Monday, September 30, 2024

A Roundup of Novels by Black Writers, 2014 - 2024


Here's a roundup of novels published since 2014. As always, it's a partial list.

[Related: The Beginnings of a Black Novel Timeline, 2014 - 2024 (coming soon)]

2024 
The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
James by Percival Everett
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris
Faebound by Saara El-Arifi
Ours by Phillip B. Williams
The Queen of Sugar Hill--A Novel of Hattie McDaniel by ReShonda Tate

2023 
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Every Man a King—A King Oliver Novel by Walter Mosley 
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis
A Spell of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo
Dangerous Love by Ben Okri
All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Hide by Tracy Clark
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
River Spirit by Leila Aboulela
The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle by Tendai Huchu
Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
An Autobiography of Skin by Lakiesha Carr
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley
You Never Know by Connie Briscoe
Maame by Jessica George
House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
The Art of Scandal by Regina Black
Liquid Snakes by Stephen Kearse
Blue Hour by Tiffany Clarke Harrison
Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams
Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
Goodbye Earl by Leesa Cross-Smith
The New Naturals by Gabriel Bump
Promise by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Night Wherever We Go: A novel by Tracey Rose Peyton
No One Dies Yet by Kobby Ben Ben
Last Seen in Lapaz by Kwei Quartey
The Wildest Sun by Asha Lemmie
Decent People by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
Token by Beverly Kendall
Time's Undoing by Cheryl A. Head
Teeth, Claws, and Blood Red Heart by Fiona Zedde
Lucky Gril by Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu
Splinter--A Diverse Sleep Hollow Retelling by Jasper Hyde

2022
Invisible Things by Mat Johnson
Yonder by Jabari Asim
Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Kemosha of the Caribbean by Alex Wheatle
The Great Mrs. Elias by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Carolina Built by Kianna Alexander
Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James
Wahala by Nikki May
Glory by Noviolet Bulawayo
Dr. No by Percival Everett
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna
An Angel’s Demise by Sue Nyathi
Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by Tendai Huchu
Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi
Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett
One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
We Lie Here by Rachel Howzell Hall
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith
Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell by Taj McCoy
Unfinished Business by Leye Adenle
The Scent of Burnt Flowers by Blitz Bazawule
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera
A Woman of Endurance by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Jackal by Erin. E Adams
Perish by LaToya Watkins
The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
Finding La Negrita by Natasha Gordon-Chipembere
The Last Dreamwalker by Rita Woods

2021
The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
The Visit by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth—A Novel by Wole Soyinka
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Gone Missing in Harlem by Karla FC Holloway
Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins
The Baby Is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Trees by Percival Everett
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby
Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo
Runner by Tracy Clark
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
The Library of the Dead by Tendai Huchu
Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris
No Heaven for Good Boys by Keisha Bush
These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
Sleep Well, My Lady by Kwei Quartey
Lionheart Girl by Yaba Badoe
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
We Are All Birtds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan
The Confession of Copeland Cane by Keenan Norris
What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

2020 
• Trouble Is What I Do by Walter Mosley 
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• It's Not All Downhill From Her by Terry McMillan
• The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
• Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Daré
• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
• Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle
• The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna Attah
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory
• The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
• Lakewood by Megan Giddings
• Telephone by Percival Everett
• Luster by Raven Leilani
• Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
• What You Don't See by Tracy Clark
• Execution in E by Alexia Gordon
• A Family Affair by Sue Nyathi
• Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
• And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump
• Looking for Bono by Abidemi Sanusi
• Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham
• The Missing American by Kwei Quartey
• Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
• When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• Catherine House by Elizabeth Thomas
• In the Country of Others by Leïla Slimani
• The Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card


2019
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
• Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
• My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
• 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
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
• 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
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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
• An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
• Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
• Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
• American Street by Ibi Zoboi
• 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 Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley
Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• 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
• The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
• 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
Only the Strong by Jabari Asim
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
• 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
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
Rose Gold by Walter Mosley
• 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

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