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    • By: Jessie Redmon Fauset
    • Narrated by: Tovah Ott
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In New York City, Joanna Marshall is an aspiring singer obsessed with success, determined to overcome the racism and sexism that stand in her way. Her childhood friends Maggie Ellersley and Peter Bye confront similar barriers but with different goals in mind....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 870 ratings
    • "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level....

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    • By: Tananarive Due
    • Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
    • Series: African Immortals, Book 3
    • Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 349 ratings
    • Said to cure almost any illness, the new street drug Glow has attained almost mythical status in America. The key ingredient in Glow is the Living Blood....

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    • By: Mary Monroe
    • Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
    • Series: God Series, Book 5
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • Annette is thankful that her husband, Pee Wee, has decided to give her a second chance after discovering her affair. But post-betrayal Pee Wee seems a million miles away....

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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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    • Blessed Trinity Series, Book 6
    • By: Vanessa Davis Griggs
    • Narrated by: Shari Peele
    • Series: Blessed Trinity, Book 6
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Vanessa Davis Griggs’ Blessed Trinity novels tackle tough questions of faith with humor and honesty....

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    • By: Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Ruby Dee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,643 ratings
    • This poetic, graceful love story celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage....

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    • By: Toni Morrison
    • Narrated by: Toni Morrison
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,090 ratings
    • Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah....

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    • By: Christopher Paul Curtis
    • Narrated by: LeVar Burton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,845 ratings
    • Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most important times in the civil rights movement....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 804 ratings
    • First published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and liberal America in the 1960s, taking on the then-taboo themes of interracial couples, bisexuality, and extramarital affairs....

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    • By: Richard Wright
    • Narrated by: Ethan Herisse
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 266 ratings
    • Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system....

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    • By: Richard Wright
    • Narrated by: Peter Francis James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,155 ratings
    • Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Ishmael Reed
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Alice Walker
    • Narrated by: Samira Wiley
    • Series: Color Purple, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,688 ratings
    • Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa....

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    • By: Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Ruby Dee
    • Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • This recently rediscovered and critically acclaimed 1937 novel tells the story of Janie Crawford, a long-legged, articulate, and fiercely independent African-American woman of the 1930s....

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    • A Novel (Vintage International)
    • By: James Baldwin, Kevin Young - introduction
    • Narrated by: Matt Bomer, Kevin Young
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction, Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality.

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    • By: Jewelle Gomez
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who "shares the blood" by two women there, Gilda spends the next 200 years searching for a place to call home....

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    • By: Langston Hughes
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • A fascinating chronicle of a family's joys and hardships, Not Without Laughter is a vivid exploration of growing up and growing strong in a racially divided society. A rich and important work, it masterfully echoes the black American experience....

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