Collage of 2019’s Most Critically Acclaimed Books (back to list)

Click for more detail about The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Click for more detail about New Kid by Jerry Craft
Click for more detail about Heads of the Colored People (paperback): Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Click for more detail about The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Click for more detail about Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
Click for more detail about Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Click for more detail about The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
Click for more detail about The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Click for more detail about The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Click for more detail about Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Click for more detail about Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Click for more detail about Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
Click for more detail about Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Click for more detail about Corregidora by Gayl Jones
Click for more detail about New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
Click for more detail about Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills
Click for more detail about Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Click for more detail about Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Click for more detail about Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
Click for more detail about Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry
Click for more detail about 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
Click for more detail about The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis
Click for more detail about Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Click for more detail about The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Click for more detail about They All Fall Down: A Thriller by Rachel Howzell Hall
Click for more detail about Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Click for more detail about The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Click for more detail about A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks by Alice Faye Duncan
Click for more detail about Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Click for more detail about Small Silent Things by Robin Page
Click for more detail about The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
Click for more detail about She Would Be King: A Novel by Wayétu Moore
Click for more detail about Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Click for more detail about Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
Click for more detail about America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
Click for more detail about Solitary by Albert Woodfox
Click for more detail about Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan
Click for more detail about Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People by Ben Crump
Click for more detail about The Family Business by Carl Weber and Eric Pete
Click for more detail about Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds
Click for more detail about Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival
Click for more detail about Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
Click for more detail about Black, White, Just Right! by Marguerite W. Davol
Click for more detail about Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Click for more detail about Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Click for more detail about For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics by Donna L. Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, Minyon Moore, and Veronica Chambers
Click for more detail about The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses
Click for more detail about What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young