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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America
This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... Read more
Quietly Hostile
By: Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ā¢ A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha IrbyĀ "engages readers with her characteristic combination of laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt passages and plenty of awkward experiences.... Quietly Hostile will delight established fans and newcomers alike (Parade).
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āBrilliant and one... Read more
The Violin Conspiracy
By: Brendan Slocumb
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Brendan Slocumb
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!Ā ā¢Ā Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the riseāundeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music worldāwhen a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfatherās heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.
āI... Read more
The Poet X
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Don't miss this acclaimed audiobook, read by the authorāwinner ofĀ an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner!The Poet X is also the winner of the National Book Award for Young Peopleās Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, andĀ the Pura BelprĆ© Award.Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for... Read more
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D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
By: Chencia C. Higgins
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant I Do could be Kris Zavalaās big break. Sheās right on the cusp of really making it as an influencer, so a stint on reality TV is the perfect chance to elevate her brand. And $100,000 wouldnāt hurt either. DāVaughn Miller is just trying to break out of her shell. Sheās sort of neglected to come out to her mom for years, so a big splashy... Read more
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Leslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
Narrated by: Leslie Jones & Chris Rock
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER withĀ 5+ hours of bonus material not found in the print version and read by Leslie Jones. AudioFile Magazine awarded the recording an āEarphones Awardā, saying: āNo listener can leave this memoir unaffected as Jones laughs and sobs, sharing the highs and lows, joys and sorrows of her full life.ā
Hey you guys, itās... Read more
Madness
By: Antonia Hylton
Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition ofĀ The Immortal Life ofĀ HenriettaĀ Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nationās last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in Americaās mental healthcare system.Ā
On a cold day in March ofĀ 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the... Read more
Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ā¢ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERĀ ā¢ A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.Ā
ThisĀ "brutally powerful, mesmerizing storyā (People) is anĀ unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
Sethe... Read more
Kindred
By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Kim Staunton
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The first science fiction written by a Black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of Black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably... Read more
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Razorblade Tears
By: S. A. Cosby
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the ThrillerFest 2022 Audiobook of the Year Award!
āLazarre-White's commanding performance is equally riveting. He creates an irresistible listening experienceā āAudioFile Magazine
āSuperb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times.ā āMichael Connelly,
#1 New York Times bestselling author
A Black father. A... Read more
Bluebird, Bluebird
By: Attica Locke
Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today).
"In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."-Ann Patchett
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules -- a... Read more
Finding Me
By: Viola Davis
Narrated by: Viola Davis
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording!Audie Award Winner for Audiobook of the Year!Narrated by Viola DavisIn my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central... Read more
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The Light We Carry
By: Michelle Obama
Narrated by: Michelle Obama
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
2024 GrammyĀ® Award Winner ā¢ #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERĀ ā¢Ā In an inspiring follow-up to herĀ acclaimedĀ memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in todayās highly uncertain world.
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There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to lifeās big... Read more
Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club)
By: James McBride
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
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Winner of the Gotham Book Prize
One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"
Oprah's Book Club Pick
Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine
A Washington Post Notable Novel
From the author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery... Read more
Such a Fun Age
By: Kiley Reid
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A Best Book of the Year:
The Washington PostĀ ā¢Ā Chicago TribuneĀ ā¢Ā NPRĀ ā¢ VogueĀ ā¢Ā ElleĀ ā¢Ā Real SimpleĀ ā¢Ā InStyleĀ ā¢Ā Good Housekeeping ā¢ ParadeĀ ā¢ SlateĀ ā¢Ā Vox ā¢Ā Kirkus Reviews ā¢Ā Library Journal ā¢Ā BookPage
Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
A Reese's Book Club PickĀ
"The most provocative page-turner of the year."... Read more
Bloodmarked
By: Tracy Deonn
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 22 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
āDeonn expertly weaves together a universe that both shines a light on the pervasive nature of racism and also harnesses the complexity of Black identity within this space. Deonn writes so much more than simple fantasies or Arthurian retellings.ā āBooklist (starred review)
The āworthy successor to an... Read more
The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
Narrated by: RuPaul
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by Ru Paul
***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame... Read more
A Master of Djinn
By: P. DjĆØlĆ Clark
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Narrator Suehyla] El-Attar expertly creates a vibrant version of Cairo that captures a heady blend of the cosmopolitan and the supernatural that will win many new fans." -- AudioFile Magazine
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. DjĆØlĆ Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn
Cairo,... Read more
The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so... Read more
The Sum of Us
By: Heather McGhee
Narrated by: Heather McGhee
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ā¢ One of todayās most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyoneānot just for people of color.
WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD ā¢ ONE... Read more
Briefly Perfectly Human
By: Alua Arthur
Narrated by: Alua Arthur
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from Americaās most visible death doula.""A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world.... There is no one I'd... Read more
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Black Cake
By: Charmaine Wilkerson
Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman & Simone Mcintyre
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
NOW A HULU STREAMING SERIES ā¢ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ā¢Ā Two estranged siblings delve into their motherās hidden pastāand how it all connects to her traditional Caribbean black cakeāin this immersive family saga, āa character-driven, multigenerational story thatās meant to be savoredā (Time).... Read more
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How the Word Is Passed
By: Clint Smith
Narrated by: Clint Smith
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in Americaāand how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarksāthose that are honest about the past and those that are notāthat... Read more
Homegoing
By: Yaa Gyasi
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book
One of Oprahās 10 Favorite Books of 2016
NPR's Debut Novel of the Year
One of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books OfĀ 2016
One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016
āHomegoingĀ is an inspiration.ā āTa-Nehisi CoatesĀ
The unforgettable New York Times best seller begins with the story... Read more
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