Critically Acclaimed Books

Ranking the Best Fiction Published in 2019 (54 Titles)

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7 Honors

The Nickel Boys: A Novel

by Colson Whitehead

6 Honors

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

6 Honors

Heads of the Colored People (paperback): Stories

by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

6 Honors

The Water Dancer

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

4 Honors

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

4 Honors

Red at the Bone

by Jacqueline Woodson

3 Honors

Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

3 Honors

Corregidora

by Gayl Jones

3 Honors

New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent

by Margaret Busby

2 Honors

Queenie

by Candice Carty-Williams

2 Honors

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

by Sara Collins

2 Honors

Such a Fun Age

by Kiley Reid

2 Honors

Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set

by Octavia E. Butler

2 Honors

Small Silent Things

by Robin Page

2 Honors

The Revisioners

by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

2 Honors

The Family Business

by Carl Weber and Eric Pete

2 Honors

The Other Americans

by Laila Lalami

2 Honors

They All Fall Down: A Thriller

by Rachel Howzell Hall

2 Honors

Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel

by Bernardine Evaristo

2 Honors

She Would Be King: A Novel

by Wayétu Moore

1 Honor

Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar

by Ron A. Austin

1 Honor

Daughters of the Stone

by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

1 Honor

I Do Love You Still

by Mary B. Morrison

1 Honor

Every Thug Needs A Lady

by Wahida Clark

1 Honor

As a River

by Sion Dayson

1 Honor

Good Man Gone Bad: An Aaron Gunner Mystery

by Gar Anthony Haywood

1 Honor

Crossroads

by LaVerne Thompson, Angela Kay Austin, Naleighna Kai, Ursula Sinclair, and 16 more

1 Honor

The Gone Dead

by Chanelle Benz

1 Honor

Patsy

by Nicole Dennis-Benn

1 Honor

We Cast a Shadow: A Novel

by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

1 Honor

Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir

by Kwame Onwuachi

1 Honor

Out of Darkness, Shining Light

by Petina Gappah

1 Honor

The Farm

by Joanne Ramos

1 Honor

The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II

by Leonard Pitts Jr.

1 Honor

My Time in the Sun

by Naleighna Kai

1 Honor

The Wolf Queen: The Promise of Aferi Book II

by Cerece Rennie Murphy

1 Honor

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

by Marlon James

1 Honor

Gingerbread: A Novel

by Helen Oyeyemi

1 Honor

Wrath

by K’wan

1 Honor

One Night in Georgia

by Celeste O. Norfleet

1 Honor

Everything Inside: Stories

by Edwidge Danticat

1 Honor

Bad Men and Wicked Women

by Eric Jerome Dickey

1 Honor

Bitch the Final Chapter

by Joy Deja King

1 Honor

A Tall History of Sugar

by Curdella Forbes

1 Honor

Thugs and the Women Who Love Them

by Wahida Clark

1 Honor

Queen Bitch: Part 4

by Joy Deja King

1 Honor

Heaven, My Home

by Attica Locke

1 Honor

Fairview

by Jackie Sibblies Drury

1 Honor

Evil Never Sleeps: Tales of Light and Darkness

by Robert Fleming

1 Honor

His Biggest Fan

by Martha Kennerson

1 Honor

Africaville (Hardcover)

by Jeffrey Colvin

1 Honor

The World Doesn’t Require You: Stories

by Rion Amilcar Scott

1 Honor

Lot: Stories

by Bryan Washington

1 Honor

A Death in Harlem: A Novel

by Karla FC Holloway

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