2016 Adult Literary Fiction By Black Americans

  1. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
  2. The Mothers by Brit Bennett
  3. Charcoal Joe (Easy Rawlins #14) by Walter Mosley
  4. The Mother by Yvvette Edwards
  5. Chicago Heat and Other Stories by Clarence Major
  6. The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
  7. Lazaretto by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  8. The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson
  9. Solemn by Kalisha Buckhanon
  10. Summer of the Cicadas by Cole Lavalais
  11. Second House from the Corner by Sadeqa Johnson
  12. We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge
  13. Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston
  14. In the Not Quite Dark: Stories by Dana Johnson
  15. Listen to the Lambs by Daniel Black
  16. Olio by Tyehimba Jess
  17. The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron
  18. Know the Mother (Made in Michigan Writer Series) by Desiree Cooper
  19. Melting the Blues by Tracy Chiles McGhee
  20. Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
  21. Version Control by Dexter Palmer
  22. Everfair (Everfair, #1) by Nisi Shawl
  23. When the World Wounds by Kiini Ibura Salaam
  24. Triangle Ray by John Holman
  25. Grace by Natashia Deón
  26. Strivers and Other Stories by Robert J. Williams
  27. Edge of the Wind by James E. Cherry
  28. Mass Effect: Initiation (Mass Effect: Andromeda, #2) by N.K. Jemisin
  29. Murder in G Major (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #1) by Alexia Gordon
  30. Other Side by Ray Hollar-Gregory
  31. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins
  32. In the Heart of Texas: A Novel by Ginger McKnight-Chavers
  33. Valley Of The Kings: The 18th Dynasty by Terrance Coffey