A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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

Joy Deja King

Tiffany L. Warren

Anthony Browder

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Taye Diggs

Brit Bennett

Aaron McGruder

Shannon Holmes

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Crystal Swain-Bates

Yvonne S. Thornton

Michael Eric Dyson

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

Tananarive Due

Tonya Bolden

Jawanza Kunjufu

Geri Spencer Hunter

Bebe Moore Campbell

Garcelle Beauvais

Carter G. Woodson

Ann Petry

Tavis Smiley

Ibi Zoboi

Floyd Cooper

Bernice L. McFadden

Michael Harriot

Mary Monroe

Michelle Alexander

Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

Isabel Wilkerson

Ernest J. Gaines

Barack Obama

Na’im Akbar

Carleen Brice

Trice Hickman

Angela Johnson

Wahida Clark

Iyanla Vanzant

Herb Boyd

Wade Hudson

James McBride

Faith Ringgold

Amos N. Wilson

Martha Kennerson

Michael Baisden

Mildred D. Taylor

Rita Williams-Garcia

Ta-Nehisi Coates

David Covin

Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

Terrie Williams

O.T. Begho

E. Lynn Harris

Olive Senior

Lebron James

T. D. Jakes

Jason Reynolds

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Atinuke

Malaika Adero

Edwidge Danticat

Richard Wright

Jerry Craft

Kwame Alexander

T. N. Baker

Sadeqa Johnson

Amanda Gorman

Marita Golden

Jericho Brown

Margot Lee Shetterly

Sister Souljah

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Innosanto Nagara

Lupita Nyong’o

Alicia D. Williams

Carl Weber

Timothy George

Hill Harper

Cornel West

John Steptoe

Walter Mosley

Clarence V. Reynolds

Langston Hughes

Cedella Marley

Lerone Bennett

Beverly Jenkins

Ai Ogawa

Kelly Starling Lyons

Nikki Giovanni

Carmen Bryan

Renée Watson

Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Gayl Jones

Zane

Ibram X. Kendi

Ntozake Shange

James Baldwin

Kevin Powell

Claud Anderson

Tony Dungy

Iceberg Slim

Terry McMillan

Yaa Gyasi

Kekla Magoon

Nikki Turner

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