African American Historical Fiction

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    • A Lexington, Alabama Novel, Book 5
    • By: Mary Monroe
    • Narrated by: Shari Peele
    • Series: A Lexington, Alabama Novel, Book 5
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • Brimming with unpredictable twists and scandals, the latest Depression-era Alabama novel from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe tells of a mistreated wife who finally finds the love she's longed for—only to be plunged into deceit, betrayal, and murder.

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    • By: Victor McGlothin
    • Narrated by: Ezra Knight
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • In 1947 St. Louis, Ms. Etta's is the place where a sinner can get all the boozy action he craves....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Nathan Harris
    • Narrated by: William DeMeritt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,354 ratings
    • In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm....

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    • The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    • By: Gregory Maguire
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Series: The Wicked Years, Book 1
    • Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12,878 ratings
    • A wonderfully imaginative retelling of The Wizard of Oz told from the Wicked Witch's point of view....

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    • By: Amanda Skenandore
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 417 ratings
    • "The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies....

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    • By: William Kent Krueger
    • Narrated by: Rich Orlow
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,037 ratings
    • In Ordinary Grace, Krueger looks back to 1961 to tell the story of Frank Drum, a boy on the cusp of manhood....

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    • By: Angela Jackson-Brown
    • Narrated by: Karen Murray
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A woman is torn between the demands of her heart and the responsibilities she's shouldered for so long. Set against the backdrop of a changing South, this novel delves into the complexities of love, family, and self-discovery in a time of transformation and upheaval.

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    • By: Haley Cass
    • Narrated by: Lori Prince
    • Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,706 ratings
    • Sutton Spencer's ideas for her life were fairly simple: finish graduate school and fall in love. It would be a lot simpler if she could pinpoint exactly what she should do when she graduates in less than a year....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Tara Conklin
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,256 ratings
    • Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine....

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    • By: Suzette D. Harrison
    • Narrated by: Tovah Ott, Aure Nash
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Rain soaks Tessa Scott as she runs from her car to the old vine-covered property she has been called to survey. She’s too busy to accept a new job, but doing this favor for the grandmother of her childhood sweetheart delays a painful decision to make about her controlling boyfriend....

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    • By: Randall Robinson
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Randall Robinson's acclaimed novel Makeda stars Gray March, a young man who, beginning in the 1950s, embarks on a journey of spiritual and historical enlightenment....

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    • By: Joan Vassar
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Life in 1925 Atlanta, Georgia, makes Truck realize three things: He must demand respect … Be uncompromising in the protection of his family … And see Josephine for who she really is....

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    • A whileBlack Chronicles' Saga
    • By: Alvin M. Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The year was 1877 and Reconstruction was working until Presidential politics removed the union troops from the South unleashing violent cold-...

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    • By: Keith Lee Johnson
    • Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
    • Series: Little Black Girl Lost, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 433 ratings
    • Fifteen-year-old beauty Johnnie Wise lives her life devoted to God. But her innocence is shattered when her mother, who has been a prostitute for years, sells Johnnie's body to a lecherous man....

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    • A Blackwashed 19th Century Pre-Civil War Fictional Story That Depicts The People, Tone And Events Of The Era.
    • By: Alvin M. Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • If Cotton Could Talk," is a civil war era historical fiction novel about 19th-century slave life in the South. You will be introduced to a cast of ...

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    • By: Mary Monroe
    • Narrated by: Shari Peele
    • Series: A Lexington, Alabama Novel, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,583 ratings
    • Reminiscent of her captivating, scandalous Mama Ruby series, New York Times best-selling author Mary Monroe crafts a story set in the Deep South during the Depression, in this tale of a woman determined to have a respectable life - no matter what it costs to keep it....

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    • By: Mary McCallum
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-25
    • Language: English
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    • In the midst of World War II, four extraordinary Black women find their paths converging in the groundbreaking 6888th Central Postal Battalion - ...

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    • By: Suzette D. Harrison
    • Narrated by: Jordan Frazier, Rachel Handshaw
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Fifteen-year-old Faith Wilson takes her little sister Hope’s hand. In worn-down shoes, they walk through the choking heat of the Dust Bowl, toward a new life in California. But when a storm blows in, the girls are separated from their parents....

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    • “Bronzeville: The Black Metropolis"
    • By: Alvin Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this fascinating tale set in 1919, the Thomas family leaves New Orleans for Chicago as part of the Great Migration, seeking equality denied in ...

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