Featured Article: The Best Contemporary Fiction Authors to Listen to Now
Contemporary authors have produced some of the best books of all time. Often poignant, or full of social commentary, these works of fiction can range in genre and theme. Whether science fiction, drama, mystery, or something else altogether, these great works of fiction showcase amazing authors with a talent for contemporary storytelling. We've compiled a list of some of the most exciting and impressive contemporary authors of the 21st and 20th centuries to dive into for your next listen.
Best Sellers
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Zainab Jah
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall146
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Performance127
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Story129
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war. Recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award. With effortless grace, celebrated author...
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Incredible story and amazing narration
- By Laura on 2019-01-30
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- Narrated by: Zainab Jah
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-19
- Language: English
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$34.87 or free with 30-day trial
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Purple Hibiscus
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall102
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Performance90
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Story89
In Purple Hibiscus, she recounts the story of a young Nigerian girl searching for freedom. ....
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Lisette's audio performance is fantastic.
- By vineet on 2019-12-02
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Purple Hibiscus
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2011-04-25
- Language: English
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$23.18 or free with 30-day trial
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We Should All Be Feminists
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Length: 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall140
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Performance117
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Story118
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics—from the award-winning author of Americanah "A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." —Medium In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from...
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absolutely loved it, didn't want it to end
- By Bill on 2021-02-07
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We Should All Be Feminists
- Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Length: 51 mins
- Release date: 2017-01-31
- Language: English
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$9.55 or free with 30-day trial
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The Thing Around Your Neck
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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Story14
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun), with “prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” (The Boston...
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The Thing Around Your Neck
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2017-01-31
- Language: English
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$25.80 or free with 30-day trial
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L'autre moitié du soleil
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mona de Pracontal - traductrice
- Narrated by: Aïssa Maïga
- Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Lagos, début des années soixante. L'avenir paraît sourire aux sœurs jumelles : la ravissante Olanna est amoureuse d'Odenigbo, intellectuel...
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L'autre moitié du soleil
- Narrated by: Aïssa Maïga
- Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2022-07-20
- Language: French
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$39.99 or free with 30-day trial
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Zikora
- A Short Story
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adepero Oduye
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance37
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Story38
When Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her equally high-powered lover that she’s pregnant, he abandons her. But it’s Zikora’s demanding, self-possessed mother, in town for the birth, who makes Zikora feel like a lonely little girl all over again....
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Beautiful
- By CHAUNTEL VICKERS on 2023-08-16
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Zikora
- A Short Story
- Narrated by: Adepero Oduye
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-27
- Language: English
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$10.84 or free with 30-day trial
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Americanah (Spanish Edition)
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Carlos Milla Soler, Diana Ángel
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance1
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Story1
Una original historia sobre la inmigración en Estados Unidos desde el punto de vista de una estudiante de literatura nigeriana....
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Americanah (Spanish Edition)
- Narrated by: Carlos Milla Soler, Diana Ángel
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-24
- Language: Spanish
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$31.96 or free with 30-day trial
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Americanah [French Version]
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Astrid Bayiha
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance12
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Story13
"En descendant de l'avion à Lagos, j'ai eu l'impression d'avoir cessé d'être noire." Ifemelu quitte le Nigeria pour aller faire ses études à...
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Americanah [French Version]
- Narrated by: Astrid Bayiha
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2018-01-11
- Language: French
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$24.99 or free with 30-day trial
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Autour de ton cou
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mona de Pracontal - traducteur
- Narrated by: Séphora Pondi
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Lauréate de la loterie des visas, Akunna quitte le Nigeria pour les États-Unis ; elle y découvre un pays qui a bien peu à voir avec celui de ses attentes. À Kano, dans le nord du Nigeria, une violente émeute intercommunautaire réunit deux femmes que tout sépare.
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Autour de ton cou
- Narrated by: Séphora Pondi
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2026-02-02
- Language: French
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Nous sommes tous des féministes suivi des Marieuses
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Annie Milon
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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"Partout dans le monde, la question du genre est cruciale. Alors j'aimerais aujourd'hui que nous nous mettions à rêver à un monde différent..."
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Nous sommes tous des féministes suivi des Marieuses
- Narrated by: Annie Milon
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 2018-03-01
- Language: French
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$16.99 or free with 30-day trial
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Dream Count
- Narrated by: Abak Safaei-Rad
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2025-05-06
- Language: German
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$23.76 or free with 30-day trial
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The Visit
- Black Stars
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Nyambi Nyambi
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men - old friends - confront the past and future in a bracing speculative short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah....
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Felt Unfinished
- By Carrie on 2023-04-19
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The Visit
- Black Stars
- Narrated by: Nyambi Nyambi
- Series: Black Stars
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-31
- Language: English
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$8.18 or free with 30-day trial
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Americanah
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Marta De Lorenzis
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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La distanza tra la Nigeria e gli Stati Uniti è enorme, e non solo in termini di chilometri. Partire alla volta di un mondo nuovo abbandonando la propria vita è difficile...
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Americanah
- Narrated by: Marta De Lorenzis
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2023-02-10
- Language: Italian
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Black Stars
- A Galaxy of New Worlds
- Written by: Nisi Shawl, Nnedi Okorafor, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and others
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Naomi Ackie, Nyambi Nyambi, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
The sky is not the limit. From an alley in New York to an interstellar wormhole, the path to the future looks different for everyone. These cosmic short stories from some of today’s most influential Black authors reveal a universe of possibilities....
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Love the Afro futurism
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-04-08
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Black Stars
- A Galaxy of New Worlds
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Naomi Ackie, Nyambi Nyambi, Indya Moore, Adenrele Ojo, Brian Tyree Henry
- Series: Black Stars
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-31
- Language: English
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$20.77 or free with 30-day trial
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Notes on Grief
- A Memoir
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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Story15
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d...
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Brilliant + Intimate
- By Tiffany Anderson on 2023-11-20
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Notes on Grief
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-22
- Language: English
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$9.55 or free with 30-day trial
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Thalia Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Robin Desser, Francesca Choy-Kee
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Original Recording
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A story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria facing challenges in the countries they come to call home....
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Thalia Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
- Narrated by: Robin Desser, Francesca Choy-Kee
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-17
- Language: English
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$11.22 or free with 30-day trial
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Todos deberíamos ser feministas [We Should All Be Feminists]
- Written by: Javier Calvo - translator, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Mili Matos
- Length: 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Ser feminista no es solo cosa de mujeres. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie lo demuestra en este elocuente y perspicaz audiolibro, en el que nos brinda una definición singular de lo que significa ser feminista en el siglo XXI....
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Todos deberíamos ser feministas [We Should All Be Feminists]
- Narrated by: Mili Matos
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-05
- Language: Spanish
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$10.64 or free with 30-day trial
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L'Hibiscus pourpre
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Claina Clavaron
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"À la maison la débâcle a commencé lorsque Jaja, mon frère, n'est pas allé communier et que Papa a lancé son gros missel en travers de la pièce et cassé...
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L'Hibiscus pourpre
- Narrated by: Claina Clavaron
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2024-10-04
- Language: French
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L'inventaire des rêves
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Celma Stéfi
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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L’inventaire des rêves, c’est avant tout la naissance de quatre grandes héroïnes, quatre femmes puissantes venues d’Afrique de l’Ouest dont les destins...
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L'inventaire des rêves
- Narrated by: Celma Stéfi
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2025-03-27
- Language: French
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$39.99 or free with 30-day trial
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La flor púrpura [Purple Hibiscus]
- Written by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Laura Rins Calahorra
- Narrated by: Ana María Mutis
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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La joven Kambili, de quince años, y su hermano mayor Jaja llevan una vida privilegiada en la ciudad de Enugu. Viven en una hermosa casa y frecuentan un elitista colegio religioso, pero su vida familiar dista mucho de ser armoniosa....
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La flor púrpura [Purple Hibiscus]
- Narrated by: Ana María Mutis
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-26
- Language: Spanish
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$22.63 or free with 30-day trial
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