African American Comedy Fiction

African American Comedy Fiction centers on humorous narratives featuring African American protagonists and culture. Often tackle themes of racism, identity, culture, within a comedic framework.
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    • A Novel
    • By: Paul Beatty
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea, Cap'n Crunch: The Movie....

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    • By: George S. Schuyler
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • According to Max Disher, an ambitious young black man in 1930s New York, someone of his race has only three alternatives: "Get out, get white, or get along." Incapable of getting out and unhappy with getting along, Max leaps at the remaining possibility....

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    • By: Michael Elliot
    • Narrated by: Coco Jones, Keith Powers, Queen Latifah, full cast
    • Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 745 ratings
    • Oakland-bred LaVeesha “Vee” Gilliam (Coco Jones) is a determined single mother of an autistic son and a gifted aspiring coder. When Vee loses her job as a food-services worker at the onsite restaurant at Grapengine, she’s unable to pay for her son’s much-needed specialized education.

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    • By: Jack Harbon
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free, Ron Butler
    • Series: Audible Original Stories
    • Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,511 ratings
    • Press play on this funny, sexy short story about rival true-crime podcast hosts forced to play nice and work together when, in reality, all they want to do is kill each other....

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    • Stories
    • By: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling, boundary-pushing vignettes....

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    • A Novel
    • By: John Oliver Killens
    • Narrated by: Nyambi Nyambi
    • Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous adventures, from Mississippi to Washington D.C., Vietnam, London and eventually to Africa, to the fictitious Independent People’s Democratic Republic of Guanaya, where the young musician hopes to “find himself"....

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    • By: Fran Ross
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant....

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    • By: Sam Greenlee, Natiki Hope Pressley
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, Natiki Hope Pressley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,391 ratings
    • Dan Freeman, the “spook who sat by the door,” is enlisted in the CIA’s elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Black Chicagoans to combat racism as “Freedom Fighters” in this explosive novel....

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    • By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen, Carra Patterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 378 ratings
    • A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • "You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before." This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their nose narrowed - if you can afford it....

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    • By: Abby L. Vandiver
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Romaine Wilder, big-city medical examiner with a small-town past, has been downsized and evicted. With few other options, she’s forced to return ...

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    • A Novel
    • By: Colson Whitehead
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • In this coming-of-age novel, Whitehead, using the perpetual mortification of teenage existence and the desperate quest for reinvention, probes the elusive nature of identity....

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    • By: Iceberg Slim
    • Narrated by: Korey Jackson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Shetani's Sister relates, in taut, evocative vernacular torn straight from the street corner, the deadly duel between two complex antiheroes....

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    • By: Tyler Perry
    • Narrated by: Tyler Perry
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,917 ratings
    • Here's "Madea" Mabel Simmons telling her own story, dishing her memoirs and hard-won, hilarious wisdom in her own inimitable voice (with a little help from her friend Tyler Perry)....

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    • By: George S. Schuyler, Brooks E. Hefner - editor
    • Narrated by: Landon Woodson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • “An amazing serial story of Black genius against the world” is how Black Empire was promoted upon its original publication as a serial in The Pittsburgh Courier from 1936 to 1938. It tells the electrifying tale of Dr. Henry Belsidus....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Eric Charles May
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Toles
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • After fourteen years in prison, Gerald “Stew Pot” Reeves, age thirty-one, returns home to live with his mom in Parkland, a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side....

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    • Lovestruck, Book 2
    • By: Mimi Grace
    • Narrated by: Hazel Addison, Myles Washington
    • Series: Lovestruck, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Meticulous and driven Gwen Gilmore knows what she wants… especially in a man. She is newly single and doesn’t have time for lackluster chemistry or mixed signals. But the dating scene proves to be slow and unserious, and she realizes she may need some help. Professional help.

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