2019 Adult Literary Fiction By Black Americans

  1. We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
  2. American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
  3. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
  4. The Last Thing You Surrender by Leonard Pitts Jr.
  5. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  6. They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall
  7. The Record Keeper by Agnes Gomillion
  8. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
  9. Small Silent Things by Robin Page
  10. The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
  11. A Death in Harlem by Karla F.C. Holloway
  12. Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix
  13. Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin
  14. Avery Colt is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar by Ron A. Austin
  15. Cygnet by Season Butler
  16. The Travelers by Regina Porter
  17. Speaking of Summer by Kalisha Buckhanon
  18. Heaven, My Home (Highway 59 #2) by Attica Locke
  19. Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
  20. In the Heat of the Light by Stephen Kearse
  21. Hollywood Hack (Detective by Day, #3) by Kellye Garrett
  22. Orion and The Light by Michael Hope
  23. Exile Blues by Douglas Gary Joseph Freeman
  24. One Night in Georgia by Celeste O. Norfleet
  25. God’s Will and Other Lies by Penny Mickelbury
  26. Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer
  27. Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing by Stephanie Andrea Allen (Editor)
  28. Tonic and Balm by Stephanie Allen
  29. My Darkest Prayer by S.A. Cosby
  30. Revelation by Bobi Gentry Goodwin
  31. Hot August Nights by Teneka Woods
  32. The Divide (Jade Harrington, #3) by J.L. Brown
  33. Empty Bottles Full of Stories by R.H. Sin
  34. Daykeeper by Ran Walker
  35. Good Man Gone Bad (Aaron Gunner #7) by Gar Anthony Haywood
  36. Borrowed Time (Cass Raines, #2) by Tracy Clark
  37. A Killing Fire by Faye Snowden
  38. The Emancipation of Evan Walls by Jeffrey Blount