Juneteenth Picks from Black-Owned Bookstores
Saturday, June 19th, is Juneteenth: the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, and the longest-running African-American holiday. We asked a few of our Black-owned partner bookstores to share recommendations for audiobooks you should be listening to this Juneteenth. Find more on the bookstores and why they picked each audiobook on the blog.
The Mother of Black Hollywood
A Memoir
By: Jenifer Lewis
Narrated by: Jenifer Lewis
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner The "Mega Diva" and legendary star of Black-ish looks back on her memorable journey to fame and the unforgettable life lessons she learned along the way.Jenifer Lewis keeps it real in this provocative and touching memoir by a mid-western girl with a dream whose journey from poverty to Hollywood will... Read more
Audiobook details Add to Wish ListAlmost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Opposite of Always
By: Justin A. Reynolds
Narrated by: Nile Bullock
Length: 10 hours
“One of the best love stories I’ve ever read.” —Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give“Read this one, reread it, and then hug it to your chest.” —Becky Albertalli, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Debut author Justin A. Reynolds delivers a hilarious and heartfelt novel... Read more
Audiobook details Add to Wish ListAlmost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Juneteenth
A Novel
By: Ralph Ellison
Narrated by: Joe Morton
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
From the author of bestselling Invisible Man—the classic novel of African-American experience—this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.
"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying... Read more
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Special offer
Free audiobook with membership
For a limited time, when you sign up for a new monthly membership with code CHOOSEINDIE, we’ll give you a bonus audiobook! That means you’ll have 2 audiobook credits to redeem from the start.
Claim special offer
Homegoing
A novel
By: Yaa Gyasi
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Homegoing is an epic narrative that is sure to become a treasured staple. Two sisters in Ghana are marked by fiery tragedy: one is married off to an English slave trader, and the other is sold to be a slave in America. The story follows their descendants generation by generation. Homegoing will break your heart over and over, impress you with... Read more
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Black Futures
By: Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham
Narrated by: Kimberly Drew, Kevin R. Free, Dominic Hoffman, Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo, Bahni Turpin & Jenna Wortham
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
An archive of collective memory and exuberant testimony
A luminous map to navigate an opaque and disorienting present
An infinite geography of possible futures
What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?
Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more—to... Read more
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
A Little Devil in America
Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Using Black performance as a loose organizing principle, Abdurraqib has written a brilliant, expansive, insightful, and personal book. There is something of Montaigne’s penchant for humility and brilliance in equal measure; of Susan Sontag’s use of cultural criticism to understand history and the self; of Zadie Smith’s verbal wizardry,... Read more
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
The Sum of Us
What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By: Heather McGhee
Narrated by: Heather McGhee
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s 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 everyone—not just for people of color.
WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE... Read more
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
I Am Every Good Thing
By: Derrick Barnes
Narrated by: Joshua David Scarlett
Length: 4 minutes
An upbeat, empowering, important audiobook from the team that created the award-winning Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
I am
a nonstop ball of energy.
Powerful and full of light.
I am a go-getter. A difference maker. A leader.
The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is. He's got big plans, and no doubt... Read more
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
The Office of Historical Corrections
A Novella and Stories
By: Danielle Evans
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nicole Lewis, Brittany Pressley, Shayna Small, January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo & Janina Edwards
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I have been holding my breath for Danielle Evans’ next book of short stories since Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, and The Office of Historical Corrections was worth the wait. She delivers the same great storytelling, insight, and sharp cultural commentary. Her touch on themes usually associated with older people, such as redemption,... Read more
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
You Are Your Best Thing
Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
By: Tarana Burke & Brené Brown
Narrated by: Tarana Burke, Brené Brown, the Contributors, Mirron Willis, Bahni Turpin, JD Jackson & L Morgan Lee
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience.
Contributions by Kiese Laymon, Imani Perry, Laverne Cox,... Read more
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Notes on Grief
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father:“With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief… captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put... Read more
Audiobook details Add to Wish ListAlmost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Freedom Dreams
The Black Radical Imagination
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of... Read more
Audiobook details Add to Wish ListAlmost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Mama Day
By: Gloria Naylor
Narrated by: narrator
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes
Miranda Day, known as Mama Day, is the elderly matriarch of Willow Springs, a small sea island off the southeast coast of the United States. Mama Day finds herself pitted in mortal combat with dark forces that threaten the body and soul of her beloved great-niece, Cocoa, who has gone "mainside" and married an urban northerner. Mama Day will... Read more
Audiobook details Add to Wish ListAlmost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 22 hours 40 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I'm sorry I hadn't gotten to this sooner. Wilkerson pulls together so much of what I already knew about the US but not necessarily why... a great audiobook, too. Read more
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
How the Word Is Passed
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
Narrated by: Clint Smith
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Smith has crafted a resource, narrative and detailed explanation into how we teach the legacy of slavery. He recounts visits from everywhere from NYC to the Whitney Plantation, integrating stories of people and visitors today. This book is lays a beautiful written foundation for interrogating the history we've been taught. Particularly... Read more
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Training School for Negro Girls
By: Camille Acker
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Janina Edwards
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who’s never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life’s “training school”―with lessons on gentrification and respectability—and fight to create their own... Read more
Audiobook details Add to Wish ListAlmost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem
A Memoir
By: Daniel R. Day
Narrated by: Omari Hardwick & Daniel R. Day
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn’t just about fashion. It’s about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hustle, love, and a singular determination to live our dreams out loud.”—Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, 13th, and A Wrinkle in Time
NAMED ONE OF THE... Read more
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account