The Best Black American Dysfunctional Family Novels
- Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
- The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
- Before I Forget by Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
- The Untelling by Tayari Jones
- Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice
- Trading Dreams at Midnight by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
- Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
- Southern Comfort (The Busby Series Book 1) by Ruthe McDonald
- If Sons, Then Heirs by Lorene Cary
- Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice L. McFadden
- The Warmest December by Bernice L. McFadden
- Shifting Through Neutral by Bridgett M. Davis
- October Suite by Maxine Clair
- Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
- Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate
- Good Fences by Erika Ellis
- The Grass Widow by Mary Burnett Smith
- Ring around the Moon by Mary Burnett Smith
- All I Need to Get By: A Novel by Sophfronia Scott
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
- The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson
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