

Narrated by: Andrea Emmes

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Get ready to giggle with Boo Can't Poo, the hilarious board book sure to get your little ones laughing and pooping! Join Boo the constipated ghost on his quest to get his bowels moving with the help of his ghostly family. With silly rhymes and cute illustrations, this book is perfect for reading aloud and sharing some laughs whenever... Read more

In My Remaining Years

By: Jean Grae

Narrated by: Jean Grae

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In My Remaining Years offers an immersive audio experience, fully sound designed to enhance your enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of Jean's inner monologue, Dr. Umentary, and New York City with original music composed for this listening experience. Sit back and savor!

This collection of darkly humorous, intensely personal essays is written... Read more

The Inner Fitness Revolution

By: Tina Lifford

Narrated by: Tina Lifford

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Actress and empowerment counselor Tina Lifford guides readers on connecting with their authentic Self—the source of personal power, greater health, and joyful wellbeing—in this follow-up to The Little Book of Big Lies, an inspiring and hands-on guide in the tradition of Yasmine Cheyenne’s The Sugar Jar and Tabitha Brown’s Seen, Loved &... Read more

They Dream in Gold

By: Mai Sennaar

Narrated by: Julia Kwamya

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When Bonnie and Mansour meet in New York in 1968?his piercing gaze in a downtown jazz club threatening to carry her away?their connection is undeniable. Both from fractured homes, with childhoods spent crossing the Atlantic, they quickly find peace with each other. And as Mansour’s soaring Senegalese melodies continue to break new ground,... Read more

Lit Up With Love

By: Derwin L. Gray

Narrated by: Derwin L. Gray

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Every single person hungers for divine love―even if they don’t know it. So why do we find it so hard to share the healing work of Christ?If you've longed to share your Christian faith authentically but found fear holding you back, you are not alone. Many of us long to make a meaningful impact for Christ in our communities but feel inadequate,... Read more

Voices of Black America

By: Author

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908–1946 of Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Address, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, the rarely heard humour of Charley Case, readings from God’s Trombones by James Weldon Johnson, and much much more. Read more

Forty Million Dollar Slaves

By: William C. Rhoden

Narrated by: William C. Rhoden

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says former New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the... Read more

The Leavers

By: Lisa Ko

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a... Read more

The Idea of You

By: Robinne Lee

Narrated by: Robinne Lee

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine.



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... Read more

Johnathan Thurston

By: Johnathan Thurston

Narrated by: James Phelps

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling autobiography of a league legend.
Johnathan Thurston is widely regarded as rugby league's greatest player. This autobiography will follow Thurston's journey from a Brisbane kid who was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild to play professionally, to his debut with the Canterbury Bulldogs in 2003, to State of Origin... Read more

Ayesha at Last

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

Narrated by: Roshni Shukla

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen on The Today Show! One of the best summer romance picks!

One of Publishers Weekly Best Romance Books of 2019!

A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love.

Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives... Read more

Opening My Eyes Underwater

By: Ashley Woodfolk

Narrated by: Ashley Woodfolk

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Author Ashley Woodfolk's voice is clear and bright, making this a pleasant listening experience." - AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

Inspired by the life and quotations of former first lady Michelle Obama, Opening My Eyes Underwater is a collection of essays by bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk.

Essays of bullying,... Read more

Read Dangerously

By: Azar Nafisi

Narrated by: Azar Nafisi

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.""[A] stunning look at the power of reading. ... Provokes and inspires at every turn.""... Read more

Pourin’ Down Rain

By: Cheryl Foggo

Narrated by: Karen Robinson

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary, a time when a Black family walking down the street still drew stares from everyone they passed. During her childhood, a community of extended family and friends, with roots in... Read more

Policing Black Lives

By: Robyn Maynard

Narrated by: Marcia Johnson

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and... Read more

My Baby First Birthday

By: Jenny Zhang

Narrated by: Jenny Zhang

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born—without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce... Read more

A Worthy Piece of Work

By: Michael Hines

Narrated by: Andrew Barnes

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Madeline Morgan, the activist educator who brought Black history to one of the nation’s largest and most segregated school systems

A Worthy Piece of Work tells the story of Madeline Morgan (later Madeline Stratton Morris), a teacher and an activist in WWII-era Chicago, who fought her own battle on the home front, authoring curricula... Read more

How We Can Win

By: Kimberly Jones

Narrated by: Kimberly Jones

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.”

“So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if... Read more

Pen Pal (Prison Letters From A Free Spirit On Slow Death Row)

By: Tiyo Attallah Salah-El

Narrated by: Carl Weathers, Jack Daniel, Wendy Shapero, Lanc...

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Tiyo Attallah Salah-El died in 2018 on “Slow Death Row” while serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. He was a man with a dizzying array of talents and vocations: author, scholar, teacher, musician, and activist: he was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons. He was also, as is apparent from the letters written over... Read more

The Passing Playbook

By: Isaac Fitzsimons

Narrated by: Jamie K. Brown

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Love, Simon meets Bend It Like Beckham in this feel-good contemporary romance about a trans athlete who must decide between fighting for his right to play and staying stealth.

“A sharply observant and vividly drawn debut. I loved every minute I spent in this story, and I’ve never rooted harder for a jock in my life.” – New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Lost Dreamer

By: Lizz Huerta

Narrated by: Elisa Melendez & Inés del Castillo

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrators] Melendez and del Castillo work together to heighten the vibrancy and tension of Huerta's narrative with forceful deliveries and dynamic characterizations. In a moving exploration of family, power, community, and love, two stories beautifully combine into a vivid, captivating adventure. A compelling debut, well suited to fans of... Read more

You Sound Like a White Girl

By: Julissa Arce

Narrated by: Julissa Arce

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author and includes a bonus conversation with the author and Paola Ramos, a Vice News journalist, MSNBC Contributor, and author of Finding Latinx.

“A love letter to our people—full of fury and passion."
— José Olivarez, award-winning poet and author of Citizen Illegal

"If you could take Rodolfo Gonzales epic poem 'I Am... Read more

An Abolitionist's Handbook

By: Patrisse Cullors

Narrated by: Ariel Blake

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The audiobook features an introduction written and read by Prentis Hemphill as well as an exclusive bonus conversation with the author and adrienne maree brown.

In AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the... Read more