Black History Month TBR

Holler, Child

Stories

By: LaToya Watkins
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Aaron Goodson, JD Jackson, Lisa Renee Pitts, De'Onna Prince & Kacie Rogers
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

“I loved these beautiful, powerful, sometimes heartbreaking stories set in West Texas. Everyday regular people facing critical moments in their lives due to challenging circumstances or having made poor choices, and their sometimes flawed but very human responses. This is everything a short story collection should be! Read more

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Zeal

A Novel

By: Morgan Jerkins
Narrated by: January LaVoy & Shayna Small
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

“Spanning six generations and over 150 years, this is a sweeping novel of family, love, and trauma. Jerkins seamlessly moves from 2020 amid the covid-19 pandemic, 1865 amid the early days of Emancipation, and the years between as two families’ stories weave in and about each other. Full of rich characters and complex, intriguing plot lines, this... Read more

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Ours

A Novel

By: Phillip B. Williams
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 22 hours 47 minutes

“I never expected a poet to deliver such a doorstop as a debut novel, and I never expected to be so engrossed by it. This broad cast of characters all play important roles, and are all brilliantly and tangibly real in their imbalance of good and evil. This is one of the most human novels I've encountered. Read more

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Lovely One

A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson
Narrated by: Ketanji Brown Jackson
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her “vulnerable, tender, and infinitely inspirational” (Oprah Daily) memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story.

“A billowingly triumphant American tale.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

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Slaveroad

An Autobiography

By: John Edgar Wideman
Narrated by: David Sadzin
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

“Master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” offering “a fresh perspective of slavery’s impact and a confirmation of Wideman’s exalted status in American letters” (New York magazine).

John Edgar Wideman’s Slaveroad is a groundbreaking work of “bruising... Read more

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Neighbors and Other Stories

By: Diane Oliver
Narrated by: Emana Rachelle
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and 60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver’s insightful stories... Read more

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Daughter of the Merciful Deep

By: Leslye Penelope
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South. 

“Our home began, as all things do, with a wish.”

Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown... Read more

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Caul Baby

A Novel

By: Morgan Jerkins
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

“Mothers and daughters and their fraught relationships are the heart of this novel. Secrets, loss, tragedy, and tradition inextricably bind and trap seven women in ways completely unknown to some and only partially known by others. In modern-day Harlem, as gentrification threatens and changes the landscape, life inside one brownstone continues... Read more

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Yonder

A Novel

By: Jabari Asim
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Lamarr Gulley, JD Jackson, Adam Lazarre-White, Imani Jade Powers & Janina Edwards
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century.

They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors’ tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals... Read more

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Last Summer on State Street

A Novel

By: Toya Wolfe
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

PEN Open Book Award finalist Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award winner Stephen Curry Underrated Literati Book Club Pick Named a Best Book of Summer by Good Housekeeping, Chicago Magazine, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, Veranda, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Publishers Weekly, and more!“[A] powerful novel....... Read more

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

A Novel

Vintage International

By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Joe Morton & Roxane Gay
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

“The narration made this book feel like a whole new story from when I read the physical copy years ago. I cannot recommend this book enough to first time Baldwin readers. Read more

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