Tayari Jones
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Featured Article: Outstanding Black Authors Across Various Genres and Styles
Stories have the power not only to transport us, but to allow us to connect, understand, and feel represented. The work of phenomenal Black authors—like those featured in this list—has expanded the ambition, scope, and perspective of storytelling. These must-hear titles from some of the best Black authors of all time are also indisputably some of the most remarkable works of literature in both the contemporary and historical canon.
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Half Light
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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Identical twins Amelia and Camelia Hall were born with the same face, and that’s about it. But the bond between the sisters is deep and unshakable....
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Half Light
- By barbara on 09-02-20
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Half Light
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Series: Audible Original Stories
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-31-20
- Language: English
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An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career....
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So many “WTF” moments
- By Kristen R King on 05-04-18
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An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 02-06-18
- Language: English
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Dispossession
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
- Length: 57 mins
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Motherhood isn’t easy, especially when you’re a mother of a Black son. Ten years ago, Cheryl jumped at the chance to send her son, Javonte, to an exclusive boarding school in New England - far away from Atlanta and the violence of the city streets....
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Wanted more
- By Sarah Peters on 01-19-21
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Dispossession
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
- Series: Audible Original Stories
- Length: 57 mins
- Release date: 01-14-21
- Language: English
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The Untelling
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Michele Blackmon
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Aria is no stranger to tragedy. Fifteen years ago, a family outing took the lives of her father and baby sister, leaving remaining members of this fractured family struggling with their own guilt....
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Don’t waste your time!
- By shasha on 09-18-20
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The Untelling
- Narrated by: Michele Blackmon
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-23-08
- Language: English
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Silver Sparrow
- A Novel
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman Williams, Heather Alicia Simms
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, Silver Sparrow revolves around James Witherspoon's two families - the public one and the secret one....
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underwhelming ending
- By Keisha on 01-17-13
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Silver Sparrow
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman Williams, Heather Alicia Simms
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-09-11
- Language: English
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The Street
- By: Ann Petry, Tayari Jones - introduction
- Narrated by: Danielle Deadwyler
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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The classic urban tale of a young Black woman's struggle to raise her son alone amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of 1940s Harlem....
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The ending
- By KASH on 11-04-24
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The Street
- Narrated by: Danielle Deadwyler
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 08-20-20
- Language: English
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Leaving Atlanta
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor, Kevin R. Free, Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Award-winning novelist Tayari Jones delivers a story based on the 1979-1980 Atlanta child murders....
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- By Rich in BCS on 04-03-13
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Leaving Atlanta
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor, Kevin R. Free, Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 03-22-06
- Language: English
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Atlanta Noir
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Ron Butler, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Come sit on the veranda and pour yourself a glass of sweet tea, fortified with a slug of bourbon. Put your feet up and enjoy these stories set in Atlanta, a city sewn from the ashes, where everything that grows is both fertilized and corrupted by the past....
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excellent read/listen
- By Mommy Dearest on 05-06-18
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Atlanta Noir
- Narrated by: Ron Butler, Bahni Turpin
- Series: Akashic Books: Noir
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-24-18
- Language: English
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Black Folk Could Fly
- Selected Writings
- By: Randall Kenan, Tayari Jones - introduction
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays....
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Black Folk Could Fly
- Selected Writings
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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Silver Sparrow
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman-Williams, Heather Alicia Simms
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Chaurisse and Dana have a lot in common. They both grew up in Atlanta, they shop at the same stores, visit the same restaurants....
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Silver Sparrow
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman-Williams, Heather Alicia Simms
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-19-20
- Language: English
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Un mariage américain
- By: Tayari Jones, Karine Lalechère - traducteur
- Narrated by: Michelangelo Marchese, Sophie Frison, Maxime van Santfoort
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Celestial et Roy viennent de se marier. Elle est à l'aube d'une carrière artistique prometteuse, il s'apprête à lancer son business...
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Un mariage américain
- Narrated by: Michelangelo Marchese, Sophie Frison, Maxime van Santfoort
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-12-20
- Language: French
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Siempre Juntas [Always Together]
- By: Tayari Jones, Anna Roig - translator
- Narrated by: Cristina Tenorio
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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Las gemelas idénticas, Amelia y Camelia Hall, nacieron con la misma cara, pero eso es todo: cuando las chicas llegan a la edad escolar, sus nombres similares ya no pueden contenerlas....
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Siempre Juntas [Always Together]
- Narrated by: Cristina Tenorio
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-20-21
- Language: Spanish
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Des baisers parfum tabac
- By: Tayari Jones, Karine Lalechere - traducteur
- Narrated by: Corinne Wellong, Clarisse Lhoni-Botte
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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"Mon père, James Witherspoon, est bigame." C'est par cette confession percutante que Dana Lynn Yarboro débute le récit d'une enfance pas comme...
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Des baisers parfum tabac
- Narrated by: Corinne Wellong, Clarisse Lhoni-Botte
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-09-21
- Language: French
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