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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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 : a novel
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...
Death of the author
Okorafor, Nnedi
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This one has it all' GEORGE R. R. MARTIN 'As delicious as it is disorienting' ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS 'Beautifully evoked' THE GUARDIAN 'Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt' PEOPLE<...
Happy land
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
'Exactly the novel we need right here, right now' TAYARI JONES 'Astonishing' JODI PICOULT 'Triumphant' ELLE A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this...
Good dirt : a novel
Wilkerson, Charmaine
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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