The 34 Bestselling Adult Fiction Books on AALBC for 2020

This page highlights 34 books, published in 2020, that made our Bestsellers List.
(Note: Bestseller status carries over to new editions, so the publication year may differ from the original release.)

6 Time Bestseller

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett
6 Time Bestseller

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

by Deesha Philyaw
5 Time Bestseller

Deacon King Kong

by James McBride
4 Time Bestseller

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
3 Time Bestseller

Black Gangster

by Donald Goines
3 Time Bestseller

Speaking of Summer: A Novel

by Kalisha Buckhanon
3 Time Bestseller

His Only Wife

by Peace Adzo Medie
3 Time Bestseller

It’s Not All Downhill from Here

by Terry McMillan
2 Time Bestseller

Glorious

by Bernice L. McFadden
2 Time Bestseller

They Tell Me Of A Home: A Novel

by Daniel Black
2 Time Bestseller

Blacktop Wasteland

by S. A. Cosby
2 Time Bestseller

B-More Careful

by Shannon Holmes
2 Time Bestseller

The Awkward Black Man

by Walter Mosley
1 Time Bestseller

Real Life

by Brandon Taylor
1 Time Bestseller

Romance in Marseille

by Claude McKay
1 Time Bestseller

Confessions in B-Flat

by Donna Hill
1 Time Bestseller

The Other Sister

by Donna Hill
1 Time Bestseller

What A Woman’s Gotta Do

by Evelyn Coleman
1 Time Bestseller

There Is Confusion

by Jessie Redmon Fauset
1 Time Bestseller

Real Men Knit

by K.M. Jackson
1 Time Bestseller

Hood Rat: A Novel

by K’wan
1 Time Bestseller

Here and Now

by Kimberla Lawson Roby
1 Time Bestseller

The Missing American

by Kwei Quartey
1 Time Bestseller

Bourbon Street

by Leonce Gaiter
1 Time Bestseller

The Old Drift: A Novel

by Namwali Serpell
1 Time Bestseller

Wild Seed (Patternist #1)

by Octavia E. Butler
1 Time Bestseller

The Stolen Daughter

by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
1 Time Bestseller

Transcendent Kingdom

by Yaa Gyasi

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