Adult Literary Fiction Published By Black Americans in Decade: 1990s
- Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
- Through the Ivory Gate by Rita Dove
- Blood Red Blues (Devil Barnett Detective Series, #1) by Teddy Hayes
- A Long Way From Home by Connie Briscoe
- I Get on the Bus by Reginald McKnight
- The Good Negress by A.J. Verdelle
- Close to the Bone: A Novel by Jake Lamar
- The Last Integrationist by Jake Lamar
- Spiral of Guilt by Faye Snowden
- The Devil’s Red Nickel by Robert Greer
- The Devil’s Hatband by Robert Greer
- Divine Days by Leon Forrest
- Knowing by Rosalyn McMillan
- One Better by Rosalyn McMillan
- Blue Collar Blues by Rosalyn McMillan
- Jazz by Toni Morrison
- Paradise by Toni Morrison
- Ten Seconds by Louis Edwards
- N: A Romantic Mystery by Louis Edwards
- Good Fences by Erika Ellis
- Ring around the Moon by Mary Burnett Smith
- Miss Ophelia by Mary Burnett Smith
- Clover by Dori Sanders
- Her Own Place by Dori Sanders
- Tumbling by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Blues Dancing by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
- The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
- Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
- Rails Under My Back: A Novel (Harvest Book) by Jeffery Renard Allen
- Two Cities by John Edgar Wideman
- A War of Eyes: and Other Stories by Wanda Coleman
- Home Repairs by Trey Ellis
- Right Here, Right Now: A Novel by Trey Ellis
- The Seven League Boots by Albert Murray
- The Spyglass Tree by Albert Murray
- God’s Country by Percival Everett
- Glyph by Percival Everett
- Stray Dogs by John Ridley
- Love Is a Racket by John Ridley
- Everybody Smokes in Hell by John Ridley
- Japanese by Spring by Ishmael Reed
- These Same Long Bones by Gwendolyn M. Parker
- Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson
- The Healing by Gayl Jones
- Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2) by Octavia E. Butler
- Family by J. California Cooper
- Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
- Rattlebone by Maxine Clair
- The Matter Is Life by J. California Cooper
- Trouble No More by Anthony Grooms
- The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences by Dorothy West
- The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
- All Stories Are True by John Edgar Wideman
- Big Picture by Percival Everett
- The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas: Stories by Reginald McKnight
- White Boys: Stories by Reginald McKnight
- Squabble, And Other Stories by John Holman
- Luminous Mysteries by John Holman
- Fun & Games: Short Fictions by Clarence Major
- Reflex and Bone Structure by Clarence Major
- Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major
- Driving Under the Cardboard Pines: And Other Stories by Colleen McElroy
- In the Arms of Our Elders by William Henry Lewis
- Ibo Landing: An Offering of Short Stories by Ihsan Bracy
- Breeder and Other Stories by Eugenia Collier
- Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories by J. California Cooper
- Flying Home and Other Stories by Ralph Ellison
- The Short Stories by Langston Hughes
- The African in Me by Howard Gordon
- The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women by Marcy Knopf
- Don’t Erase Me: Stories by Carolyn Ferrell
- Iced: A Novel by Ray Shell
- The Passion of Joan Paul II. A Pasquinade by J.J. Phillips
- The Wedding by Dorothy West
- Scenes from a Sistah by Lolita Files
- Naming the New World by Calvin Baker