Lineage Lists

2025 Adult Literary Fiction By Black Americans

  1. Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
  2. Free Girls by Kristen McCallum
  3. Chloe: A Novel of Secrets and Lies by Connie Briscoe
  4. Unlikely Neighbors: A Spicy Opposites Attract Romance set in Brooklyn by Renee Daniel Flagler
  5. Fish Tales: A Novel by Nettie Jones
  6. Curdle Creek: A Novel by Yvonne Battle-Felton
  7. Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  8. The Senator by Maya Golden Bethany
  9. Zeal: A Novel by Morgan Jerkins
  10. The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile by Errick Nunnally
  11. No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel
  12. Behind the Waterline by Kionna Walker LeMalle
  13. There’s Nothing Left for You Here: Stories by Allegra Solomon
  14. The Filling Station by Vanessa Miller
  15. The Love Simulation by Etta Easton
  16. Glory Daze: A Glory Broussard Mystery (Glory Broussard Mysteries) by Danielle Arceneaux
  17. Payback by Penny Mickelbury
  18. Red Clay by Charles B. Fancher
  19. The Sable Cloak by Gail Milissa Grant
  20. Let Us March On: A Novel by Shara Moon
  21. The Rules of Fortune: A Novel by Danielle Prescod
  22. Whispers of the Lake by Shanora Williams
  23. Francine’s Spectacular Crash and Burn: A Novel by Renee Swindle
  24. As You Wish: A Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith
  25. Where the Wildflowers Grow: A Novel by Terah Shelton Harris
  26. Black Cherokee: A Novel by Antonio Michael Downing
  27. This Here Is Love: A Novel by Princess Joy L. Perry
  28. Little Movements: A Novel by Lauren Morrow
  29. The Payback: A Novel by Kashana Cauley
  30. The Great Mann: A Novel by Kyra Davis Lurie
  31. Shadows of Justice: A Topher Davis Thriller by Brian Copeland
  32. The Dark Maestro: A Novel by Brendan Slocumb
  33. Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4 (An Ashe Cayne Mystery) by Ian K. Smith
  34. Blood Slaves (The Blood Saga) by Markus Redmond
  35. Coded Justice: A Thriller by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  36. Watch Where They Hide: A Jordan Manning Novel (Jordan Manning series, 2) by Tamron Hall
  37. Family Spirit: A Novel by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  38. Something in the Water by Phyllis R. Dixon
  39. Gray Dawn: An Easy Rawlins Mystery (Easy Rawlins, 17) by Walter Mosley
  40. Swift River: A Novel By Essie Chambers
  41. In Deadly Company by L.S. Stratton
  42. Listen to Your Sister: A Novel by Neena Viel
  43. The Sable Cloak by Gail Milissa Grant
  44. Dominion: A Novel by Addie E. Citchens
  45. A Sky Full of Love by Lorna Lewis
  46. Family & Other Calamities by Leslie Gray Streeter
  47. We Don’t Talk About Carol by Kristen L. Berry
  48. An Old Soul by M. Kevin Hayden
  49. Willow Rose by M. Kevin Hayden
  50. The Catch: A Novel by Yrsa Daley-Ward
  51. Fog and Fury: A Thriller Book by Rachel Howzell Hall
  52. Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel by Walter Mosley
  53. Untethered by Angela Jackson-Brown
  54. The New Internationals by David Wright Faladé
  55. Universality by Natasha Brown
  56. The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum by Valerie Wilson Wesley
  57. Edge by Tracy Clark
  58. Between Good and Evil by Rochelle Alers
  59. The Bluest Night by Aaron Philip Clark
  60. The Stories We Carry by Robin W. Pearson
  61. It’s Me They Follow: A Novel by Jeannine A. Cook
  62. Lauryn Harper Falls Apart: A Novel by Shauna Robinson
  63. People Like Us: A Novel by Jason Mott
  64. Make Your Way Home: Stories Book by Carrie R. Moore
  65. The Life of Herod the Great by by Zora Neale Hurston
  66. People of Means by Nancy Johnson
  67. Love You To Death: A Novel by Christina Dotson
  68. Boom Town Book by Nic Stone
  69. Beyond Midnight by Ian K. Smith
  70. Seraphim by Joshua Perry
  71. All the Men I’ve Loved Again: A Novel by Christine Pride
  72. Sounds Like Trouble by Pamela Samuels Young and Dwayne Alexander Smith
  73. Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce
  74. Mojorhythm by Sheree Renée Thomas
  75. Trigger Warning: A Novel by Jacinda Townsend
  76. Martha’s Daughter: A Novella and Stories by David Haynes