2016 Adult Literary Fiction By Black Americans
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett
- Charcoal Joe (Easy Rawlins #14) by Walter Mosley
- The Mother by Yvvette Edwards
- Chicago Heat and Other Stories by Clarence Major
- The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
- Lazaretto by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson
- Solemn by Kalisha Buckhanon
- Summer of the Cicadas by Cole Lavalais
- Second House from the Corner by Sadeqa Johnson
- We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge
- Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston
- In the Not Quite Dark: Stories by Dana Johnson
- Listen to the Lambs by Daniel Black
- Olio by Tyehimba Jess
- The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron
- Know the Mother (Made in Michigan Writer Series) by Desiree Cooper
- Melting the Blues by Tracy Chiles McGhee
- Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
- Version Control by Dexter Palmer
- Everfair (Everfair, #1) by Nisi Shawl
- When the World Wounds by Kiini Ibura Salaam
- Triangle Ray by John Holman
- Grace by Natashia Deón
- Strivers and Other Stories by Robert J. Williams
- Edge of the Wind by James E. Cherry
- Mass Effect: Initiation (Mass Effect: Andromeda, #2) by N.K. Jemisin
- Murder in G Major (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #1) by Alexia Gordon
- Other Side by Ray Hollar-Gregory
- Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins
- In the Heart of Texas: A Novel by Ginger McKnight-Chavers
- Valley Of The Kings: The 18th Dynasty by Terrance Coffey