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Invisible Man
- A Novel
- By: Ralph Ellison
- Narrated by: Joe Morton
- Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
- unabridged
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Overall9085
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Performance8098
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Story8094
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal...
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This Great American Novel
- By Chaz
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Invisible Man
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Joe Morton
- Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-21-10
- Language: English
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Passing
- By: Nella Larsen
- Narrated by: Tessa Thompson
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- unabridged
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Overall2896
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Performance2562
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Story2555
Light-skinned Black woman Irene Redfield encounters an old childhood friend - Clare - who is now "passing" as a White woman. Clare is married to a racist White man, who doesn't know she has African American blood....
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Pass on Passing (Don’t)
- By sjcbrown
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Passing
- Narrated by: Tessa Thompson
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-31-20
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Booker T. Washington
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance57
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Story56
Born and raised a slave, Booker T. Washington rose from subjugation to become the voice of post-Reconstruction black America....
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A BEACON FOR ALL
- By Jean-Pierre
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Up from Slavery (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-23-20
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- unabridged
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Overall217
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Performance181
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Story181
Frederick Douglass’s celebrated memoir is among the most influential works of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement in the United States....
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Great read
- By Jeff Tonne
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Series: The Autobiographies Series, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-20-18
- Language: English
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The Street
- By: Ann Petry
- Narrated by: Danielle Deadwyler
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- unabridged
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Overall146
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Performance125
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Story123
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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My New Favorite Book
- By Amazon Customer
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The Street
- Narrated by: Danielle Deadwyler
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-25-21
- Language: English
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The Color Purple
- By: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Samira Wiley
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- unabridged
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Overall1745
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Performance1586
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Story1581
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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Stunning performance.
- By CW
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The Color Purple
- Narrated by: Samira Wiley
- Series: Color Purple, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 05-19-20
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- unabridged
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Overall1356
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Performance1166
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Story1162
Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the 20th century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic....
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enlightening
- By Mike Kramer
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Notes of a Native Son
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-22-15
- Language: English
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Cane
- By: Jean Toomer
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Mirron Willis, Lisa Renee Pitts
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance63
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Story63
Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance, and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature because of its distinct structure and style....
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Superb
- By Andre
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Cane
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Mirron Willis, Lisa Renee Pitts
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 06-25-19
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- unabridged
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Overall9809
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Performance8648
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Story8615
Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird...
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Thank you for sharing your story!
- By Tdlchocolate
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-04-11
- Language: English
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Kindred
- By: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- unabridged
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Overall15431
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Performance13608
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Story13564
A young Black woman spirals back in time to experience the horrors of slavery, while desperately seeking a way back to her own era.
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Simply written, but full of wisdom
- By Lauren
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Kindred
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 09-12-07
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- unabridged
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Overall13263
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Performance11825
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Story11766
In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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it's Nearly perfect
- By Kerry
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-10-20
- Language: English
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I Wonder as I Wander
- An Autobiographical Journey
- By: Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- unabridged
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Overall169
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Performance150
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Story150
In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and...
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I wandered...
- By null
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I Wonder as I Wander
- An Autobiographical Journey
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-26-11
- Language: English
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Black Boy
- By: Richard Wright
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- unabridged
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Overall404
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Performance358
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Story357
Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. At once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment, Black Boy is a poignant record of struggle and endurance—a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time...
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The Foundation for Black Artists
- By ryanmack
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Black Boy
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 02-18-20
- 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 3 mins
- unabridged
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Overall5333
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Performance4498
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Story4469
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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Perfect voice for a great novel
- By Expatriate
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Beloved
- Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison, Karen Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-22-06
- Language: English
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Monster
- By: Walter Dean Myers
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- unabridged
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Overall1190
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Performance955
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Story960
BONUS FEATURE: Afterword read by the author Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I’ll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. Monster. FADE...
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I wanted and needed more from this great story.
- By Theresa Howell
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- unabridged
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Overall12006
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Performance10347
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Story10322
“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century...
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RIVETING!
- By Tracy P.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-26-04
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
- By: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- unabridged
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Overall2142
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Performance1834
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Story1832
rst published in 1903, this collection of 15 essays dared to describe the racism that prevailed at that time in America—and to demand an end to it. The Souls of Black Folk is a classic in the literature of civil rights....
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Amazing rendition
- By Timothy Clemons
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The Souls of Black Folk
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-20-10
- Language: English
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