2026 Adult Literary Fiction By Black Americans

The Body by Bethany C. Morrow
Worse than a Lie: A Beau Lee Cooper Novel by Ben Crump
Hard Times: A Novel By Jeff Boyd
Judge Stone by Viola Davis
With Love from Harlem A Novel of Hazel Scott by ReShonda Tate
Where the False Gods Dwell by Denny S. Bryce
The Johnson Four A Novel By Christina Hammonds Reed
If I Ruled the World by Amy DuBois Barnett
I’ll Watch Your Baby: A Novel by Neena Viel
Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson
Kin: A Novel by Tayari Jones
This Is the (After)Life with Denise by Taryn Delanie Smith
Better Than You Know Yourself: A Novel by Kristen L. Berry
A Very Special Episode: A Novel by Camille Acker
The Occidental Book of the Dead by T. Geronimo Johnson
The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams
Would I Lie to You? by Tanvier Peart
The People’s Library by Veronica G. Henry
The Book of Chuck: A Novel LaToya Watkins
Starlite/Astro/Galaxy by LaToya Watkins
The Great Wherever A Novel by Shannon Sanders
The Shape of Dreams: A Novel by April Reynolds
Soft Spots: A Novel by Leila Renee
Dead First by Johnny Compton
Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone by Dana Renee Green
Where the Wildflowers Grow: A Novel by Terah Shelton Harris
These Walls Remember by Del Sandeen
The Quarter Queen: A Novel by Kayla Hardy
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
Blood Rising by Markus Redmond
Runner: A Novel by Ashton Lattimore
All My Sisters and Me by Sheryl Lister
Strangers Behind Closed Doors by Catherine Adel West
Mazywood by Tananarive Due
They Call Her Regret by Channelle Desamours
Friends and Family A Novel By Natalie Baszile
Chimera Skin by Johnny Compton
Ghalen by Walter Mosley