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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. Obama's Legacy: What He Accomplished

    Troy,
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    • 1.4k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

  3. Good2go Publishing - Over 1 Million Books Sold!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 843 views
    Troy

  4. Resurgence in Interest in the Survival of Indie Bookstores

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

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

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

  6. Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize for Literature?!

    Troy,
    • 12 replies
    • 2.6k views
    Troy

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

    Guest Timtolka,
    • 0 replies
    • 962 views
    Guest
    Guest

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

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    Terry Coffey

  9. Call To The Fire!!!

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 667 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 997 views
    Troy

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

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

  12. AALBC.com Starts Its 19 Year This Month

    Troy,
    • 22 replies
    • 4.8k views
    Troy

  13. "A Child Raising A Child"

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

  14. Seeking Tastemakers for review of debut novel

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

  15. African Heritage Study Bible.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 777 views
    harry brown

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

    Frank,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Frank

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

    Frank,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Frank

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  19. Press Release/Book Review Consideration

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

  20. The Sun came out Last Night

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

  21. The Number of Profiled Authors Explodes

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 919 views
    Troy

  22. New Maya Angelou Documentary Film

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 649 views
    Troy

  23. Requesting Book Review Consideration for Confused Spice

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

  24. Helping Uplift People Can be Part of Capitalism

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 776 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

  26. 7 of 20 finalists for National Book Awards are Black

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 739 views
    Troy

  27. The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

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

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 801 views
    Troy

  31. Book Review Request Dreams Of Tamar

    Darlene Pryor,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  32. Harriet Tubman_ A Biography.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 666 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 757 views
    Troy

  34. Why is Black Literary Fiction Languishing?

    Chrishayden,
    • 41 replies
    • 13.9k views
    Cynique

  35. The 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  36. Troy at the Kingston Book Festival

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 719 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  39. FINDING HEAVEN IN THE DARK

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

  40. Education Advocate Kevin Chavous Has a New Book Out

    Guest mwaizer,
    • 0 replies
    • 680 views
    Guest
    Guest

  41. 10 Books Written by Black Writers Longlisted for 2016 National Book Award

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 932 views
    Troy

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

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

  43. The Bennu Project (Book Review Request)

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

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

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  46. Online Marketing Services for Authors

    Troy,
    • 5 replies
    • 2.3k views
    Guest
    Guest

  47. AALBC.com is Expanding

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    VL Towler

  48. White Man's Disease Labor Day Special

    Dr T,
    • 0 replies
    • 844 views
    Dr T

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

    NRM,
    • 1 reply
    • 922 views
    Troy

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

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

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