Looking for a good book? Check out one of these recent books--contemporary fiction, historical fiction, romance, science fiction, mystery, and more--written by Black authors.
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The ballad of perilous graves
by Alex Jennings In a fantastical version of New Orleans, where music is magic, failed magician Perilous Graves and his sister, when nine songs of power escape from the magical piano that maintains the city's beat, must capture these ballads to save the city they love. |
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Boys come first
by Aaron Foley Three Black, gay, Millennial men search for love and professional success in Detroit while navigating real friendships, Grindr hookups and family drama in the debut novel from the author of How to Live in Detroit without Being a Jackass. |
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Black cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson Two estranged siblings try to reclaim the closeness they once shared while trying to piece together their late mother's life story and fulfill her last request of sharing a traditional Caribbean black cake--when the time is right. |
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By the book
by Jasmine Guillory A young, black woman working in publishing makes a surprise connection with an author who has failed to deliver his highly anticipated manuscript, in the second novel of the series following If the Shoe Fits. |
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Goliath
by Tochi Onyebuchi After those with the means to do so leave Earth in a mass exodus to the space colonies in the 2050s, those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure and try to find purpose. |
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Honey and spice
by Bolu Babalola A young black British woman with a popular student radio show that dishes out relationship advice finds her show and her reputation on the line after she publicly makes out with a man she publicly denounced. |
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The intangible : a novel
by C. J. Washington After a devastating loss, Amanda Jackson develops pseudocyesis, believing she's still pregnant, and becomes involved with a neuroscientist who, as he spirals deeper in her illness, must confront the fraught intersection of science, death and human emotion. |
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Memphis : a novel
by Tara M. Stringfellow Told over the course of 70 years, this spellbinding debut novel traces three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter, who, channeling her rage into art, discovers with the power of her paint brush, she can change her family's legacy. |
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Miss Aldridge regrets
by Louise Hare In 1936 London, down-on-her-luck actress Lena Aldridge is offered the role of a lifetime in New York, and, sailing aboard the Queen Mary, is drawn into the fold of an obscenely wealthy family and their bizarre family dynamic where her greatest performance will be for her life. |
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Moon Witch, Spider King
by Marlon James This second book in the The Dark Star trilogy delves into the world of Sogolon, where she, a 177-year-old witch, tells her side of the story of what happened to a mysterious boy, as well as her century-long feud with the powerful Aesi, chancellor to the king. |
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Sweep of stars
by Maurice Broaddus When the old powers seek to destroy the Muungano empire and all that they've built, three people--leader Amachi Adisa, warrior Fela Buhari and captain Stacia Chikeke--prepare for battle while searching for the answers that could save them all. |
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Take my hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Townsend, a young black nurse working for the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, grapples with her role when she takes two young girls into her heart and the unthinkable happens, and nothing will ever be the same for any of them. |
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The violin conspiracy
by Brendan Slocumb When, right before the cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition--the Olympics of classical music, his priceless Stradivarius is stolen, with a ransom note for five million dollars in its place, Ray McMillian must piece together the clues to reclaim the violin before it's too late. |
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Wahala : a novel
by Nikki May When charismatic Isobel explodes into their close-knit group, at first seemingly bringing out the best in each woman, Boo, Simi and Ronke, three Anglo-Nigerian best friends, find their close friendship starting to crack as this lethally glamorous woman wreaks havoc on their lives. |
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When we were birds : a novel
by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo In Trinidad, Yejide, who has the power to guide the city’s souls into the afterlife, and Darwin, a grave digger going against his mother’s wishes never to interact with the dead, meet at an ancient cemetery where fate beckons them both. |