Ishmael Reed
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Featured Article: The Best Western Audiobooks for Your Inner Outlaw
The now classic Western genre has shaped modern literature, film, and other forms of entertainment. Whether your story is taking you to space or to the wide-open plains of Utah, it’s likely pulling on the tropes and themes of a traditional Western. Our favorite audiobooks don’t just encompass old classics though—we’ve gathered a full breadth of work so that all fans of the genre can find everything from family-friendly listens to gritty adventure tales.
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Malcolm and Me
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: Ishmael Reed
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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In 1960, Ishmael Reed, then an aspiring young writer, interviewed Malcolm X for a local radio station in Buffalo, and the encounter cost Reed his job and changed his life. In Malcolm and Me, Reed reveals a side of Malcolm X the public has never seen before....
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You and Who?
- By Kimberly B. on 02-04-20
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Malcolm and Me
- Narrated by: Ishmael Reed
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-30-20
- Language: English
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The Man Who Haunted Himself
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: Adam Lazzare White
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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Dr. Douglass Garnett is about to break all the rules to save himself—and push mankind into the future....
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Not good at all
- By SusannaBarnes on 11-21-22
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The Man Who Haunted Himself
- Narrated by: Adam Lazzare White
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 11-17-22
- Language: English
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The Fool Who Thought Too Much
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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It’s tough to be a buffoon when the Age of Reason is trying to downsize your job. When the King’s Fool dies unexpectedly, a professional buffoon tries to move up the ranks and grab the top slot. But the politics involved in becoming a court jester are no laughing matter....
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A great listening experience!
- By Severen Henderson on 11-06-20
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The Fool Who Thought Too Much
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
- Series: Audible Original Stories
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-05-20
- Language: English
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Mumbo Jumbo
- A Novel
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Ishmael Reed's inspired fable of the ragtime era, in which a social movement threatens to suppress the spread of black culture - hailed by Harold Bloom as one of the 500 greatest books of the Western canon....
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Interesting for Political & Cultural Influence
- By Tom on 03-01-20
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Mumbo Jumbo
- A Novel
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-21-20
- Language: English
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The Free-Lance Pallbearers
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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Ishmael Reed's electrifying first novel zooms readers off to the crazy, ominous kingdom of HARRY SAM - a miserable and dangerous place....
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Just Plain Fun
- By Sharlotte on 01-16-17
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The Free-Lance Pallbearers
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-15-12
- Language: English
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Flight to Canada
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: Vince Bailey
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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Brilliantly portrayed by a novelist with "a talent for hyperbole and downright yarning unequaled since Mark Twain", (Saturday Review), this slave's-eye view of the Civil War exposes America's racial foibles of the past and present....
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Next Level.
- By A. SAID on 10-25-19
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Flight to Canada
- Narrated by: Vince Bailey
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 07-30-13
- Language: English
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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick....
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Liberating the Masses
- By Darwin8u on 12-15-16
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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-04-12
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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When Papa LaBas comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence....
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BEEN THERE, DID THAT, GOT A T-SHIRT TO PROVE IT!
- By The Louligan on 01-19-14
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 12-04-12
- Language: English
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Reckless Eyeballing
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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In this hilarious, devastating, but also deeply sympathetic novel, Ishmael Reed turns characters on their backs, sides, tops and bottoms to expose the multiple hypocrisies at the heart of American culture....
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Reckless Eyeballing
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 11-15-12
- Language: English
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The Terrible Twos
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: John Bentley
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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The Terrible Twos is a wickedly funny, sharp-edged fictional assault on all those sulky, spoiled naysayers needing instant gratification - Americans....
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Another Crazy Reed Story
- By Sharlotte on 05-23-17
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The Terrible Twos
- Narrated by: John Bentley
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-07-13
- Language: English
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Blues City
- A Walk in Oakland
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: Ishmael Reed
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty....
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Blues City
- A Walk in Oakland
- Narrated by: Ishmael Reed
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-20-16
- Language: English
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Juice!
- American Literature Series
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: Jimmy Garcia
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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In 2010, the Newseum in Washington D.C. finally obtained the suit O. J. Simpson wore in court the day he was acquitted....
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magician writes laughter in hard, ridiculous world
- By D. Munro on 02-15-18
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Juice!
- American Literature Series
- Narrated by: Jimmy Garcia
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 11-15-12
- Language: English
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Blues City
- A Walk in Oakland
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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In Blues City, Ishmael Reed, one of our most brilliant essayists, takes us on a tour of Oakland, exploring its fascinating history, its beautiful hills and waterfronts, and its odd cultural juxtapositions....
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Not Present Day Oakland
- By "Mark R" on 06-04-04
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Blues City
- A Walk in Oakland
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-05-04
- Language: English
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The Terrible Threes
- By: Ishmael Reed
- Narrated by: John Bentley
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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This adventure into the world of offbeat humor and on-target social criticism is a vision of America in the not-too-distant future, a portrait of a fairy-tale gone awry....
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The Terrible Threes
- Narrated by: John Bentley
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-07-13
- Language: English
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