Here's a roundup of novels by writers published between 2000 - 2019. More bibliographies here.
[Related: Poetry volumes by black writers, 2000 - 2019]
2000
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• Tuff by Paul Beatty
• Drop by Mat Johnson
• Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
• Blanche Passes Go by Barbara Neely
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2001
• What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
• The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
• Erasure by Percival Everett
• The Warmest December by Bernice L. McFadden
• He Sleeps by Reginald McKnight
• Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley
• The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy
• The Dying Ground: A Maceo Redfield Novel by Nichelle D. Tramble
• John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
2002
• Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
• The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle
• Fifth Born by Zelda Lockhart
• Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
• This Bitter Earth by Bernice L. McFadden
• Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley
• The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate
• Eden by Olympia Vernon
2003
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Once Two Heroes by Calvin Baker
• The Good House by Tananarive Due
• Hunting in Harlem by Mat Johnson
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• Loving Donovan by Bernice L. McFadden
• Love by Toni Morrison
• Fear Itself by Walter Mosley
• Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks
2004
• Some People, Some Other Place by J. California Cooper
• The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
• Phallos by Samuel Delany
• The Second Life of Samuel Tyne by Esi Edugyan
• A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond by Percival Everett and James Kincaid
• Camilla's Roses by Bernice L. McFadden
• The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley
• Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley
• Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
• Pushkin and the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall
• The Last King: A Maceo Redfield Novel by Nichelle D. Tramble
• Logic by Olympia Vernon
• Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
2005
• Fledging by Octavia Butler
• 72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
• Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage
• Joplin's Ghost by Tananarive Due
• 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
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• Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley
• 47 by Walter Mosley
• The Wave by Walter Mosley
• The Magic Keys by Albert Murray
• 1996 by Gloria Naylor
• Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
• Third Girl from the Left by Martha Southgate
2006
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Dominion by Calvin Baker
• After by Marita Golden
• Unburnable by Marie-Elena John
• Lost Hearts in Italy by Andrea Lee
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• Killing Johnny Fry by Walter Mosley
• Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley
• Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley
• Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
• A Killing In This Town by Olympia Vernon
2007
• She's Gone by Kwame Dawes
• Dark Reflections by Samuel Delany
• The Water Cure by Percival Everett
• Cinder by Albert French
• Like Trees, Walking by Ravi Howard
• Them by Nathan McCall
• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
• Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley
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• Red River by Lalita Tademy
• Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
2008
• Slumberland by Paul Beatty
• Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
• Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon
• Blood Colony by Tananarive Due
• Song Yet Sung by James McBride
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison
• The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley
• Diablerie by Walter Mosley
• Midnight: A Gangster Love Story (The Midnight Series) by Sister Souljah
• Fanon by John Edgar Wideman
• A Father's Law by Richard Wright
2009
• Life Is Short but Wide by J. California Cooper
• I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
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• The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
• Big Machine by Victor LaValle
• Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
• The Long Fall by Walter Mosley
• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
• Rebel Yell by Alice Randall
• Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
2010
• Till You Hear From Me by Pearl Cleage
• The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
• Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
• The Broken Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
• How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
• Known to Evil by Walter Mosley
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• Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
• Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake and Ifa Bayeza Shange
• The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
2011
• If Sons, Then Heirs by Lorene Cary
• Just Wanna Testify by Pearl Cleage
• Open City by Teju Cole
• My Soul To Take by Tananarive Due
• A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards
• Assumption by Percival Everett
• The Plot Against Hip Hop: A D Hunter Mystery by Nelson George
• The Kingdom of Gods by N. K. Jemisin
• Pym by Mat Johnson
• Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
• When the Thrill Is Gone by Walter Mosley
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• Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
• Juice! by Ishmael Reed
• The Kid by Sapphire
• Midnight and the Meaning of Love (The Midnight Series) by Sister Souljah
• The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
• We are Taking Only what We Need by Stephanie Powell Watts
• Zone One by Colson Whitehead
2012
• Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel Delany
• Hold It 'Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson
• 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
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• Home by Toni Morrison
• All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley
• NW by Zadie Smith
2013
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
• 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
• Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
• Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan
• Little Green by Walter Mosley
• A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story by Sister Souljah
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• Song of the Shank by Jeffrey Reynard Allen
• Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
• Ruby by Cynthia Bond
• Team Seven by Marcus Burke
• Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole
• An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
• Remedy For a Broken Angel by Toni Ann Johnson
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
• Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore by Walter Mosley
• Rose Gold by Walter Mosley
• Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
• A Christmas Prayer by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Saint Monkey by Jacinda Townsend
• Time of the Locust by Morowa Yejide
2015
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• Grace by Calvin Baker
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
• Mourner's Bench by Sanderia Faye
• Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
• Untwine by Edwidge Danticat
• 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
• Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya
• The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
• Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
• Loving Day by Mat Johnson
• Pleasantville by Attica Locke
• And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley
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• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
• Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
• God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
• Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• A Moment of Silence: Midnight III (The Midnight Series) by Sister Souljah
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
2016
• The Mothers by Brit Bennett
• The Thunder Beneath Us by Nicole Blades
• The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron
• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• Edge of the Wind by James E. Cherry
• Grace by Natashia Deon
• The Mother by Yvvette Edwards
• The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge
• The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
• I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
• Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley
• Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson
• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
2017
• Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
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• An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
• So Much Blue by Percival Everett
• The Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest Gaines
• To Funk and Die in LA by Nelson George
• The Wide Circumference of Love by Marita Golden
• The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard
• The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
• August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle
• Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
• As Lie Is to Grin by Simeon Marsalis
• Binti 3: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
• Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
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• Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell
• Copycat by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• American Street by Ibi Zoboi
2018
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
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• Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden
• Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
• John Woman by Walter Mosley
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi
2019
• Children of Blood And Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Speaking of Summer by Kalisha Buckhanon
• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Bivouac by Kwame Dawes
• Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• A Particular Kind of Black Man by Tope Folarin
• Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
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• The Travelers by Regina Porter
• The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
• Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
• The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
• Mouths Don't Speak by Katia D. Ulysse
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
• In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
• My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
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