29 Best Literary Collections Books
Literary Collections is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Literary Collections audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Literary Collections audiobooks below.
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Speeches by Great Religious Leaders
- By: SpeechWorks
- Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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5(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDThis collection features fourteen of the most important and well-known speeches by some of the world’s most influential religious leaders. Mahatma Gandhi: “Oh God” (1931)Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Paul’sThis collection features fourteen of the most important and well-known speeches by some of the world’s most influential religious leaders.
Mahatma Gandhi: “Oh God” (1931)Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Paul’s Letter” (1956)Dr. Billy Graham: “Truth” address in Melbourne, Australia (1959)Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: Sermon at the National Cathedral (1968)Pope John Paul II: Address to the Catholic University of America (1979)Mother Teresa: Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize (1979)Gordon Hinckley: “This I Believe” address to BYU graduates (1992)Louis Farrakhan: Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church (1994)Desmond Tutu: UNC-Chapel Hill commencement address (2009)Pope Benedict XVI: Homily at Westminster Mass (2010)Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso): “Nature of Happiness” (2014)Rick Warren: Address at the Vatican on marriage (2014)Joel Olsteen: “I Am”Pope Francis: Address to the Joint Session of Congress (2015)
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On Becoming an American Writer
- By: James Alan McPherson
- Narrator: Cary Hite
- Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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5(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDDiscover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America’s past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient andDiscover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America’s past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable.
Born in segregated 1940s Georgia, McPherson graduated from Harvard Law School only to give up law and become a writer. In 1978, he became the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But all the while, McPherson was also writing and publishing nonfiction that stand beside contemporaries such as James Baldwin and Joan Didion, as this collection amply proves.
These essays range from McPherson’s profile of comedian Richard Pryor on the cusp of his stardom; a moving tribute to his mentor, Ralph Ellison; a near-fatal battle with viral meningitis; and the story of how McPherson became a reluctant landlord to an elderly Black woman and her family.
There are meditations on family as the author travels to Disneyland with his daughter, on the nuances of a neighborhood debate about naming a street after Malcolm X or Dr. Martin Luther King, and, throughout, those connections that make us most deeply human–including connections between writer and listener.
This collection is for anyone seeking a better understanding of our world and a connection to a wise and wickedly funny writer who speaks with forceful relevance and clarity across the decades.
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Richard Wagamese Selected
- By: Richard Wagamese
- Narrator: Christian Baskous
- Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.59(236 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDA new curated collection of Richard Wagamese’s short writings Richard Wagamese, one of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better,A new curated collection of Richard Wagamese’s short writings
Richard Wagamese, one of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same.
Following the success of Embers, which has sold over seventy thousand copies since its release in 2016, this new collection of Wagamese’s nonfiction works, curated by editor Drew Hayden Taylor, brings together more of the prolific author’s short writings–many for the first time in print–and celebrates his ability to inspire.
Drawing from Wagamese’s essays and columns, along with preserved social media and blog posts, this beautifully designed collection is a tribute to Wagamese’s literary legacy.
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Mother to Son
- By: Jasmine L. Holmes
- Narrator: Robin Eller
- Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.54(950 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USD“Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world through eyes of wonder and has yet to become jaded by society’s cruelty. I know he’ll“Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world through eyes of wonder and has yet to become jaded by society’s cruelty. I know he’ll grow up with stories of having been made to feel ‘other’ because of the color of his skin. I want to teach him that, though life’s unfair, he still has incomparable value in the eyes of his heavenly Father. I know this wondrous little person has the potential to change the world–and I want him to know it too.”
In Mother to Son, Jasmine Holmes shares a series of powerful letters to her young son. These are about her journey as an African American Christian, and what she wants her son to know as he grows and approaches the world as a black man. Holmes deals head-on with issues ranging from discipleship and marriage to biblical justice. She invites us to read over her shoulder as she reminds Wynn that his identity is firmly planted in the person and work of Jesus Christ, even when the topic is one as emotionally charged as race in America.
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The Gettysburg Address
- By: Abraham Lincoln
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Length: 3 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: January 02, 2018
- Language: English
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4.53(5875 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDThe Gettysburg Address, delivered by Lincoln on November 19, 1863 in the aftermath of a narrow, bloody Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, is considered one of the greatest speeches in American history. -
The deja vu
- By: Gabrielle Civil
- Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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4.53(13 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDGabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions. Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the deja vu activates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement,Gabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions.
Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the deja vu activates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement, speech, and lyric essay into performance memoir. As Civil considers Haitian tourist paintings, dance rituals,
race at the movies, black feminist legacies, and more, she reflects on her personal losses and desires, speculates on black time, and dreams into expansive black life.With intimacy, humor, and verve, the deja vu blurs boundaries between memory, grief, and love; then, now, and the future.
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Too Much of Life
- By: Clarice Lispector
- Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez
- Length: 23 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.52(26 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDIn the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her cronicas–short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces–are the delicious canapes. “The things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They knowIn the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her cronicas–short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces–are the delicious canapes.
“The things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don’t know. Or maybe they do even when they don’t. There are various ways of knowing by not-knowing. I know: it happens to me too.”
The cronica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers, or even soccer stars, to address a wide readership on any theme they like.
Chatty, mystical, intimate, flirtatious, and revelatory, Clarice Lispector’s pieces for the Saturday edition of Rio’s leading paper, the Jornal do Brasil, from 1967 to 1973, take the forms of memories, essays, aphorisms, and serialized stories. Endlessly delightful, her insights make one sit up and think, whether about children or social ills or pets or society women or the business of writing or love.
This new, beautifully translated work presents a new aspect of the great writer–at once off the cuff and spot on.
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
- By: Sean Dietrich
- Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: March 10, 2020
- Language: English
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4.51(826 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDFrom celebrated storyteller “Sean of the South” comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you’re gonna be alright. Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scatteredFrom celebrated storyteller “Sean of the South” comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you’re gonna be alright.
Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scattered his father’s ashes from the mountain range. His father was a man who lived for baseball, a steel worker with a ready wink, who once scaled a fifty-foot tree just to hang a tire swing for his son. He was also the stranger who tried to kidnap and kill Sean’s mother before pulling the trigger on himself. He was a childhood hero, now reduced to a man in a box.
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? is the story of what happens after the unthinkable, and the journey we all must make in finding the courage to stop the cycles of the past from laying claim to our future.
Sean was a seventh-grade drop-out, a dishwasher then a construction worker to help his mother and sister scrape by, and a self-described “nobody with a sad story behind him.” Yet he cannot deny the glimmers of life’s goodness even amid its rough edges. Such goodness becomes even harder to deny when Sean meets the love of his life at a fried chicken church potluck, and harder still when his lifelong love of storytelling leads him to stages across the southeast, where he is known and loved as “Sean of the South.”
A story that will stay with you long after the final page, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? testifies to the strength that lives within us all to make our peace with the past and look to the future with renewed hope and wonder.
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Things I Have Withheld
- By: Kei Miller
- Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 14, 2021
- Language: English
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4.51(302 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDKei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodiesKei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodies
inherit–the crimes that haunt them, and how meaning can shift as we move throughout the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood.Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Liam Neeson, Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, white women’s tears, questions of aesthetics and more, Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice.
Things I Have Withheld is a great artistic achievement which challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why–our actions, defence mechanisms, imaginations and interactions–and those of the world around us.
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Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrator: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 25 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.49(65 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDThe articles collected in George Orwell’s Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century–a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings togetherThe articles collected in George Orwell’s Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century–a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell’s longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes “My Country Right or Left,” “Decline of the English Murder,” “Shooting an Elephant,” and “A Hanging.”
With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell’s essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move, and entertain.
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These Precious Days
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrator: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 23, 2021
- Language: English
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4.47(18179 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDThe beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. “The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readersThe beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays.
“The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike.” —Publisher’s Weekly
Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart.
At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman–Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki–with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both.
A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be.
From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark–and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
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The Pleasure of Writing and Other Essays
- By: A. A. Milne
- Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 1 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: January 04, 2022
- Language: English
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4.42(19 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDThis collection, written between 1907 and 1920 by beloved children’s author A. A. Milne, contains the following essays: “Bruce: A Short Study of a Great Life?” The Charm of Golf The Cupboard On Going into a House Goldfish MyThis collection, written between 1907 and 1920 by beloved children’s author A. A. Milne, contains the following essays: “Bruce: A Short Study of a Great Life?” The Charm of Golf The Cupboard On Going into a House Goldfish My Library The Old Order Changes The Pleasure of Writing Smoking as a Fine Art Thoughts on Thermometers” The University Boat Race A Word for Autumn The author of more than twenty-five plays, ten nonfiction books, seven novels, five children’s books, and four books of poetry, A. A. Milne was notable for more than just his creation of the Hundred Acre Wood. This collection illustrates just how Milne’s mind worked and offers witty, creative, and entertaining insight into his everyday life.
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The Winter Father
- By: Andre Dubus
- Narrator: Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.41(29 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDWhile the title novella of Dubus’ Finding a Girl in America returns to the somewhat off-the-rails literary life of Hank Allison, the collection’s opening story strikes a much darker tone: “Killings”–the basis of theWhile the title novella of Dubus’ Finding a Girl in America returns to the somewhat off-the-rails literary life of Hank Allison, the collection’s opening story strikes a much darker tone: “Killings”–the basis of the Academy Award-nominated film In the Bedroom–is a swift tale of revenge that leaves readers wondering what they might do in the name of family love.
Dubus’ prowess with narrative compression is on full display in the story “Waiting”: the hollow ache experienced by a woman widowed by the Korean War took Dubus fourteen months to write and was more than one hundred pages in early manuscript form but spans a mere seven pages in published form.
Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Joyce Carol Oates called “The Pretty Girl”–the opening novella of The Times Are Never So Bad–“the most compelling and suspenseful work of fiction [Dubus] has written.”
Richard Russo’s introduction to this volume grapples with his complex feelings on reading Dubus’ work over many decades, but when it comes to the much-anthologized masterpiece “A Father’s Story,” Russo writes: “I won’t mince words. It’s one of the finest stories ever penned by an American.”
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
- By: Alexander Chee
- Narrator: Daniel K. Isaac
- Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.41(8747 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAn essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist–and how we form our identities in life and in art. As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary”An essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist–and how we form our identities in life and in art.
As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times, and “brilliant” by the Washington Post. With How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, his first collection of nonfiction, he is sure to secure his place as one of the finest essayists of his generation as well.
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a gay man, a Korean American, an artist, an activist, a lover, and a friend. He examines some of the most formative experiences of his life and the nation’s history, including his father’s death, the AIDS crisis, 9/11, the jobs that supported his writing–Tarot-reading, bookselling, cater-waiting for William F. Buckley–the writing of his first novel, Edinburgh, and the election of Donald Trump.
By turns commanding, heartbreaking, and wry, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel asks questions about how we create ourselves in life and in art and how to fight when our dearest truths are under attack.
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
- By: David Foster Wallace
- Narrator: David Foster Wallace
- Length: 48 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 11, 2014
- Language: English
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4.4(703 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.98 USDWhere do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here — with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him mostWhere do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here — with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work — essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again,” excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like “The Depressed Person.”... Read moreWallace’s explorations of morality, self-consciousness, addiction, sports, love, and the many other subjects that occupied him are represented here in both fiction and nonfiction. Collected for the first time are Wallace’s first published story, “The View from Planet Trillaphon as Seen In Relation to the Bad Thing” and a selection of his work as a writing instructor, including reading lists, grammar guides, and general guidelines for his students.
A dozen writers and critics, including Hari Kunzru, Anne Fadiman, and Nam Le, add afterwords to favorite pieces, expanding our appreciation of the unique pleasures of Wallace’s writing. The result is an astonishing volume that shows the breadth and range of “one of America’s most daring and talented writers” (Los Angeles Times Book Review) whose work was full of humor, insight, and beauty.
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Thoreau & Emerson
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrator: Russ Barnett
- Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 1997
- Language: English
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4.37(140 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.95 USDThe timeless wisdom of two of America’s most celebrated philosophers is captured in this anthology containing selections from Thoreau’s Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience and Emerson’s Introduction to Thoreau,The timeless wisdom of two of America’s most celebrated philosophers is captured in this anthology containing selections from Thoreau’s Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience and Emerson’s Introduction to Thoreau, Self-Reliance, Nature, The American Scholar, Education, and Politics. The distinguished voice of Russ Barnett brings the great works of Thoreau and Emerson alive for us today.
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrator: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.37(15279 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDAt last, a new audio edition of the book many have called James Baldwin’s most influential work! Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view ofAt last, a new audio edition of the book many have called James Baldwin’s most influential work!
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatriates of the time, from his home in “The Harlem Ghetto” to a sobering “Journey to Atlanta.”
Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the twentieth century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic. His criticism on topics such as the paternalism of white progressives or on his own friend Richard Wright’s work is pointed and unabashed. He was also one of the few writing on race at the time who addressed the issue with a powerful mixture of outrage at the gross physical and political violence against black citizens and measured understanding of their oppressors, which helped awaken a white audience to the injustices under their noses. Naturally, this combination of brazen criticism and unconventional empathy for white readers won Baldwin as much condemnation as praise.
Notes is the book that established Baldwin’s voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. The essays collected here create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal an intimate portrait of Baldwin’s own search for identity as an artist, as a black man, and as an American.
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One Story, One Song
- By: Richard Wagamese
- Narrator: Christian Baskous
- Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.35(792 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDA collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native Life Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Native Life. “In quiet tones and luminousA collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native Life
Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Native Life. “In quiet tones and luminous language,” wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, “Wagamese shares his hurts and joys, inviting readers to find the ways in which they are joined to him and to consider how they might be joined to others.”
In this book, Richard Wagamese again invites readers to accompany him on his travels. This time his focus is on stories: how they shape us, how they empower us, how they change our lives. Ancient and contemporary, cultural and spiritual, funny and sad, the tales are grouped according to the four essential principles Ojibway traditional teachers sought to impart: humility, trust, introspection, and wisdom.
Whether the topic is learning from his grade five teacher about Martin Luther King, gleaning understanding from a wolf track, lighting a fire for the first time without matches, or finding the universe in an eagle feather, these stories exhibit the warmth, wisdom, and generosity that made One Native Life so popular. As always, in these pages, the land serves as Wagamese’s guide. And as always, he finds that true home means not only community but conversation–good, straight-hearted talk about important things. We all need to tell our stories, he says. Every voice matters.
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Black Boy Smile
- By: D. Watkins
- Narrator: D. Watkins
- Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 17, 2022
- Language: English
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4.34(240 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USD“This is, no doubt, an origin story for the ages.” –Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist At nine years old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad’s Lotto numbers,“This is, no doubt, an origin story for the ages.” –Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist
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At nine years old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad’s Lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. Directly in his periphery is east Baltimore, a poverty-stricken city battling the height of the crack epidemic just hours from the nation’s capital. Watkins, like many boys around him, is thrust out of childhood and into a world where manhood means surviving by slinging crack on street corners and finding oneself on the right side of pistols. For thirty years, Watkins is forced to safeguard every moment of joy he experiences or risk losing himself entirely. Now, for the first time, Watkins harnesses these moments to tell the story of how he matured into the D. Watkins we know today–beloved author, college professor, editor-at-large of Salon.com, and devoted husband and father.
Black Boy Smile lays bare Watkins’s relationship with his father and his brotherhood with the boys around him. He shares candid recollections of early assaults on his body and mind and reveals how he coped using stoic silence disguised as manhood. His harrowing pursuit of redemption, written in his signature street style, pinpoints how generational hardship, left raw and unnurtured, breeds toxic masculinity. Watkins discovers a love for books, is admitted to two graduate programs, meets with his future wife, an attorney–and finds true freedom in fatherhood.
Equally moving and liberating, Black Boy Smile is D. Watkins’s love letter to Black boys in concrete cities, a daring testimony that brings to life the contradictions, fears, and hopes of boys hurdling headfirst into adulthood. Black Boy Smile is a story proving that when we acknowledge the fallacies of our past, we can uncover the path toward self-discovery. Black Boy Smile is the story of a Black boy who healed. -
Letters of Note
- By: Shaun Usher
- Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 23, 2021
- Language: English
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4.33(3482 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDLetters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring and unusualLetters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring and
unusual letters updated with sixteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher.Includes letters by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Leonardo da Vinci, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Tom Hanks, Katharine Hepburn, Shirley Jackson, Dorothy Parker, Rainer Maria Rilke and many more
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Black Joy
- By: Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
- Narrator: Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts
- Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.33(194 ratings)
4.33(194 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWith deeply personal and uplifting essays in the vein of Black Girls Rock!, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed This Today, this is “a necessary testimony on the magic and beauty of our capacity to live and love fully and outWith deeply personal and uplifting essays in the vein of Black Girls Rock!, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed This Today, this is “a necessary testimony on the magic and beauty of our capacity to live and love fully and out loud” (Kerry Washington).
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When Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts wrote an essay on Black joy for The Washington Post, she had no idea just how deeply it would resonate. But the outpouring of positive responses affirmed her own lived experience: that Black joy is not just a weapon of resistance, it is a tool for resilience.
With this book, Tracey aims to gift her community with a collection of lyrical essays about the way joy has evolved, even in the midst of trauma, in her own life. Detailing these instances of joy in the context of Black culture allows us to recognize the power of Black joy as a resource to draw upon, and to challenge the one-note narratives of Black life as solely comprised of trauma and hardship.
“Lewis-Giggetts etches a stunning personal map that follows in her ancestors’ footsteps and highlights their ability to take control of situational heartbreak and tragedy and make something better out of it….A simultaneously gorgeous and heartbreaking read” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). -
I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying
- By: Bassey Ikpi
- Narrator: Bassey Ikpi
- Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 20, 2019
- Language: English
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4.32(2701 ratings)
4.32(2701 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USD2020 Audie Finalist – Short Stories/Collections In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life–as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist–through2020 Audie Finalist – Short Stories/Collections
In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life–as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist–through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey bares her own truths and lies for us all to behold with radical honesty and brutal intimacy.
A Bitch Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2019 * A Bustle 21 New Memoirs That Will Inspire, Motivate, and Captivate You * A Publishers Weekly Spring Preview Selection * An Electric Lit 48 Books by Women and Nonbinary Authors of Color to Read in 2019 * A Bookish Best Nonfiction of Summer Selection
“We will not think or talk about mental health or normalcy the same after reading this momentous art object moonlighting as a colossal collection of essays.” –Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
From her early childhood in Nigeria through her adolescence in Oklahoma, Bassey Ikpi lived with a tumult of emotions, cycling between extreme euphoria and deep depression–sometimes within the course of a single day. By the time she was in her early twenties, Bassey was a spoken word artist and traveling with HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, channeling her life into art. But beneath the facade of the confident performer, Bassey’s mental health was in a precipitous decline, culminating in a breakdown that resulted in hospitalization and a diagnosis of Bipolar II.
In I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying, Bassey Ikpi breaks open our understanding of mental health by giving us intimate access to her own. Exploring shame, confusion, medication, and family in the process, Bassey looks at how mental health impacts every aspect of our lives–how we appear to others, and more importantly to ourselves–and challenges our preconception about what it means to be “normal.” Viscerally raw and honest, the result is an exploration of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of who we are–and the ways, as honest as we try to be, each of these stories can also be a lie.
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Essays of E. B. White
- By: E. B. White
- Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 12 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.31(3104 ratings)
4.31(3104 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDLegendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, “The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.” Covering a large numberLegendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, “The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.”
Covering a large number of subjects, this classic collection features thirty-one of White’s most memorable essays.
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The Search for the Genuine
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.29(53 ratings)
4.29(53 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDThe first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism–some never before published. New York TimesThe first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism–some never before published.
New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with a poet’s economy of style and trencherman’s appetites and ribald humor.
In The Search for the Genuine, a collection of new and previously published essays, the giant of letters muses on everything from grouse hunting and fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, including reported pieces on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open ocean, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life–and, for those attempting to cross in the ever-more-dangerous gaps, death–on the US/Mexico border.
Written with Harrison’s trademark humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, this chronicle of a modern bon vivant is a feast for fans who may think they know Harrison’s nonfiction, from a true “American original”.
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
- By: Paul Elie
- Narrator: Lloyd James
- Length: 22 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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4.29(1190 ratings)
4.29(1190 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.95 USDIn the middle of the twentieth century, four American Catholics, working independently of one another, came to believe that the best way to explore the quandaries of religious faith was in writing. The four writers were Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day,In the middle of the twentieth century, four American Catholics, working independently of one another, came to believe that the best way to explore the quandaries of religious faith was in writing. The four writers were Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Flannery O’Connor, and Walker Percy. Called the School of the Holy Ghost, for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read each others’ books, and grappled with what one of them called a “predicament shared in common.”
Paul Elie tells these four writers’ story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past to the chaos of postwar American life. It is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, and the power of literature to change–and to save–our lives.
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Here Is New York
- By: E. B. White
- Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 1 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.29(7560 ratings)
4.29(7560 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.95 USDPerceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the tenPerceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and the New Yorker called it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”
Included with this essay are two short poems by E. B. White: “Commuter” and “Critic,” both published in the New Yorker in 1925.
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Walking in My Joy
- By: Jenifer Lewis
- Narrator: Jenifer Lewis
- Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 30, 2022
- Language: English
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4.28(640 ratings)
4.28(640 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDA new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood. Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today,A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood.
Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful messages touch your soul.
A self-described “traveling fool and nature freak,” Jenifer takes readers with her all over the world, from Cape Town to Bali; Washington, DC, to the Serengeti; Mongolia to St. Petersburg; and Argentina to Antarctica to demonstrate how she walks in her joy by seeking pleasure in everyday encounters. Every step of the way you’ll be doubled over with laughter as she faints at the Obamas’ holiday party; awakens to a swollen face and has to go to the hospital during the height of the Covid pandemic; an alien visitation; a successful takedown of a conman; as well as meeting a handsome Maasai warrior and being chased by a Cape buffalo.
An actress, activist, and mental health advocate, Jenifer Lewis imparts ways to love yourself that will allow you to deflect negative energy and keep people who may come to take your joy in check. She stresses the importance of fully living to your greatest ambitions and taking the time to admire the world’s natural gifts. She also encourages embracing each other’s uniqueness as a way of finding societal healing. Walking in My Joy is a riveting and enthralling journey.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Taking the Lane
- By: Elly Blue
- Narrator: various narrators
- Length: 1 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.28(32 ratings)
4.28(32 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.95 USDThis audiozine features authors and others reading some of the most popular essays and stories in the first ten issues of the Taking the Lane zine series. Essays and vignettes range from personal to political, and a number of science fiction storiesThis audiozine features authors and others reading some of the most popular essays and stories in the first ten issues of the Taking the Lane zine series. Essays and vignettes range from personal to political, and a number of science fiction stories are included. One woman reads about riding her bike to the birth center while having contractions. A man reads about being led on an enchanting bicycle chase. On the fiction end, there are postapocalyptic cautionary tales and a charming time travel story set in Portland.
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All American Christmas
- By: Rachel Campos-Duffy
- Narrator: Rachel Campos-Duffy
- Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 16, 2021
- Language: English
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4.28(387 ratings)
4.28(387 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDA #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Pull up a chair, pour some eggnog, and enjoy the Christmas spirit with friends… From the wind-swept, snowy ranges of Wyoming to Florida beaches glowing with Christmas lights, All American Christmas tracesA #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Pull up a chair, pour some eggnog, and enjoy the Christmas spirit with friends…
From the wind-swept, snowy ranges of Wyoming to Florida beaches glowing with Christmas lights, All American Christmas traces holiday traditions across the United States. In this beautiful personal keepsake, Rachel Campos-Duffy and Sean Duffy present a dazzling collection of emotional stories, treasured family photographs, and homegrown Christmas recipes from some of Fox News’ most beloved personalities.
Dana Perino takes readers out west to the cattle ranch where she celebrated Christmas with real life “Marlboro Men”–her uncles and grandfather. Maria Bartiromo reflects on growing up in Brooklyn and the famously brilliant light displays in her neighborhood.
Brit Hume looks back at the day he and a friend rushed onto the Washington Senators’ field–and how his parents later warned him that he was now on Santa Claus’ naughty list. For Lauren Green, her understanding of Christmas has evolved with her growing faith.
Beautifully designed to reflect the color and spirit and sparkle of the season and featuring 16 pages of color photographs, All American Christmas is a gift of love from the Fox News family and is sure to be cherished for seasons to come.
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