Lineage Lists

2026 Adult Literary Fiction By Black Americans

  1. The Body by Bethany C. Morrow
  2. Worse than a Lie: A Beau Lee Cooper Novel by Ben Crump
  3. Hard Times: A Novel by Jeff Boyd
  4. Judge Stone by Viola Davis
  5. With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott by ReShonda Tate
  6. Where the False Gods Dwell by Denny S. Bryce
  7. The Johnson Four: A Novel by Christina Hammonds Reed
  8. If I Ruled the World by Amy DuBois Barnett
  9. I’ll Watch Your Baby: A Novel by Neena Viel
  10. Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson
  11. Kin: A Novel by Tayari Jones
  12. This Is the (After)Life with Denise by Taryn Delanie Smith
  13. Better Than You Know Yourself: A Novel by Kristen L. Berry
  14. A Very Special Episode: A Novel by Camille Acker
  15. The Occidental Book of the Dead by T. Geronimo Johnson
  16. The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams
  17. Would I Lie to You? by Tanvier Peart
  18. The People’s Library by Veronica G. Henry
  19. The Book of Chuck: A Novel LaToya Watkins
  20. The Great Wherever: A Novel by Shannon Sanders
  21. The Shape of Dreams: A Novel by April Reynolds
  22. Soft Spots: A Novel by Leila Renee
  23. Dead First by Johnny Compton
  24. Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone by Dana Renee Green
  25. Where the Wildflowers Grow: A Novel by Terah Shelton Harris
  26. These Walls Remember by Del Sandeen
  27. The Quarter Queen: A Novel by Kayla Hardy
  28. Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
  29. Blood Rising by Markus Redmond
  30. Runner: A Novel by Ashton Lattimore
  31. All My Sisters and Me by Sheryl Lister
  32. Strangers Behind Closed Doors by Catherine Adel West
  33. Mazywood by Tananarive Due
  34. They Call Her Regret by Channelle Desamours
  35. Friends and Family: A Novel by Natalie Baszile
  36. Chimera Skin by Johnny Compton
  37. Ghalen by Walter Mosley
  38. The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson
  39. The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope
  40. Majestic Hills: A Novel by Dawn Turner
  41. The Hospital at the End of the World: A Novel by Justin C. Key
  42. The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford: A Novel by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
  43. Fairfield County: A Novel by DéLana R. A. Dameron
  44. The Haul: A Heist Novel by Gary Phillips
  45. Ferry Tales by Abrea Armstrong
  46. A Harlem Wedding: A Novel by Tiffany L. Warren
  47. Tear the City Down by Andre Hardy
  48. Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel by Walter Mosley
  49. But Where’s Home?: A Novella and Stories by Toni Ann Johnson
  50. Our Sister’s Keeper by Jasmine L. Holmes
  51. Desperate Bodies: Stories by Lydia Mathis
  52. The View from Here: A Thriller by Rachel Howzell Hall
  53. Mist and Malice by Rachel Howzell Hall
  54. A Ghost Among Magnolias by James Slater Simmons III
  55. Blues for the Dead by Aaron Philip Clark
  56. The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays by Andrea Hairston
  57. Broken Glass Houses by Lorna Lewis
  58. The Ladies Hall: A Novel of Three Women Who Refused to Be Silenced by Vanessa Miller
  59. Humboldt Cut: A Redwood Gothic by Allison Mick
  60. Beignets and Big Feelings: A Novel by Leslie Gray Streeter
  61. Laws of Solomon (Martyr Maker #4) by Eriq La Salle