Here's another roundup of works -- this one focusing on novels published by black men since 2000. I've produced a few lists lately in an effort to share some of my bibliographic work. As always, it's a partial list.
[Related: 160 novels by black women, 2000 - 2019]
110 novels by black men, 2000 - 2019
2019
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Bivouac by Kwame Dawes
• A Particular Kind of Black Man by Tope Folarin
• Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
• We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
2018
• Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
• Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
• John Woman by Walter Mosley
2017
• So Much Blue by Percival Everett
• The Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest Gaines
• To Funk and Die in LA by Nelson George
• August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle
• As Lie Is to Grin by Simeon Marsalis
• Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell
2016
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley
• Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2015
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• Grace by Calvin Baker
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• The Lost Treasures of R&B: A D Hunter Mystery by Nelson George
• Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
• Driving the King by Ravi Howard
• Shetani's Sister by Slim Iceberg
• Loving Day by Mat Johnson
• Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
• And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley
• Inside a Silver Box by Walter Mosley
2014
• Song of the Shank by Jeffrey Reynard Allen
• Team Seven by Marcus Burke
• Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
• Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore by Walter Mosley
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2013
• Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
• The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
• The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
• Long Division by Kiese Laymon
• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
• Little Green by Walter Mosley
2012
• Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel Delany
• Hold It 'Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson
• All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley
2011
• Open City by Teju Cole
• Assumption by Percival Everett
• The Plot Against Hip Hop: A D Hunter Mystery by Nelson George
• Pym by Mat Johnson
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• Juice! by Ishmael Reed
• Zone One by Colson Whitehead
2010
• How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
• Known to Evil by Walter Mosley
• The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
2009
• I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
• God Says No by James Hannaham
• The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
• Big Machine by Victor LaValle
• The Long Fall by Walter Mosley
• Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
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2008
• Slumberland by Paul Beatty
• Song Yet Sung by James McBride
• The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley
• Diablerie by Walter Mosley
• Fanon by John Edgar Wideman
• A Father's Law by Richard Wright
2007
• She's Gone by Kwame Dawes
• Dark Reflections by Samuel Delany
• The Water Cure by Percival Everett
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• Like Trees, Walking by Ravi Howard
• Them by Nathan McCall
• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
• Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley
• Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
2006
• Dominion by Calvin Baker
• Killing Johnny Fry by Walter Mosley
• Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley
• Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley
• Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
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2005
• Wounded by Percival Everett
• The Accidental Hunter: A D Hunter Mystery by Nelson George
• Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
• John Crow's Devil by Marlon James
• Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley
• 47 by Walter Mosley
• The Wave by Walter Mosley
• The Magic Keys by Albert Murray
2004
• Phallos by Samuel Delany
• A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond by Percival Everett and James Kincaid
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• Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley
2003
• Once Two Heroes by Calvin Baker
• Hunting in Harlem by Mat Johnson
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• Fear Itself by Walter Mosley
2002
• The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle
• Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
• Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley
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2001
• Erasure by Percival Everett
• He Sleeps by Reginald McKnight
• Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley
• John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
2000
• Rails Under My Back by Jeffrey Reynard Allen
• Tuff by Paul Beatty
• Drop by Mat Johnson
Related:
• A checklist of book lists
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