Inciting Joy Essays
Ross Gay
2022 · 2024 edition
272 pages
The most popular black experience books of 2022
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 2022.
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The Thread Collectors
Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman
Published 2022
384 pages
The Last Slave Ship The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
Ben Raines
Published 2022
283 pages
Inheritance A Visual Poem
Elizabeth Acevedo, Andrea Pippins
Published 2022
48 pages
Moon Witch, Spider King
Marlon James
Published 2022
656 pages
One True Loves
Elise Bryant
Published 2022
320 pages
Dr. No
Percival L. Everett
2022 · 2023 edition
288 pages
Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell
Taj McCoy
Published 2022
320 pages
We Carry Their Bones The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
Erin Kimmerle
Published 2022
256 pages
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
Paterson Joseph
2022 · 2023 edition
432 pages
Dilla Time The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
Dan Charnas
Published 2022
458 pages
To Catch a Raven
Beverly Jenkins
Published 2022
358 pages
Half-blown Rose A Novel
Leesa Cross-Smith
2022 · 2023 edition
416 pages
Until I Met You
Amber Rose Gill
Published 2022
352 pages
Cherish Farrah
Bethany C. Morrow
Published 2022
321 pages
Scenes from My Life A Memoir
Michael K. Williams
Published 2022
288 pages
The House Party
Rita Cameron
2022 · 2023 edition
320 pages
Admissions
Kendra James
Published 2022
336 pages
Miss Aldridge Regrets
Louise Hare
Published 2022
368 pages
Nothing Burns As Bright As You
Ashley Woodfolk
2022 · 2023 edition
288 pages
The Two Lives of Sara
Catherine Adel West
2022 · 2023 edition
336 pages
Son of Elsewhere A Memoir in Pieces
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Published 2022
288 pages
All the Best Liars A Novel
Amelia Kahaney
Published 2022
336 pages
Bad Fruit
Ella King
Published 2022
314 pages