Books: Bestselling, Award Winning, New, and Classic Titles

We sell a curated selection of almost 20,000 titles covering a century of Black writing from around the world. In addition to buying your books here, you’ll find reviews, bestsellers lists, awards, excerpts, publisher information, and more. Readers: discover books grouped by over 1,500 different categories. Authors and Publishers: here are a variety of ways to get your books on AALBC.

Bestselling Books by Two-Month Reporting Period:

★ 98 Bestselling Books for All of 2023

Bestselling Books by Year of Publication – Since 1960.

★ Books Coming Out in the Next 6 Months and Beyond
★ Books Published in the Last 60 Days
★ This is What Banned Books Look Like
★ 100 New Audiobooks You’ll Love ♥
★ Top 100 Recommended African-American Children’s Books
★ The Most Critically Acclaimed Books of the Past 40 Years
★ The Best African American Children’s Picture Books for 2020
★ Read Full Chapter Excerpts of Books
★ More Lists of Books

Editors Selections:

Book Cover Image: This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

Book Cover Image: The Most Wonderful Time by Jayne Allen

Book Cover Image: Run Man Run by Chester Himes

Book Cover Image: Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton

Book Cover Image: Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind by Julius Garvey

Book Cover Image: Treasure Island: Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Book Cover Image: Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined by David F. Walker

Book Cover Image: Bella Ballerina by Sharon M. Draper, Illustrated by Ebony Glenn

Book Cover Image: Kamala Raised Her Hand by Raakhee Mirchandani, Illustrated by Supriya Kelkar

More Lists of Important Books

★ Bestselling Books by Year of Publication
★ Our 150 All-Time Favorite African-American Children’s Books
★ 100 Essential Black Books
★ Top 100 Selling Publisher Imprints
★ Visit our Book Reviews Section
★ 100 Bestselling Books of All-Time
★ The Top 10 Books in 100 Different Categories
★ 100 Bestselling Books of All Time
★ Black-Owned Publishing Companies
★ Favorite 100 Titles of the 20th Century
★ The QBR 100 Essential Black Books
★ Favorite 100 Titles of the 21sth Century (list being compiled now, cast your vote)
★ Go On Girl! Book Club’s Complete Reading List (1991 – 2024)
★ The Coffee Will Make You Black Book Club’s Reading List (1998–2006, and 2010)
★ The Power List BestSelling Books (Spring 2013 to Spring 2015)
★ Get Your Book on AALBC.com

Recently Reviewed Books

Book Cover Image: Youth Change Agent: Empower a Young Person to Make the Transition to a Better Life by Keith Strickland and Lucas L. Johnson II

Book Cover Image: A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom by Leonce Gaiter

Book Cover Image: White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time by Adaeze and Chad Brinkman

Book Cover Image: Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People by Terry J. Stokes

Book Cover Image: A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse by Ayo Sekai

Book Cover Image: Womanish Theology: Discovering God Through the Lens of Black Girlhood by Khristi Lauren Adams

Book Cover Image: Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton by Calvin C. Hernton

Book Cover: We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men Edited by Angela P. Dodson

Book Cover: Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding by Kim Watson

Book Cover: Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism by Barbara A. Holmes

Book Cover: Only for the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice by Leon E. Pettiway

Book Cover: My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration & Tips to Love & Care for Your Crownby Shelia Burlock, Sylvia Burlock, and Melissa Burlock

Book Cover: Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop by Lenny Duncan

Book Cover: Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy by Halifu Osumare

Book Cover: American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition by Taymullah Abdur-Rahman

Book Cover: The Rise of Rage: Harnessing the Most Misunderstood Emotion by Julie A. Christiansen

Book Cover: Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly

Book Cover: Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education by Jasmine L. Harris

Book Cover: Place of Cool Waters by Ndirangu Githaiga

Book Cover: In Trembling Boldness: Wisdom for Today from Ancient Jesus People by Natalie Renee Perkins and Hal Taussig

Book Cover image: My Hair Can by Matt Forté, Illustrated by Sophia Green

Book Cover image: If My Hair Had a Voice by Dana Marie Miroballi, Illustrated by Patricia Grannum

Book Cover Image: Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows, Illustrated by Jamiel Law

Book Cover Image: There Are Dinosaurs in the Library! by A.G. Allen, Illustrated by Octavio Cordova

Book Cover Image: Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson

Lists of Award Winning Books

We track all of the Black winners of the National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prize, Carter G. Woodson Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and many more. Winners of these awards are factored into our formula for determining The Most Critically Acclaimed Books of the Past 40 Years.

Online Book Club

#readingblack encouraging everyone to read quality books written by Black people

The Coffee Will Make You Black is AALBC’s online book club. Check out our reading list and participate in discussions that take place over the course of a month. There is no commitment or pressure; just enjoy.