I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By Maya Angelou
Narrated by: Maya Angelou
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
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 Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute... Read more »
The Wounded World
W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
By Chad L. Williams
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 17 hours 21 minutes
The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois’s reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I―and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writersWhen W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to “close ranks” and support the Allied cause in... Read more »
DIVA 2.0
12 Life Lessons from Me for You
By Sheryl Lee Ralph
Narrated by: Sheryl Lee Ralph
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Emmy, Tony, and Spirit Award–winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph knows a thing or two about staying power in the capricious world of Hollywood. A seasoned professional who has taken the best lessons learned and used them to move her stellar career forward, she
now shares them with you. If you are an aspiring DIVA in training, regardless of your... Read more »
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
A Novel
By Paterson Joseph
Narrated by: Paterson Joseph
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
This program is read by the author, who also plays the lead role of Sancho in his play, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance.
"To be able to speak these intimate words into a listener’s ears is this writer-performer’s dream. I have always loved the spoken word, as it strikes me as the purest form of performance. In public storytelling terms, it is... Read more »
Black Girls Must Have It All
A Novel
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted: Book #3
By Jayne Allen
Narrated by: Marcella Cox
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
In this final installment in the acclaimed Black Girls Must Die Exhausted trilogy, Tabitha is juggling work, relationships, and a newborn baby—but will she find the happy ending she’s always wanted?After a whirlwind year, Tabitha Walker’s carefully organized plan to achieve the life she wanted—perfect job, dream husband, and stylish home—has... Read more »
Seen, Loved and Heard
A Guided Journal for Feeding the Soul
A Feeding the Soul Book
By Tabitha Brown
Narrated by: Tabitha Brown
Length: 56 minutes
In Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business), Tabitha Brown made readers feel seen, loved and heard, sharing the knowledge she gained from her own journey in life. Now, in this gorgeous journal, Tabitha invites readers to think more deeply about their own life paths, and how to bring more love and happiness into them. Readers will be drawn to... Read more »
Black on Black
On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America
By Daniel Black
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
*A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of 2023*
*A "Next Big Idea Club" Must-Read Book for January*
*An Essence "Books by Black Authors to Read This Winter" Pick?*
A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibility, change, and lasting hope
“There are stories that must be told.”
Acclaimed novelist and... Read more »
Bet on Black
The Good News about Being Black in America Today
By Eboni K. Williams
Narrated by: Eboni K. Williams
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Journalist, attorney, and star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York reshapes the cultural landscape of achievement by showing why Black unity is crucial to individual and collective success.
When The Real Housewives of New York City hired its first black cast member after more than 13 years on the air, attorney, speaker, and journalist... Read more »
The Light We Carry
Overcoming in Uncertain Times
By Michelle Obama
Narrated by: Michelle Obama
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
The Light We Carry
“Michelle Obama is back with more words of wisdom, pillars of humility, and just simply Michelle. The Light We Carry is an uplighting book that will help you deal with the emotions and isolation that we have had to deal with during and after the pandemic. But more than that, she has compiled questions that she has been asked again and again, and acknowledges each with personal stories, anecdotes, wisdom, and love. This book feel like you are sitting down with an old friend when you have had a bad day and and just need some love and a hot drink.”
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Finding Me
A Memoir
By Viola Davis
Narrated by: Viola Davis
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Winner of the 2023 Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording!Audie Award Winner for Audiobook of the Year!Narrated by Viola DavisIn my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central... Read more »
Someday, Maybe
By Onyi Nwabineli
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB PICK • A LIBRARYREADS PICK
“If you are someone who gravitates toward emotional gut punch reads, allow me to introduce you to this spectacular debut…”—BuzzFeed
Here are three things you should know about my husband:
He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going... Read more »
Cooking from the Spirit
Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations
A Feeding the Soul Book
By Tabitha Brown
Narrated by: Tabitha Brown
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Tabitha Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Feeding the Soul, presents her first cookbook—full of easy, family-friendly vegan recipes and stories from the spirit, inspired by her health journey and love of delicious food.Narrated by Tabitha Brown, with a special appearance by Queston Brown.Sometimes people say to Tabitha Brown,... Read more »
Before I Let Go
Skyland: Book #1
By Kennedy Ryan
Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan & Jakobi Diem
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes
“Real, raw, magnificent—Before I Let Go is the beautiful angst I love to read.” —Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything.
It couldn’t save their marriage.
Yasmen... Read more »
Miss Pearly's Girls
By ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
From award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley comes an intriguing, heartfelt tale about long held family secrets, truths that won’t stay hidden, and how facing the ultimate loss can force us to find our own ways to make amends and heal … Raising four very different daughters on her own in rural Arkansas wasn’t easy for Miss Pearly Bell.... Read more »
Empty Vows
By Mary Monroe
Narrated by: Tracey Conyer Lee & Ruffin Prentiss
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
In this scandalous follow-up to the Depression-era tale Mrs. Wiggins, awardwinning and New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe brings even more period drama as a proper church-going woman ensnares a widower living too many secrets—and lies … Forty-something widow Jessie Tucker is beloved throughout Lexington, Alabama, for her kind heart... Read more »
Sister Friends Forever
By Kimberla Lawson Roby
Narrated by: Maria Howell, Mela Lee, Stacey Singleton & Inger Tudor
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
This emotional novel from a New York Times bestselling author follows four lifelong friends as each faces a crisis in family, love, and forgiveness.
Serena, Michelle, Kenya, and Lynette have been best friends since they were small children. And as sister friends forever, they have always been there for one another, through good times and bad,... Read more »
To Paradise
A Novel
By Hanya Yanagihara
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Catherine Ho, BD Wong, Feodor Chin & Kurt Kanazawa
Length: 28 hours 46 minutes
To Paradise
“Expansive, wholly original, and utterly engrossing, To Paradise is a masterpiece. Fans of Yanagihara’s A Little Life will find themselves making a little more room in their hearts for this marvelous, emotional, and brilliant story.”
Christine Bollow, Loyalty Bookstores
Don't Cry for Me
A Novel
By Daniel Black
Narrated by: Daniel Black
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Don't Cry for Me
“This book blew me away. Through intimate letters to his son, Jacob reconciles with the man he could have been. Daniel Black creates a stunning work on ancestral heritage, history, family, and the legacy of being a Black man in America.”
Lauren Nopenz Fairley, Curious Iguana
Take My Hand
By Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Narrated by: Lauren J. Daggett
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Take My Hand
“Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is historical fiction that addresses a still very relevant topic -- women's reproductive rights, and it does so in a very personal way. Set in 1973 and 2016, the book is based on the true story of forced sterilizations performed by the US government primarily on poor women of color. I loved that the nuances of 1970's Alabama were well depicted --not just the racism and poverty that is well known but also the better educated and prosperous black community. The nature of the topic has a forceful emotional and psychological impact.”
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Black Oak
Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Men
By Harold Green III
Narrated by: Harold Green III
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes
As he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, now honors the Black men he most admires—groundbreakers including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the Rapper, LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and John Legend—and celebrates their achievements which are... Read more »