Bless the Blood A Cancer Memoir
Walela Nehanda
2024 · 2025 edition
400 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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No Shelter But the Stars
Virginia Black
Published 2024
305 pages
When I Think of You
Myah Ariel
Published 2024
368 pages
The Grift The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
Clay Cane
Published 2024
400 pages
Great Expectations
Vinson Cunningham
2024 · 2025 edition
272 pages
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
Tony Keith Jr.
2024 · 2025 edition
352 pages
The House of Plain Truth A Novel
Donna Hemans
Published 2024
288 pages
Sounds Like a Plan A Novel
Pamela Samuels Young, Dwayne Alexander Smith
Published 2024
320 pages
The Swans of Harlem (Adapted for Young Adults) Five Black Ballerinas, a Legacy of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
Karen Valby
2024 · 2025 edition
288 pages
Lola Meets the Bees
Anna McQuinn
2024 · 2025 edition
32 pages
Spectral Evidence Poems
Gregory Pardlo
Published 2024
101 pages
This Is the Honey
Kwame Alexander
Published 2024
212 pages
The Kiss Countdown
Etta Easton
Published 2024
327 pages
One of Our Kind
Nicola Yoon
2024 · 2025 edition
272 pages
Can't We Be Friends A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
Eliza Knight, Denny S. Bryce
Published 2024
384 pages
Watch Where They Hide A Jordan Manning Novel
Tamron Hall
2024 · 2025 edition
256 pages
I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both
Mariah Stovall
2024 · 2025 edition
385 pages
Why Does Everything Have to be about Race? 25 Arguments that Won't Go Away
Keith Boykin
Published 2024
270 pages
Jimmy's Rhythm and Blues
Michelle Meadows
Published 2024
48 pages
We Rip the World Apart A Novel
Charlene Carr
2024 · 2025 edition
464 pages
What They Said About Luisa
Erika Rummel
Published 2024
312 pages
Art Club (a Graphic Novel)
Rashad Doucet
Published 2024
221 pages
Masquerade
O. O. Sangoyomi
Published 2024
352 pages
The White Guy Dies First 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power
Terry J. Benton-Walker
2024 · 2025 edition
320 pages