Adult Historical Fiction Set In the 1800s by Black Americans
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Lazaretto by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley
- The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L. Carter
- Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Grace by Natashia Deón
- The Wake of the Wind by J. California Cooper
- Song of the Shank by Jeffery Renard Allen
- Angels Make Their Hope Here by Breena Clarke
- Yonder by Jabari Asim
- A Long Way from Home by Connie Briscoe
- Things Past Telling by Sheila Williams
- The Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards
- All We Were Promised: A Novel by Ashton Lattimore
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