2017 Adult Literary Fiction By Black Americans
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
- The Wide Circumference of Love by Marita Golden
- The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard
- Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) by Attica Locke
- Hollywood Homicide (Detective by Day, #1) by Kellye Garrett
- And Then There Was Me by Sadeqa Johnson
- Late Arcade by Nathaniel Mackey
- The Changeling by Victor LaValle
- Seeking Sarah by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
- So Much Blue by Percival Everett
- A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- Twelve Days by Steven Barnes
- Death in D Minor (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #2) by Alexia Gordon
- The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3) by N.K. Jemisin
- Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
- All Things Violent by Nikki Dolson
- Roads, Where There Are No Roads: A Novel by Angela Jackson
- Cold Flash (The Muriel Mabley Series) by Carrie H. Johnson
- Unforgivable Love: A Retelling of Dangerous Liaisons by Sophfronia Scott
- The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden
- To Funk and Die in LA by Nelson George
- Getting It Right by Karen E. Osborne
- Passage by Khary Lazarre-White
- As Lie Is to Grin: A Novel by Simeon Marsalis
- New People by Danzy Senna
- City of Saviors (Detective Elouise Norton, #4) by Rachel Howzell Hall
- The Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest J. Gaines
- The Last Day of Emily Lindsey by Nic Joseph
- Claretta Street by Colette Barris
- In and of Blood by Kat Lewis
- King Comus by William Demby
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