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Featured Article: Outstanding Black Authors Across Various Genres and Styles
Stories have the power not only to transport us, but to allow us to connect, understand, and feel represented. The work of phenomenal Black authors—like those featured in this list—has expanded the ambition, scope, and perspective of storytelling. These must-hear titles from some of the best Black authors of all time are also indisputably some of the most remarkable works of literature in both the contemporary and historical canon.
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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,342
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,806
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,778
From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dark, thought provoking, sometimes frustrating
- By River Holmes-miller on 06-21-17
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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-13-17
- Language: English
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Bad Feminist
- Essays
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,643
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,219
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,195
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay....
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3 out of 5 stars
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"I am a mess of contradictions" - RG
- By Cynthia on 12-27-15
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Bad Feminist
- Essays
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-05-14
- Language: English
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Ayiti
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 699
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 632
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Story4 out of 5 stars 630
From New York Times best-selling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Glimpse of Real
- By Lovesmuffins2 on 08-18-18
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Ayiti
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-17-18
- Language: English
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An Untamed State
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 617
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 562
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Story4 out of 5 stars 566
An Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, But Disturbing.
- By Kat on 05-30-14
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An Untamed State
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 05-06-14
- Language: English
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Difficult Women
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 416
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Story4 out of 5 stars 367
The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Solid good writing, but not a great collection
- By Anna H on 07-31-17
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Difficult Women
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 03-28-17
- Language: English
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Not That Bad
- Dispatches from Rape Culture
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay, Brandon Taylor, Emma Smith-Stevens, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 579
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 519
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Story5 out of 5 stars 517
Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times best-selling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on....
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4 out of 5 stars
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definitely an important book
- By nikiverse on 05-25-18
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Not That Bad
- Dispatches from Rape Culture
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay, Brandon Taylor, Emma Smith-Stevens, A.J. McKenna, Lisa Mecham, Vanessa Martir, xTx, Sophie Mayer
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-01-18
- Language: English
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Out of Line
- Women on the Verge of a Breakthrough
- By: Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Caroline Kepnes, and others
- Narrated by: Kristen Bell, Samira Wiley, Lea Salonga, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 25
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 25
What happens when women step out of line and take control of their own stories? Big fears, small frustrations, and the power of hope collide as seven award-winning authors explore the possibilities....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Really disappointing
- By Cindy Stephens on 01-17-21
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Out of Line
- Women on the Verge of a Breakthrough
- Narrated by: Kristen Bell, Samira Wiley, Lea Salonga, Margo Martindale, Gwendoline Christie
- Series: Out of Line collection
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-01-20
- Language: English
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Graceful Burdens
- Out of Line collection
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Samira Wiley
- Length: 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 392
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 351
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 351
From New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay comes an unforgettable tale of nightmarish bureaucracy in which genetic profiling has redefined the unfit mother....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazingly Unexpected
- By Valencia Williams on 03-05-21
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Graceful Burdens
- Out of Line collection
- Narrated by: Samira Wiley
- Series: Out of Line collection
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 09-01-20
- Language: English
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Bad Feminist
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman....
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2 out of 5 stars
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The book is unrelated to the title
- By Lim on 02-09-21
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Bad Feminist
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-28-15
- Language: English
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Difficult Women
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
From a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbours conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America....
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Difficult Women
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 08-03-17
- Language: English
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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read
- By Tamar Rotman on 02-05-20
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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-03-17
- Language: English
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Not That Bad
- Dispatches from Rape Culture
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, Lyz Lenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, this anthology of first-person essays read by all 30 contributors, including Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy and Lyz Lenz, tackles rape, assault and harassment head-on....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone needs to read this!
- By Brooklynne Michelle on 03-29-19
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Not That Bad
- Dispatches from Rape Culture
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, Lyz Lenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-01-19
- Language: English
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An Untamed State
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti's richest sons, she has by all appearances a perfect life....
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An Untamed State
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-27-15
- Language: English
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Ayiti
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story2 out of 5 stars 1
From New York Times-best-selling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience....
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Ayiti
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-04-18
- Language: English
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HUNGER (German edition)
- Die Geschichte meines Körpers
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Sabrina Gander
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Sie schreibt die Geschichte ihres Hungers. Sie schreibt die Geschichte ihres Körpers. Es ist keine Geschichte des Triumphs. Es ist die eines...
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HUNGER (German edition)
- Die Geschichte meines Körpers
- Narrated by: Sabrina Gander
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: German
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