The Color Purple
Featured Article: Outstanding Female Authors Everyone Ought to Listen to
Throughout history, women have crafted some of the most incredible and beloved stories in the world. From rising stars to household names, female authors have contributed some of the best works of all time for our listening pleasure. At times, especially in societies where gender roles and expectations were rigidly defined, women would write under pen names to avoid the fact that a woman was behind the work. Discover the best female authors.
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The Color Purple
- Written by: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon....
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Classic
- By NP on 2019-03-06
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The Color Purple
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Series: Color Purple, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-25
- Language: English
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$21.40 or free with 30-day trial
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The Color Purple
- Written by: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Samira Wiley
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance39
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Story37
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa....
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Beautiful Powerful, Wonderfully Narrated
- By Pibby on 2020-06-06
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The Color Purple
- Narrated by: Samira Wiley
- Series: Color Purple, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-19
- Language: English
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$21.91 or free with 30-day trial
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
- The Journals of Alice Walker
- Written by: Alice Walker, Valerie Boyd - editor
- Narrated by: Aunjanue Ellis, Walker, Janina Edwards
- Length: 22 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and...
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
- The Journals of Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Aunjanue Ellis, Walker, Janina Edwards
- Length: 22 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2022-04-12
- Language: English
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Chicken Chronicles
- Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe
- Written by: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance2
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For the past several years, on a farm north of San Francisco, the celebrated writer Alice Walker has diligently cared for a flock of chickens....
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Chicken Chronicles
- Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2011-09-21
- Language: English
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$18.51 or free with 30-day trial
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La Couleur pourpre
- Written by: Alice Walker, Mimi Perrin - traductrice
- Narrated by: Rébecca Chaillon
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Dans la grande tradition du roman sudiste, "La Couleur pourpre", qui dénonce l'oppression raciale et sexuelle dont furent victimes les...
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La Couleur pourpre
- Narrated by: Rébecca Chaillon
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2022-02-10
- Language: French
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$19.32 or free with 30-day trial
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My Life as Myself
- An Intimate Conversation
- Written by: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Original Recording
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In My Life as My Self, Alice Walker takes you into her private world and summons the powerful spirits and events that have shaped her life....
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My Life as Myself
- An Intimate Conversation
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-03
- Language: English
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$15.53 or free with 30-day trial
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The Temple of My Familiar
- A Novel
- Written by: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In this “brilliant” (Essence) sequel to The Color Purple, Alice Walker weaves an intricate, rich tapestry of interrelated lives. Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of the dozens of astonishing characters in The Temple of My Familiar, all of whom are dealing in some...
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The Temple of My Familiar
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2023-11-28
- Language: English
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
- Womanist Prose
- Written by: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political. Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that...
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
- Womanist Prose
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2023-11-28
- Language: English
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Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation
- On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy
- Written by: Alice Walker, Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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How can human suffering become good medicine? Through tonglen: the ancient Tibetan meditation that transforms pain into compassion on the medium of your own breath. Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker in Conversation reveals the revolutionary power of tonglen through a dialogue between two hearts...
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Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation
- On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-02
- Language: English
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Selected Shorts: American Classics
- Written by: Amy Tan, Donald Barthelme, Eudora Welty, and others
- Narrated by: Freda Foh Shen, David Strathairn, Stockard Channing, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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A compilation of classic tales by great American writers performed by terrific actors, with a lineup including Pulitzer Prize winners....
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Selected Shorts: American Classics
- Narrated by: Freda Foh Shen, David Strathairn, Stockard Channing, René Auberjonois, Christine Baranski, Jerry Stiller, Malachy McCourt
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2010-04-01
- Language: English
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$16.51 or free with 30-day trial
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El color púrpura [The Color Purple]
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2024-01-11
- Language: Spanish
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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
- Written by: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—“an American novel of permanent importance” (San Francisco Chronicle)—reads the English-language editions of the poems in...
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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-02
- Language: English
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$16.64 or free with 30-day trial
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Alice Walker in Conversation with Gloria Steinem at the 92nd Street Y
- Written by: Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Writer, lecturer and feminist activist Gloria Steinem and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker sit down with Wilma Mankiller to discuss gender and politics in today's world....
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Alice Walker in Conversation with Gloria Steinem at the 92nd Street Y
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Release date: 2008-02-22
- Language: English
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$13.02 or free with 30-day trial
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
- A Novel
- Written by: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Alfre Woodard
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey. In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created...
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Alfre Woodard
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-20
- Language: English
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$15.29 or free with 30-day trial
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Meridian
- A Novel
- Written by: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Susan Dalian
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, now available in a new edition featuring an introduction by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage. “A...
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Meridian
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Susan Dalian
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2023-11-28
- Language: English
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$33.43 or free with 30-day trial
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Die Farbe Lila
- Narrated by: Sithembile Menck
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-24
- Language: German
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$20.38 or free with 30-day trial
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