A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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

Jericho Brown

Cornel West

Donald Goines

Sapphire

Michael Harriot

James McBride

Kiki Swinson

K’wan

Bill Pinkney

Mudiwa Pettus

Vickie M. Stringer

Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Michael Baisden

Daniel Black

Toni Morrison

Yvonne S. Thornton

Frances Cress Welsing

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Wahida Clark

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Donna Drew Sawyer

Ntozake Shange

Keisha Ervin

Kwei Quartey

Langston Hughes

Jacqueline Woodson

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Ibtihaj Muhammad

Colson Whitehead

Innosanto Nagara

Adijah & Atiya Brabham

Kelly Starling Lyons

Crystal Swain-Bates

Cheryl Willis Hudson

Nkechi Taifa

Kadir Nelson

Carmen Bryan

Mary Monroe

Kekla Magoon

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Carl Weber

Yaa Gyasi

Matthew A. Cherry

John Henrik Clarke

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Malaika Adero

Geri Spencer Hunter

Terrie Williams

Mechal Renee Roe

bell hooks

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

ReShonda Tate Billingsley

J. California Cooper

Angela Johnson

asha bandele

Karrine Steffans

T. D. Jakes

Cerece Rennie Murphy

Ijeoma Oluo

Mildred D. Taylor

Lerone Bennett

Martin Luther King, Jr.

John A. Williams

d. E. Rogers

O.T. Begho

Victoria Christopher Murray

Sadeqa Johnson

Margot Lee Shetterly

Ibi Zoboi

Jawanza Kunjufu

James Earl Hardy

Olive Senior

J. A. Rogers

Terry McMillan

Beverly Jenkins

Barack Obama

Guy Johnson

Trice Hickman

Amos N. Wilson

Nikki Woods

Anthony Browder

Na’im Akbar

Faith Ringgold

Zora Neale Hurston

Isabel Wilkerson

Hill Harper

Tiffany L. Warren

Shannon Holmes

Joy Deja King

Robin Walker

T. N. Baker

Tananarive Due

Derrick Bell

Bebe Moore Campbell

Misty Copeland

Carleen Brice

Jerdine Nolen

jessica Care moore

Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

Aaron McGruder

Tom Burrell

James Baldwin

Nikki Grimes

Saul Williams

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