Makes Me Wanna Holler, Nathan McCall
Makes Me Wanna Holler, Nathan McCall
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Makes Me Wanna Holler
A Young Black Man in America

Author: Nathan McCall

Narrator: Leon Nixon

Unabridged: 17 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/02/2026

Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLEROne of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery.In these pages, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard—and, later, to the newsrooms of The Washington Post and ultimately to the faculty of Emory University. His story is at once devastating and inspiring, at once an indictment and an elegy. Makes Me Wanna Holler became an instant classic when it was first published in 1994 and it continues to bear witness to the great troubles—and the great hopes—of our nation. Includes the 2016 afterword by the author."Not since Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land has there been such an honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America....A compelling depiction of the toll that racism and misguided notions of manhood have taken in the life of one black man–and, by implication, many others."–The San Francisco ChronicleThis audiobook is masterfully read by Leon Nixon, and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. Audio engineering by Allie McSwain.

About Nathan McCall

Nathan McCall, author of Them and Makes Me Wanna Holler, has worked as a journalist for the Washington Post. Currently he teaches African-American studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on July 25, 2010

Before talking with my roommate, I hated the book and for some reason was offended by the way he wrote this. It seemed like I was at fault for everything because I am white. Then I spoke to my roommate and now I realize how ignorant he is and how he brought all of his troubles on himself... not beca......more

Goodreads review by Judith on April 10, 2013

I have such conflicted feelings about this book. Nathan McCall is honest, perhaps to a fault, about his past as well as his reflections on his adult life. We are in the same age cohort; McCall graduated high school in the year before I did, and had we not lived at opposite sides of the US, we could......more

Goodreads review by Sharell on April 06, 2012

This book was originally a gift to my mother from a friend of hers back in 1996. My mother didn't like it, but being the precocious ten year old I was, I managed to sneak and read this book from cover to cover. I have to say, graphic depictions of rape and physical abuse aside, this is one of my favo......more

Goodreads review by Spider the Doof Warrior on June 28, 2013

Haven't read this in a while, but it made me want to holler alright. It is not to say that the society we live in is unracist and colourblind but for the love of the goddess's ample breasts, a white man did NOT put a gun in your hand nor did he tell you to rape women. Take some responsibility!......more

Goodreads review by Kierra J, on March 26, 2012

This book will always be on my personal Top Books I've Ever Read list. I have given this book as a gift to many young men and have read it at least four times myself. I think that it's highly relative to the young black male in America who doesn't exactly understand his place in society. Actually, i......more

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