2024 Book Club Selections

Tobacco Road

By: Erskine Caldwell
Narrated by: John MacDonald
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual... Read more

Under Magnolia

A Southern Memoir

By: Frances Mayes
Narrated by: Frances Mayes
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.


The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in... Read more

Meridian

A Novel

By: Alice Walker
Narrated by: Susan Dalian
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

A poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, now available in a new edition featuring an introduction by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage.“A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights... Read more

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

A Novel

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett



I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier.



Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man... Read more