20 Bestselling Fiction Books

Period: Full Year - 2025

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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.
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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