Critically Acclaimed Books

Ranking the Best Fiction Published in 2025 (67 Titles)

3 Honors

The Wilderness

3 Honors

Death of the Author

3 Honors

Harlem Rhapsody

3 Honors

Dream Count

2 Honors

Fish Tales: A Novel

2 Honors

Dominion: A Novel

2 Honors

That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor

2 Honors

Good Dirt

2 Honors

The Dark Maestro

2 Honors

Junie

2 Honors

Ring Shout

2 Honors

Catch: A Novel

2 Honors

Something in the Water

1 Honors

My Parents’ Marriage

1 Honors

People of Means: A Novel

1 Honors

The Life of Herod the Great

1 Honors

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

1 Honors

Zeal: A Novel

1 Honors

Sweet Heat

1 Honors

The Macabre (Deluxe Limited Edition)

1 Honors

Our Vicious Oaths

1 Honors

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Deluxe Edition)

1 Honors

Amity

1 Honors

Gray Dawn: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

1 Honors

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel

1 Honors

The Devil Three Times: A Novel

1 Honors

Palaver

1 Honors

Coded Justice: A Thriller

1 Honors

Flirting Lessons

1 Honors

Happy Land

1 Honors

It Was the Way She Said It: Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom

1 Honors

Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (paperback)

1 Honors

O Sinners!

1 Honors

Loved One

1 Honors

Murder for Miss Hortense: A Mystery

1 Honors

When the Harvest Comes

1 Honors

Great Mann

1 Honors

Once Upon a Time in Dollywood

1 Honors

Best Man: Unfinished Business

1 Honors

We Don’t Talk about Carol

1 Honors

Casualties of Truth

1 Honors

Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill

1 Honors

Plus Size Player

1 Honors

How to Dodge a Cannonball

1 Honors

King of Ashes

1 Honors

Masquerade

1 Honors

Listen to Your Sister

1 Honors

This Here Is Love

1 Honors

Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic

1 Honors

Isaac’s Song: A Novel

1 Honors

Truth Is: A Novel in Verse

1 Honors

Bent But Not Broken

1 Honors

Blood Slaves

1 Honors

God Don’t Play

1 Honors

Can’t Get Enough

1 Honors

August Lane

1 Honors

Tiny Things Are Heavier

1 Honors

History Lessons

1 Honors

Sky Full of Elephants

1 Honors

All the Men I’ve Loved Again

1 Honors

Boom Town

1 Honors

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

1 Honors

Great Black Hope

1 Honors

Reformatory

1 Honors

People Like Us

1 Honors

My Bully, My Aunt, and Her Final Gift

1 Honors

The Risk of Loving You: When Danger Meets Desire