African American Magical Realism Fiction

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    • The Broken Earth, Book 1
    • By: N. K. Jemisin
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Series: The Broken Earth, Book 1
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26,537 ratings
    • This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Narrated by: Joe Morton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,878 ratings
    • Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her - but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life....

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    • By: Zalika Reid-Benta
    • Narrated by: Tymika Tafari
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantasy novel about a young Black woman who navigates her quarter-life-crisis while embarking on a mythical quest through the streets of Toronto....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Phillip B. Williams
    • Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
    • Length: 22 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjurer who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Wayétu Moore
    • Narrated by: Wayétu Moore
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 882 ratings
    • Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond....

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    • By: Morgan Jerkins
    • Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 394 ratings
    • Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak. This time has to be different, so she turns to the Melancons, an old, powerful Harlem family known for their caul, a precious layer of skin that is the source of their healing power....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Blitz Bazawule
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Fleeing persecution in 1960s America, a Black couple seeks asylum in Ghana, but fresh dangers and old secrets threaten their newfound freedom in this hypnotic debut novel....

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    • By: Natasha Jarrett
    • Narrated by: Jennifer E. Cullins
    • Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • Gabrielle LeRoux was just like any other girl, focused on her academics and other normal teenage angst. That is, until her 18th birthday, where she inherits her powers and finds out she's a witch! She discovers that she is part of a long line of witches that descended from West Africa....

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    • By: Rita Woods
    • Narrated by: Nedra Marie Taylor
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • The Last Dreamwalker tells the story of two women, separated by nearly two centuries yet inextricably linked by the Gullah-Geechee Islands off the coast of South Carolina—and their connection to a mysterious and extraordinary gift passed from generation to generation....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
    • Narrated by: Torian Brackett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • A psychiatric patient’s desperate search for answers reveals peculiar memories and unexpected connections in a twisty and mind-bending novel of love, family, betrayal, and secrets.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Toni Morrison
    • Narrated by: Toni Morrison
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,348 ratings
    • At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love....

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    • By: Colson Whitehead
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • J. Sutter is a bonafide junketeer - a freelance writer, travelling from city to city, hungry for free meals and the discarded sales receipts of others to claim on his expense account....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Janelle M. Williams
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A lyrical debut novel that asks what we owe to our families, what we owe to our ancestors, and what we owe to ourselves. Janelle M. Williams’s Gone Like Yesterday employs magical realism to explore the majestic and haunting experience of being a Black woman in today’s America....

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    • By: Karen Tei Yamashita
    • Narrated by: Bernardo De Paula
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather....

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    • By: Alex Jennings
    • Narrated by: Gralen Bryant Banks
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. To Perilous Graves, it’s simply home....

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    • By: Nalo Hopkinson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • "We'd had to be cut free of our mother's womb. Abby and I were fused, you see. But here's the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn't"....

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    • By: Rod Palmer
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • If he loves her, he loves her – career woman or addict – despite what they say about her value. They can’t speak for black women. They ...

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