Sunday, July 13, 2025

Novels by Black Writers, 2025 - 2000


Here's a roundup of novels published since 2000. As always, it's a partial list. The list emerges from the work that I've done on the Novel Generator Machine.

2025
Til Death by Busayo Matuluko
The Life of Herod the Great by Zora Neale Hurston
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris
Zeal by Morgan Jerkins
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
Saint Monkey by Jacinda Townsend
Mother Country by Jacinda Townsend
Trigger Warning by Jacinda Townsend
The Love Lyric by Kristina Forest
King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby
Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson
The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson
Marvel: Black Panther: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

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
The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste 
One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole
Smoke Kings by Jahmal Mayfield
The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones
American Ghoul by Michelle McGill-Vargas
Out of Body by Nia Davenport
• 54 Miles by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Out of Office by A.H. Cunningham
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel by ReShonda Tate
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan
The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna
Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi
One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon

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
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

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
The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II by Leonard Pitts Jr.

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

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 

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
• The Shadowed Sun by N. K. Jemisin
• Home by Toni Morrison
• All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley
• NW by Zadie Smith

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
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• 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 

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
• The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
• 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

2009
• Life Is Short but Wide by J. California Cooper
• 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
• 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 

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 

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
• The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi
• Red River by Lalita Tademy
• Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead 

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
• Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice L. McFadden
• 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 

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
• The Untelling by Tayari Jones
• 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

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 

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 

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 

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 

2000
• Rails Under My Back by Jeffrey Reynard Allen
• Tuff by Paul Beatty
• Drop by Mat Johnson
• Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
• Blanche Passes Go by Barbara Neely
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

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