2020 Adult Literary Fiction By Black Americans

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) by N.K. Jemisin
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston
Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Luster by Raven Leilani
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
The Perceptionist by Mo’Reese Madu
The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1) by Alexis Henderson
Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West
Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6) by Walter Mosley
Pale by Edward A. Farmer
Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas
Remembrance by Rita Woods
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
The Coyotes of Carthage by Steven Wright
Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall
So We Can Glow: Stories by Leesa Cross-Smith
Telephone by Percival Everett
Cry of Metal & Bone (Earthsinger Chronicles, #3) by L. Penelope
The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2) by Evan Winter
The Secret Women by Sheila Williams
Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston
The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
And Now She’s Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall
Sun Is Sky by Jedah Mayberry
Stateway’s Garden: Stories by Jasmon Drain
A Long Time Comin’ by Robin W. Pearson
Reconstruction by Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Unspoken by Ian K. Smith
War Of The Heart: An Achim Jeffers Novel by Josiah Jay Starr
Scavenger by Christopher Chambers
The Seed of Cain (Record Keeper 2) by Agnes Gomillion
Love and Other Criminal Behavior by Nikki Dolson
Silverfish by Rone Shavers
Dance on Saturday: Stories by Elwin Cotman
Ace Boon Coon by Danny Gardner
The Talking Drum by Lisa Braxton
Afro Puffs Are the Antennae of the Universe (Brothers Jetstream #2) by Zig Zag Claybourne
In Things Unseen by Gar Anthony Haywood
Poetic Justice (Victoria Justice, 1) by Andrea J. Johnson
Wednesday at Noon by Teneka Woods
The Quiet Ones by Brandon Massey