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37 Bestselling Fiction Books

Period: Full Year - 2024

AALBC Bestseller Seal
Celebrating Black stories and authors since 1998, the AALBC Bestsellers List is now published quarterly. Here’s a printable list and collage of this period’s titles. Also check out the BLK Bestsellers—the definitive monthly guide to America’s bestselling books by Black writers.
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When I Wrap My Hair

When I Wrap My Hair

by Shauntay Grant
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Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024): All That We Carry

Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024)

by Mudiwa Pettus
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2
The Savion Sequence

The Savion Sequence

by D. Amari Jackson
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3
Jelani’s Key

Jelani’s Key

by D. Amari Jackson
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3
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

by James McBride
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4
James: A Novel

James

by Percival Everett
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4
I Would Love You Still

I Would Love You Still

by Adrea Theodore
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5
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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6
Company: Stories

Company

by Shannon Sanders
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6
Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung

Shining Legacy

by Nkechi Taifa
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7
The Mayor of Maxwell Street

The Mayor of Maxwell Street

by Avery Cunningham
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7
Big

Big

by Vashti Harrison
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8
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

by Tia Williams
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8
Black Girl You Are Atlas

Black Girl You Are Atlas

by Renée Watson
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9
All the Sinners Bleed

All the Sinners Bleed

by S. A. Cosby
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9
Brown Girl, Brown Girl

Brown Girl, Brown Girl

by Leslé Honoré
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10
Lone Women

Lone Women

by Victor Lavalle
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10
My Hair Can

My Hair Can

by Matt Forté
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11
The Road to the Salt Sea

The Road to the Salt Sea

by Samuel Kolawole
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11
The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community

The Boldest White

by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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12
Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography

Coleman Hill (hardcover)

by Kim Coleman Foote
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12
Treasure Island: Runaway Gold

Treasure Island

by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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13
Erasure

Erasure

by Percival Everett
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13
Stacey Speaks Up

Stacey Speaks Up

by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
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14
Sulwe

Sulwe

by Lupita Nyong’o
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14
Farewell, Amethystine

Farewell, Amethystine

by Walter Mosley
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15
The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship

The Kindest Red

by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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15
Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope

by Brenda L. Thomas
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16
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle

Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021)

by Clarence V. Reynolds
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16
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family

The Proudest Blue

by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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17
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee

Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023)

by Clarence V. Reynolds
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17
Soul Step

Soul Step

by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams
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18
Ruby René Had So Much to Say

Ruby René Had So Much to Say

by Ashley Iman
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18
Black American Short Stories (American Century Series)

Black American Short Stories (American Century Series)

by John Henrik Clarke
19
A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom

A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom

by Leonce Gaiter
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19
Whose Toes are Those?

Whose Toes are Those?

by Jabari Asim
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20
A Mercy

A Mercy

by Toni Morrison
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