Bestselling, Award Winning, New, and Classic Black Literature
We maintain a curated database of over 10,000 hand picked books covering over a century of Black literature. You’ll find book reviews, bestsellers lists, book awards, excerpts, publisher information, a variety of purchase options, and more.
Bestselling Books 2017 and 2018:
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Jan/Feb (2018)
Important Lists of Books
★ The All-Time Top 10 Black Panther Books
★ Books Published in the Last 60 Days
★ Books Coming Out in the Next 6 Months and Beyond
★ Bestselling Books for the Full Year
★ Top 120+ Recommended African-American Children’s Books
★ Visit our Book Reviews Section
★ The Most Critically Acclaimed Books of the Past 40 Years
★ 100 Bestselling Books of All Time
★ 100 Essential Black Books
★ Top 100 Selling Publisher Imprints
★ 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 – 2018)
★ 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
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, Black Caucus American Library Association Literary Awards BCALA, Phillis Wheatley Book Award, NAACP Image Award, Children’s Africana Book Awards, and many more.
Winners of these awards are factored into our formula for determining The Most Critically Acclaimed Books of the Past 40 Years.
AALBC.com’s Bestselling Books for All of 2016 (2017 coming soon)
