
About Jonathan's list
"Nothing brings me joy more than beautiful writing and compelling storytelling. An artfully turned phrase. A provocative vignette. An evocative paragraph. A dramatic scene that wraps a chapter in a bow. In different ways, the five books I’m recommending do all these things. There are two memoirs that bring you inside lives you thought you knew. One book will bring you on a multi-decade journey with four people who were part of an epic moment in our nation’s history. And my fiction recommendation tore me away from nonfiction with the beautiful writing and compelling storytelling I was used to." —Jonathan Capehart, author of "Yet Here I Am"
Watch Jonathan Capehart share his favorite 5 listens
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
- By: Charles M. Blow
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- unabridged
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Universally praised on its publication, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a pioneering journalist’s indelible coming-of-age tale.
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-19-24
- Language: English
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Personal History
- A Memoir
- By: Katharine Graham
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 30 hrs and 30 mins
- unabridged
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In this widely acclaimed memoir ("Riveting, moving...a wonderful book" The New York Times Book Review), Katharine Graham tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling....
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Katharine Graham, One Great Woman Inspiring the World
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Personal History
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 30 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-17-17
- Language: English
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Black Buck
- By: Mateo Askaripour
- Narrated by: Zeno Robinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street—a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems....
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Black Buck
- Narrated by: Zeno Robinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 01-05-21
- Language: English
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Gay Like Me
- A Father Writes to His Son
- By: Richie Jackson
- Narrated by: Richie Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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In this poignant and urgent love letter to his son, award-winning Broadway, TV, and film producer Richie Jackson reflects on his experiences as a gay man in America and the progress and setbacks of the LGBTQ community over the last 50 years....
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Stunning, fantastic.... I cried numerous times.
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Gay Like Me
- A Father Writes to His Son
- Narrated by: Richie Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-28-20
- Language: English
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history....
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Great storytelling and history
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-26-10
- Language: English
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Jonathan Capehart is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Associate Editor, The Washington Post and co-hosts MSNBC’s "The Weekend."