Books: Bestselling, Award Winning, New, and Classic Titles

We sell a curated selection of almost 20,000 titles covering a century of Black writing from around the world. In addition to buying your books here, you’ll find reviews, bestsellers lists, awards, excerpts, publisher information, and more. Readers: discover books grouped by over 1,500 different categories. Authors and Publishers: here are a variety of ways to get your books on AALBC.

Bestselling Books by Two-Month Reporting Period:

★ Bestselling Books for All of 2022

Bestselling Books by Year of Publication – Since 1960.

★ Books Coming Out in the Next 6 Months and Beyond
★ Books Published in the Last 60 Days
★ This is What Banned Books Look Like
★ 100 New Audio Books You’ll Love ♥
★ Top 100 Recommended African-American Children’s Books
★ The Most Critically Acclaimed Books of the Past 40 Years
★ The Best African American Children’s Picture Books for 2020
★ Read Full Chapter Excerpts of Books
★ More Lists of Books

Editors Selections:

Book Cover Image: You Never Know: A Novel of Domestic Suspense by Connie Briscoe

Book Cover Image: Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown

Book Cover Image: What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change Edited by Sharyn Skeeter

Book Cover Image: Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brissett

Book Cover Image: Lone Women by Victor Lavalle

Book Cover Image: Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game by Colin Kaepernick and Eve L. Ewing, Illustrated by Orlando Caicedo

Book Cover: Africana: A Cookbook of Recipes and Flavors Inspired by a Rich Continent by Lerato Umah-Shaylor

Book Cover: Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove

Book Cover: The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi, Illustrated by Kah Yangni

More Lists of Important Books

★ Bestselling Books by Year of Publication
★ Our 150 All-Time Favorite African-American Children’s Books
★ 100 Essential Black Books
★ Top 100 Selling Publisher Imprints
★ Visit our Book Reviews Section
★ 100 Bestselling Books of All-Time
★ The Top 10 Books in 100 Different Categories
★ 100 Bestselling Books of All Time
★ Black-Owned Publishing Companies
★ Favorite 100 Titles of the 20th Century
★ The QBR 100 Essential Black Books
★ Favorite 100 Titles of the 21sth Century (list being compiled now, cast your vote)
★ Go On Girl! Book Club’s Complete Reading List (1991 – 2023)
★ The Coffee Will Make You Black Book Club’s Reading List (1998–2006, and 2010)
★ The Power List BestSelling Books (Spring 2013 to Spring 2015)
★ Get Your Book on AALBC.com

Recently Reviewed Books

Book Cover: I Always Knew: A Memoir by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Book Cover: I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam

Book Cover: I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir by Debra Lee

Book Cover: Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson

Book Cover: Spirituality, Racism, and the Phantom: Tranquil Skies; The Mystique of Flight by James T. Hollin, Jr.

Book Cover: Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel by Gena Cox

Book Cover: The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones

Book Cover: The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe

Book Cover: Path of the Half Moon by Vince Bailey

Book Cover: Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch by Stanley Crouch

Book Cover: The Lurking Place by Clarence Major

Book Cover: Merritt Magic by Melinda Merritt

Book Cover: Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival by David H. Rothman

Book Cover: Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

Book Cover: Seven Sisters And A Brother (paperback): Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s by Marilyn Allman Maye and others

Book Cover: Behind the Dark Veil by Carolyn Holland

Book Cover: Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson

Book Cover: Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa

Book Cover: Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle

Recently Reviewed Books for Kids and Young Adults

Book Cover An Affirmation Nite Baby Nite by Irene Smalls

Book Cover Love in the Age of Dragons by Fatima R. Henson

Book Cover Sweet Sorrel Stand by Yolanda T. Marshall

Book Cover: Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham

Book Cover Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams

Lists of Award Winning Books

We track all of the Black winners of the National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prize, Carter G. Woodson Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and many more. Winners of these awards are factored into our formula for determining The Most Critically Acclaimed Books of the Past 40 Years.

Online Book Club

#readingblack encouraging everyone to read quality books written by Black people

The Coffee Will Make You Black is AALBC’s online book club. Check out our reading list and participate in discussions that take place over the course of a month. There is no commitment or pressure; just enjoy.