15 Bestselling Fiction Books

Period: July/August - 2024

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.

The Killens Review of Arts & Letters, edited by Mudiwa Pettus, makes out fiction list for the 3rd consecutive period. Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—And Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya Smith, debuts at #1 on our nonfiction list. Our own, Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson, tops our children’s list for the 6th time.

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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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Company: Stories

Company

by Shannon Sanders
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Lone Women

Lone Women

by Victor Lavalle
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A Different Drummer

A Different Drummer

by William Melvin Kelley
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Butterfly Bitch!

Butterfly Bitch!

by Wahida Clark and Michael A. Robinson
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Not What She Seems

Not What She Seems

by Yasmin Angoe
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Digital Assassins: Surviving Cyberterrorism and a Digital Assassination Attempt

Digital Assassins

by Danielle Spencer
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Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography

Coleman Hill (hardcover)

by Kim Coleman Foote
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