It should go without saying, but I gotta say it: this is a partial, non-exhaustive list. Back in June, I produced a list of 160 volumes of poetry by black women, and I wanted to provide a complementary list of novels. Plus, I've been talking fiction with a few of my graduate students, and I realized that we did not have any single working list of what's been published.
2019
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
• Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
• Speaking of Summer by Kalisha Buckhanon
• American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
• Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• The Travelers by Regina Porter
• Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
2018
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi
• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
• Mouths Don't Speak by Katia D. Ulysse
• The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Children of Blood And Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
2017
• An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke • Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
• American Street by Ibi Zoboi
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• Copycat by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard
• A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• The Wide Circumference of Love by Marita Golden
• The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
• Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
• Binti 2: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
• Binti 3: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
• What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
2016
• The Turner House by Angela Flournoy • The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
• The Mothers by Brit Bennett
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
• We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge
• The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron
• The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
• Grace by Natashia Deon
• The Thunder Beneath Us by Nicole Blades
• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith
• The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson
• The Mother by Yvvette Edwards • The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
2015
• Pleasantville by Attica Locke
• Mourner's Bench by Sanderia Faye
• Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
• Untwine by Edwidge Danticat
• Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya
• The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
• Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
• God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
• Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
• A Moment of Silence: Midnight III (The Midnight Series) by Sister Souljah
• Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
2014
• Ruby by Cynthia Bond
• Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
• Remedy For a Broken Angel by Toni Ann Johnson
• Saint Monkey by Jacinda Townsend
• A Christmas Prayer by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Time of the Locust by Morowa Yejide
• Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile • An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
2013
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
• Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan
• A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story by Sister Souljah
2012
• The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
• The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
• Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden
• The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin
• The Shadowed Sun by N. K. Jemisin
• Home by Toni Morrison
• NW by Zadie Smith
2011
• The Kid by Sapphire • Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
• The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate
• The Kingdom of Gods by N. K. Jemisin
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• Just Wanna Testify by Pearl Cleage
• We are Taking Only what We Need by Stephanie Powell Watts
• My Soul To Take by Tananarive Due
• Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
• If Sons, Then Heirs by Lorene Cary
• A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards
• Midnight and the Meaning of Love (The Midnight Series) by Sister Souljah
2010
• The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
• The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
• The Broken Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
• Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
• Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake and Ifa Bayeza Shange
• Till You Hear From Me by Pearl Cleage
• Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan
• Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2009
• Rebel Yell by Alice Randall
• Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
• Life Is Short but Wide by J. California Cooper
2008
• Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
• Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon
• Blood Colony by Tananarive Due
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison
• Midnight: A Gangster Love Story (The Midnight Series) by Sister Souljah
2007
• The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi
• Red River by Lalita Tademy
2006
• Lost Hearts in Italy by Andrea Lee
• Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice L. McFadden
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• After by Marita Golden
• A Killing In This Town by Olympia Vernon
• Unburnable by Marie-Elena John2005
• 72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
• 1996 by Gloria Naylor
• The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
• Third Girl from the Left by Martha Southgate
• Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor
• Fledging by Octavia Butler
• Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage
• Joplin's Ghost by Tananarive Due
• The Untelling by Tayari Jones
2004
• Pushkin and the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall
• Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
• Camilla's Roses by Bernice L. McFadden
• Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
• The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
• The Second Life of Samuel Tyne by Esi Edugyan
• Some People, Some Other Place by J. California Cooper • Logic by Olympia Vernon
• The Last King: A Maceo Redfield Novel by Nichelle D. Tramble
2003
• Loving Donovan by Bernice L. McFadden
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks
• The Good House by Tananarive Due
• Love by Toni Morrison
2002
• This Bitter Earth by Bernice L. McFadden
• The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate
• Eden by Olympia Vernon
• Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
• Fifth Born by Zelda Lockhart
2001
• The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
• What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
• The Warmest December by Bernice L. McFadden
• The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
• The Dying Ground: A Maceo Redfield Novel by Nichelle D. Tramble
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy
2000
• Blanche Passes Go by Barbara Neely
• Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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7 comments:
Hello Dr. HR, I was wondering if I could generate a list of African women novels, starting with Nigeria.
Great list, lots more on the YA front: Nic Stone, Dhonielle Clayton, Kekla Magoon, Nikki Grimes, Jacqueline Woodson, off the top of my head.
Hi Dr. Rambsy,
Great list! I would be so grateful to be included. My novel Remedy For a Broken Angel was published in 2014 and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author alongside Queen Sugar and Time of the Locust.
Hello Dr. Ramsay. I wondered if you could my non-fiction to the list 490:Forgive and Live Fearlessly by Joan Samuels-Dennis, PhD
Hello, Thanks for the compilation. This is great. I am interested in autobiographies by Ghanaian and Nigerian women, do you by any chance have any leads? Thanks.
I have a some books for you to add to the list. Coffee & Conversation: Warm Cups of Self Care, Coffee & Conversation: Warm Cups of Friendship, Laughter & Love, Coffee & Conversation: Warm Cups of Love, Adventure &Positivity, Coffee & Conversation: Warm Cups of Inspiration and Wisdom and Let Your Choice Be Your Voice. These are all books written by women of color.
Dr. Ramsey, I have an Epic Dream book(s) written by Frozine Slater-Morrow who lives near the largest military facility in the world. There's also a Sci-Fi author Ashley M Jackson doing her thing in Essex, MD and who's finishing her 3rd of a 5 book series 'The Xenon Tech Archives~~File1 Son of Discord and File2 The Hybrid Theory.' File3 is in editing stages now.
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