Black Authors
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![The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705268803_1120.jpg)
![The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705268803_1120.jpg)
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double... Read more
View audiobook![Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593668399_1120.jpg)
![Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593668399_1120.jpg)
Quietly Hostile
By: Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha Irby "engages readers with her characteristic combination of laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt passages and plenty of awkward experiences.... Quietly Hostile will delight established fans and newcomers alike (Parade).
“Brilliant and one... Read more
![The Will to Change by bell hooks](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797104355_1120.jpg)
![The Will to Change by bell hooks](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797104355_1120.jpg)
The Will to Change
By: bell hooks
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, a timelessly necessary treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all, with a new introduction by poet Ross Gay.
Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men.
Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know... Read more
![Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston](http://covers.libro.fm/9780060842765_1120.jpg)
![Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston](http://covers.libro.fm/9780060842765_1120.jpg)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Ruby Dee
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love... Read more
View audiobook![Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250804105_1120.jpg)
![Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250804105_1120.jpg)
Somebody's Daughter
By: Ashley C. Ford
Narrated by: Ashley C. Ford
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"Ashley C. Ford brings listeners into her life in this outstanding coming-of-age story...Listeners will cheer as Ford attends college and weep as she visits her father in prison, and when he is finally released." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
This program is read by the author, and includes a bonus conversation between the author... Read more
![Ain't I a Woman by Bell Hooks](http://covers.libro.fm/9781977343307_1120.jpg)
![Ain't I a Woman by Bell Hooks](http://covers.libro.fm/9781977343307_1120.jpg)
Ain't I a Woman
By: Bell Hooks
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must–read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, Hooks attempts to... Read more
View audiobook![Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668611081_1120.jpg)
![Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668611081_1120.jpg)
Rest Is Resistance
By: Tricia Hersey
Narrated by: Tricia Hersey
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy by connecting to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to elevate rest as a form of resistance and a divine human right.
What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too... Read more
![So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668636329_1120.jpg)
![So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668636329_1120.jpg)
So Let Them Burn
By: Kamilah Cole
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh & Kamali Minter
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s forced to choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland—perfect for fans of Iron Widow and The Priory of the Orange Tree.
Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island... Read more
![Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593505212_1120.jpg)
![Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593505212_1120.jpg)
Black Cake
By: Charmaine Wilkerson
Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman & Simone Mcintyre
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
NOW A HULU STREAMING SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • Two estranged siblings delve into their mother’s hidden past—and how it all connects to her traditional Caribbean black cake—in this immersive family saga, “a character-driven, multigenerational story that’s meant to be savored” (Time).... Read more
View audiobook![Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593215319_1120.jpg)
![Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593215319_1120.jpg)
Transcendent Kingdom
By: Yaa Gyasi
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford... Read more
![The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668611357_1120.jpg)
![The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668611357_1120.jpg)
The World We Make
By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth.
All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading—and destroying the entire universe in the... Read more
![Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo](http://covers.libro.fm/9781666153408_1120.jpg)
![Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo](http://covers.libro.fm/9781666153408_1120.jpg)
Sankofa
By: Chibundu Onuzo
Narrated by: Sara Powell
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The exhilarating story of a mixed-race woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew.
After years of being a daughter, a wife, and a mother, Anna finally has the time to wonder who she really is. But the only person who can tell her—her mother, the only parent who raised her—is dead.
Searching through her mother's belongings... Read more
![Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250350299_1120.jpg)
![Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250350299_1120.jpg)
Hip-Hop Is History
By: Questlove
Narrated by: Questlove
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Recorded at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City, the audiobook features narration and storytelling by Questlove, who expertly weaves together a rich sonic tapestry of hip-hop tales large and small, well-known and obscure. From hearing “Rapper’s Delight” for the first time in 1979 to directing and producing the 50th Anniversary... Read more
View audiobook![Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi](http://covers.libro.fm/9798855513745_1120.jpg)
![Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi](http://covers.libro.fm/9798855513745_1120.jpg)
Stamped from the Beginning
By: Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell
Length: 23 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
In... Read more
![Raising Antiracist Children by Britt Hawthorne](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797143224_1120.jpg)
![Raising Antiracist Children by Britt Hawthorne](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797143224_1120.jpg)
Raising Antiracist Children
By: Britt Hawthorne
Narrated by: Stephanie Keiko Kong
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A must-have guide to raising inclusive, antiracist children from educator and advocate, Britt Hawthorne.
Raising antiracist children is a noble goal for any parent, caregiver, or educator, but it can be hard to know where to start. Let Britt Hawthorne—a nationally recognized teacher and advocate—be your guide. Raising... Read more
![The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin](http://covers.libro.fm/9781478916291_1120.jpg)
![The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin](http://covers.libro.fm/9781478916291_1120.jpg)
The Stone Sky
By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.
Essun has inherited the power of... Read more
![The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549119040_1120.jpg)
![The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549119040_1120.jpg)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Casaundra Freeman
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under... Read more
![Heavy by Kiese Laymon](http://covers.libro.fm/9781508265818_1120.jpg)
![Heavy by Kiese Laymon](http://covers.libro.fm/9781508265818_1120.jpg)
Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics*
In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir—winner... Read more
![Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593343210_1120.jpg)
![Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593343210_1120.jpg)
Four Hundred Souls
By: Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
Narrated by: Various
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.
The story begins in 1619—a year before the Mayflower—when the White Lion... Read more
![The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797124766_1120.jpg)
![The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797124766_1120.jpg)
The Other Black Girl
By: Zakiya Dalila Harris
Narrated by: Aja Naomi King, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Heather A...
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a Hulu Original Series
“Riveting, fearless, and vividly original” (Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author), this instant New York Times bestseller explores the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.
Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant... Read more
![When I Think of You by Myah Ariel](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593826126_1120.jpg)
![When I Think of You by Myah Ariel](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593826126_1120.jpg)
When I Think of You
By: Myah Ariel
Narrated by: DeWanda Wise
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sweeping second chance romance from debut author Myah Ariel, the unexpected spark of two former flames may force them to choose between their dreams and each other.
Kaliya Wilson has paid her dues. But all the years behind the reception desk at a flashy film studio have only pushed her movie-making dreams further out of reach. That is,... Read more
![Against the Currant by Olivia Matthews](http://covers.libro.fm/9781666622997_1120.jpg)
![Against the Currant by Olivia Matthews](http://covers.libro.fm/9781666622997_1120.jpg)
Against the Currant
By: Olivia Matthews
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Little Caribbean, Brooklyn, New York: Lyndsay Murray is opening Spice Isle Bakery with her family, and it’s everything she’s ever wanted. The West Indian bakery is her way to give back to the community she loves, stay connected to her Grenadian roots, and work side-by-side with her family. The only thing getting a rise out of Lyndsay is Claudio... Read more
View audiobook![Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert](http://covers.libro.fm/9780062941299_1120.jpg)
![Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert](http://covers.libro.fm/9780062941299_1120.jpg)
Act Your Age, Eve Brown
By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Ione Butler
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Talia Hibbert’s newest rom-com, the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard—literally.Featured on Parade, PopSugar, Marie Claire, Oprah Mag, Bustle, Shondaland, CNN.com, Kirkus Magazine, Vulture, Bookpage, USA Today, Bookish, Bookriot, and more!Eve... Read more
View audiobook![The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250901170_1120.jpg)
![The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250901170_1120.jpg)
The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
Narrated by: Sid Sagar
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant.
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy.
He walked among invisible... Read more
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