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James Baldwin Audiobooks

Discover the work of an iconic American author

Giovanni's Room

Introduction by Kevin YoungRead by Matt Bomer & Kevin Young

Set in the Paris of the 1950s, a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality.

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Introduction by Roxane GayRead by Joe Morton & Roxane Gay

A fourteen-year-old boy discovers the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem.

The Amen Corner

Read by Myra Lucretia Taylor, Dion Graham, January LaVoy, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Janina Edwards, Aaron Goodson, Angel Pean, Shayna Small, Robin Miles, Dominic Hoffman, JD Jackson & Adenrele Ojo

A masterpiece of the modern American theater: Baldwin's first play about faith and family.

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

Read by Kevin Kenerly

A novel about an actor hovering between life and death and the choices he's made.

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