Listen To: African American Audiobooks
Within this list of audiobooks an amazing cast of African American authors, readers, and characters provides rich landscapes of fiction, mysteries, poetry, biography, and nonfiction for your listening pleasure. All of these titles are located in the Adult Audiobook section of the Library.
Angelou, Maya. Letter to My Daughter.
(818.54A584.le).
Also available: eAudiobook
Briscoe, Connie. Sisters & Husbands. (Fiction BRI).
Burks, Cris. Necey’s Lullaby. (Fiction BUR).
Cleage, Pearl. Till You Hear From Me. (Fiction CLE).
Cosby, Bill. 200 m.p.h. (792.23 C8343.tw).
DeBerry, Virginia. What Doesn’t Kill You. (Fiction DEB).
Dickey, Eric. Resurrecting Midnight. (Fiction DIC).
Due, Tananarive. Joplin’s Ghost. (Fiction DUE).
Edgerton, Clyde. The Night Train. (Fiction EDG).
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. (Fiction ELL).
Ellison, Ralph. Juneteenth. (Fiction ELL).
Forster, Gwynne. When the Sun Goes Down. (Fiction FOR).
Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying. (Fiction GAI).
Harris, E. Lynn. Any Way the Wind Blows. (Fiction HAR).
Hill, Lawrence. Someone Knows My Name. (Fiction HIL).
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. (Fiction HUR).
Jones, Edward P. All Aunt Hagar’s Children. (Fiction JON).
Jones, Tayari. Silver Sparrow. (Fiction JON).
Little, Benilde. Who Does She Think She Is?. (Fiction LIT).
McBride, James. Song Yet Sung. (Fiction MCB).
Also available: eAudiobook
McCall, Nathan. Them. (Fiction MCM).
McMillan, Terry. Getting to Happy. (Fiction MCM).
Also available: eAudiobook
Morrison, Toni. A Mercy. (Fiction MOR).
Also available: eAudiobook
Mosley, Walter. Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. (Fiction MOS).
Packer, Z.Z. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. (Fiction PAC).
Also available: Digital Player
Pelecanos. George. The Turnaround. (Mystery PEL).
Also available: eAudiobook
Roby, Kimberla Lawson. Love, Honor and Betray. (Fiction ROB).
Sapphire. The Kid. (Fiction SAP).
Shange, Ntozake. Some Sing, Some Cry. (Fiction SHA).
Smith, Zadie. On Beauty. (Fiction SMI).
Stockett, Kathryn. The Help. (Fiction STO).
Also available: eAudiobook
Tademy, Lalita. Red River. (Fiction TAD).
Also available: eAudiobook
Turner, Nikki. Relapse. (Fiction TUR).
Walker, Alice. Now is the Time to Open Your Heart. (Fiction WAL).
Weber, Carl. Big Girls Do Cry. (Fiction WEB).
Weisberger, Ann. Personal History of Rachel Dupree. (Fiction WEI).
Welch, Donald. In My Sister's House. (Fiction WEL).
Whitehead, Colson. Sag Harbor. (Fiction WHI).
Also available: eAudiobook
Wright, Richard. Native Son. (Fiction WRI).