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 2021

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
★ 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: Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Book Cover Image: Walking in My Joy: Stories from on My Way to Happy by Jenifer Lewis

Book Cover Image: Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today’s Disruptors by Ellis Cose

Book Cover Image: Carl Weber’s Kingpins: Brooklyn by Brandie Davis

Book Cover Image: Game: An Autobiography by Grant Hill

Book Cover: She Memes Well: Essays by Quinta Brunson

Book Cover: The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice by Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Book Cover: Half-Blown Rose: A Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith

Book Cover: Booked Graphic Novel by Kwame Alexander, Illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile

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 – 2022)
★ 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: BlackWash: The Untold Stories of Reverse Racism by Rodney Cloud Hill

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

Book Cover: The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews

Book Cover: His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

Book Cover: The Black Agenda by Glen Ford

Book Cover: Sorry You’re Having A Bad Night by E.K. Robertsond

Book Cover: The Pursuit of Porsha: How My Journey to Happiness Can Help You Find Yours by Porsha Williams

Book Cover: Blend In or Fade Out by Colnese M. Hendon

Book Cover: Duende: Poems, 1966—Now by Quincy Troupe

Book Cover: Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories by John Edgar Wideman

Recently Reviewed Books for Kids and Young Adults

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

Book Cover Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Book Cover Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison

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.

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