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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. Do You Judge a Book by its Cover? Should You?

    Troy,
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    • 1k views
    Troy

  2. Celebrating Authors Who Use Their Platforms to Support Indie Booksellers

    Troy,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.1k views
    Cerece Rennie Murphy

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

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

  4. "A Child Raising A Child"

    Guest Odessa White,
    • 0 replies
    • 868 views
    Guest
    Guest

  5. Lol...you can't make this stuff up!!

    Guest Dee Miller,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  6. Seeking Tastemakers for review of debut novel

    Guest Courtney CLOVE Wheeler,
    • 0 replies
    • 717 views
    Guest
    Guest

  7. African Heritage Study Bible.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 802 views
    harry brown

  8. Win a Free Ebook Contest for Kleptomaniac: Who's Really Robbing God Anyway?

    Frank,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Frank

  9. Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize for Literature?!

    Troy,
    • 12 replies
    • 2.7k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  11. Press Release/Book Review Consideration

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

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

    Frank,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Frank

  13. AALBC.com Starts Its 19 Year This Month

    Troy,
    • 22 replies
    • 4.9k views
    Troy

  14. The Number of Profiled Authors Explodes

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 932 views
    Troy

  15. The Sun came out Last Night

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

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

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

  17. New Maya Angelou Documentary Film

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 668 views
    Troy

  18. Helping Uplift People Can be Part of Capitalism

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 789 views
    Troy

  19. 7 of 20 finalists for National Book Awards are Black

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 757 views
    Troy

  20. The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

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

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  23. Requesting Book Review Consideration for Confused Spice

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 814 views
    Troy

  25. Book Review Request Dreams Of Tamar

    Darlene Pryor,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  26. Harriet Tubman_ A Biography.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 694 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 782 views
    Troy

  28. The 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 733 views
    Troy

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

    Terry Coffey,
    • 7 replies
    • 3.3k views
    Guest
    Guest

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  32. FINDING HEAVEN IN THE DARK

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

  33. Education Advocate Kevin Chavous Has a New Book Out

    Guest mwaizer,
    • 0 replies
    • 702 views
    Guest
    Guest

  34. 10 Books Written by Black Writers Longlisted for 2016 National Book Award

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 950 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

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

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

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

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  39. White Man's Disease Labor Day Special

    Dr T,
    • 0 replies
    • 860 views
    Dr T

  40. Online Marketing Services for Authors

    Troy,
    • 5 replies
    • 2.4k views
    Guest
    Guest

  41. AALBC.com is Expanding

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    VL Towler

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

    NRM,
    • 1 reply
    • 954 views
    Troy

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

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

  44. Finding Jet Magazines

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

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

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.9k views
    CDBurns

  47. Book It Literary Event Fall/Winter 2016

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

  48. Crime fiction book released

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

  49. Underground Railroad,Colson Whitehead.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  50. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST - Places In My Heart

    Sheryl,
    • 0 replies
    • 690 views
    Sheryl

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