Critically Acclaimed Books

Ranking the Best Fiction Published in 2020 (50 Titles)

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4 Honors

Deacon King Kong

by James McBride

4 Honors

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

3 Honors

What A Woman’s Gotta Do

by Evelyn Coleman

3 Honors

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West

3 Honors

The Awkward Black Man

by Walter Mosley

3 Honors

Glorious

by Bernice L. McFadden

3 Honors

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

by Deesha Philyaw

2 Honors

The Freedom Artist

by Ben Okri

2 Honors

Speaking of Summer: A Novel

by Kalisha Buckhanon

2 Honors

Confessions in B-Flat

by Donna Hill

2 Honors

Telephone

by Percival Everett

2 Honors

Wild Seed (Patternist #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

2 Honors

Blacktop Wasteland

by S. A. Cosby

2 Honors

Black Sunday

by Tola Rotimi Abraham

2 Honors

Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation

by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson

2 Honors

They Tell Me Of A Home: A Novel

by Daniel Black

2 Honors

Everywhere You Don’t Belong

by Gabriel Bump

2 Honors

When No One Is Watching: A Thriller

by Alyssa Cole

2 Honors

Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature

by Kevin Powell

2 Honors

Transcendent Kingdom

by Yaa Gyasi

2 Honors

American Spy: A Novel

by Lauren Wilkinson

2 Honors

It’s Not All Downhill from Here

by Terry McMillan

2 Honors

His Only Wife

by Peace Adzo Medie

2 Honors

There Is Confusion

by Jessie Redmon Fauset

1 Honor

Bourbon Street

by Leonce Gaiter

1 Honor

On the Corner of Hope and Main: A Blessings Novel

by Beverly Jenkins

1 Honor

B-More Careful

by Shannon Holmes

1 Honor

Of Gods and Shadows

by J.D. Mason

1 Honor

Real Men Knit

by K.M. Jackson

1 Honor

Africaville

by Jeffrey Colvin

1 Honor

Book of the Little Axe

by Lauren Francis-Sharma

1 Honor

Black States of America: Real Black Power

by d. E. Rogers

1 Honor

Romance in Marseille

by Claude McKay

1 Honor

The Other Sister

by Donna Hill

1 Honor

Here and Now

by Kimberla Lawson Roby

1 Honor

These Bodies

by Morgan Christie

1 Honor

The Willie Lynch Letter And the Making of A Slave

by Willie Lynch

1 Honor

The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

by Colson Whitehead

1 Honor

Hood Rat: A Novel

by K’wan

1 Honor

Reconstruction: Stories

by Alaya Dawn Johnson

1 Honor

The Stolen Daughter

by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

1 Honor

Black Gangster

by Donald Goines

1 Honor

Remembrance

by Rita Woods

1 Honor

If I Had Two Wings: Stories

by Randall Kenan

1 Honor

These Women

by Ivy Claire Pochoda

1 Honor

The Missing American

by Kwei Quartey

1 Honor

Real Life

by Brandon Taylor

1 Honor

One Dark Body

by Charlotte Watson Sherman

1 Honor

Luster

by Raven Leilani

1 Honor

The Old Drift: A Novel

by Namwali Serpell

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