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The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison's debut novel, offers a powerful exploration of racism and the corrosive impact of white beauty standards on Black girls and women in America. Published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is widely recognized as a seminal work of African American literature.
Featured Article: Outstanding Women Authors Everyone Ought to Listen to Right Now
Over the course of history, women have made monumental contributions to literature. Legendary favorites and contemporary women authors alike have left their mark on both the publishing world and audio canon. Though by no means comprehensive, this list features women authors who definitely deserve a spot in your Audible library. Read on to learn more about each amazing woman—her life, her work, and her legacy.
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Language as Liberation
- Reflections on the American Canon
- By: Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky - introduction
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious. In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni...
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Language as Liberation
- Reflections on the American Canon
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-03-26
- Language: English
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Sula
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall2,189
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Performance1,805
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Story1,801
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they...
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Good against evil and a riotous story to boot
- By Karen on 04-11-11
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Sula
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 08-14-07
- Language: English
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Beloved
- Pulitzer Prize Winner
- By: Toni Morrison, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - introduction
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison, Karen Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,346
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Performance4,510
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Story4,481
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. “A masterwork...
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Author-read Books
- By John R Williford on 07-14-06
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Beloved
- Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison, Karen Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-22-06
- Language: English
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The Bluest Eye
- By: Toni Morrison, Jacqueline Woodson - introduction
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison, Karen Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,683
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Performance4,912
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Story4,886
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. With a new introduction by...
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Amazing
- By psiegler on 07-25-18
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The Bluest Eye
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison, Karen Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 07-19-11
- Language: English
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Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,932
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Performance1,675
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Story1,662
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author. Milkman Dead was born shortly after a...
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Maybe a beautiful story, This author should never narrate
- By Student on 01-02-20
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Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-12-17
- Language: English
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The Origin of Others
- By: Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging.
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The Origin of Others
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-07-26
- Language: English
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Jazz
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 3 hrs
- Abridged
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Overall562
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Performance470
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Story468
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession based on the hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author. “As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the...
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The audio is not the same as the book
- By Rocio on 03-29-16
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Jazz
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 03-10-15
- Language: English
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God Help the Child
- A novel
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,373
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Performance1,234
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Story1,218
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. “Powerful.... A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting...
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God Help Us All
- By Tzynya Pinchback on 04-24-15
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God Help the Child
- A novel
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-21-15
- Language: English
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The Source of Self-Regard
- Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall193
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Performance155
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Story149
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing...
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Refreshing thoughts
- By Amazon Customer on 04-02-19
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The Source of Self-Regard
- Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-12-19
- Language: English
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Tar Baby
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Desiree Coleman
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall315
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Performance269
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Story273
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner “Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’s story.” —The Washington Post Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model...
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So good that I'm writing my first Audible review!
- By BL on 12-10-11
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Tar Baby
- Narrated by: Desiree Coleman
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 07-19-11
- Language: English
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Playing in the Dark
- Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance93
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Story92
NATIONAL BESTSELLER An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner "[Morrison] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of...
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My goodness..get ready to be challenged
- By keishie23 on 05-13-20
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Playing in the Dark
- Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 05-05-20
- Language: English
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A Mercy
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall498
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Performance295
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Story294
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment...
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Great book
- By Pablo Tebas on 01-18-09
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A Mercy
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-11-08
- Language: English
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Paradise
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall257
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Performance221
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Story218
"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their...
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- By Kennedi Hill on 11-07-19
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Paradise
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-14-17
- Language: English
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Home
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall467
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Performance398
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Story398
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man "Powerful. . . . Jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity...
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not a novel, but a collection of short stories
- By Melinda on 06-14-12
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Home
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-08-12
- Language: English
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Ojos azules [The Bluest Eye]
- By: Toni Morrison, Jordi Gubern Ribalta - translator, Zeta Digital Press S.A. - translator
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Toni Morrison, ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura 1993, parte de la realidad de una chiquilla desgraciada para tratar temas como el concepto de belleza impuesto, la voz femenina o la infancia truncada, y lo consigue con una historia dura y deliciosa al mismo tiempo....
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Ojos azules [The Bluest Eye]
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 02-14-23
- Language: Spanish
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Jazz (Spanish Edition)
- By: Toni Morrison, Jordi Gubern Ribalta - traductor
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Una potente novela sobre un crimen pasional y sus consecuencias ambientada en el Harlem de la década de 1920, con la firma inconfundible de Toni Morrison....
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Jazz (Spanish Edition)
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 05-04-23
- Language: Spanish
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Recitatif
- A Story
- By: Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith - introduction
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall209
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Performance186
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Story183
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner. With an introduction by Zadie Smith “A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ‘experiment’ she...
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Read the introduction last
- By Robert C Purnell on 02-01-22
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Recitatif
- A Story
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-01-22
- Language: English
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Las dos amigas (un recitativo) [Recitatif]
- By: Toni Morrison, Carlos Mayor Ortega, Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Jane Santos, Susie Caraballo
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Dos niñas son obligadas a compartir habitación en un centro de acogida. Una blanca y otra negra. Ambas se rechazan de inmediato, pero poco a poco se dan cuenta de que tienen en común más de lo que esperaban.
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Corto y conciso
- By pachivb on 02-01-25
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Las dos amigas (un recitativo) [Recitatif]
- Narrated by: Jane Santos, Susie Caraballo
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-08-23
- Language: Spanish
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Beloved (Spanish Edition)
- By: Toni Morrison, Iris Menéndez Sallés
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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Story24
La obra maestra de la premio Nobel de Literatura Toni Morrison, «la mejor novela norteamericana de los últimos cincuenta años» según The New York Times, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y del American Book Award....
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Libro qu estremece
- By Dulce María Duarte on 11-19-25
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Beloved (Spanish Edition)
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 06-02-22
- Language: Spanish
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Who's Got Game?
- By: Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance13
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Story13
Toni and Slade Morrison's New York Times best-selling series of fables is now available on audio and includes "The Ant or the Grasshopper?", "The Lion or the Mouse?", and "Poppy or the Snake?"....
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Who's Got Game?
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 06-08-07
- Language: English
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