Classic African American Fiction

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    • By: George S. Schuyler
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • According to Max Disher, an ambitious young black man in 1930s New York, someone of his race has only three alternatives: "Get out, get white, or get along." Incapable of getting out and unhappy with getting along, Max leaps at the remaining possibility....

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    • By: Alice Walker
    • Narrated by: Samira Wiley
    • Series: Color Purple, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 441 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: Toni Morrison
    • Narrated by: Toni Morrison
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 23-07-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 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: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit....

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    • Uncle Tom's Cabin, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Twelve Years a Slave
    • By: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup
    • Narrated by: Rory Young
    • Length: 33 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-20
    • Language: English
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    • Inside this harrowing collection, you’ll uncover three thought-provoking and classic novels about slavery, civil rights, and the plight of African Americans before the abolition of slavery....

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    • By: E. R. Braithwaite
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers....

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    • By: Jewelle Gomez
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 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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    • By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

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    • By: Christopher Paul Curtis
    • Narrated by: LeVar Burton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 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: Jean Toomer
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Mirron Willis, Lisa Renee Pitts
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Ernest J. Gaines
    • Narrated by: Lynne Thigpen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Miss Jane is 100 years old when she is interviewed by an area high school teacher looking to teach his students more about plantation society in the Deep South....

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    • By: William Melvin Kelley
    • Narrated by: Greg Lockett, Nneka Okoye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly throws salt on his field, shoots his horse and livestock, sets fire to his house and departs the southern state....

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    • By: Langston Hughes
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A fascinating chronicle of a family's joys and hardships, Not Without Laughter is a vivid exploration of growing up and growing strong in a racially divided society. A rich and important work, it masterfully echoes the black American experience....

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    • Virago Modern Classics
    • By: Ann Petry
    • Narrated by: Jeannette Robinson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • It's Saturday, past midnight, and thick fog rolls in from the river like smoke. Link Williams is standing on the dock when he hears quick footsteps approaching and the gasp of a woman too terrified to scream....

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    • By: Gwendolyn Brooks, Margo Jefferson - introduction
    • Narrated by: Angela Lewis
    • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Introduced by Margo Jefferson, this is a miniature wonder of a novel by the celebrated poet and first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize, published in Britain for the very first time....

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    • The Sky Pirate Chronicles, Book 1
    • By: Antoine Bandele
    • Narrated by: John Rogers
    • Series: The Sky Pirate Chronicles, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • With no magic, no brawn, and no pirate crew, Zala seeks to steal back the one treasure that matters to her most: Her husband. To succeed she needs a ship - and not just any ship, but the latest, secret invention by the Vaaji Empire. An airship....

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