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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. When A Black Woman Is The C.E.Oh.

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 802 views
    Slaise

  2. Matches Tells The Story of Plasticity

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 768 views
    Slaise

  3. CHOKE-HOLD,Policing. Black.Men !!

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 738 views
    harry brown

  4. Four of Dr. Claud Anderson’s Most Popular Books no Available on AALBC!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  5. Buy 100+ of the Best Books about Black Children

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 875 views
    Troy

  6. Fire. Next. Time.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 839 views
    Maurice

  7. A Book To Escape Reality of Racism/Police Brutality (review request)

    Guest Janee' Thompson,
    • 0 replies
    • 662 views
    Guest
    Guest

  8. Booksellers Can't Agree to Cease Doing Business with Amazon ... WTF?!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 758 views
    Troy

  9. Malcolm X. Diary

    harry brown,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Maurice

  10. The Clan of the Cave Bear

    Troy,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Chevdove

  11. Fresh Ereba: A Collection of Caribbean Bedtime Stories for Children

    Guest Kiran Dellimore,
    • 13 replies
    • 2.6k views
    Kiran H. J. Dellimore

  12. Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 721 views
    Troy

  13. Voiceover Auditions - Interested?

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 733 views
    Slaise

  14. Let Old Projects Gooooo 🎶

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 721 views
    Slaise

  15. The Black Pack Party Will Celebrate its 20 Anniversary Next Year

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 689 views
    Troy

  16. Prolific Book To Challenge Africans and Friends Of Africa

    Guest Osei Badu-Nkansah,
    • 0 replies
    • 790 views
    Guest
    Guest

  17. What are YOU working on right now?!? 🤔

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 674 views
    Slaise

  18. Readers & REEL Folk - Episode 3; Amerie

    Amari,
    • 0 replies
    • 862 views
    Amari

  19. Satire in cotemporary fiction

    Guest Fatima Shaik,
    • 2 replies
    • 988 views
    Fatima Shaik

  20. Mirrors of Life: What is your life in the mirror?

    Neal Owens,
    • 0 replies
    • 985 views
    Neal Owens

  21. Wrongfully Accused - YA book featuring the IN-Justice System

    Mel Hopkins,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  22. Marcus Books fundraiser

    Guest Erika,
    • 0 replies
    • 730 views
    Guest
    Guest

  23. Excerpt entitled "Black America"

    Guest Roy McElroy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.3k views
    wc.edwards

  24. The Harlem Book Fair 2000 and Events from 20 Years Ago

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Slaise

  25. O.W.'s iPad mini Sweepstakes (NO PURCHASE REQ)

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 725 views
    Slaise

  26. Ouch! A One Star Review

    Slaise,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

  27. Readers & REEL Folk - EPISODE 2 Run with Maud

    Amari,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Amari

  28. Bringing Your Audience Outside of the Book

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 819 views
    Slaise

  29. Sisters. Of. The. Yam

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    harry brown

  30. 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winnering Books

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 835 views
    Troy

  31. What exactly is an immersive novel?

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 838 views
    Slaise

  32. Sista. Vegan

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 879 views
    harry brown

  33. A Debut Picture Book About Dance

    Guest Valerie Bolling,
    • 1 reply
    • 850 views
    Slaise

  34. What's Your Advice For Aspiring Writers

    Guest O.W. Showe,
    • 0 replies
    • 790 views
    Guest
    Guest

  35. Young, Black, Talented, and Alone

    Guest Nathan Alexander,
    • 1 reply
    • 846 views
    Troy

  36. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing, is Back in Stock!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 990 views
    Troy

  37. Readers & REEL Folk - EPISODE 1 IT'S TIME 4 SOME R&R!

    Amari,
    • 0 replies
    • 742 views
    Amari

  38. 200 Letters, book recommendation

    Guest Amy Watkins,
    • 0 replies
    • 840 views
    Guest
    Guest

  39. Burning Desire.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 701 views
    harry brown

  40. Burning Desire.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 671 views
    harry brown

  41. Life. Upon These. Shores.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 817 views
    Troy

  42. The Importance of the “Literary Chitlin' Circuit”

    Troy,
    • 16 replies
    • 4.7k views
    Yvonne

  43. Book recommendation for 2020 Reading List

    Guest Veronica A. Davis, Author,
    • 0 replies
    • 704 views
    Guest
    Guest

  44. Join the Black Writers Facebook Group

    Michelle D. Jackson,
    • 0 replies
    • 671 views
    Michelle D. Jackson

  45. An Improbably Journey from Compton to Oxford

    Guest Shea Nolan,
    • 0 replies
    • 717 views
    Guest
    Guest

  46. Interest In Book Review

    Guest Star Jackson,
    • 0 replies
    • 736 views
    Guest
    Guest

  47. F@ck Amazon and Their "Amazon Original Stories"

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    Maurice

  48. The New York Public Library Kicks off Immigrant Heritage Week 2020

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  49. Kasi Lemmons to Write and Direct Film Adaptation of Maaza Mengiste’s the Shadow King

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 891 views
    Troy

  50. Between. The. World. And. Me.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 765 views
    harry brown

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