20 Bestselling Fiction Books

Period: Full Year - 2025

AALBC Bestseller Seal

Celebrating books written by or about Black people, the African American Literature Book Club’s Bestsellers List has been published continuously since 1998. In 2026, we began publishing our list quarterly, focusing on The BLK Bestsellers.

1
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation

Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
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3
Mirroring Lincoln: The Cursed Existence of Paschal Beverly Randolph

Mirroring Lincoln

by D. Amari Jackson
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5
Harlem Rhapsody

Harlem Rhapsody

by Victoria Christopher Murray
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7
Gray Dawn: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Gray Dawn

by Walter Mosley
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8
Something in the Water

Something in the Water

by Phyllis R. Dixon
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9
Dream Count

Dream Count

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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11
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

The Queen of Sugar Hill

by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
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12
Death of the Author

Death of the Author

by Nnedi Okorafor
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13
Rattlebone

Rattlebone

by Maxine Clair
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14
Fish Tales: A Novel

Fish Tales

by Nettie Jones
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16
There Is Confusion

There Is Confusion

by Jessie Redmon Fauset
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17
Happy Land

Happy Land

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
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19
The American Daughters

The American Daughters

by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
20
Ring Shout

Ring Shout

by P. Djèlí Clark
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