Trouble Is What I Do
Walter Mosley
Published 2020
176 pages
The most popular black experience books of 2020
These books tell the stories of Black people in Africa and across the diaspora. History, family, music, struggle and joy fill novels, memoirs, poetry and essays, written by some of the finest authors at work. There are classics, and the new voices shaping literature today. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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Black Is a Rainbow Color
Angela Joy
Published 2020
40 pages
I Am These Truths A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living between Worlds
Sunny Hostin
Published 2020
Five Days
Wes Moore, Erica L. Green
2020 · 2021 edition
320 pages
Maya and the Rising Dark
Rena Barron
2020 · 2021 edition
298 pages
Me & Mama
Cozbi A. Cabrera
Published 2020
40 pages
Butterfly 3
Ashley
Published 2020
272 pages
I Came As a Shadow
John Thompson
Published 2020
352 pages
Trouble the Saints A Novel
Alaya Dawn Johnson
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
The Broken Heart of America St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
Walter Johnson
2020 · 2021 edition
544 pages
The Sword and the Shield The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Peniel E. Joseph
Published 2020
384 pages
Book of the Little Axe
Lauren Francis-Sharma
2020 · 2021 edition
400 pages
Just Like Me
Vanessa Brantley-Newton
2020 · 2022 edition
40 pages
Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea
Meena Harris
Published 2020
32 pages
Franchise
Marcia Chatelain
Published 2020
336 pages
It's About Damn Time
Arlan Hamilton, Rachel L. Nelson
2020 · 2022 edition
272 pages
RESPECT Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
Carole Boston Weatherford
Published 2020
48 pages
A Cowboy to Remember
Rebekah Weatherspoon
Published 2020
368 pages
Long Time Coming Reckoning with Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson
Published 2020
240 pages
We Have Been Harmonized
Kai Strittmatter
Published 2020
320 pages
So We Can Glow Stories
Leesa Cross-Smith
2020 · 2021 edition
288 pages
Girl Gurl Grrrl
Kenya Hunt
Published 2020
256 pages
Officer Clemmons
François Clemmons
Published 2020
288 pages
What Lane?
Torrey Maldonado
Published 2020
144 pages