A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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

Langston Hughes

Lupita Nyong’o

James McBride

Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery

Kwei Quartey

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith Ringgold

D. Amari Jackson

T. N. Baker

K’wan

Tony Dungy

Joy Deja King

Iyanla Vanzant

Saul Williams

Carter G. Woodson

Guy Johnson

Michael Baisden

Chancellor Williams

Aaron McGruder

Bill Pinkney

Victoria Christopher Murray

Colson Whitehead

Olive Senior

Jerdine Nolen

Frances Cress Welsing

Cedella Marley

Alicia D. Williams

Lebron James

J.J. Smith

Ijeoma Oluo

Mildred D. Taylor

Tom Burrell

Sapphire

Ntozake Shange

John Henrik Clarke

Yvonne S. Thornton

E. Lynn Harris

Rita Williams-Garcia

Timothy George

Karrine Steffans

Angela Johnson

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Robin Walker

Bebe Moore Campbell

Cerece Rennie Murphy

Mary Monroe

Ibram X. Kendi

Kevin Y. Brown

Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Tia Williams

Taye Diggs

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Tananarive Due

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Kelly Starling Lyons

Ibtihaj Muhammad

Toni Morrison

Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

Terrie Williams

Daniel Black

Malaika Adero

Tonya Bolden

Teri Woods

Ivan Van Sertima

Isabel Wilkerson

Jawanza Kunjufu

Beverly Jenkins

O.T. Begho

Donald Goines

Nkechi Taifa

Ernest J. Gaines

Tiffany L. Warren

Margot Lee Shetterly

Zora Neale Hurston

Marita Golden

Anthony Browder

Amos N. Wilson

Clarence V. Reynolds

Geri Spencer Hunter

John Edgar Wideman

Claud Anderson

Nikki Giovanni

Renée Watson

Michelle Alexander

Kadir Nelson

ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Crystal Swain-Bates

Alice Walker

Jason Reynolds

Atinuke

Na’im Akbar

Kevin Powell

T. D. Jakes

Edwidge Danticat

asha bandele

Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

James Baldwin

Robert Fleming

Donna Drew Sawyer

Vickie M. Stringer

Kekla Magoon

Floyd Cooper

Barack Obama

Michael Harriot

Pearl Cleage

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