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Black Literature

Readers tell us about your favorite and not-so-favorite books. Authors and Publishers share information about your books. This forum is open to everyone interested in discussing anything related to books by, or about, Black people.

  1. Book Review Request - Understanding the Far-Reaching Global Impact of the World Racial Order

    Guest Sterlin Williams,
    • 1 reply
    • 943 views
    Troy

  2. Book Review Request - Understanding the Far-Reaching Global Impact of the World Racial Order

    Guest Sterlin Williams,
    • 0 replies
    • 674 views
    Guest
    Guest

  3. Book Review Request Freedom: The Next Plsntstion???

    Guest Sandra Snowden,
    • 1 reply
    • 936 views
    Guest
    Guest

  4. Book Review Request - A Pinch of Salt:  On the Edge of Apprehension

    Guest AManofHisWord,
    • 0 replies
    • 759 views
    Guest
    Guest

  5. Book Review Request - African American History: The Untold Stories

    YLong,
    • 0 replies
    • 971 views
    YLong

  6. Book Review Request - Comes to The Light: Learning About the Entangled Families of Edgefield, South Carolina

    Donya,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Donya

  7. Book Review Request - Comes to The Light: Learning About the Entangled Families of Edgefield, South Carolina

    Donya,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Donya

  8. Book Review Request - Condition Red by Yusef Komunyakaa

    Guest Sam Killian,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  9. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST - Her Kind of Man

    Guest Elle Wright,
    • 1 reply
    • 999 views
    Troy

  10. Book Review Request - Historical Fiction

    Guest Cynthia D. Toliver,
    • 0 replies
    • 632 views
    Guest
    Guest

  11. Book Review Request - No Tears for Dead Men

    Guest Dilsa Saunders Bailey,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.7k views
    simplydilsa

  12. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST - Places In My Heart

    Sheryl,
    • 0 replies
    • 699 views
    Sheryl

  13. Book Review Request - Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X

    Maya Morrow,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Maya Morrow

  14. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST - Tales of the Astonishing B̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ Spark

    Guest Charlie J. Eskew,
    • 0 replies
    • 843 views
    Guest
    Guest

  15. Book Review Request - THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR by Yewande Omotoso

    Guest Marlena Brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 890 views
    Guest
    Guest

  16. Book Review Request - Trazer

    Guest Joseph O. Adegboyega-Edun,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  17. Book Review Request - Yet I Still Stand

    Guest D. Grace Jackson,
    • 0 replies
    • 736 views
    Guest
    Guest

  18. Book Review Request -- "On Top of the World (Until the Bell Chimes)"

    Guest Chelsea Apple,
    • 0 replies
    • 935 views
    Guest
    Guest

  19. Book Review Request -"An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones"

    Guest Wendy Jones,
    • 0 replies
    • 989 views
    Guest
    Guest

  20. Book review request -"College Life 101: Freshman Orientation"

    Guest J.B. Vample,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  21. Book Review Request Dreams Of Tamar

    Darlene Pryor,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

  22. Book review request for “Know, Grow and Show Your GRIT! Self-Discovery Made Simple”

    haze schepmyer,
    • 0 replies
    • 634 views
    haze schepmyer

  23. Book Review Request for 1980s based book entitled "There and Now"

    Guest Abu Amina Salam,
    • 0 replies
    • 892 views
    Guest
    Guest

  24. Book Review Request for Just Before Too Late

    Mel-Robert,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Mel-Robert

  25. Book Review Request For My Children's Book

    Guest Elizabeth Bailey,
    • 1 reply
    • 862 views
    daniellegfny

  26. Book Review Request for my Debut Novel

    Guest Nikki Marsh,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  27. Book Review Request For New Release - To Find You

    Guest Cerece Rennie Murphy,
    • 0 replies
    • 998 views
    Guest
    Guest

  28. Book review request for Reflections! Looking In The Mirror

    Terry Wells-Jones,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Terry Wells-Jones

  29. Book Review Request for The Kool Kids & The Land Of The Giants

    Guest James Tate,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
    Guest
    Guest

  30. Book review request of The Weeping Time:Memory and the Largest Slave Auction In American History

    Guest Anne C. Bailey,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

  31. Book Review Request- A Life of Turmoil: The Short Stories of Ana Franken, 08150017

    Guest by Johanna Sparrow,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  32. Book Review Request- Rules of Engagement: Mending Citizen/Police Interactions

    B.L. Brown,
    • 9 replies
    • 3.2k views
    B.L. Brown

  33. Book Review Request-Christian Fiction

    SHERABIM JOY,
    • 0 replies
    • 820 views
    SHERABIM JOY

  34. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST-Trampling of the Weeds

    Guest Lajuanda Mitchell,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    Guest
    Guest

  35. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST-Trust

    Guest Mindy Kuhn,
    • 0 replies
    • 932 views
    Guest
    Guest

  36. Book review request—THE HOUSE OF ERZULIE by Kirsten Imani Kasai

    Guest Rosalie Morales Kearns,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  37. Book review request, please

    Guest Obelia Akanke,
    • 0 replies
    • 785 views
    Guest
    Guest

  38. Book Review Request: I Wish I Could Moonwalk

    Guest Sandra Lee,
    • 0 replies
    • 731 views
    Guest
    Guest

  39. Book review Request: LOL...You Can't make this stuff UP!!

    Dee Miller,
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  40. Book Review Request: "All the Good Things Around Us" and "May Their Shadows Never Shrink"

    Guest CasemateIPM,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Guest
    Guest

  41. Book Review Request: "Daddy's Bedtime Adventures"

    Guest Kida Brino,
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views
    KIDA BRINO

  42. Book Review Request: "Nervous Conditions"

    Guest CasemateIPM,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.4k views
    Moody Blue

  43. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST: "The Green Green Book: The Traveler's Guide to Black-Owned Homesteads, Farms, Orchards, Vineyards, Foraging Forests, Apiaries, Ranches, and Markets"

    Rain,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    richardmurray

  44. Book Review Request: A CONCOCTION OF LIES by Patsy Robertson

    MLB Publicity,
    • 1 reply
    • 877 views
    richardmurray

  45. Book Review Request: Ava and Mae Own a Lemonade Stand

    Guest Brittney D.,
    • 0 replies
    • 957 views
    Guest
    Guest

  46. Book Review Request: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland

    Guest Robyn C. Spencer,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  47. Book review request: Born from weeds & rats

    MAFOOMBAY,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    MAFOOMBAY

  48. Book Review Request: Brownie Bear Teaches Gun Safety

    Guest B.L. Brown,
    • 4 replies
    • 2.1k views
    B.L. Brown

  49. Book Review Request: Bulletproof Faith

    Guest NereusMcnair,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  50. Book Review Request: Diversity, equity and inclusion in veterinary medicine

    Kemba Marshall,
    • 3 replies
    • 955 views
    Kemba Marshall

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