Black History Month Featured Fiction

Black History Month invites us to honor the voices that have shaped culture, challenged convention, and expanded the possibilities of storytelling. The works in this collection come from Black authors whose fiction spans eras, genres, and worlds—yet all share a commitment to illuminating the richness and complexity of Black life. This month is the perfect moment to explore them, revisit them, or discover them for the first time.

Updated January 30, 2026
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All the sinners bleed
Cosby, S. A.
Paper Book
***GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLERS OF 2023*** THE TIMES - THRILLER OF THE MONTH*** *** MAIL ON SUNDAY - BEST NEW FICTION*** FINANCIAL TIMES - BEST NEW CRIME BOOKS*** 'A crackling good police procedural....fresh and exhilarating'...
Black cake : a novel
Wilkerson, Charmaine
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NO. 2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **Featured on Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2022** **A Grazia Instagram 'IT' book to watch out for****Soon to be a major Hulu series by Oprah Winfrey, Aaron Kaplan and Marissa Jo Cerar**...
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...
Guide me home
Locke, Attica
Paper Book
The final book in the award-winning Highway 59 series from the author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home
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...
Harlem shuffle
Whitehead, Colson
Paper Book
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show) 'Dazzling' Guardian 'Gloriously entertaining' Evening Standard 'A rich, wild book' New York Times '<...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
McBride, James
Paper Book
WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER 2024 THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK AMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I loved this book' BONNIE GARMUS 'A generous, compassionate book about the...
The House of Eve
Johnson, Sadeqa.
Paper Book
''Amazing'' Reese Witherspoon ''Heart-rending'' Taylor Jenkins Reid ''Luminous and moving!'' Kate Quinn ''Unforgettable'' Kristen Harmel The heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese...
King of ashes : a novel
Cosby, S. A.
'S. A. Cosby's novels always hit the grand slam of crime fiction' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'Cosby sends a shiver down the spine' DAILY MAIL 'A pulsating saga of family secrets and double and triple-crossing' THE TIMES, THE BEST THRILLERS OF 2025 A...
The mothers : a novel
Bennett, Brit
Paper Book
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half. The Mothers is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that haunt us most. All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and...
Real life
Taylor, Brandon
Paper Book
An elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate novel from an electric new voice.
Red at the bone
Woodson, Jacqueline
Paper Book
THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams'An epic in miniature'...
Seven days in June : a novel
Williams, Tia
Paper Book
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (JUNE 2021) 'A sexy, modern love story' Reese Witherspoon 'I absolutely loved it' Jodi Picoult ...
Sing, unburied, sing : a novel
Ward, Jesmyn
Paper Book
_______________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN...
Swift River
Chambers, Essie
Paper Book
Discover a sweeping story that will break your heart and mend it again, perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and The Vanishing Half. 'I love a novel this much maybe just once or twice a year.' - Curtis Sittenfeld, author of RODHAM and...
Take My Hand
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen.
Paper Book

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