The 49 Bestselling Adult Fiction Books on AALBC for 2021

This page highlights 49 books, published in 2021, that made our Bestsellers List.
(Note: Bestseller status carries over to new editions, so the publication year may differ from the original release.)

7 Time Bestseller

Dopefiend

by Donald Goines
6 Time Bestseller

Open Door Marriage

by Naleighna Kai
5 Time Bestseller

The Man Who Lived Underground

by Richard Wright
5 Time Bestseller

The Prophets

by Robert Jones, Jr.
4 Time Bestseller

Whoreson

by Donald Goines
4 Time Bestseller

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
4 Time Bestseller

Alice in Dreamland

by Roland S. Jefferson
4 Time Bestseller

Life After Death

by Sister Souljah
3 Time Bestseller

Limitation of Life

by d. E. Rogers
3 Time Bestseller

The Man Across Eight Mile

by D’Andre Walker
3 Time Bestseller

Palmares

by Gayl Jones
3 Time Bestseller

Magic City: A Novel

by Jewell Parker Rhodes
3 Time Bestseller

Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories

by John Edgar Wideman
3 Time Bestseller

In Every Mirror She’s Black

by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
3 Time Bestseller

While Justice Sleeps

by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
2 Time Bestseller

Harlem Hit & Run

by Angela Dews
2 Time Bestseller

Harlem Hit & Run (2nd Ed.)

by Angela Dews
2 Time Bestseller

Milk Blood Heat

by Dantiel W. Moniz
2 Time Bestseller

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

by Dawnie Walton
2 Time Bestseller

The Minister Primarily

by John Oliver Killens
2 Time Bestseller

The Rib King

by Ladee Hubbard
2 Time Bestseller

Ramadan Ramsey

by Louis Edwards
2 Time Bestseller

The Personal Librarian

by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
2 Time Bestseller

The Between

by Tananarive Due
2 Time Bestseller

A Glimmer of Death

by Valerie Wilson Wesley
2 Time Bestseller

Blood Grove

by Walter Mosley
1 Time Bestseller

The Girl with the Louding Voice

by Abi Daré
1 Time Bestseller

Black Bottom Saints (Paperback)

by Alice Randall
1 Time Bestseller

Wild Women and the Blues

by Denny S. Bryce
1 Time Bestseller

White Man’s Justice

by Donald Goines
1 Time Bestseller

The Son of Mr. Suleman

by Eric Jerome Dickey
1 Time Bestseller

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

by Jayne Allen
1 Time Bestseller

Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips

by Jim Lawrence
1 Time Bestseller

My Monticello: Fiction

by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
1 Time Bestseller

Gone Missing in Harlem

by Karla FC Holloway
1 Time Bestseller

The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories

by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
1 Time Bestseller

Lakewood

by Megan Giddings
1 Time Bestseller

Creatures of Passage

by Morowa Yejide
1 Time Bestseller

The Sweetness of Water

by Nathan Harris
1 Time Bestseller

Passing (Movie Tie-In)

by Nella Larsen
1 Time Bestseller

Noor

by Nnedi Okorafor
1 Time Bestseller

Rosie’s Curl and Weave

by Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Felicia Mason, and Francis Ray
1 Time Bestseller

Blacktop Wasteland (paperback)

by S. A. Cosby
1 Time Bestseller

Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale

by Tim Fielder
1 Time Bestseller

Monster in the Middle

by Tiphanie Yanique
1 Time Bestseller

The Other Black Girl

by Zakiya Dalila Harris

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