100 Social Justice audio books available from your public library
I keep recommending that friends download and use their public library card to listen to audio book for free (!) on the Libby app. So I thought I’d share a list of the books I’ve been inspired by. Because it can be hard to figure out which books are actually available in audio format.
Because Libby works as a public library, you often will have to wait to access an audio book. So I tend to go in every few weeks and add a bunch of books to my “Holds.” So, that’s what I recommend you do with this list — pick a bunch that sound interesting and get on the wait list for them. Enjoy!
This is an assortment of books — fiction and nonfiction — that generally mirror my research work: anti-racism and visions of the future. I can’t guarantee that you’ll like them.
But they are free, so you can just give it a listen and send it back!
New American Stories by Aleksandar Hemon, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alexie Sherman
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case, Angus Deaton
It’s About Damn Time by Arlan Hamilton, Rachel L. Nelson
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson (eds.)
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
A More Perfect Reunion by Calvin Baker
Zora Neale Hurston by Carla Kaplan, Ph.D.
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
A People’s Future of the United States by Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Charles Yu
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Good Trouble by Christopher Noxon
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Race Matters by Cornel West
Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Navigate Your Stars by Jesmyn Ward
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
Godsend by John Wray
His Truth Is Marching On by Jon Meacham
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Mill Town by Kerri Arsenault
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
A Raisin in the Sun (Theaterical performance) by Lorraine Hansberry
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging Across Differences by Mary-Frances Winters
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
Long Time Coming by Michael Eric Dyson
Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson
Next: The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis
Becoming by Michelle Obama
How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
The Fire Is upon Us by Nicholas Buccola
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Path Made Clear by Oprah Winfrey
Where We Come From by Oscar Cásares
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele
My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
The Marathon Don’t Stop by Rob Kenner
The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Hunger by Roxane Gay
What Can a Body Do? by Sara Hendren
Heart Minded by Sarah Blondin
The View from Flyover Country by Sarah Kendzior
Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch
The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
You Are Your Best Thing by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown (eds.)
Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
There There by Tommy Orange
Beloved by Toni Morrison
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Home by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
The Unreal and the Real, Vol 1 by Ursula K. Le Guin
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
