Pages And Days

Pride and Protest

By: Nikki Payne
Narrated by: Kacie Rogers & Ron Nery, Jr.
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

A Phenomenal Book Club pick for November 2022!

A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood in this fresh and modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by debut author Nikki Payne.
 
Liza B.—the only DJ who gives a jam—wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer... Read more

Sex, Lies and Sensibility

By: Nikki Payne
Narrated by: Kacie Rogers, Phil Ava & Nikki Payne
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

“Nikki Payne skillfully spins the tale of a well-known Jane Austen classic and makes it entirely her own. Thoughtful, hilarious, and smolderingly steamy.”—Kristina Forest, author of The Partner Plot

Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated inn but must learn to work with the locals in this deliciously spicy novel inspired by Sense... Read more

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer
Narrated by: André Santana & Jonathan Blitzer
Length: 18 hours 13 minutes

A National Bestseller • A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, Christian Science Monitor, and Counterpunch • One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks • Named a Notable Book by New York Times and Washington... Read more

Bibliotherapy in the Bronx

By: Emely Rumble
Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

“I’m a strong supporter of this book and what its intentions are. In finds this book inspirational and a useful tool from page 1. Emely is a superb human being for putting this book in the world. Read more

The Devil Three Times

A Novel

By: Rickey Fayne
Narrated by: James Fouhey, Robin Miles & Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

“A debut of enormous ambition” spanning eight generations of a Black family in West Tennessee as they are repeatedly visited by the Devil (Nathan Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water)

Yetunde awakens aboard a slave ship en route to the United States with the spirit of her dead sister as her only companion.... Read more

Blacktop Wasteland

A Novel

By: S. A. Cosby
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

A New York Times Notable Books of 2020

"Narrator Adam Lazarre-White's voice exudes confidence and depth; his performance is an example of how the best audiobooks deliver pure storytelling." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

A husband, a father, a son, a business owner…And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.

This... Read more

Razorblade Tears

A Novel

By: S. A. Cosby
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

“This was just riveting. Two fathers, one black and one white, come together to avenge the murders of their married sons. What was sad, and gratifying, is that these two homophobic dads, realized, too late, that their love for their boys, should have transcended their own hateful beliefs. And, it was hard to read their regret bc they could never... Read more

Oathbound

The Legendborn Cycle

By: Tracy Deonn
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Andrew Eiden, Hillary Huber, Tim Paige & Adenrele Ojo
Length: 24 hours 58 minutes

Tracy Deonn’s #1 New York Times bestselling Legendborn Cycle continues in the sensational third book about a dazzling contemporary fantasy world that blends Southern Black Girl Magic with secret societies and the legend of King Arthur!

Severed from the Legendborn. Oathbound to a monster.

Bree Matthews is alone. She exiled herself from the... Read more

Paradise

By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New... Read more

Let Us Descend

A Novel

By: Jesmyn Ward
Narrated by: Jesmyn Ward
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

“Jesmyn Ward is one of the most important writers of our time. This may be her best to date. Heartbreaking and gorgeous, Annis carries us through her story of loss and brutal enslavement — a story of strength, love, enduring, and finding a way. Read more

Grown Women

A Novel

By: Sarai Johnson
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year · NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Debut Literary Work“This is a tender, deeply perceptive tale of what kin owes kin, and how we might work to mend old wounds together.”—ElleIn this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and daughterhood, generational... Read more

From These Roots

My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy

By: Tamara Lanier
Narrated by: Shonrael Lanier
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

One woman’s unrelenting mission to reclaim her ancestors’ history and honor their lineage pits her against one of the country’s most powerful institutions: Harvard University

Tamara Lanier grew up listening to her mother’s stories about her ancestors. As Black Americans descended from enslaved people brought to America, they knew all too well how... Read more

Black in Blues

How a Color Tells the Story of My People

By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, USA Today, People, AARP, Today.com, BookRiot, Bustle, LitHub, BookPage, Our Culture, and VultureA surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani PerryThroughout history, the concept of Blackness has been... Read more

South to America

A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

“The spirit and essence of “America” are things quintessentially, essentially elusive. In South to America, Imani Perry—native Black Southerner, award-winning author, Princeton professor—submits a gorgeously written, eminently worthy entry in the search. Crafting a compelling balance between recorded history, current events, and personal... Read more

Firstborn Girls

A Memoir

By: Bernice L. McFadden
Narrated by: Robin Miles & Bernice L. McFadden
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

From award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University comes an intimate and powerful memoir exploring inherited trauma, family secrets, and the enduring bonds of love between mothers and daughters.

On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother... Read more

Tar Baby

By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Desiree Coleman
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner

Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their ... Read more

Sula

By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 18 hours 52 minutes

Jane Eyre, the plain yet spirited governess, introduced a new kind of heroine to literature: one whose virtuous integrity, sharp intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loved.Orphaned and subject to a cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit... Read more

Sky Full of Elephants

By: Cebo Campbell
Narrated by: Leon Nixon, Erin Ruth Walker & Janina Edwards
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

“I never considered how different the world might be without white people in it, so this book caused me some good introspection! I enjoyed Campbell’s humor, rich writing and unique perspective. I came to care deeply about the characters, even thinking about them after the book ended. What a plot! When a supernatural event occurs, white people... Read more

Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

“Possibly one of the most important books I've read in the last decade. Caste examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America. Wondering how America came to this? This book has brutal, unflinching answers. Read more