2012 Adult Literary Fiction By Black Americans
- The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
- The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
- Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
- Home by Toni Morrison
- Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Elsewhere, California by Dana Johnson
- Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden
- Passing Love by Jacqueline E. Luckett
- Hold It ‘Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson
- The Devil Stopped By by Sha-shonda Porter
- The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L. Carter
- Parishioner by Walter Mosley
- All I Did Was Shoot My Man (Leonid McGill, #4) by Walter Mosley
- me and Nina by Monica Hand
- Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam
- Astride a Pink Horse by Robert Greer
- South by Southeast (Tennyson Hardwick, #4) by Blair Underwood
- A Healthy Fear of Man (Paul Little, #2) by Aaron Philip Clark