Literary #Blackgirlmagic
This is a playlist of black female writers, those who are making their names known and those on whose shoulders we stand curated by Catherine Adel West.
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
By: Saidiya Hartman
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday... Read more
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So We Can Glow
Stories
By: Leesa Cross-Smith
Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Kamali Minter, Cassandra Morris, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Je Nie Fleming & Christine Lakin
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
A lush, glittering short story collection exploring female obsession and desire by an award-winning author Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller."
From Kentucky to the California desert, these forty-two short stories -- ranging from the 80's and 90's to present day -- expose the hearts of girls and women in moments of obsessive desire and... Read more
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Ruby Dee
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love... Read more
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The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Toni Morrison was a visionary. This, her first novel, was my first foray into her work, and I found it approachable, yet deep with meaning. It borrows its structure from a children’s Dick and Jane story, which Toni reads like a haunting incantation. Her narration of the entire book is flawless and stunning, like the text itself. The novel... Read more
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Lakewood
A Novel
By: Megan Giddings
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Lena just lost her grandmother, her mother has health problems and to top of off they are having financial problems. Lena takes a mysterious job in hopes help her mother and to pay off bills. Lakewood takes you into a dark world of medical testing where human rights are disregarded. This whole story felt more than real and makes you question how... Read more
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)
By: Ayana Mathis
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Bahni Turpin & Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection.
The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.
A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family.
In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping... Read more
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Kindred
By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Kim Staunton
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
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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These Ghosts are Family
A Novel
By: Maisy Card
Narrated by: Karl O’Brian Williams
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist
Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
A “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Stanford Solomon’s shocking,... Read more
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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
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Remembrance
By: Rita Woods
Narrated by: Ella Turenne
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Remembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the many fans of The Underground Railroad and Orphan Train.
Remembrance…It’s a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy…if you... Read more
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