16 best-selling audiobook books like The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit by Julian Randall

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The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit

By: Julian Randall

3.99

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

This “inventive, poetic, vulnerable, and sincere” book from an acclaimed author and poet weaves two…

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1. Your Shadow Half Remains

By: Sunny Moraine

3.38

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

One look can kill. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No fac… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

2. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

3. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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5. Promises of Gold

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. Hip-Hop Is History

By: Questlove

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, un… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Another Word for Love: A Memoir by Carvell Wallace

8. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams

9. Blood at the Root

By: LaDarrion Williams

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he nev… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3) by Tomi Adeyemi

10. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

By: Tomi Adeyemi

3.49

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more

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  • audiobook
"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

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11. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

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"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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12. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

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  • lgbt
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

13. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Colored Television by Danzy Senna

14. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

15. Imagination: A Manifesto

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of strug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. The Blue Hour

By: Paula Hawkins

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. … read more

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17. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

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  • audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

Cover of The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit by Julian Randall

18. The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit

By: Julian Randall

3.99

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

This “inventive, poetic, vulnerable, and sincere” book from an acclaimed author and poet weaves two… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Model Home

By: Rivers Solomon

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more

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  • lgbt
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20. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

Cover of Sleeping with the Frenemy (Vega Family Love Stories, #3) by Natalie Caña

21. Sleeping with the Frenemy (Vega Family Love Stories, #3)

By: Natalie Caña

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The third book in the riotously funny Vega Family Love Stories finds self-assured firefighter Leo V… read more

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  • audiobook

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4.27

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4.40

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Bettina L. Love

4.41

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Kelly Hayes

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