African American Fiction
Abrams, Dwan A Little Bit of Karma (2019) Bryant, Niobia Divorcing the Devil Mama’s Boy Never Keeping Secrets Ansa, Tina McElroy More to Life (2019) Show and Tell Mudear Nothing But Drama Want, Need, Love 1. Baby of the Family The Secret She Kept Mistress 2. Ugly Ways Seeking Sarah 1. Message From a Mistress 3. Taking After Mudear Sinners and Saints (with Victoria 2. Mistress No More The Hand I Fan With Christopher Murray) 3. Mistress, Inc Ashley Antoinette 1. Sinners and Saints 4. The Pleasure Trap Moth to a Flame 2. Friends and Foes 5. Mistress for Hire Prada Plan 3. A Blessing and a Curse Strong Family 1. The Prada Plan Black, Daniel 1. Heated 2. Leah’s Story Listen to the Lambs 2. Hot Like Fire 3. Green Eyed Monster Bland, Eleanor Taylor 3. Give Me Fever 4. Love and War Marti McAllister 4. The Hot Spot 5. The Prada Plan 5 1. Dead Time 5. Red Hot Around the Way Girls 2. Slow Burn 6. Strong Heat 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 3. Gone Quiet 7. Just Say Yes Ashley & JaQuavis 4. Done Wrong 8. Welcome Back, My Love Diary of a Street Diva 5. Keep Still Buckhanon, Kalisha The Trophy Wife 6. See No Evil Solemn Cartel 7. Tell No Tales Bullard, Linda McKeever 1. The Cartel 8. Scream in Silence Shades of Justice 2. Tale of the Murda Mamas 9. Whispers in the Dark Bunkley, Anita Richmond 3. The Last Chapter 10. Windy City Dying Balancing Act 4. Diamonds Are Forever 11. Fatal Remains Between Goodbyes 5. La Bella Mafia 12. A Cold and Silent Dying Black Gold 6. The Demise 13. Dark and Deadly Starlight Passage 7. Illuminati Reception Wild Embers Baldwin, James Bohjalian, Chris Busia, Akosua Another Country Before You Know Kindness The Seasons of Beento Blackbird The Fire Next Time The Buffalo Soldier Butler, Octavia Giovanni’s Room The Double Bind Fledgling If Beale Street Could Talk The Law of Similars Imago: Xenogenesis Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Midwives Wastelands Gone Skeletons at the Feast Parable Series Bambara, Toni Cade Water Witches Parable of the Sower Those Bones Are Not My Child Bowen, Michele Andrea Parable of the Talents Beatty, Paul Church Folk Butler, Tajuana The Sellout More Church Folk Hand-Me-Down Heartache Bell, Madison Smartt Pastor Needs a Boo Sorority Sisters Waiting for the End of the World Up at the College Campbell, Bebe Moore Haitian Rebellion Second Sunday Brothers and Sisters 1. All Souls’ Rising Briscoe, Connie 72 Hour Hold 2. Master of the Crossroads Big Girls Don’t Cry Singing in the Comeback Choir 3. The Stone That the Builder A Long Way From Home Successful Women, Angry Men Refused Money Can’t Buy Love What You Owe Me Bennett, Brit Brown, Tracy Carl Weber’s Kingpins The Mothers Boss ATL by Brick & Storm Benson, Angela Twisted The Bronx by Marcus Weber The Summer of Me Snapped Charlotte by Blake Karrington Berry, Bertice 1. Snapped Chicago by Silk Smooth The Haunting of Hip Hop: A Novel 2. Aftermath Cleveland by Brandi Johnson Redemption Song White Lines Dallas by Treasure Hernandez Berry, Venise 1. White Lines Detroit by Ms Michel Moore (2019) All of Me 2. Sunny The Dirty South by Treasure Billingsley, ReShonda Tate 3. All Falls Down Hernandez The Book in Room 316 Houston by Treasure Hernandez Can I Get a Witness? Jamaica by Racquel Williams Holy Rollers Los Angeles by C N Phillips
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Miami by Nikki Turner Cobb, William Thieves’ Paradise Oklahoma City by Clifford Johnson Wings of Morning A Wanted Woman Philadelphia by Brittani Williams Cole, Alyssa Gideon St Louis by Keisha Ervin The Loyal League 1. Sleeping With Strangers Carter, Charlotte 1. An Extraordinary Union 2. Waking With Enemies Nanette Hayes 2. A Hope Divided 3. Dying for Revenge 1. Rhodes Island Red 3. An Unconditional 4. Resurrecting Midnight 2. Coq Au Vin Freedom 5. Finding Gideon 3. Drumsticks Coleman, JaQuavis Wicked 4. Rooster’s Riff Dopeman’s Trilogy 1. Bad Men and Wicked Cook County 1. The Dopeman’s Wife Women 1. Jackson Park 2. The Dopefiend 2. Before We Were Wicked 2. Trip Wire 3. The Dopeman (2019) Carter, Stephen L. Collins, Kathleen Due, Tananarive The Emperor of Ocean Park Whatever Happened to Interracial The Between Jericho’s Fall Love?: Stories The Black Rose New England White Conde, Maryse Ghost Summer Palace Council Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat? The Good House Cary, Lorene Cooper, J. California Durham, David Anthony Price of a Child The Future Has a Past Pride of Carthage Pride Life is Short But Wide Edwards, Grace Channer, Colin The Matter is Life Mali Anderson Got to be Real A Piece of Mine 1. If I Should Die Chunichi Some People, Some Other Place 2. A Toast Before Dying Around the Way Girls 7 Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns 3. No Time to Die A Gangster’s Girl Saga Copeland, Sheila 4. Do Or Die The Streets Keep Calling Chocolate Star Elam, Patricia Clair, Maxine Corbin, Steven Breathing Room Rattlebone Fragments That Remain Ellison, Ralph Clark, Wahida Dash, Julie Flying Home and Other Stories The Golden Hustla Daughters of the Dust The Invisible Man Sincerely, the Boss! DeBerry, Virginia Juneteenth Thuggz Valentine Far From the Tree Estleman, Loren D. Payback Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Black Powder, White Smoke 1. Payback is a Mutha Made Amos Walker 2. Payback With Ya Life Gotta Keep on Tryin’ 1. Motor City Blues 3. Payback Ain’t Enough Devoto, Pat Cunningham 2. Angel Eyes 4. Blood, Sweat & Payback Out of the Night That Covers Me 3. The Midnight Man Thug The Summer We Got Saved 4. The Glass Highway 1. Thugs and the Women Dickey, Eric Jerome 5. Sugartown Who Love Them An Accidental Affair 6. Every Brilliant Eye 2. Every Thug Needs a Lady Bad Men and Wicked Women 7. Lady Yesterday 3. Thug Matrimony Between Lovers 8. Downriver 4. Thug Lovin’ The Blackbirds 9. Silent Thunder 5. Justify My Thug Chasing Destiny 10. Sweet Women Lie 6. Honor Thy Thug Cheaters 11. Never Street 7. Thugs: Seven Decadence 12. The Witchfinder Clarke, Breena Drive Me Crazy 13. The Hours of the Virgin River, Cross My Heart Genevieve 14. A Smile on the Face of the Stand the Storm Got to be Real Tiger Cleage, Pearl Liar’s Game 15. Sinister Heights Babylon Sisters Milk in My Coffee 16. Poison Blonde Just Wanna Testify Naughtier Than Nice 17. Retro Seen It All and Done the Rest Naughty Or Nice 18. Nicotine Kiss Some Things I Never Thought I’d One Night 19. American Detective Do The Other Woman 20. The Left-Handed Dollar What Looks Like Crazy on an Pleasure 21. Infernal Angels Ordinary Day Sister, Sister 22. Burning Midnight Clemmons, Zinzi Tempted by Trouble 23. Don’t Look for Me What We Lose 24. You Know Who Killed Me
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25. The Sundown Speech Mama Dearest Hunt, L.A. Jill 26. The Lioness is the Hunter No One in the World No More Drama 27. Black and White Ball Invisible Life Say It Ain’t So Ewing, Rita 1. Invisible Life Hunt, Laird Homecourt Advantage 2. Just as I Am The Evening Road Flournoy, Angela 3. Abide With Me Hunter, Travis The Turner House John Basil Henderson A Family Sin Forster, Gwynne 1. Not a Day Goes by A One Woman Man Blues From Down Deep 2. Any Way the Wind Blows Married But Still Looking Foster, Sharon Ewell 3. If This World Were Mine Trouble Man Abraham’s Well Haulsey, Kumana Hurston, Zora Neale Passing by Samaria Angel of Harlem Seraph on the Suwanee Ain’t No River Haynes, David Their Eyes Were Watching God 1. Ain’t No River All American Dream Dolls Jackson, Brenda 2. Ain’t No Mountain Somebody Else’s Mama Ties That Bind 3. Ain’t No Valley Heffernan, William Jackson, Brian Keith French, Albert Beulah Hill The Queen of Harlem Holly Herbert, A.L. The View From Here Patches of Fire Mahalia Watkins Soul Food Jackson-Opoku, Sandra Gaines, Ernest 1. Murder With Fried Chicken Hot Johnny (and the Women Who The Autobiography of Miss Jane and Waffles Loved Him) Pittman 2. Murder With Macaroni and Jackson, Sheneska Bloodline Cheese Blessings A Gathering of Old Men Hicks, Robert Caught Up in the Rapture In My Father's House The Orphan Mother Li’l Mama’s Rules A Lesson Before Dying Hill, Donna Jakes, T.D. Glenn, Roy Divas, Inc. Cover Girls Is It a Crime? If I Could Not Easily Broken Goines, Donald In My Bedroom Japin, Arthur Black Gangster My Love at Last The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi Eldorado Red An Ordinary Woman Jefferson, Mimi Golden, Marita Quiet Storm The Single Sister Experiment After Lawsons of Louisiana Joe, Yolanda And Do Remember Me 1. Spend My Life with You Bebe’s by Golly Wow The Edge of Heaven (e-book only) The Hatwearer’s Lesson Long Distance Life 2. Secret Attraction This Just in The Wide Circumference of Love 3. Sultry Nights Johnson, Charles G’Orge-Walker, Pat 4. Everything is You Dreamer Cruisin’ on Desperation 5. The Way You Love Me Middle Passage Sister Betty! God’s Calling You, 6. For the Love of You Johnson, Keith Lee Again 7. Surrender to Me Hell Has No Fury Griffin, Bettye 8. When I’m with You Jones, Antonne Nothing But Trouble Sag Harbor Village The Family Guinn, Matthew 1. Touch Me Now Jones, Edward The Scribe 2. For You I Will All Aunt Hagar’s Children Gwin, Minrose 3. My Love at Last The Known World Promise Hill, Lawrence Lost in the City Gyasi, Yaa The Book of Negroes Jones, Tayari Homegoing Hill, Mars An American Marriage Haley, Alex The Moaner’s Bench Silver Sparrow Mama Flora’s Family Himes, Chester Katzenbach, John Queen The Collected Stories of Chester Hart’s War Roots Himes Kelley, William Harris, E. Lynn A Rage in Harlem The Sweet Summer And This Too Shall Pass Hobbs, Allison Kennedy, Erica Basketball Jones Stealing Candy Bling I Say a Little Prayer Hopkinson, Nalo King, J.L. In My Father’s House Skin Folk Love on a Two-Way Street Just Too Good to be True Hubbard, Ladee Kraus, Harry A Love of My Own The Talented Ribkins The Six-Liter Club
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Lamar, Jake How Stella Got Her Groove Back Who’s Loving You Close to the Bone I Almost Forgot About You Crystal If 6 Were 9 The Interruption of Everything 1. Baby, You’re the Best Lambright, Slim (Evelyn) Mama 2. Just Can’t Let Go The Justus Girls Who Asked You? 3. The One I’ve Waited For Lattany, Kristin Waiting to Exhale If I Can’t Have You Breaking Away 1. Waiting to Exhale 1. If I Can’t Have You Kinfolks 2. Getting to Happy 2. I’d Rather be With You Lee, Don Meriwether, Louise 3. If You Don’t Know Me Country of Origin Fragments of the Ark Morrison, Toni Lee, Tonya Lewis Shadow Dancing Beloved Gotham Diaries Miller, Karen E. Quinones The Bluest Eye Lewis, Erica Ida B God Help the Child Arlington Heights I’m Telling Home Darkness in the Mirror Mink, Meesha with De’Nesha Jazz Lewis, Sinclair Diamond Love Kingsblood Royal Bentley Manor A Mercy Little, Benilde 1. Desperate Hoodwives Paradise Good Hair 2. Shameless Hoodwives Song of Solomon Locke, Attica 3. The Hood Life Sula Highway 59 Monroe, Mary Tar Baby 1. Bluebird, Bluebird Bad Blood Mosley, Walter Love, Dorothy The Company We Keep Blue Light Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray Family of Lies Diablerie Major, Marcus Gonna Lay Down My Burdens Down the River unto the Sea Good Peoples Red Light Wives Fortunate Son Martin, Valerie Remembrance John Woman Property Right Beside You (2019) The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey Mason, Felicia She Had It Coming The Man in My Basement Gabriel’s Discovery Annette Good & Rhoda Nelson The Tempest Tales Hidden Riches 1. God Don’t Like Ugly Easy Rawlins Rhapsody 2. God Still Don’t Like Ugly 1. Devil in a Blue Dress Sweet Accord 3. God Don’t Play 2. A Red Death Sweet Devotion 4. God Ain’t Blind 3. White Butterfly Sweet Harmony 5. God Ain’t Through Yet 4. Black Betty Mathis, Ayana 6. God Don’t Make No 5. A Little Yellow Dog The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Mistakes 6. Gone Fishin’ McBride, James Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart 7. Bad Boy Brawly Brown Five-Carat Soul 1. Every Woman’s Dream 8. Six Easy Pieces The Good Lord Bird 2. Never Trust a Stranger 9. Little Scarlet Miracle at St. Anna 3. The Devil You Know 10. Cinnamon Kiss Song Yet Sung Mama Ruby 11. Blonde Faith McCarthy, Susan Carol 1. The Upper Room 12. Little Green Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands 2. Mama Ruby 13. Rose Gold McFadden, Bernice 3. Lost Daughters 14. Charcoal Joe Sugar Neighbors Fearless Jones Mysteries The Warmest December 1. One House Over 1. Fearless Jones McFarland, Dennis 2. Over the Fence (2019) 2. Fear Itself Prince Edward Moore, Edward Kelsey 3. Fear of the Dark McKinney-Whetstone, Diane Supremes Leonid McGill Blues Dancing 1. The Supremes at Earl’s All 1. The Long Fall Leaving Cecil Street -You-Can-Eat 2. Known to Evil Tempest Rising 2. The Supremes Sing the 3. When the Thrill is Gone Trading Dreams at Midnight Happy Heartache 4. All I Did Was Shoot My Tumbling Blues Man McLarin, Kim Morrison, Mary B. 5. And Sometimes I Wonder Taming It Down The Eternal Engagement About You McMillan, Terry Head Games A Day Late and a Dollar Short I Do Love You Still (2019) Disappearing Acts Never Again Once More
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Socrates Fortlow Porter, Connie 14. Sin of a Woman 1. Always Outnumbered, All-Bright Court 15. Better Late Than Never Always Outgunned Imani All Mine Rowell, Victoria 2. Walkin’ the Dog Price-Thompson, Tracy Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva 3. The Right Mistake Gather Together in My Name Russell, Trista Mullen, Thomas A Woman’s Worth Bedroom Bully Darktown Quartey, Kwei, Sapphire 1. Darktown Darko Dawson The Kid 2. Lightning Man 1. Wife of the Gods Push Murray, J.J. 2. Children of the Street Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson Something Real 3. Murder at Cape Three A Kind of Freedom Murray, Victoria Christopher Points Shange, Ntozake Forever an Ex 4. Gold of Our Fathers Liliane Fortune & Fame 5. Death by His Grace Silk White Joy Randall, Alice Tears of a Hustler Never Say Never The Wind Done Gone 1. Tears of a Hustler A Sin and a Shame Rawles, Nancy 2. Tears of a Hustler 2 Truth be Told Crawfish Dreams 3. Tears of a Hustler 3 Seven Deadly Sins My Jim 4. Tears of a Hustler 4: 1. Lust Rax, Cydney You’ve Been Warned 2. Envy Brothers and Wives 5. Tears of a Hustler 5: The 3. Greed (2019) My Best Friend and My Man Spades Naylor, Gloria Ray, Francis 6. Tears of a Hustler: The Bailey’s Café Not Even if You Begged Return of the Wolf Linden Hills Only You Teflon Queen The Men of Brewster Place Somebody’s Knocking at My Door 1. The Teflon Queen Ndibe, Okey Winter Nights 2. The Teflon Queen 2 Foreign Gods, Inc Reynolds, April 3. The Teflon Queen 3: Hard Noire Knee-Deep in Wonder to Kill Misadventures of Mink LaRue Rhodes, Jewell Parker 4. The Teflon Queen 4: Mr. 1. Natural Born Liar Douglass’ Women Death 2. Sexy Little Liar Magic City 5. The Teflon Queen 5: Deep 3. Dirty Rotten Liar Rice, Patty Cover 4. Red Hot Liar Somethin’ Extra Sinclair, April 5. Stone Cold Liar Roby, Kimberla Lawson Ain’t Gonna be the Same Fool Packer, ZZ Best Friends Forever Twice Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Changing Faces Coffee Will Make You Black Parks, Suzan-Lori A Christmas Prayer I Left My Back Door Open Getting Mother’s Body Copycat Souljah, Sister Pelecanos, George A Deep, Dark Secret The Coldest Winter Ever Drama City Here and Now The Deeper Love Inside: The The Night Gardener It’s a Thin Line Porsche Santiaga Story Shame the Devil One in a Million Midnight The Sweet Forever The Perfect Marriage 1. Midnight: A Gangster Love The Turnaround Secret Obsession Story Derek Strange and Terry Quinn Reverend Curtis Black 2. Midnight and the Meaning 1. Right as Rain 1. Casting the First Stone of Love 2. Hell to Pay 2. Too Much of a Good Thing 3. A Moment of Silence 3. Soul Circus 3. The Best-Kept Secret Spencer, Camika 4. Hard Revolution 4. Love and Lies When All Hell Breaks Loose 5. What It Was 5. Sin No More Stetson, Jeff Pesci, David 6. The Best of Everything Blood on the Leaves Amistad 7. Be Careful What You Pray Stimpson, Michelle Piazza, Tom For Boaz Brown A Free State 8. Love, Honor, and Betray Stockett, Kathryn Picoult, Jodi 9. The Reverend’s Wife The Help Small Great Things 10. A House Divided Story, Rosalyn Pinkney, David 11. The Prodigal Son More Than You Know Black Deutschland 12. The Ultimate Betrayal 13. A Sinful Calling
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Straight, Susan Now is the Time to Open Your Tamara Hayle Blacker Than a Thousand Heart 1. When Death Comes Midnights Possessing the Secret of Joy Stealing Highwire Moon The Temple of My Familiar 2. Devil’s Gonna Get Him The Gettin’ Place The Third Life of Grange Copeland 3. Where Evil Sleeps Street Chronicles: A Woman’s Walker, Margaret 4. No Hiding Place Work Jubilee 5. Easier to Kill Tademy, Lalita Walker, Mari 6. The Devil Riding Tademy Family Chronicles Never as Good as the First Time 7. Dying in the Dark 1. Cane River Ward, Jesmyn 8. Of Blood and Sorrow 2. Red River Men We Reaped White, Franklin Talbert, David Salvage the Bones Cup of Love Baggage Claim Sing, Unburied, Sing Fed Up With the Fanny Tanabe, Karin Where the Line Bleeds Whitehead, Colson The Gilded Years Watts, Stephanie Powell John Henry Days Tervalon, Jervey No One is Coming to Save Us The Nickel Boys (2019) Dead Above Ground Weber, Carl Sag Harbor Thomas, Jacquelin The Doctor is in The Underground Railroad A Change is Gonna Come Influence Jezebel The Man in 3B Whitfield, Van Treasures of the Heart Man on the Run Beeperless Remote With a Song in My Heart She Ain’t the One Something’s Wrong with Your Thomas, Michael Big Girls Scale! Man Gone Down 1. Something on the Side Wideman, John Edgar Trafford, J.D. 2. Big Girls Do Cry Philadelphia Fire Little Boy Lost 3. Torn Between Two Lovers Reuben Trice, Dawn Turner The Choir Director The Cattle Killing An Eighth of August 1. The Choir Director Williams, Karen Turner, Nikki 2. Runaway Bride Harlem on Lock The Banks Sisters Church Woods, Teri Black Widow 1. The Preacher’s Son Alibi Death Before Dishonour 2. So You Call Yourself a 1. Alibi Ghetto Superstar Man 2. Alibi: Nard’s Revenge Natural Born Hustler 3. The First Lady True to the Game Relapse 4. Up to No Good 1. True to the Game I Riding Dirty on 1-95 Family Business 2. True to the Game II Banks Sisters The Grand Opening 3. True to the Game III 1. The Banks Sisters Grand Opening 2 Wright, Richard 2. The Banks Sisters 2 No More Mr. Nice Guy The Outsider 3. The Banks Sisters 3 To Paris With Love Uncle Tom’s Children Glamorous Life Trouble in Rio Yanique, Tiphanie 1. The Glamorous Life 1. The Family Business Land of Love and Drowning 2. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold 2. The Family Business 2 Youngblood, Shay Project Chick 3. The Family Business 3 Black Girl in Paris 1. A Project Chick 4. The Family Business 4 2. What’s Done in the Dark Lookin’ for LUV Yarni and Des 1. Lookin’ for LUV 1. A Hustler’s Wife 2. Married Men 2. Forever a Hustler’s Wife 3. Baby Momma Drama 3. Heartbreak of a Hustler’s 4. Player Haters Wife Weisgarber, Ann Turnipseed, Erica Simone The Personal History of Rachel A Love Noire DuPree Tyree, Omar Wesley, Valerie Wilson Just Say No! Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do Walker, Alice Always True to You in My Fashion By the Light of My Father’s Smile Playing My Mother’s Blues The Color Purple Where Do I Go From Here? Meridian
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