Fiction Books Featuring the Black American Middle and Upper Class By Black Americans

  1. Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
  2. No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
  3. I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan
  4. Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan
  5. When Washington Was in Vogue: A Lost Novel of the Harlem Renaissance by Edward Christopher Williams
  6. The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L. Carter
  7. The Living is Easy by Dorothy West
  8. The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
  9. The Wide Circumference of Love by Marita Golden
  10. Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor
  11. So Much Blue by Percival Everett
  12. Blues Dancing by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  13. The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope
  14. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
  15. When Washington Was in Vogue: A Love Story by Edward Christopher Williams
  16. The Untelling by Tayari Jones
  17. The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas: Stories by Reginald McKnight
  18. New England White by Stephen L. Carter
  19. Back Channel by Stephen L. Carter
  20. All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones
  21. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  22. Trouble No More by Anthony Grooms
  23. Leaving Cecil Street by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  24. Flight of the Blackbird by Faye McDonald Smith
  25. The Between by Tananarive Due
  26. Dominion: A Novel by Calvin Baker
  27. Grace by Calvin Baker
  28. The Good House by Tananarive Due
  29. The Chinaberry Tree by Jessie Redmon Fauset
  30. Disgruntled by Asali Solomon
  31. Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
  32. Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate
  33. Whiskey & Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith
  34. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
  35. Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
  36. The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
  37. All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris