A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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

Terry McMillan

Anthony Browder

Ernest J. Gaines

Gayl Jones

Robert Fleming

K’wan

Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery

Pearl Cleage

Ibram X. Kendi

Na’im Akbar

John Steptoe

Eric Jerome Dickey

Malaika Adero

Garcelle Beauvais

Ann Petry

Jesmyn Ward

Robin Walker

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Atinuke

Daniel Black

Tia Williams

Maya Angelou

Nikki Woods

Virginia Hamilton

Jason Reynolds

Floyd Cooper

Naleighna Kai

Carl Weber

James Baldwin

Claud Anderson

Derrick Bell

Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

M. D. Williams

T. N. Baker

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Kiki Swinson

Cornel West

Margot Lee Shetterly

Alicia D. Williams

Nikki Grimes

John Edgar Wideman

Carter G. Woodson

Sadeqa Johnson

Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Adijah & Atiya Brabham

April Sinclair

Matthew A. Cherry

Guy Johnson

Zane

Vashti Harrison

Amanda Gorman

Martha Kennerson

Crystal Swain-Bates

Innosanto Nagara

Jericho Brown

Misty Copeland

Michael Baisden

Geri Spencer Hunter

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Kwei Quartey

Richard Wright

Michael Eric Dyson

Kevin Powell

Jerdine Nolen

Mechal Renee Roe

Lupita Nyong’o

Mildred D. Taylor

Wahida Clark

Tavis Smiley

T. D. Jakes

Tom Burrell

Brit Bennett

Kimberla Lawson Roby

John Henrik Clarke

John A. Williams

Kadir Nelson

bell hooks

Kelly Starling Lyons

Keisha Ervin

Chancellor Williams

asha bandele

Saul Williams

E. Lynn Harris

Vickie M. Stringer

Faith Ringgold

Cerece Rennie Murphy

Ntozake Shange

J. California Cooper

Barack Obama

Walter Mosley

Aaron McGruder

Mary Monroe

Yosef Ben-Jochannan

d. E. Rogers

Edwidge Danticat

Amos N. Wilson

jessica Care moore

J. A. Rogers

Nkechi Taifa

Lebron James

Michelle Alexander

Herb Boyd

James McBride

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