A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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

J. A. Rogers

Carl Weber

Crystal Swain-Bates

Renée Watson

Eric Jerome Dickey

Kadir Nelson

Adijah & Atiya Brabham

Guy Johnson

Richard Wright

Kwei Quartey

Rita Williams-Garcia

Kevin Y. Brown

Michael Eric Dyson

Jesmyn Ward

Vickie M. Stringer

Saul Williams

Pearl Cleage

Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery

Toni Morrison

JaQuavis Coleman

Alice Walker

Nkechi Taifa

Michelle Alexander

Diane McKinney-Whetstone

M. D. Williams

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

April Sinclair

Ernest J. Gaines

Cornel West

Margot Lee Shetterly

Tavis Smiley

Colson Whitehead

Kevin Powell

Derrick Barnes

Cerece Rennie Murphy

James McBride

Atinuke

Na’im Akbar

James Baldwin

Shannon Holmes

Frances Cress Welsing

Cedella Marley

Isabel Wilkerson

Terrie Williams

James Earl Hardy

Carter G. Woodson

asha bandele

Kwame Alexander

Ivan Van Sertima

John A. Williams

K’wan

Floyd Cooper

Ibram X. Kendi

bell hooks

Iceberg Slim

Ntozake Shange

Marita Golden

D. Amari Jackson

Clarence V. Reynolds

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Lerone Bennett

Carleen Brice

Robin Walker

Bill Pinkney

Malaika Adero

Teri Woods

Yvonne S. Thornton

Geri Spencer Hunter

Virginia Hamilton

John Henrik Clarke

Chancellor Williams

Maya Angelou

Olive Senior

Lebron James

Naleighna Kai

Amos N. Wilson

Brenda Jackson

Carole Boston Weatherford

Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

David Covin

Victoria Christopher Murray

Karrine Steffans

Innosanto Nagara

Percival Everett

Octavia E. Butler

Leonce Gaiter

Anthony Browder

Sadeqa Johnson

Michael Baisden

Gayl Jones

Sister Souljah

d. E. Rogers

Mechal Renee Roe

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Tonya Bolden

Claud Anderson

Yaa Gyasi

Zane

Kekla Magoon

W.E.B. Du Bois

Misty Copeland

Hill Harper

E. Lynn Harris

Brit Bennett

Jerry Craft

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