African Classics

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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 353 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: 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 2,114 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: 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 387 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: 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 2,169 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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    • 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 26,695 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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    • 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 105 ratings
    • Vanessa Davis Griggs’ Blessed Trinity novels tackle tough questions of faith with humor and honesty....

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    • By: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Josh Lucas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 721 ratings
    • His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal....

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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 11,716 ratings
    • This poetic, graceful love story celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage....

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    • By: W.E.B. Du Bois
    • Narrated by: Walter Covell
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 12-17-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • Du Bois explains the meaning of the emancipation, and its effect, and his views on the roles of the leaders of his race....

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    • By: Richard Wright
    • Narrated by: Peter Francis James
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 382 ratings
    • Richard Wright's powerful and eloquent 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....

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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 95 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: 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 813 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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    • Three Classic Black Women’s Narratives
    • By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles, Erica Armstrong Dunbar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Truth Be Told comprises three powerful narratives written by formerly enslaved women who lived long past emancipation. Each narrative offers a window into time and moves the listener along chronologically from the early years of a new nation, through the Civil War....

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    • By: J. H. Patterson
    • Narrated by: Christopher Romance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • In 1898, the British were building a railway line between Mombasa in Kenya and Uganda. At the Tsavo River in Kenya where a bridge needed to be built, the project was suddenly interrupted by two man-eating lions that targeted the camps of the workers....

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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 1,858 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: Robert F. Williams
    • Narrated by: John Riddle
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups....

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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 1,704 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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