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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 - Yet I Still Stand

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

  2. AALBC.com's Last MIllion Visitors Came From....

    Troy,
    • 11 replies
    • 5k views
    Troy

  3. Where is E. LYNN HARRIS on this list? He outsold just about every black author in america. You seem to never give him any props.

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 2k views
    Troy

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

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

  5. Black Women, Forgotten Asset.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 880 views
    harry brown

  6. What do you think the state of African American Literature is today?

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.6k views
    HICKSON

  7. Diaspora: Return to Africa

    Guest K.A. Gendo,
    • 0 replies
    • 819 views
    Guest
    Guest

  8. Recovering The Black Female Body.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 805 views
    harry brown

  9. Looking for a good book on the Reconstruction period in America

    Troy,
    • 13 replies
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

  10. Book Review Request

    Guest Bianca Williams,
    • 0 replies
    • 770 views
    Guest
    Guest

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

    Maya Morrow,
    • 0 replies
    • 958 views
    Maya Morrow

  12. 26 Bestselling Children’s Book Authors You'll Definitely Love ♥

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  13. Guess Which National Bookstore Chain I'm In?

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 805 views
    Troy

  14. Review request: New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo's debut book A MOONLESS, STARLESS SKY

    Guest Odette Fleming,
    • 0 replies
    • 832 views
    Guest
    Guest

  15. 2017 Phillis Wheatley Award Winning Books

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 888 views
    Troy

  16. Videos: Saluting Go on Girl Book Club, Harlem Book Fair and More!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 939 views
    Troy

  17. Black Unity From Fantasy To Reality.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 882 views
    Troy

  18. Hi All I'm new to this forum.. My name is Mercy

    Guest Mercy,
    • 0 replies
    • 657 views
    Guest
    Guest

  19. Wisconsin's Last Black-owned Bookstore Closed

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  20. Book Review Request: Of Captivity & Kings

    E.Y. Laster,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    E.Y. Laster

  21. Interesting Photos of Black Authors from Events Over the Years

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  22. Phillis Wheatley Award Finalist-White Man's Disease

    Dr T,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Troy

  23. W.E.B. Dubois,The Talented Tenth.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 960 views
    harry brown

  24. Would you Sacrifice to Support an Indie Bookseller?

    Troy,
    • 22 replies
    • 5.4k views
    Troy

  25. Get on Your Large Book Cover on Every AALBC.com Page

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 697 views
    Troy

  26. Book Review Request: Brownie Bear Teaches Gun Safety

    Guest B.L. Brown,
    • 4 replies
    • 2k views
    B.L. Brown

  27. Interested in a Book Review

    L. Cox,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    L. Cox

  28. Help Select AALBC.com's New Bestselling Book Seal

    Troy,
    • 7 replies
    • 3.2k views
    B.L. Brown

  29. Selling my First Book Directly in Many Years

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 743 views
    Troy

  30. Tupac Shakur .

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 906 views
    harry brown

  31. AALBC mourns the loss of “Prodigy” of Mobb Deep

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Troy

  32. GHETTOHEAT PRODUCTIONS

    HICKSON,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.9k views
    HICKSON

  33. Black Book Websites Going, Going....

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 4.6k views
    Troy

  34. Black Book Websites Need Love More Than Ever

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 4.4k views
    Troy

  35. I request to have a book review

    Guest Eric F Wortham,
    • 0 replies
    • 724 views
    Guest
    Guest

  36. Librarian of Congress Names Tracy K. Smith U.S. Poet Laureate for 2017-2018

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.1k views
    Troy

  37. Community Book Center, New Orleans, LA, Fighting to Stay Open

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  38. Celebrate reading at the New Orleans Literary Takeover!

    Guest Rhonda M. Lawson,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Guest
    Guest

  39. Submissions Deadline: 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  40. We've lost 197 Black Owned Book Stores in the last few Years

    Troy,
    • 12 replies
    • 20.7k views
    Troy

  41. 2 for 1 Summer Book Promotion Special

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

  42. Eddie Green The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer

    Guest Elva D. Green,
    • 1 reply
    • 901 views
    Troy

  43. "TURN ON, TUNE OUT" REVIEW REQUEST

    Guest CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD,
    • 0 replies
    • 948 views
    Guest
    Guest

  44. Black-Unity! Terrance Amen.

    harry brown,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

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

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

  46. Becoming Dad, Journey To Fatherhood.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views
    Troy

  47. In My Daddys Arms,I Am Tall.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 942 views
    Troy

  48. INVITATION // Toronto Urban Book Expo 2017

    Guest Kya Publishing,
    • 1 reply
    • 927 views
    Troy

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

    Guest Anne C. Bailey,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  50. AALBC.com Mourns the Loss of Novelist Rosalyn McMillan

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.7k views
    Troy

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