African American Nonfiction

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou Author
Maya Angelou Narrator
(2010)

Dapper Dan

Daniel R. Day Author
Omari Hardwick Narrator
(2019)

Living in Color

Tommy Davidson Author
Tommy Davidson Narrator
(2020)

The Fire Is upon Us

Nicholas Buccola Author
Prentice Onayemi Narrator
(2019)

Narrative of the Life of...

America's Past in Audio (Series)

Frederick Douglass Author
Pete Papageorge Narrator
(2003)

Amos Fortune

Elizabeth Yates Author
Ray Childs Narrator
(2007)

April 4, 1968

Michael Eric Dyson Author
(2008)

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup Author
Richard Allen Narrator
(2013)

Self-Inflicted Wounds

Aisha Tyler Author
Aisha Tyler Narrator
(2013)

Everybody's Got Something

Robin Roberts Author
Veronica Chambers Author
(2014)

Respect

David Ritz Author
Brad Raymond Narrator
(2014)

Reading with Patrick

Michelle Kuo Author
Michelle Kuo Narrator
(2017)

Truevine

Beth Macy Author
Suzanne Toren Narrator
(2016)

Pushout

Monique W. Morris Author
Kristyl Dawn Tift Narrator
(2016)

Policing the Black Man

Angela J. Davis Author
Robin Miles Narrator
(2017)

Smoketown

Mark Whitaker Author
Prentice Onayemi Narrator
(2018)

Black Reconstruction in America

W. E. B. Du Bois Author
David Levering Lewis Author of introduction, etc.
(2018)

Well-Read Black Girl

Glory Edim Author
Glory Edim Narrator
(2018)

The World According to Fannie...

Bridgett M. Davis Narrator
Bridgett M. Davis Author
(2019)

Obviously

Akilah Hughes Author
Akilah Hughes Narrator
(2019)

24

Willie Mays Author
John Shea Author
(2020)

Diamond Doris

Doris Payne Author
Robin Miles Narrator
(2019)

They Said This Would Be Fun

Eternity Martis Author
Eternity Martis Narrator
(2020)

Five Days

Wes Moore Author
Erica L. Green Author
(2020)

Aftershocks

Nadia Owusu Author
Nadia Owusu Narrator
(2021)

Twisted

Emma Dabiri Author
Emma Dabiri Narrator
(2020)

A Most Beautiful Thing

Arshay Cooper Author
Adam Lazarre-White Narrator
(2020)

The Broken Heart of America

Walter Johnson Author
Jamie Renell Narrator
(2020)

You Look So Much Better in...

Al Roker Author
Al Roker Narrator
(2020)

Ida B. the Queen

Michelle Duster Author
Michelle Duster Narrator
(2021)

My Time Will Come

Ian Manuel Author
Bryan Stevenson Author of introduction, etc.
(2021)

A Promised Land

Barack Obama Author
Barack Obama Narrator
(2020)

A Quantum Life

Hakeem Oluseyi Author
Joshua Horwitz Author
(2021)

Una tierra prometida (A...

Barack Obama Author
Víctor Sabi Narrator
(2020)

Shine Bright

Danyel Smith Author
Danyel Smith Narrator
(2022)

Dear Senthuran

Akwaeke Emezi Author
Akwaeke Emezi Narrator
(2021)

Cack-Handed

Gina Yashere Author
Gina Yashere Narrator
(2021)

Three Girls from Bronzeville

Dawn Turner Author
Janina Edwards Narrator
(2021)

All the White Friends I...

Andre Henry Author
Andre Henry Narrator
(2022)

Uphill

Jemele Hill Author
Jemele Hill Narrator
(2022)

Son of Elsewhere

Elamin Abdelmahmoud Author
Elamin Abdelmahmoud Narrator
(2022)

Why Didn't You Tell Me?

Carmen Rita Wong Author
Carmen Rita Wong Narrator
(2022)

A Way Out of No Way

Raphael G. Warnock Author
Raphael G. Warnock Narrator
(2022)

A Visible Man

Edward Enninful Author
Edward Enninful Narrator
(2022)

Chasing Me to My Grave

Winfred Rembert Author
Erin I. Kelly Adapter
(2021)

The Mamas

Helena Andrews-Dyer Author
Helena Andrews-Dyer Narrator
(2022)

The Wind at My Back

Misty Copeland Author
Susan Fales-Hill Author
(2022)

I Can't Save You

Anthony Chin-Quee Author
Anthony Chin-Quee Narrator
(2023)