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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. Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors: How Many Do You Know?

    Troy,
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    Troy

  2. Press Release/Book Review Consideration

    P. Nagual,
    • 0 replies
    • 840 views
    P. Nagual

  3. Requesting Book Review Consideration for Kleptomaniac: Who's Really Robbing God Anyway?

    Frank,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Frank

  4. AALBC.com Starts Its 19 Year This Month

    Troy,
    • 22 replies
    • 4.8k views
    Troy

  5. The Number of Profiled Authors Explodes

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 917 views
    Troy

  6. The Sun came out Last Night

    Guest Dee Miller,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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

    Guest Elva D. Green,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

  8. New Maya Angelou Documentary Film

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 644 views
    Troy

  9. Helping Uplift People Can be Part of Capitalism

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 774 views
    Troy

  10. 7 of 20 finalists for National Book Awards are Black

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 739 views
    Troy

  11. The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

  12. Book Review For What I'd Do For Love New Release

    Guest K.F. Johnson,
    • 0 replies
    • 854 views
    Guest
    Guest

  13. Book Review: Telling It Like It Is: The Remarkable Life Experiences of My Aunt Edna

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  14. Requesting Book Review Consideration for Confused Spice

    Guest Mathis Bailey,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Guest
    Guest

  15. Rice & Rocks by Megan Kayleigh Sullivan a Top 100 Recommended African-American Children’s Book

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 799 views
    Troy

  16. Book Review Request Dreams Of Tamar

    Darlene Pryor,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  17. Harriet Tubman_ A Biography.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 666 views
    harry brown

  18. Video of DANIEL BLACK (If you don't enjoy this reading something must be wrong with you)

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 756 views
    Troy

  19. The 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  20. Book Promotion Special Only $99 Today until December 21, 2016

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 714 views
    Troy

  21. Book Review request: VALLEY OF THE KINGS: The 18th Dynasty

    Terry Coffey,
    • 7 replies
    • 3.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  22. Bestselling Books, 100+ Events, and More in our September eNewsletter

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  23. FINDING HEAVEN IN THE DARK

    Guest William L. Ingram,
    • 0 replies
    • 846 views
    Guest
    Guest

  24. Education Advocate Kevin Chavous Has a New Book Out

    Guest mwaizer,
    • 0 replies
    • 679 views
    Guest
    Guest

  25. 10 Books Written by Black Writers Longlisted for 2016 National Book Award

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 928 views
    Troy

  26. The Sellout by Paul Beatty shortlisted for Man Booker Prize

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

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

    Guest CasemateIPM,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Guest
    Guest

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

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

  29. The Best Selling Books on AALBC.com for July/August 2016

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  30. White Man's Disease Labor Day Special

    Dr T,
    • 0 replies
    • 840 views
    Dr T

  31. Online Marketing Services for Authors

    Troy,
    • 5 replies
    • 2.3k views
    Guest
    Guest

  32. AALBC.com is Expanding

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    VL Towler

  33. CHANGE OF HEART: NEVER SAY NEVER..., a powerful new novel examines the damage done to families

    NRM,
    • 1 reply
    • 918 views
    Troy

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

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

  35. Finding Jet Magazines

    Guest Ben Shelley,
    • 0 replies
    • 745 views
    Guest
    Guest

  36. Black Classic Press partners with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.4k views
    Troy

  37. Are Book Festivals Becoming a Thing of the Past?

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.8k views
    CDBurns

  38. Book It Literary Event Fall/Winter 2016

    Guest Anita Davis aka A.D.,
    • 1 reply
    • 845 views
    Troy

  39. Crime fiction book released

    Guest Nick Knardirell,
    • 0 replies
    • 704 views
    Guest
    Guest

  40. Underground Railroad,Colson Whitehead.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  41. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST - Places In My Heart

    Sheryl,
    • 0 replies
    • 652 views
    Sheryl

  42. Seeking a Review of Short Story Collection

    Guest Moody Blue,
    • 0 replies
    • 556 views
    Guest
    Guest

  43. August eNewsletter is out!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 663 views
    Troy

  44. #BlackGirlMagic and Intersectional Feminism in Debut Slave Revolution Novel

    Guest Brooke Obie,
    • 0 replies
    • 694 views
    Guest
    Guest

  45. Seeking book review for my children's book

    ARTBooks4Kids,
    • 0 replies
    • 717 views
    ARTBooks4Kids

  46. Oprah's Latest Book Club Pick

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

  47. Children's Book Good Touch Bad Touch: How to Tell the Difference

    Guest Simone Blanchard,
    • 0 replies
    • 794 views
    Guest
    Guest

  48. The Independent Author Expo

    Guest Nick Knardirell,
    • 0 replies
    • 704 views
    Guest
    Guest

  49. A Great Read for the Man in Your Life...

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 754 views
    Troy

  50. Book Review Request

    Guest JB Smiley Jr.,
    • 1 reply
    • 850 views
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