African American Historical Fiction

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    • By: Suzette D. Harrison
    • Narrated by: Jordan Frazier, Rachel Handshaw
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Fifteen-year-old Faith Wilson takes her little sister Hope’s hand. In worn-down shoes, they walk through the choking heat of the Dust Bowl, toward a new life in California. But when a storm blows in, the girls are separated from their parents....

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    • Free Man
    • By: Elizabeth Yates
    • Narrated by: Ray Childs
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 593 ratings
    • The true story of At-mun, African prince, captured by slave traders and sold at auction in Massachusetts....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Nathan Harris
    • Narrated by: William DeMeritt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,316 ratings
    • In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm....

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    • By: Joan Vassar
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Life in 1925 Atlanta, Georgia, makes Truck realize three things: He must demand respect … Be uncompromising in the protection of his family … And see Josephine for who she really is....

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    • By: Sadeqa Johnson
    • Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Nicole Lewis, Sadeqa Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,358 ratings
    • 1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright....

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    • By: Amanda Skenandore
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 366 ratings
    • "The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Ann Fairbairn
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 34 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • David Champlin is a Black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who achieves great success and then sacrifices everything to lead his people in the difficult, day-by-day struggle of the civil rights movement....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Tara Conklin
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,252 ratings
    • Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine....

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    • A Novel
    • By: James McBride
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,568 ratings
    • From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.

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    • The Low Country Series, Book 1
    • By: Sabra Waldfogel
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Series: The Low Country Series, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • A Charleston belle with slavery on her conscience. A slave with rebellion in her heart. In South Carolina in 1858, no friendship could be more dangerous....

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    • By: Beverly Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 412 ratings
    • Belle Palmer is finally free! Separated from her father on the harrowing escape, Belle is lost and alone until she finds shelter with the Bests, the first free family she's ever known. For the first time, Belle can speak her mind - except for her feelings for a certain dark-eyed young man...

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    • By: William Kent Krueger
    • Narrated by: Rich Orlow
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14,475 ratings
    • In Ordinary Grace, Krueger looks back to 1961 to tell the story of Frank Drum, a boy on the cusp of manhood....

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    • By: Delores Phillips
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,753 ratings
    • In 1958 Georgia, the shade of a 13-year-old black girl's skin can make the difference in her fate. Tangy Mae is the smartest of her mother's 10 children, but she is also the darkest complected....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Sheila Williams
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 462 ratings
    • The author of The Secret Women tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Ernest Gaines’ legendary Miss Jane Pittman, in a breathtaking novel that combines the romance and adventure of Outlander, the sweeping drama of Roots, and the haunting historical power of Barracoon....

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    • By: Krystal Marquis
    • Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
    • Series: The Davenports, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 735 ratings
    • The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago....

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    • By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero....

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    • Sun Eater, Book 1
    • By: Christopher Ruocchio
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Series: Sun Eater, Book 1
    • Length: 26 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,377 ratings
    • The galaxy remembers Hadrian Marlowe as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives - even the emperor himself - against Imperial orders....

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