What Lane?
Torrey Maldonado
Published 2020
144 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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The Organ Thieves The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
Chip Jones
2020 · 2022 edition
400 pages
Black Futures
Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham
Published 2020
544 pages
A Place Inside of Me A Poem to Heal the Heart (Caldecott Honor Book)
Zetta Elliott, Noa Denmon
Published 2020
32 pages
Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero
Kelly J. Baptist
2020 · 2021 edition
208 pages
Something to Say
Lisa Moore Ramée
2020 · 2021 edition
320 pages
Bedtime Bonnet
Nneka Myers, Nancy Redd
Published 2020
40 pages
The Awkward Black Man
Walter Mosley
2020 · 2022 edition
336 pages
Make Me Rain
Nikki Giovanni
Published 2020
144 pages
The Secret Women
Sheila Williams
Published 2020
304 pages
All the Things We Never Knew
Liara Tamani
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages
The Compton Cowboys
Walter Thompson-Hernandez
Published 2020
272 pages
Across the Way
Mary Monroe
2020 · 2021 edition
288 pages
Anti-Racist Ally
Sophie Williams
2020 · 2021 edition
171 pages
Jabari Tries
Gaia Cornwall
2020 · 2025 edition
32 pages
Black Widow A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title
Leslie Gray Streeter
2020 · 2021 edition
272 pages
The Butterfly Effect
Marcus J. Moore
2020 · 2021 edition
288 pages
The Business of Lovers
Eric Jerome Dickey
Published 2020
400 pages
The Family Business 5
Carl Weber, La Jill Hunt
Published 2020
304 pages
Surrender, White People! Our Unconditional Terms for Peace
D. L. Hughley, Doug Moe
2020 · 2021 edition
241 pages
Nana Akua Goes to School
April Harrison, Tricia Elam Walker
Published 2020
40 pages
Kamala Harris Rooted in Justice
Nikki Grimes, Laura Freeman
Published 2020
40 pages
Overground Railroad
Lesa Cline-Ransome, James E. Ransome
2020 · 2022 edition
48 pages
ABCs of Black History
Rio Cortez, Lauren Semmer
Published 2020
64 pages