A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

Check out the Detailed List of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors Sorted by Rank.

Nikki Woods

Kevin Powell

Donald Goines

Isabel Wilkerson

Wade Hudson

Richard Wright

Rita Williams-Garcia

Sadeqa Johnson

Margot Lee Shetterly

Nikki Turner

Innosanto Nagara

Carl Weber

Gayl Jones

Na’im Akbar

Iceberg Slim

Lupita Nyong’o

Brit Bennett

Bebe Moore Campbell

Yaa Gyasi

ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Carmen Bryan

Guy Johnson

Derrick Bell

Marita Golden

Anthony Browder

Maya Angelou

Ernest J. Gaines

Jacqueline Woodson

Edwidge Danticat

Jerry Craft

Alicia D. Williams

Ibram X. Kendi

Mildred D. Taylor

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Wahida Clark

Kadir Nelson

Tom Burrell

Donna Drew Sawyer

Zora Neale Hurston

Karrine Steffans

Derrick Barnes

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Malaika Adero

Tia Williams

Barack Obama

T. N. Baker

Trice Hickman

Teri Woods

Faith Ringgold

Octavia E. Butler

Naleighna Kai

Tonya Bolden

Alice Walker

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Beverly Jenkins

Jerdine Nolen

Colson Whitehead

Herb Boyd

Floyd Cooper

Atinuke

Tananarive Due

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Pearl Cleage

Diane McKinney-Whetstone

D. Amari Jackson

Robin Walker

Renée Watson

Zane

Saul Williams

Tavis Smiley

asha bandele

W.E.B. Du Bois

Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

Aaron McGruder

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

Kelly Starling Lyons

Geri Spencer Hunter

Daniel Black

Vickie M. Stringer

Nikki Giovanni

Tony Dungy

Virginia Hamilton

John Steptoe

Terrie Williams

James Baldwin

John Henrik Clarke

Martha Kennerson

J. California Cooper

Joy Deja King

Carter G. Woodson

Crystal Swain-Bates

Cheryl Willis Hudson

George G. M. James

Mechal Renee Roe

Victoria Christopher Murray

Chancellor Williams

Yvonne S. Thornton

Kwame Alexander

Michelle Alexander

Michael Baisden

Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

David Covin

Langston Hughes

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