Toni Morrison
Featured Article: Must-Listen Audiobooks by Outstanding Black Authors
It has taken too long, but the world is finally waking up to the incredible world of Black authors. Iconic names such as Octavia Butler, Zadie Smith, and Zora Neale Hurston have earned their spotlight onto the public sphere, while famous titles like I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou) and Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) have rightly made ground in top lists the world over. Initiatives such as Black History Month have dragged race issues onto the world stage, while the literary landscape is filled with upcoming Black authors such as Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give), Tomi Adeyemi (Legacy of Orisha), Yaa Gyasi (Homegoing) and more. There is no excuse not to dig into the best audiobooks by Black authors, starting with the 10 listed below. Happy listening!
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Beloved [French Version]
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Anne Alvaro
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
"Le 124 était habité de malveillance. Imprégné de la malédiction d'un bébé..." À Bluestone Road, près de Cincinnati, vers 1870, les meubles volent...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Je suis rentrée dans le livre
- By Marie-Jésus MULIMBI on 2020-12-16
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Beloved [French Version]
- Narrated by: Anne Alvaro
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-11
- Language: French
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Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Didn't draw me in
- By Aleasha Forbes on 2018-08-21
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Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-12
- Language: English
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The Bluest Eye
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 115
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 116
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking...well done narrative
- By MalMelMac on 2019-08-21
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The Bluest Eye
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2011-07-19
- Language: English
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Beloved
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 131
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A literary must read.
- By Travelmug on 2019-01-03
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Beloved
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2006-05-22
- Language: English
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Recitatif
- A Story
- Written by: Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith - Introduction
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
In this 1983 short story - the only short story Morrison ever wrote - we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter....
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Recitatif
- A Story
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 2022-02-01
- Language: English
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Sula
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hell yea
- By Anonymous User on 2023-11-25
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Sula
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2007-07-23
- Language: English
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Jazz
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 3 hrs
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Missing
- By Kafia on 2022-08-12
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Jazz
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 2015-03-10
- Language: English
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Tar Baby
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Desiree Coleman
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires....
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Tar Baby
- Narrated by: Desiree Coleman
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2011-07-19
- Language: English
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A Mercy
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize - winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A vivid account of human experience
- By Annah on 2019-08-24
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A Mercy
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2008-11-11
- Language: English
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Playing in the Dark
- Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires....
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Playing in the Dark
- Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-05
- Language: English
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The Bluest Eye
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison, Ruby Dee
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different....
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The Bluest Eye
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison, Ruby Dee
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2007-04-05
- Language: English
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Love
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L: All women obsessed by Bill Cosey....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love(d) It
- By Cheryl Reid on 2022-01-12
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Love
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2007-10-01
- Language: English
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Home [French Version]
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Anna Mouglalis
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Amérique 1950 : le "White only" s'applique partout : bus, hôtels, culture ; pour un soldat noir, voyager d'un Etat à l'autre est une odyssée...
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Home [French Version]
- Narrated by: Anna Mouglalis
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2013-04-04
- Language: French
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Home
- A Novel
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars....
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Home
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2012-05-08
- Language: English
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God Help the Child
- A Novel
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful story about trauma, childhood trauma
- By UMUHIRE Victoire on 2022-06-02
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God Help the Child
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2015-04-21
- Language: English
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The Source of Self-Regard
- Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection - a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades....
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The Source of Self-Regard
- Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-12
- Language: English
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Paradise
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
In Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it....
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Paradise
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-14
- Language: English
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Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly....
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Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2009-06-23
- Language: English
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Délivrances
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Anna Mouglalis
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3
En a-t-on jamais fini de se délivrer du poids d'un passé truqué ? Par la grande Toni Morrison, un roman sans concession et pourtant lumineux...
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Délivrances
- Narrated by: Anna Mouglalis
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2016-03-16
- Language: French
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Tar Baby
- Written by: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Alfre Woodard
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged
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The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones....
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Tar Baby
- Narrated by: Alfre Woodard
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2007-10-01
- Language: English
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