Madness Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Antonia Hylton
Published 2024
350 pages
The most popular black experience books of 2024
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 2024.
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Legacy A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Uché Blackstock
2024 · 2025 edition
304 pages
Black Boys Like Me
Matthew R. Morris
Published 2024
224 pages
The Secret Dead Club
Karen Strong
Published 2024
240 pages
All About Yvie
Yvie Oddly
Published 2024
256 pages
The American Queen
Vanessa Miller
Published 2024
368 pages
The Husband Situation
Naima Simone
Published 2024
77 pages
Dear Black Girls How to Be True to You
A'ja Wilson
Published 2024
192 pages
Ash Dark as Night (A Harry Ingram Mystery)
Gary Phillips
2024 · 2025 edition
312 pages
Sex, Lies and Sensibility
Nikki Payne
Published 2024
432 pages
No Reservations A Novel of Friendship
Sheryl Lister
Published 2024
336 pages
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Renée Watson, Ekua Holmes
2024 · 2025 edition
96 pages
Our Hidden Conversations
Michele Norris
Published 2024
212 pages
Acts of Forgiveness A Novel
Maura Cheeks
2024 · 2025 edition
320 pages
Code Name Butterfly
Embassie Susberry
Published 2024
432 pages
Brooklyn
Tracy Brown
Published 2024
320 pages
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks
Crystal Wilkinson
Published 2024
256 pages
On the Head of a Pin
Walter Mosley
Published 2024
288 pages
Medgar and Myrlie Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
Joy-Ann Reid
2024 · 2025 edition
352 pages
Tender Beasts
Liselle Sambury
Published 2024
416 pages
The Nubian's Curse (A Benjamin January Historical Mystery, 20)
Barbara Hambly
Published 2024
256 pages
The American Daughters
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
2024 · 2025 edition
304 pages
Like So
Ruth Forman
Published 2024
40 pages
Black Shield Maiden
Ballantine
Published 2024
480 pages