Most Read This Week In Black Literature

Literature written by African Americans.

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Dominion
Once Upon a Time in Dollywood
How It Ends
People Like Us
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
The Slip
Small Worlds
Great Black Hope
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
Zeal
Kin
People of Means
Someone Like Us
Nightbloom
Skin & Bones
The Tiny Things Are Heavier
Everything Is Not Enough (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #2)
Where the Wildflowers Grow
The Rich People Have Gone Away
The Seven Daughters of Dupree
Kiss and Spell (Elemental Love, #2)
Neighbors and Other Stories
See How They Run
Dead in Long Beach, California
The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
Ours
The Man Who Lived Underground
Hangman
You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs
Decent People
Ada's Room
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
The Edge of Water
Smoke Kings
Where Wild Peaches Grow
Edge of Here: Stories From Here to Now
The Survivalists
Coleman Hill
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
The Days of Afrekete
Carefree Black Girls
Palmares
Carolina Built
The Two Lives of Sara
Beyond the Door of No Return
When Trying to Return Home: Stories
Yonder
Mama's Sleeping Scarf (Adventures with Chino)
Play to Win
One Blood
Promise
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
The Awakening of Malcolm X
The Rib King
Weird Black Girls
Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters
How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories
We Are a Haunting
Rhythm & Muse
Maya and the Return of the Godlings (Maya and the Rising Dark, #2)
Cool. Awkward. Black.
Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power
Rehearsals for Living
Acts of Forgiveness
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
Rare Danger
The Talk
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (Intersections, 18)

James Baldwin
I was far more the pragmatic American then than I am now. Now, watching my children grow, old enough to have some sense of where I've been, having suffered enough to be no longer terrified of suffering, and knowing something of joy, too, I know that we must attempt to be responsible for what we know. Only this action moves us, without fear, into what we do not know, and what we do not know is limitless. ...more
James Baldwin, Just Above My Head

Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture. We need you.
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