Collage of 2024’s Most Critically Acclaimed Books (back to list)

Click for more detail about James: A Novel by Percival Everett
Click for more detail about Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid
Click for more detail about A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
Click for more detail about Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture by Shirley Neal
Click for more detail about Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest by Fawn Weaver
Click for more detail about Swift River by Essie Chambers
Click for more detail about Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver
Click for more detail about The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham
Click for more detail about Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg
Click for more detail about Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
Click for more detail about The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Click for more detail about The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Click for more detail about American Wings: Chicagos Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein
Click for more detail about Kneeling Man: My Fathers Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by Leta Mccollough Seletzky
Click for more detail about This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets by Kwame Alexander
Click for more detail about Theres Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
Click for more detail about Not What She Seems by Yasmin Angoe
Click for more detail about Black Star by Kwame Alexander
Click for more detail about Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uche Blackstock
Click for more detail about Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosley
Click for more detail about Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson
Click for more detail about Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
Click for more detail about Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking SystemAnd Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya Smith
Click for more detail about How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair