Life Sentence
Mark Bowden
2023 · 2024 edition
320 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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Wannabe
Aisha Harris
Published 2023
336 pages
Holler, Child
LaToya Watkins
Published 2023
224 pages
Thank You for Sharing A Novel
Rachel Runya Katz
Published 2023
352 pages
Against the Currant A Spice Isle Bakery Mystery
Olivia Matthews
Published 2023
304 pages
Walk Through Fire A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph
Sheila Johnson
2023 · 2024 edition
256 pages
The Black Guy Dies First Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
Robin R. Means Coleman, Mark H. Harris
Published 2023
320 pages
Play to Win A Novel
Jodie Slaughter
Published 2023
320 pages
The Book of (more) Delights
Ross Gay
Published 2023
288 pages
The God of Good Looks
Breanne Mc Ivor
Published 2023
384 pages
A Right Worthy Woman
Ruth P. Watson
Published 2023
290 pages
Blue Hour A Novel
Tiffany Clarke Harrison
Published 2023
160 pages
Token
Beverley Kendall
Published 2023
368 pages
Up Home One Girl's Journey
Ruth J. Simmons
Published 2023
224 pages
There Was a Party for Langston (Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)
Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey, Jarrett Pumphrey
Published 2023
56 pages
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
Tananarive Due
Published 2023
296 pages
On Air with Zoe Washington
Janae Marks
Published 2023
293 pages
Glory Be A Glory Broussard Mystery
Danielle Arceneaux
Published 2023
272 pages
Lucky Me A Memoir of Changing the Odds
Paul Rich
2023 · 2024 edition
272 pages
Something, Someday
Amanda Gorman
2023 · 2025 edition
40 pages
That Flag
Tameka Fryer Brown
Published 2023
40 pages
Dawning and Resurgence
K. C. Mills
2023 · 2024 edition
296 pages
The 272 The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
Rachel L. Swarns
Published 2023
352 pages
Nightbloom
Peace Adzo Medie
Published 2023
352 pages