The Taking of Jake Livingston
Ryan Douglass
2021 · 2022 edition
256 pages
The most popular black experience books of 2021
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 2021.
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Four Hundred Souls
Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
2021 · 2022 edition
432 pages
Unbound
Tarana Burke
Published 2021
272 pages
Sorrowland
Rivers Solomon, Karen Chilton
Published 2021
368 pages
Three Mothers How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Published 2021
272 pages
You Got Anything Stronger? Stories
Gabrielle Union
2021 · 2022 edition
272 pages
The Devil's Advocate
Steve Cavanagh
2021 · 2022 edition
403 pages
Sisters in Arms
Kaia Alderson
Published 2021
400 pages
On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed
Published 2021
128 pages
Milk Blood Heat
Dantiel W. Moniz
Published 2021
208 pages
The Perfect Ruin A Riveting New Psychological Thriller
Shanora Williams
Published 2021
336 pages
Filthy Animals
Brandon Taylor
2021 · 2022 edition
288 pages
Skye Falling A Novel
Mia McKenzie
Published 2021
320 pages
A Little Devil in America
Hanif Abdurraqib
Published 2021
224 pages
Witches Steeped in Gold
Ciannon Smart
Published 2021
533 pages
Aftershocks
Nadia Owusu
Published 2021
320 pages
Hola Papi How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
John Paul Brammer
Published 2021
224 pages
In Every Mirror She's Black
Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
Published 2021
416 pages
Punch Me Up to the Gods
Published 2021
250 pages
We Do this 'til We Free Us Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba, Tamara K. Nopper, Naomi Murakawa
Published 2021
206 pages
Manifesto On Never Giving Up
Bernardine Evaristo
2021 · 2022 edition
191 pages
Happily Ever Afters
Elise Bryant
Published 2021
400 pages
The Dating Playbook
Farrah Rochon
Published 2021
370 pages
Me (Moth) (National Book Award Finalist)
Amber McBride
2021 · 2023 edition
256 pages