Anansi's Gold
Yepoka Yeebo
2023 · 2025 edition
400 pages
The most popular black experience books of 2023
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 2023.
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The Destroyer of Worlds A Return to Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff
Published 2023
301 pages
Remember Us
Jacqueline Woodson
2023 · 2025 edition
192 pages
The Blood Gift
Nia Davenport
Published 2023
448 pages
The Battle Drum A Novel
Saara El-Arifi
Published 2023
560 pages
The Splinter in the Sky
Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Published 2023
384 pages
Every Man a King A King Oliver Novel
Walter Mosley
Published 2023
324 pages
How Far to the Promised Land One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
Esau McCaulley
Published 2023
240 pages
The Sun Sets in Singapore A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
Kehinde Fadipe
2023 · 2024 edition
368 pages
Hold My Girl
Charlene Carr
Published 2023
432 pages
Decent People
De'Shawn Charles Winslow
Published 2023
272 pages
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
Soraya Palmer
Published 2023
288 pages
Summer on Sag Harbor A Novel
Sunny Hostin
Published 2023
416 pages
Pomegranate
Helen Elaine Lee
2023 · 2024 edition
352 pages
Rosewater
Liv Little
Published 2023
320 pages
Life and Other Love Songs
Anissa Gray
Published 2023
336 pages
Why Fathers Cry at Night A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances
Kwame Alexander
Published 2023
228 pages
Soil The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Camille T. Dungy
Published 2023
317 pages
Sink A Memoir
Joseph Earl Thomas
Published 2023
249 pages
Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up
Charish Reid
Published 2023
320 pages
Small Joys
Elvin James Mensah
Published 2023
400 pages
In the Upper Country
Kai Thomas
Published 2023
336 pages
Time's Undoing
Cheryl A. Head
Published 2023
384 pages
The Thing about Home
Rhonda McKnight
Published 2023
384 pages