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Featured Article: The Best Black Audiobook Narrators to Listen to Right Now
A skilled performer has the ability to take the written word to new heights, infusing an author’s work with empathy, warmth, and excitement. And representation matters just as much for audio as it does for any visual medium: listeners should feel and hear themselves in art driven by powerful performers and authentic deliveries. We’ve gathered a few of the best Black audiobook narrators in the business and their can't-miss performances.
Best Sellers
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,411
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,019
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,017
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Multiple Stories Obfuscate Narrative
- By Stephnsea on 08-12-23
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,246
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,436
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,395
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterpiece
- By Linda G McDonough on 05-17-20
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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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The Color of Water
- A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,713
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,365
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,362
The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome
- By Michael on 05-30-17
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The Color of Water
- A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-25-14
- Language: English
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The Good Lord Bird
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,012
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,779
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,773
From the best-selling author of Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade - and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Abolition Huck Finn arouses interest in history
- By Abram H on 12-13-13
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The Good Lord Bird
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-20-13
- Language: English
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Song Yet Sung
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Leslie Uggams
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 190
In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spellbinding
- By Roberta on 11-05-09
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Song Yet Sung
- Narrated by: Leslie Uggams
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-09-09
- Language: English
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story5 out of 5 stars 17
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving and beautiful story of friendship
- By Lindelwa Farisani on 03-16-24
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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Kill 'Em and Leave
- Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 214
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul, Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Captivating Narrative of a Complex Man
- By Kindle Customer on 04-10-16
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Kill 'Em and Leave
- Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 04-05-16
- Language: English
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Five-Carat Soul
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Nile Bullock, Prentice Onayemi, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 204
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 203
The stories in Five-Carat Soul - none of them ever published before - spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They’re funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen. Just listen.
- By Rebbe Don Justino on 12-26-17
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Five-Carat Soul
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Nile Bullock, Prentice Onayemi, Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-26-17
- Language: English
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El pájaro carpintero
- Una novela
- By: James McBride, Miguel Sanz Jiménez
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Henry Cebolla Shackleton es un pícaro niño esclavo en cuyo camino se cruza el legendario abolicionista John Brown....
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El pájaro carpintero
- Una novela
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 06-04-24
- Language: Spanish
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Deacon King Kong
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportscoat shoots - for no apparent reason - the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church's baseball team....
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Deacon King Kong
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-16-20
- Language: English
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