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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: 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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    • 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: 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 366 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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    • 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 346 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: Walter Mosley
    • Narrated by: Ty Jones
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-24-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • i>The Tempest Tales, an Essence Book Club Recommended Read, features Tempest Landry, a black man shot down by an over-eager cop. But that's not the end of the line....

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    • By: Ernest J. Gaines
    • Narrated by: Lynne Thigpen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • Miss Jane is 100 years old when she is interviewed by an area high school teacher looking to teach his students more about plantation society in the Deep South....

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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 26,489 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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    • By: Claude Mckay
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Buried in the archive for almost 90 years, Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organizers - collectively straight and queer, disabled and able-bodied, African, European, Caribbean, and American....

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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 11,617 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 2,086 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: 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 802 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: Langston Hughes
    • Narrated by: Myra Taylor
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Angelic Essie Belle Johnson and devilish Laura Reed both agree that they need to do something to spice up their lives and earn more money. So they start their own church....

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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 1,843 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: 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 2,152 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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