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:

Sep/Oct 2024 | Jul/Aug 2024 | May/Jun 2024 | Mar/Apr 2024 | Jan/Feb 2024 | Nov/Dec 2023

98 Bestselling Books for All of 2023

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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.

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Go On Girl! Book Club’s Reading List (Since 1991)
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