Critically Acclaimed Books

Ranking the Best Fiction Published in 2015 (98 Titles)

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6 Honors

The Turner House

by Angela Flournoy

5 Honors

The Fishermen: A Novel

by Chigozie Obioma

4 Honors

Ruby

by Cynthia Bond

4 Honors

A Brief History Of Seven Killings: A Novel

by Marlon James

4 Honors

Mama’s Boy

by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

4 Honors

God Help the Child: A Novel

by Toni Morrison

4 Honors

Stand Your Ground: A Novel

by Victoria Christopher Murray

3 Honors

The Star Side of Bird Hill

by Naomi Jackson

3 Honors

Ghost Summer: Stories

by Tananarive Due

3 Honors

Krik? Krak!

by Edwidge Danticat

3 Honors

Sag Harbor

by Colson Whitehead

3 Honors

Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel

by T. Geronimo Johnson

3 Honors

Provenance: A Novel

by Donna Drew Sawyer

2 Honors

Driving The King: A Novel

by Ravi Howard

2 Honors

Saint Monkey: A Novel

by Jacinda Townsend

2 Honors

Jezebel’s Daughter

by Jacquelin Thomas

2 Honors

Bibsy

by Brenda Ross

2 Honors

The Truth is in the Wine: A Novel

by Curtis Bunn

2 Honors

And Sometimes I Wonder About You: A Leonid Mcgill Mystery (Leonid Mcgill Mysteries)

by Walter Mosley

2 Honors

Under the Udala Trees

by Chinelo Okparanta

2 Honors

One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York

by Arthur Browne

2 Honors

Secret Indiscretions

by Trice Hickman

2 Honors

The Summer of my Fifteenth Year

by Geri Spencer Hunter

1 Honor

The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken

by Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher

1 Honor

Track Three

by John Gibson

1 Honor

Lost Canyon

by Nina Revoyr

1 Honor

I Can Do Better All By Myself: New Day Divas Series Book Five

by E. N. Joy

1 Honor

Sheisty: Triple Crown Collection

by T. N. Baker

1 Honor

Oreo

by Fran Ross

1 Honor

The Secret Kept

by Herbert C. Robinson

1 Honor

The Hairdresser of Harare: A Novel (Modern African Writing Series)

by Tendai Huchu

1 Honor

South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration

by Marcia Chatelain

1 Honor

The Pain Tree

by Olive Senior

1 Honor

Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom

by Cortez R. Rainey

1 Honor

This Game Ain’t New To Me

by Cali

1 Honor

Remy and Rose’: A Hood Love Story

by Mz. Lady P

1 Honor

My Heart Says This

by Shaniqka Thomas

1 Honor

Dethroned: The Dark Side of Money II

by d. E. Rogers

1 Honor

Curse of the Whiskey House (Whiskey House Trilogy Book 1)

by Marc Lacy

1 Honor

Protecting The Heiress (The Blake Sisters)

by Martha Kennerson

1 Honor

Disgruntled

by Asali Solomon

1 Honor

Black and Ugly

by T. Styles

1 Honor

The Fall Of The Prodigal

by Michelle Lindo-Rice

1 Honor

Binti (#1)

by Nnedi Okorafor

1 Honor

Caught Up

by Shannon Holmes

1 Honor

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

by Lauret Savoy

1 Honor

When All Is Said and Prayed: Book One of the Forever Diva Series

by E. N. Joy

1 Honor

The Dating Game: Short Stories About the Search for Mr. Right

by Princess F.L. Gooden

1 Honor

Who Asked You?

by Terry McMillan

1 Honor

Counternarratives

by John Keene

1 Honor

Grant Park

by Leonard Pitts Jr.

1 Honor

Grind (Silver Nitrate) (Volume 1)

by Tiana Laveen

1 Honor

Just Friends

by Delaney Diamond

1 Honor

Snake Walkers

by J. Everett Prewitt

1 Honor

Daughter Of The Missing

by Saharra K. Sandhu

1 Honor

Business is Business

by Silk White

1 Honor

The Wedding Gift

by Marlen Suyapa Bodden

1 Honor

Breaking All My Rules

by Trice Hickman

1 Honor

The Favorite Son

by Tiffany Warren

1 Honor

Grand Opening: A Family Business Novel

by Carl Weber and Eric Pete

1 Honor

Still Sheisty: Triple Crown Collection

by T. N. Baker

1 Honor

Twist

by Bill Long

1 Honor

The Ultimate Betrayal (Reverend Curtis Black #12)

by Kimberla Lawson Roby

1 Honor

My Breath of Fresh Air

by Lanell

1 Honor

One Night

by Eric Jerome Dickey

1 Honor

Power Forward: My Presidential Education

by Reggie Love

1 Honor

After the Rain (Rain Series) (Volume 7)

by Vanessa Miller

1 Honor

Grit (Silver Nitrate) (Volume 2)

by Tiana Laveen

1 Honor

The Crossing (Bosch)

by Michael Connelly

1 Honor

Delicious Foods: A Novel

by James Hannaham

1 Honor

The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky

by N. K. Jemisin

1 Honor

Rich Woman’s Fetish

by Naleighna Kai

1 Honor

Mourner’s Bench: A Novel

by Sanderia Faye

1 Honor

Lawful Deception

by Pamela Samuels Young

1 Honor

Granny’s Helper

by Selma Jackson

1 Honor

The Coming

by Daniel Black

1 Honor

The Truth About Awiti

by Christine Platt

1 Honor

Pleasantville (Jay Porter Series)

by Attica Locke

1 Honor

Loving Donovan

by Bernice L. McFadden

1 Honor

The Garden of Unfortunate Souls

by Eddie Mark

1 Honor

Come Sunday Morning Saga

by Terry E. Hill

1 Honor

Hold U Down: Triple Crown Collection (Urban Books)

by Keisha Ervin

1 Honor

Finding Amos

by J.D. Mason, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, and Bernice L. McFadden

1 Honor

A Moment of Silence: Midnight III

by Sister Souljah

1 Honor

The Secret Life of Winnie Cox: Slavery, forbidden love and tragedy - spellbinding historical fiction

by Sharon Maas

1 Honor

Live A Little

by Rhonda McKnight

1 Honor

A Boss Lady’s Heart

by Michel’le Moore

1 Honor

The Fifth Season (Book 1: The Broken Earth)

by N. K. Jemisin

1 Honor

Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

by Suzan-Lori Parks

1 Honor

Bane (The Westmorelands)

by Brenda Jackson

1 Honor

Unthinkable Sins

by Tiffani Quarles-Sanders

1 Honor

Treasure My Heart (Kimani Hotties)

by AlTonya Washington

1 Honor

Cookie and Meeko: A B-Town Luv Story

by La’tonya West

1 Honor

The Lost Child: A Novel

by Caryl Phillips

1 Honor

Severed: A Novel

by VL Towler

1 Honor

Ring around the Moon: A Novel

by Mary Burnett Smith

1 Honor

The Orchard of Lost Souls: A Novel

by Nadifa Mohamed

1 Honor

Ella Pruitt

by Doug Cooper Spencer

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