A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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

Teri Woods

Faith Ringgold

Terry McMillan

Na’im Akbar

J. A. Rogers

Naleighna Kai

Floyd Cooper

Herb Boyd

K’wan

Mudiwa Pettus

Alice Walker

Toni Morrison

Derrick Bell

Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

Michael Baisden

John Edgar Wideman

Rita Williams-Garcia

Jesmyn Ward

Kekla Magoon

Derrick Barnes

Michelle Alexander

Tonya Bolden

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Atinuke

Jericho Brown

Vashti Harrison

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Frances Cress Welsing

Michael Eric Dyson

Donald Goines

Cornel West

Isabel Wilkerson

Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

asha bandele

John Steptoe

Zane

Keisha Ervin

Malaika Adero

Geri Spencer Hunter

Misty Copeland

Aaron McGruder

Clarence V. Reynolds

Lupita Nyong’o

Margot Lee Shetterly

Tony Dungy

Bebe Moore Campbell

Wahida Clark

Chancellor Williams

Bernice L. McFadden

Brit Bennett

Langston Hughes

Amos N. Wilson

Wade Hudson

E. Lynn Harris

Jacqueline Woodson

Jabari Asim

Tananarive Due

Cerece Rennie Murphy

Edwidge Danticat

Saul Williams

Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Nikki Turner

Timothy George

Cedella Marley

bell hooks

Carleen Brice

W.E.B. Du Bois

Joy Deja King

Michael Harriot

Mildred D. Taylor

Gayl Jones

Tia Williams

Olive Senior

Kiki Swinson

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Carl Weber

Victoria Christopher Murray

Leonce Gaiter

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

J.J. Smith

John A. Williams

Ai Ogawa

Yaa Gyasi

T. N. Baker

T. D. Jakes

Vickie M. Stringer

Kwei Quartey

Innosanto Nagara

Tavis Smiley

George G. M. James

Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery

Amanda Gorman

JaQuavis Coleman

James Baldwin

Ivan Van Sertima

Ibtihaj Muhammad

April Sinclair

Garcelle Beauvais

Ijeoma Oluo

James Earl Hardy

Tiffany L. Warren

Carter G. Woodson

Anthony Browder

Brenda Jackson

Octavia E. Butler

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