A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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

Jerdine Nolen

Sadeqa Johnson

Nikki Giovanni

T. D. Jakes

Saul Williams

Amanda Gorman

Victoria Christopher Murray

Jawanza Kunjufu

jessica Care moore

Wade Hudson

Lupita Nyong’o

Lerone Bennett

Zane

Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Martha Kennerson

Innosanto Nagara

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Pearl Cleage

Yaa Gyasi

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

James McBride

Leonce Gaiter

Virginia Hamilton

Richard Wright

J. California Cooper

Jabari Asim

Clarence V. Reynolds

Frances Cress Welsing

Kiki Swinson

Shannon Holmes

Mary Monroe

Carleen Brice

Sister Souljah

Isabel Wilkerson

M. D. Williams

Karrine Steffans

Garcelle Beauvais

Matthew A. Cherry

Teri Woods

Jacqueline Woodson

W.E.B. Du Bois

Cedella Marley

Yvonne S. Thornton

Claud Anderson

Bill Pinkney

Jesmyn Ward

Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

Haki Madhubuti

Colson Whitehead

Ijeoma Oluo

Octavia E. Butler

Jericho Brown

Rita Williams-Garcia

Herb Boyd

Hill Harper

Vashti Harrison

Bernice L. McFadden

Joy Deja King

Malaika Adero

Anthony Browder

Alicia D. Williams

Carole Boston Weatherford

Faith Ringgold

Gayl Jones

Derrick Bell

d. E. Rogers

Nikki Grimes

Vickie M. Stringer

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Barack Obama

Crystal Swain-Bates

Wahida Clark

Mechal Renee Roe

John Steptoe

Ai Ogawa

Carl Weber

Amos N. Wilson

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Derrick Barnes

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Cheryl Willis Hudson

Donald Goines

Aaron McGruder

Tia Williams

Michelle Alexander

Naleighna Kai

Donna Drew Sawyer

Atinuke

Marita Golden

Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Tiffany Warren

Tom Burrell

T. N. Baker

Ntozake Shange

ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Lebron James

Toni Morrison

Olive Senior

Michael Baisden

Jerry Craft

Kwame Alexander

JaQuavis Coleman

Alice Walker

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