A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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

Carmen Bryan

Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery

Ibi Zoboi

David Covin

Tony Dungy

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Jawanza Kunjufu

Geri Spencer Hunter

John Henrik Clarke

Daniel Black

Isabel Wilkerson

Walter Mosley

Tia Williams

Nikki Giovanni

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Karrine Steffans

bell hooks

Leonce Gaiter

Terry McMillan

Cedella Marley

Nkechi Taifa

Tom Burrell

Barack Obama

Zane

Terrie Williams

Adijah & Atiya Brabham

Ijeoma Oluo

Mudiwa Pettus

Yaa Gyasi

T. N. Baker

Cerece Rennie Murphy

Nikki Grimes

Ivan Van Sertima

Ann Petry

Crystal Swain-Bates

Tananarive Due

Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

Aaron McGruder

Tonya Bolden

Taye Diggs

Vickie M. Stringer

Kwame Alexander

Haki Madhubuti

Bernice L. McFadden

Carole Boston Weatherford

Jason Reynolds

Mechal Renee Roe

Floyd Cooper

Kevin Powell

Shannon Holmes

Na’im Akbar

Lerone Bennett

Matthew A. Cherry

Brit Bennett

Zora Neale Hurston

Kekla Magoon

James McBride

George G. M. James

Kelly Starling Lyons

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Olive Senior

Pearl Cleage

Amos N. Wilson

Ibtihaj Muhammad

D. Amari Jackson

April Sinclair

Jabari Asim

Ntozake Shange

Maya Angelou

d. E. Rogers

Kwei Quartey

Misty Copeland

Joy Deja King

Rita Williams-Garcia

W.E.B. Du Bois

Iyanla Vanzant

Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

Michael Harriot

Carl Weber

Nikki Woods

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Wahida Clark

T. D. Jakes

Donna Drew Sawyer

Jesmyn Ward

Edwidge Danticat

Sister Souljah

Ernest J. Gaines

Atinuke

Colson Whitehead

Octavia E. Butler

Bebe Moore Campbell

Kevin Y. Brown

Anthony Browder

M. D. Williams

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Wade Hudson

Faith Ringgold

Innosanto Nagara

Michael Eric Dyson

Ai Ogawa

Percival Everett

Richard Wright

Donald Goines

Yvonne S. Thornton

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