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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. Resurgence in Interest in the Survival of Indie Bookstores

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

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

    Guest Dee Miller,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  3. Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize for Literature?!

    Troy,
    • 12 replies
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

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

    Guest Timtolka,
    • 0 replies
    • 954 views
    Guest
    Guest

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

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    Terry Coffey

  6. Call To The Fire!!!

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 658 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 988 views
    Troy

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

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

  9. AALBC.com Starts Its 19 Year This Month

    Troy,
    • 22 replies
    • 4.8k views
    Troy

  10. "A Child Raising A Child"

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

  11. Seeking Tastemakers for review of debut novel

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

  12. African Heritage Study Bible.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 769 views
    harry brown

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

    Frank,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Frank

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

    Frank,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Frank

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  16. Press Release/Book Review Consideration

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

  17. The Sun came out Last Night

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

  18. The Number of Profiled Authors Explodes

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 915 views
    Troy

  19. New Maya Angelou Documentary Film

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 638 views
    Troy

  20. Requesting Book Review Consideration for Confused Spice

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

  21. Helping Uplift People Can be Part of Capitalism

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 770 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.4k views
    Troy

  23. 7 of 20 finalists for National Book Awards are Black

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 736 views
    Troy

  24. The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

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

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 798 views
    Troy

  28. Book Review Request Dreams Of Tamar

    Darlene Pryor,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  29. Harriet Tubman_ A Biography.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 661 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 754 views
    Troy

  31. Why is Black Literary Fiction Languishing?

    Chrishayden,
    • 41 replies
    • 13.8k views
    Cynique

  32. The 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  33. Troy at the Kingston Book Festival

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 712 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  36. FINDING HEAVEN IN THE DARK

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

  37. Education Advocate Kevin Chavous Has a New Book Out

    Guest mwaizer,
    • 0 replies
    • 677 views
    Guest
    Guest

  38. 10 Books Written by Black Writers Longlisted for 2016 National Book Award

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 925 views
    Troy

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

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

  40. The Bennu Project (Book Review Request)

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

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

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  43. Online Marketing Services for Authors

    Troy,
    • 5 replies
    • 2.3k views
    Guest
    Guest

  44. AALBC.com is Expanding

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    VL Towler

  45. White Man's Disease Labor Day Special

    Dr T,
    • 0 replies
    • 833 views
    Dr T

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

    NRM,
    • 1 reply
    • 908 views
    Troy

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

    Guest Angela Benson,
    • 11 replies
    • 3.1k views
    Cynique

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

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

  49. Finding Jet Magazines

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

  50. Underground Railroad,Colson Whitehead.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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