Me (Moth) (National Book Award Finalist)
Amber McBride
2021 · 2023 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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When the Reckoning Comes
LaTanya McQueen
Published 2021
256 pages
Unprotected
Billy Porter
2021 · 2022 edition
288 pages
Noor
Nnedi Okorafor
Published 2021
224 pages
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes Essays
Phoebe Robinson
Published 2021
352 pages
You Are Your Best Thing Vulnerability, Shame Resilience and the Black Experience
Tarana Burke, Brené Brown
Published 2021
256 pages
The Museum of Ordinary People
Mike Gayle
2021 · 2023 edition
336 pages
Black Girl, Call Home
Jasmine Mans
Published 2021
256 pages
All That She Carried The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles
Published 2021
416 pages
Wild Women and the Blues A Fascinating and Innovative Novel of Historical Fiction
Denny S. Bryce
Published 2021
384 pages
Woke Racism How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
John McWhorter
Published 2021
224 pages
Mrs. Wiggins
Mary Monroe
2021 · 2022 edition
304 pages
The Door of No Return
Kwame Alexander
2021 · 2022 edition
418 pages
Wings of Ebony
J. Elle
Published 2021
368 pages
Dear Senthuran
Akwaeke Emezi, Rosa Llop, Gemma Deza Guil
Published 2021
240 pages
Dead Dead Girls
Nekesa Afia
Published 2021
336 pages
As the Wicked Watch
Tamron Hall
Published 2021
388 pages
The Bread the Devil Knead
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Published 2021
245 pages
Misfits A Personal Manifesto
Michaela Coel
2021 · 2022 edition
128 pages
Yoke My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
Jessamyn Stanley
Published 2021
208 pages
What White People Can Do Next
Emma Dabiri
Published 2021
144 pages
Wake The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts
Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martinez
Published 2021
208 pages
The Perishing
Natashia Deon
Published 2021
320 pages
Unspeakable The Tulsa Race Massacre
Carole Boston Weatherford, Floyd Cooper
Published 2021
32 pages