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Featured Article: The top 100 classics of all time
Before we whipped out our old high school syllabi and dug deep into our libraries to start selecting contenders for this list, we first had to answer the question, "How do we define a classic?" The answer isn’t as straightforward as you might guess, though there’s a lot to be said for the old adage, "You know it when you see it" (or, in this case, hear it). Of course, most critically, each of our picks had to be fabulous in audio. So dust off your aspirational listening list—we have some amazing additions you don’t want to miss.
Best Sellers
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The Crazy Kill
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 158
Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A&P across the street is robbed....
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is One Crazy Bunch!
- By Ilana on 07-06-12
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The Crazy Kill
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Series: Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 11-22-11
- Language: English
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The Heat's On
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73
From the start, nothing goes fright for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The twist!!!!
- By Black Action Super Hero on 03-28-24
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The Heat's On
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Series: Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 5
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-22-11
- Language: English
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Blind Man with a Pistol
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Story4 out of 5 stars 84
New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point....
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3 out of 5 stars
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FINALLY....a relic uncovered
- By RoB on 11-24-11
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Blind Man with a Pistol
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Series: Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 7
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 11-22-11
- Language: English
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All Shot Up
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 94
A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent....
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5 out of 5 stars
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bat boys
- By SugarBrown96 on 07-26-20
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All Shot Up
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Series: Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 3
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-22-11
- Language: English
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The Big Gold Dream
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
An explosive and shocking hardboiled classic that explores the shadowy underbelly of New York as a urban civil war erupts on the side streets of Harlem....
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4 out of 5 stars
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"Faith Is Like a Gold Dream" in Hard Boiled Harlem
- By Jefferson on 09-26-12
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The Big Gold Dream
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Series: Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 4
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 11-22-11
- Language: English
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The Real Cool Killers
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 162
Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls....
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW!
- By freddie on 05-29-13
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The Real Cool Killers
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Series: Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 11-22-11
- Language: English
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A Rage in Harlem
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,304
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,163
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,155
Samuel L. Jackson gives a swaggering, darkly humored performance of Chester Himes' classic first novel....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Go the f--k to Audible and get this now!
- By Julie W. Capell on 03-22-12
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A Rage in Harlem
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson
- Series: Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 0.5
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-08-12
- Language: English
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Plan B
- Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 8
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 4
The final, posthumous installment of the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series, a novel of explosive, apocalyptic violence and a startling vision of the effects of racism in America.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Poor End to Beloved Heroes
- By Sal Paradise on 03-14-24
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Plan B
- Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 8
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Series: Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 8
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-26-24
- Language: English
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 124
Con man Deak O'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and back on the street working the scam of a lifetime....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just discovered Audo Books
- By freddie on 05-02-13
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Series: Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 6
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 11-22-11
- Language: English
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A Rage in Harlem
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Samuel L Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
A dark and witty work of hardboiled detective fiction set in the mean streets of New York, Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem includes an introduction by Luc Sante in Penguin Modern Classics....
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A Rage in Harlem
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Samuel L Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-15-21
- Language: English
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Harlem-Krimis
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Martin Semmelrogge, Oliver Stritzel, Sandra Schwittau, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Im New Yorker Schwarzenviertel Harlem ist ein Koffer voller Goldstücke das Ziel eines erbitterten Kampfes zwischen Schurken, Ganoven und...
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Harlem-Krimis
- Narrated by: Martin Semmelrogge, Oliver Stritzel, Sandra Schwittau, Engelbert von Nordhausen, Udo Schenk
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 07-07-23
- Language: German
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