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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 877 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 351 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: Wallace Thurman
    • Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • At the time of its publication, Wallace Thurman’s debut novel was deeply provocative. This was due not only to its frank considerations of race and sex, but also to its vivid portrait of a Harlem that few other writers had dared to explore....

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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 104 ratings
    • Vanessa Davis Griggs’ Blessed Trinity novels tackle tough questions of faith with humor and honesty....

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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 376 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: 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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    • 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 26,577 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: 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 2,098 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: 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 11,660 ratings
    • This poetic, graceful love story celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage....

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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 1,691 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: 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 807 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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    • 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 56 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: 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 1,847 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: Ethan Herisse
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 265 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Wayétu Moore
    • Narrated by: Wayétu Moore
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 883 ratings
    • Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond....

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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 2,159 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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    • By: William Melvin Kelley
    • Narrated by: Jay Smooth
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • June 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child....

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