Adult Literary Fiction Published By Black Americans in Decade: 1990s

  1. Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
  2. Through the Ivory Gate by Rita Dove
  3. Blood Red Blues (Devil Barnett Detective Series, #1) by Teddy Hayes
  4. A Long Way From Home by Connie Briscoe
  5. I Get on the Bus by Reginald McKnight
  6. The Good Negress by A.J. Verdelle
  7. Close to the Bone: A Novel by Jake Lamar
  8. The Last Integrationist by Jake Lamar
  9. Spiral of Guilt by Faye Snowden
  10. The Devil’s Red Nickel by Robert Greer
  11. The Devil’s Hatband by Robert Greer
  12. Divine Days by Leon Forrest
  13. Knowing by Rosalyn McMillan
  14. One Better by Rosalyn McMillan
  15. Blue Collar Blues by Rosalyn McMillan
  16. Jazz by Toni Morrison
  17. Paradise by Toni Morrison
  18. Ten Seconds by Louis Edwards
  19. N: A Romantic Mystery by Louis Edwards
  20. Good Fences by Erika Ellis
  21. Ring around the Moon by Mary Burnett Smith
  22. Miss Ophelia by Mary Burnett Smith
  23. Clover by Dori Sanders
  24. Her Own Place by Dori Sanders
  25. Tumbling by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  26. Blues Dancing by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  27. The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
  28. The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
  29. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
  30. Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
  31. Rails Under My Back: A Novel (Harvest Book) by Jeffery Renard Allen
  32. Two Cities by John Edgar Wideman
  33. A War of Eyes: and Other Stories by Wanda Coleman
  34. Home Repairs by Trey Ellis
  35. Right Here, Right Now: A Novel by Trey Ellis
  36. The Seven League Boots by Albert Murray
  37. The Spyglass Tree by Albert Murray
  38. God’s Country by Percival Everett
  39. Glyph by Percival Everett
  40. Stray Dogs by John Ridley
  41. Love Is a Racket by John Ridley
  42. Everybody Smokes in Hell by John Ridley
  43. Japanese by Spring by Ishmael Reed
  44. These Same Long Bones by Gwendolyn M. Parker
  45. Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson
  46. The Healing by Gayl Jones
  47. Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2) by Octavia E. Butler
  48. Family by J. California Cooper
  49. Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
  50. Rattlebone by Maxine Clair
  51. The Matter Is Life by J. California Cooper
  52. Trouble No More by Anthony Grooms
  53. The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences by Dorothy West
  54. The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
  55. All Stories Are True by John Edgar Wideman
  56. Big Picture by Percival Everett
  57. The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas: Stories by Reginald McKnight
  58. White Boys: Stories by Reginald McKnight
  59. Squabble, And Other Stories by John Holman
  60. Luminous Mysteries by John Holman
  61. Fun & Games: Short Fictions by Clarence Major
  62. Reflex and Bone Structure by Clarence Major
  63. Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major
  64. Driving Under the Cardboard Pines: And Other Stories by Colleen McElroy
  65. In the Arms of Our Elders by William Henry Lewis
  66. Ibo Landing: An Offering of Short Stories by Ihsan Bracy
  67. Breeder and Other Stories by Eugenia Collier
  68. Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories by J. California Cooper
  69. Flying Home and Other Stories by Ralph Ellison
  70. The Short Stories by Langston Hughes
  71. The African in Me by Howard Gordon
  72. The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women by Marcy Knopf
  73. Don’t Erase Me: Stories by Carolyn Ferrell
  74. Iced: A Novel by Ray Shell
  75. The Passion of Joan Paul II. A Pasquinade by J.J. Phillips
  76. The Wedding by Dorothy West
  77. Scenes from a Sistah by Lolita Files
  78. Naming the New World by Calvin Baker