20 Best audiobook books like No-No Boy by Ken Narasaki

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No-No Boy

By: Ken Narasaki

3.42

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Ken Narasaki's adaptation of the novel by Japanese-American author John Okada is set during the aft…

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1. When Morning Comes

By: None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Zanele is skipping school and secretly plotting against the apartheid government. The police can't … read more

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2. No-No Boy

By: John Okada

4.33

Format: 242 pages,

John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Co… read more

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3. Not Without Laughter

By: Langston Hughes , Maya Angelou

4.19

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes prove… read more

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4. The White Rose

By: Dorothee Sölle , Inge Aicher-Scholl

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small undergroun… read more

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5. The Memory of Light

By: Francisco X. Stork

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

16-year-old Vicky Cruz wakes up in a hospital's mental ward after a failed suicide attempt. Now she… read more

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6. This Book Betrays My Brother

By: Kagiso Lesego Molope

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Basi is as special as raindrops on dying crops. I say this not with jealousy but with apology, rea… read more

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7. The Pretenders (The Cemetery Girl Trilogy, #1)

By: Charlaine Harris , Christopher Golden , Don Kramer , None , None

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Charlaine Harris, the #1New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the H… read more

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8. Mississippi Trial, 1955

By: Chris Crowe

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel At first Hiram is … read more

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9. As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success

By: Kendall Coyne

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring book, US Olympian and hockey star Kendall Coyne shares the grit and determination… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. We Were Kings

By: Court Stevens

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Twenty years ago, eighteen-year-old Francis Quick was convicted of murdering her best friend Cora K… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Yesterday Is History

By: Kosoko Jackson

3.74

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

A novel about letting go of the past, figuring out what you want in your future, and staying in the… read more

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  • historical fiction
"The only way out is through. And the best way through something is the truth."

-Kosoko Jackson, Yesterday Is History

Cover of Sisters of the Snake (Ria & Rani, #1) by Sarena Nanua

12. Sisters of the Snake (Ria & Rani, #1)

By: Sarena Nanua

3.69

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A lost princess. A dark puppet master. And a race against time—before all is lost. Princess Rani… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke

By: Andrew Maraniss

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

*"[An] excellent exercise in narrative nonfiction." -- Booklist (starred review) From New York Tim… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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14. Faraway: Fairy Tales for the Here and Now (Faraway 5 Book Collection)

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.36

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

None read more

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  • audiobook
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15. A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War

By: Albert Marrin

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award Finalist and Sibert Honor Author Albert Marrin, a timely examination of Re… read more

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  • audiobook
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16. This Is My America

By: Kim Johnson

4.46

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA novel that explores the racist in… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. Striking Distance (Fence, #1)

By: Sarah Rees Brennan

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The boys of Kings Row bout with drama, rivalry, and romance in this original YA novel by The New Yo… read more

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  • audiobook
"We have to stop,"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Striking Distance (Fence, #1)

"Why are you smiling?"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Striking Distance (Fence, #1)

"You seem a bit quiet, bro,"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Striking Distance (Fence, #1)

"Have you ever… liked anyone for real?"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Striking Distance (Fence, #1)

Cover of Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda by Jesse J. Holland

18. Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda

By: Jesse J. Holland

3.69

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

A ground-breaking anthology celebrating Marvel’s beloved Black Panther and his home of Wakanda, pen… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. Bacchanal

By: Veronica G. Henry

3.84

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival’s newest act,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • historical fiction
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20. Paradise

By: Laura Maria Censabella

3.43

Format: 99 pages, Audiobook

Yasmeen Al-Hamadi is a Muslim, Yemeni-American senior at a struggling inner-city Bronx high school.… read more

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  • plays
  • audiobook
Cover of The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

21. The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi

By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical fiction
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22. Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream

By: Julissa Arce

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Born in the picturesque town of Taxco, Mexico, Julissa Arce was left behind for months at a time wi… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Caprice of Fate (Tangent Knights #1) by Christopher L. Bennett

23. Caprice of Fate (Tangent Knights #1)

By: Christopher L. Bennett

3.44

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

GraphicAudio introduces a spectacular original Super-heroic Action Series available in no other for… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of A Brief History of Fascist Lies by Federico Finchelstein

24. A Brief History of Fascist Lies

By: Federico Finchelstein

3.52

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."––Jason Stanley, a… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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25. Never Look Back

By: Lilliam Rivera

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eury comes to the Bronx as a girl haunted. Haunted by losing everything in Hurricane Maria--and by … read more

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  • audiobook
"He is not my medicine."

-Lilliam Rivera, Never Look Back

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26. The Faculty Lounge

By: Jennifer Mathieu

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more

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  • audiobook
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27. No-No Boy

By: Ken Narasaki

3.42

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Ken Narasaki's adaptation of the novel by Japanese-American author John Okada is set during the aft… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • audiobook
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28. The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin

By: Sian Lye

3.48

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Hergé created only twenty-four Tintin books which have been translated into more than seventy langu… read more

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  • audiobook
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29. Hold These Truths

By: Jeanne Sakata

4.26

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

This play is based on a true story, inspired by many hours of interviews I conducted with Gordon Hi… read more

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  • plays
  • audiobook
Cover of Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia by Josh Azouz

30. Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia

By: Josh Azouz

3.44

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

1943. Four months into the Nazi occupation of Tunisia. You're imprisoned in a labour camp. You're b… read more

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  • historical fiction
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31. Incunabula

By: Anna Nicholas

2.78

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Literary figures from a book thiefs library come alive, offering romantic and other advice. The Inc… read more

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  • plays

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3.74

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3.84

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

3.69

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3.97

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Jodi Picoult

4.19

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4.15

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