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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. Oprah Really Can Sell a Book!

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  2. #4 Top All-Time Bestselling Author: Wahida Clark

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

  3. The Black Literacy Forum #1

    Guest david rambeau,
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    • 4.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  4. Author of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" Opens a Bookstore

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views
    CDBurns

  5. PRINCE OSIRIS: A GHETTOHEAT PRINCE!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 790 views
    HICKSON

  6. Obama's Legacy: What He Accomplished

    Troy,
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    • 1.4k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

  8. Good2go Publishing - Over 1 Million Books Sold!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 861 views
    Troy

  9. Resurgence in Interest in the Survival of Indie Bookstores

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

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

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

  11. Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize for Literature?!

    Troy,
    • 12 replies
    • 2.6k views
    Troy

  12. Blue Mafia: New Book explores police brutality & federal reform in OH

    Guest Timtolka,
    • 0 replies
    • 970 views
    Guest
    Guest

  13. Walter Mosley Traveling in the Spirit of Carter G. Woodson

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    Terry Coffey

  14. Call To The Fire!!!

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 683 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

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

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

  17. AALBC.com Starts Its 19 Year This Month

    Troy,
    • 22 replies
    • 4.9k views
    Troy

  18. "A Child Raising A Child"

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

  19. Seeking Tastemakers for review of debut novel

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

  20. African Heritage Study Bible.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 785 views
    harry brown

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

    Frank,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Frank

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

    Frank,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Frank

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  24. Press Release/Book Review Consideration

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

  25. The Sun came out Last Night

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

  26. The Number of Profiled Authors Explodes

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 924 views
    Troy

  27. New Maya Angelou Documentary Film

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 659 views
    Troy

  28. Requesting Book Review Consideration for Confused Spice

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

  29. Helping Uplift People Can be Part of Capitalism

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 782 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

  31. 7 of 20 finalists for National Book Awards are Black

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 749 views
    Troy

  32. The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

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

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 806 views
    Troy

  36. Book Review Request Dreams Of Tamar

    Darlene Pryor,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  37. Harriet Tubman_ A Biography.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 681 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 769 views
    Troy

  39. Why is Black Literary Fiction Languishing?

    Chrishayden,
    • 41 replies
    • 14k views
    Cynique

  40. The 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  41. Troy at the Kingston Book Festival

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 727 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  44. FINDING HEAVEN IN THE DARK

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

  45. Education Advocate Kevin Chavous Has a New Book Out

    Guest mwaizer,
    • 0 replies
    • 692 views
    Guest
    Guest

  46. 10 Books Written by Black Writers Longlisted for 2016 National Book Award

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 942 views
    Troy

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

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

  48. The Bennu Project (Book Review Request)

    Guest Aha Mena,
    • 9 replies
    • 3.8k views
    Aha Mena

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

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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