Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.
African American Literature Book Club

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

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 for The Kool Kids & The Land Of The Giants

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

  2. Black Women, Forgotten Asset.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 877 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.6k views
    HICKSON

  4. Diaspora: Return to Africa

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

  5. Recovering The Black Female Body.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 795 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 13 replies
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

  7. Book Review Request

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

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

    Maya Morrow,
    • 0 replies
    • 947 views
    Maya Morrow

  9. 26 Bestselling Children’s Book Authors You'll Definitely Love ♥

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 794 views
    Troy

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

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

  12. 2017 Phillis Wheatley Award Winning Books

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 880 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 937 views
    Troy

  14. Black Unity From Fantasy To Reality.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 877 views
    Troy

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

    Guest Mercy,
    • 0 replies
    • 653 views
    Guest
    Guest

  16. Wisconsin's Last Black-owned Bookstore Closed

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  17. Book Review Request: Of Captivity & Kings

    E.Y. Laster,
    • 0 replies
    • 999 views
    E.Y. Laster

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

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

    Dr T,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

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

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 954 views
    harry brown

  21. Would you Sacrifice to Support an Indie Bookseller?

    Troy,
    • 22 replies
    • 5.3k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 687 views
    Troy

  23. Book Review Request: Brownie Bear Teaches Gun Safety

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

  24. Interested in a Book Review

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

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

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

  26. Selling my First Book Directly in Many Years

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 739 views
    Troy

  27. Tupac Shakur .

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 892 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

  29. GHETTOHEAT PRODUCTIONS

    HICKSON,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.9k views
    HICKSON

  30. Black Book Websites Going, Going....

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 4.6k views
    Troy

  31. Black Book Websites Need Love More Than Ever

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 4.4k views
    Troy

  32. I request to have a book review

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  35. Celebrate reading at the New Orleans Literary Takeover!

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 12 replies
    • 20.6k views
    Troy

  38. 2 for 1 Summer Book Promotion Special

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

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

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

  40. "TURN ON, TUNE OUT" REVIEW REQUEST

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

  41. Black-Unity! Terrance Amen.

    harry brown,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

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

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

  43. Becoming Dad, Journey To Fatherhood.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views
    Troy

  44. In My Daddys Arms,I Am Tall.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 935 views
    Troy

  45. INVITATION // Toronto Urban Book Expo 2017

    Guest Kya Publishing,
    • 1 reply
    • 922 views
    Troy

  46. 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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.7k views
    Troy

  48. Book Review for Historical Creative NonFiction "More Than A Fraction"

    Imagination Lunchbox LLC,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Imagination Lunchbox LLC

  49. Book Review request

    Guest Sabin Prentis,
    • 0 replies
    • 841 views
    Guest
    Guest

  50. Long Shot, Craig. Hodges.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 884 views
    harry brown

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications
Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.