In honor of Black History Month, we’ve collected ten fantastic audiobooks to listen to this month. From award-winning fiction and nonfiction to books from legendary authors, this list has something for everyone.
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Raised in South Carolina and New York, author Jacqueline Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African-American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the civil rights movement.
Listen to an excerpt BROWN GIRL DREAMING
Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.
Listen to an excerpt GOD HELP THE CHILD
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine.
Listen to an excerpt THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
From Ralph Ellison—author of the classic novel of African-American experience, Invisible Man—the long-awaited second novel.
Listen to an excerpt JUNETEENTH
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree is an award-winning debut novel about the little-known history of African-American homesteaders. It gives voice to an extraordinary heroine who embodies the spirit that built America.
Listen to an excerpt THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE
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