155 Books of Interest to Readers of Black Literature Coming Out Soon. Also Check Out the Books Published in the Past two Months.

The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
by Kwame Anthony Appiah (2019-08-20)

Parable of the Talents
by Octavia Butler (2019-08-20)

The World Doesn’t Require You: Stories
by Rion Amilcar Scott (2019-08-20)

More to Life
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley (2019-08-27)

Everything Inside: Stories
by Edwidge Danticat (2019-08-27)

Syncope
by Asiya Wadud (2019-09-01)

Forever Mine & Falling for the Beauty Queen
by Donna Hill and Carolyn Hector (2019-09-03)

Spark of Desire & All for You
by Sheryl Lister and Elle Wright (2019-09-03)

Legacy and the Queen
by Annie Matthew and Kobe Bryant (2019-09-03)

Leadership with a Servant’s Heart: Leading Through Personal Relationships
by Kevin Wayne Johnson (2019-09-03)

Some Places More Than Others
by Renée Watson (2019-09-03)

Home Girl
by Alex Wheatle (2019-09-03)

Here and Now
by Julia Denos (2019-09-03)

Nya’s Long Walk: A Step at a Time
by Linda Sue Park (2019-09-03)

A Fortune for Your Disaster
by Hanif Abdurraqib (2019-09-03)

Diamond Doris
by Doris Payne (2019-09-10)

The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
by Ibtihaj Muhammad (2019-09-10)

A Death in Harlem: A Novel
by Karla FC Holloway (2019-09-15)

One Person, No Vote: How All Voters Are Not Treated Equally
by Carol Anderson (2019-09-17)

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
by Imani Perry (2019-09-17)

Think Black
by Clyde W. Ford (2019-09-17)

Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson (2019-09-17)

Becoming Beatriz
by Tami Charles (2019-09-17)

Full Figured 14
by La Jill Hunt (2019-09-24)

Kwanzaa: From Holiday to Every Day
by Maitefa Angaza (2019-09-24)

Right Beside You
by Mary Monroe (2019-09-24)

The Other Side
by Trice Hickman (2019-09-24)

The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019-09-24)

Sweat the Technique: the Elements of Writing—Anything
by Rakim (2019-09-24)

The Shadow King
by Maaza Mengiste (2019-09-24)

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History
by Gerald Horne (2019-09-30)

His Rebound Bitch Part 2
by Kiki Swinson (2019-09-30)

In Dependence
by Sarah Ladipo Manyika (2019-10-01)

Ready for the Rancher
by Zuri Day (2019-10-01)

Black Lotus 2: The Vow
by K’wan (2019-10-01)

The Broken King
by Michael Thomas (2019-10-08)

Lu: Sometimes You Gotta Jump Anyway…
by Jason Reynolds (2019-10-08)

Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician
by Lesa Cline-Ransome (2019-10-08)

Grand Union: Stories
by Zadie Smith (2019-10-08)

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
by Jason Reynolds (2019-10-08)

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
by Saeed Jones (2019-10-08)

Arrows of Fire
by Marlen Suyapa Bodden (2019-10-14)

Christmas with the Billionaire & A Tiara for Christmas
by Niobia Bryant (2019-10-15)

Open Season
by Ben Crump (2019-10-15)

My Name Is Prince
by Randee St. Nicholas (2019-10-15)

His Christmas Gift & Decadent Holiday Pleasures
by Janice Sims (2019-10-15)

Over the Fence
by Mechal Renee Roe (2019-10-15)

Jackpot
by Nic Stone (2019-10-15)

Good Man Gone Bad: An Aaron Gunner Mystery
by Gar Anthony Haywood (2019-10-15)

Sulwe
by Lupita Nyong’o (2019-10-15)

Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard’s 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison’s Moral and Religious Vision
by Toni Morrison (2019-10-15)

Light It Up
by Kekla Magoon (2019-10-22)

Double Bass Blues
by Andrea J. Loney (2019-10-22)

Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business
by Pamela Newkirk (2019-10-22)

The Dragon Thief
by Zetta Elliott (2019-10-22)

Saturday
by Oge Mora (2019-10-22)

Never Trust a Stranger
by Mary Monroe (2019-10-29)

Finding Home Again
by Brenda Jackson (2019-10-29)

A Sister’s Power
by Cydney Rax (2019-10-29)

The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia
by Clerge Orly (2019-10-29)

Belle
by Treasure Hernandez (2019-10-29)

Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Published in 1925 as The New Negro
by Alain Locke (2019-11-01)

The Art & Science of Respect
by James Prince (2019-11-05)

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking
by Toni Tipton-Martin (2019-11-05)

Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
by Vashti Harrison (2019-11-12)

Where Is Mommy?
by Pat Cummings (2019-11-12)

Nappily Married
by Trisha R. Thomas (2019-11-12)

Nappily Faithful
by Trisha R. Thomas (2019-11-12)

Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions
by Wole Soyinka (2019-11-12)

Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof
by Ivy Claire and Kobe Bryant (2019-11-12)

The Little Book of Big Lies
by Tina Lifford (2019-11-19)

The Bridal Suite
by Rochelle Alers (2019-11-26)

Jay-Z: Made in America
by Michael Eric Dyson (2019-11-26)

Jaylin: A Naughty Aftermath: Naughty Series
by Brenda M. Hampton (2019-11-26)

Children of Virtue and Vengeance
by Tomi Adeyemi (2019-12-03)

Africaville
by Jeffrey Colvin (2019-12-10)

Freedom Soup
by Tami Charles (2019-12-19)

What Were the Negro Leagues?
by Varian Johnson (2019-12-24)

Crucial Comments and Vicious Verses
by V.S. Chochezi and Staajabu (2020-01-04)

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
by Zora Neale Hurston (2020-01-07)

Overground Railroad
by Lesa Cline-Ransome (2020-01-07)

Leaving Lymon
by Lesa Cline-Ransome (2020-01-07)

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
by Alice Walker (2020-01-07)

Clean Getaway
by Nic Stone (2020-01-07)

Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World
by Cheryl Willis Hudson (2020-01-07)

The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches
by Malcolm X (2020-01-07)

Butterfly
by Ashley Antoinette (2020-01-07)

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
by Mildred D. Taylor (2020-01-07)

Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by Octavia Butler (2020-01-14)

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes (2020-01-14)

Just Like Me
by Vanessa Brantley-Newton (2020-01-14)

145th Street: Short Stories
by Walter Dean Myers (2020-01-14)

Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker
by Patricia Hruby Powell (2020-01-14)

Saving Savannah
by Tonya Bolden (2020-01-14)

Inventing Victoria
by Tonya Bolden (2020-01-14)

The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne
by Lesa Cline-Ransome (2020-01-14)

By and by: Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music
by Carole Boston Weatherford (2020-01-14)

Homie: Poems
by Danez Smith (2020-01-21)

Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
by Mychal Denzel Smith (2020-01-21)

All the Things I Should Have Known
by Tiffany Warren (2020-01-28)

Saving Her Shadow
by Kiki Swinson (2020-01-28)

Over the Fence
by Mary Monroe (2020-01-28)

Ralph Ellison: A Life in Letters
by Ralph Ellison (2020-02-04)

Martin Luther King Jr.
by Isabel Sãnchez Vegara (2020-02-04)

Now and Then
by Gil Scott-Heron (2020-02-04)

We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America
by D. Watkins (2020-02-04)

Romance in Marseille
by Claude McKay (2020-02-11)

Cool Cuts
by Mechal Renee Roe (2020-02-11)

Twisted
by Tracy Brown (2020-02-11)

The Absurd Man: Poems
by Major Jackson (2020-02-11)

Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
by April Ryan (2020-02-15)

Trouble Is What I Do
by Walter Mosley (2020-02-25)

Just Like a Mama
by Alice Faye Duncan (2020-03-03)

On the Corner of Hope and Main: A Blessings Novel
by Beverly Jenkins (2020-03-03)

Un-Nappily in Love
by Trisha R. Thomas (2020-03-10)

Nappily in Bloom
by Trisha R. Thomas (2020-03-10)

Lakewood
by Megan Giddings (2020-03-24)

Across the Way
by Mary Monroe (2020-03-31)

Saving Her Shadow
by Lutishia Lovely (2020-03-31)

The Essence of Perfection
by Nita Brooks (2020-03-31)

The Inheritance
by Rochelle Alers (2020-03-31)

Influence
by Carl Weber (2020-03-31)

A Little Bit of Karma
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley (2020-04-01)

Kehinde Wiley: Trickster
by Kehinde Wiley (2020-04-21)

Spin
by Lamar Giles (2020-04-21)

Praying Like Crazy
by Michele Andrea Bowen (2020-04-28)

All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
by George M. Johnson (2020-04-28)

Imitation of Wife
by La Jill Hunt (2020-05-26)

The Sunday Soul Singles Club
by Michele Andrea Bowen (2020-07-07)

Empire (N/A)
by Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman (2020-07-21)

Columbia Station: A Novel
by Lulabelle (2020-08-23)

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
by Alice Walker (2020-09-01)

Revolution in Our Lifetime: A Short History of the Black Panther Party
by Donna Murch (2020-09-01)

Prince’s Homecoming: A Novel
by Sharai Robbin (2020-09-13)

Invisible Men: Black Artists of the Golden Age of Comics
by Ken Quattro (2020-09-22)

True Names: Four Generations of My Afro Appalachian Family
by Malaika Adero (2020-12-01)