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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. The Sun came out Last Night

    Guest Dee Miller,
    • 3 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

  2. The Number of Profiled Authors Explodes

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 902 views
    Troy

  3. New Maya Angelou Documentary Film

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 622 views
    Troy

  4. Requesting Book Review Consideration for Confused Spice

    Guest Mathis Bailey,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  5. Helping Uplift People Can be Part of Capitalism

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 754 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.4k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 711 views
    Troy

  8. The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

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

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 777 views
    Troy

  12. Book Review Request Dreams Of Tamar

    Darlene Pryor,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  13. Harriet Tubman_ A Biography.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 640 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 733 views
    Troy

  15. Why is Black Literary Fiction Languishing?

    Chrishayden,
    • 41 replies
    • 13.6k views
    Cynique

  16. The 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  17. Troy at the Kingston Book Festival

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 698 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  20. FINDING HEAVEN IN THE DARK

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

  21. Education Advocate Kevin Chavous Has a New Book Out

    Guest mwaizer,
    • 0 replies
    • 665 views
    Guest
    Guest

  22. 10 Books Written by Black Writers Longlisted for 2016 National Book Award

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 905 views
    Troy

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

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

  24. The Bennu Project (Book Review Request)

    Guest Aha Mena,
    • 9 replies
    • 3.7k views
    Aha Mena

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

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  27. Online Marketing Services for Authors

    Troy,
    • 5 replies
    • 2.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  28. AALBC.com is Expanding

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    VL Towler

  29. White Man's Disease Labor Day Special

    Dr T,
    • 0 replies
    • 806 views
    Dr T

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

    NRM,
    • 1 reply
    • 882 views
    Troy

  31. Review Request: Men Don't Like Ugly, Women Don't Like Broke

    Guest Angela Benson,
    • 11 replies
    • 3k views
    Cynique

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

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

  33. Finding Jet Magazines

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

  34. Underground Railroad,Colson Whitehead.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  35. Links are Better Than "Likes" Thanks Grant Harper Reid

    Troy,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Grant Harper Reid

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

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.8k views
    CDBurns

  37. Book It Literary Event Fall/Winter 2016

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

  38. Crime fiction book released

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

  39. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST - Places In My Heart

    Sheryl,
    • 0 replies
    • 613 views
    Sheryl

  40. Book Review Request: "Nervous Conditions"

    Guest CasemateIPM,
    • 3 replies
    • 2k views
    Moody Blue

  41. Seeking a Review of Short Story Collection

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

  42. August eNewsletter is out!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 638 views
    Troy

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

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

  44. Christoper D. Burns a Two Time Bestselling Author!

    Troy,
    • 19 replies
    • 3.1k views
    Troy

  45. Seeking book review for my children's book

    ARTBooks4Kids,
    • 0 replies
    • 685 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
    • 770 views
    Guest
    Guest

  48. The Independent Author Expo

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 738 views
    Troy

  50. Book Review Request

    Guest JB Smiley Jr.,
    • 1 reply
    • 828 views
    SmileySpeaks

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