Black Voices & Culture: Fiction Books for Adults

Explore our curated list of fiction books by Black and African American voices in celebration of Black History Month.

Updated December 23, 2025
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Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Butler, Octavia E.
Paper Book
This powerful graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking dystopian novel stands beside the acclaimed previous graphic novel adaptations, Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and Parable of the Sower, winner of the Hugo Award Octavia...
The love lyric
Forest, Kristina
Paper Book
Iris Green is a woman with a plan. Between her role as the director of partnerships at a beauty company and raising her daughter alone, there's no room in her life for spontaneity. One thing she hadn't planned for is a certain singer walking into her office and taking her breath away. . .
Theft
Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Paper Book
**Selected as a Book of the Summer 2025 by the Guardian, Financial Times, Granta, Economist and the BBC** **Selected as a book of the year 2025 by the Financial Times and Time Magazine** The new novel from...
The life of Herod the Great
Hurston, Zora Neale
Paper Book
'The Life of Herod The Great - like Hurston herself - is a masterpiece, a miracle, and a marvel. In other words, treasure for the whole world' Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage * In the 1950s Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel reconsidering the...
People like us or The other continent, or Johnny Wordcount stumbles into a high-end croissant bar on the Seine in search of The Kid & orders the big dream
Mott, Jason
Paper Book
The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 National Book Award winner and bestseller, Hell of a Book People Like Us is Jason Mott's electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason's life. And while rooted in reality, it...
Death of the author
Okorafor, Nnedi
Paper Book
Happy Land
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
Paper Book
" A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand. Nikki hasn't seen her grandmother in...
Boom town
Stone, Nic
Paper Book
Good dirt
Wilkerson, Charmaine
Paper Book
Ebby Freeman's life has always been marked with tragedy. First, the death of her brother Baz, killed in an anonymous armed robbery when they were teenagers. Then her perfect fiance Henry deserting her on the day of their wedding, without an explanation. When Ebby arrives in a...

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