A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Leonce Gaiter

Bernice L. McFadden

Ann Petry

T. N. Baker

D. Amari Jackson

T. D. Jakes

Ibram X. Kendi

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Tom Burrell

JaQuavis Coleman

John Edgar Wideman

Mary Monroe

Olive Senior

Sister Souljah

Cerece Rennie Murphy

Tananarive Due

Yvonne S. Thornton

Sadeqa Johnson

Taye Diggs

James McBride

David Covin

Jericho Brown

Iceberg Slim

Ibtihaj Muhammad

Ijeoma Oluo

Ernest J. Gaines

Hill Harper

Robert Fleming

Teri Woods

Garcelle Beauvais

Faith Ringgold

Vashti Harrison

Mechal Renee Roe

Terrie Williams

Victoria Christopher Murray

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

asha bandele

Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

Rita Williams-Garcia

Wahida Clark

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Alice Walker

M. D. Williams

Nikki Grimes

K’wan

Nkechi Taifa

Wade Hudson

Lebron James

Walter Mosley

Carleen Brice

Guy Johnson

Michael Harriot

Joy Deja King

Kiki Swinson

Kevin Y. Brown

J. A. Rogers

Jawanza Kunjufu

John Steptoe

Naleighna Kai

James Baldwin

Colson Whitehead

Richard Wright

Donald Goines

Brenda Jackson

John A. Williams

Yosef Ben-Jochannan

George G. M. James

Tonya Bolden

Martha Kennerson

Michelle Alexander

W.E.B. Du Bois

Aaron McGruder

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Zane

Marita Golden

Haki Madhubuti

Eric Jerome Dickey

Karrine Steffans

Lupita Nyong’o

Amanda Gorman

Cedella Marley

Ivan Van Sertima

James Earl Hardy

Kwame Alexander

ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Kevin Powell

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ai Ogawa

Geri Spencer Hunter

Bill Pinkney

Tavis Smiley

Percival Everett

Angela Johnson

Brit Bennett

jessica Care moore

John Henrik Clarke

Saul Williams

Isabel Wilkerson

Herb Boyd

Daniel Black

Trice Hickman

Matthew A. Cherry

Floyd Cooper

Robin Walker

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