Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2025 · 2026 edition
464 pages
The most popular black experience books of 2025
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 2025.
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You Could Do Damage Too
K. C. Mills
Published 2025
336 pages
The Secret Crush Book Club
Karmen Lee
Published 2025
288 pages
Unlikely Neighbors
Renee Daniel Flagler
Published 2025
288 pages
A House for Miss Pauline
Diana McCaulay
Published 2025
320 pages
The Library in the Woods
Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Published 2025
32 pages
Yesterday Will Make You Cry A Novel
Chester Himes
Published 2025
400 pages
Playin' Hard
Whitney D. Grandison
Published 2025
416 pages
New and Collected Hell
Shane McCrae
2025 · 2026 edition
112 pages
Salon Saturday
Janelle Harper
Published 2025
32 pages
Too Much Is Never Enough 2
Xyion
Published 2025
228 pages
A Honey for the Beekeeper
Nina Crespo
Published 2025
272 pages
TRICK
Treasure Hernandez
Published 2025
224 pages
The Art of Love
Celya Bowers
Published 2025
270 pages
PONK!
Marcus Clayton
Published 2025
240 pages
Civil Sights
Gene Kansas
Published 2025
256 pages
The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class
Linda Urban
Published 2025
128 pages
Game Changer
Clifford "Spud" Johnson
Published 2025
256 pages
Black Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement;A Black History Book for Kids (Biographies for Kids) A Black History Book for Kids
Glenda Armand
Published 2025
120 pages
Carl Weber's Kingpins
Cedric Lewis
Published 2025
368 pages
The Bang, Bang, Bang
Roy Glenn
Published 2025
272 pages
The Race Track How the Myth of Equal Opportunity Defeats Racial Justice
Luke Charles Harris, George Lipsitz, Kimberlé Crenshaw
Published 2025
272 pages
Born to Die
Dorian Sykes
Published 2025
288 pages
Iron Will
Roderick Sewell
Published 2025
224 pages