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.

Cover of Was It Worth It? How to Create Your Own Purposeful Parenting Plan

Was It Worth It? How to Create Your Own Purposeful Parenting Plan

Carol Jean Wilson Allen

Published 2025

194 pages

Cover of King of the Neuro Verse

King of the Neuro Verse

Idris Goodwin

Published 2025

272 pages

Cover of All Work Is Cultural Work Diasporic Haitian Women, Paid Labor, and Cultural Citizenship

All Work Is Cultural Work Diasporic Haitian Women, Paid Labor, and Cultural Citizenship

Nikita Carney

Published 2025

176 pages

Cover of Mannaka The Dreadlock Prostitute The Debate

Mannaka The Dreadlock Prostitute The Debate

Ralph Lee As Kai Lumumba

Published 2025

108 pages

Cover of The QueensBorough Hook-Up The QueensBorough Chronicles Book 1

The QueensBorough Hook-Up The QueensBorough Chronicles Book 1

Ivory Keys

Published 2025

130 pages

Cover of Don't Play Russian Roulette With My Soul

Don't Play Russian Roulette With My Soul

Nakiala Comeaux

Published 2025

166 pages

Cover of Intersectional Listening Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC

Intersectional Listening Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC

Allie Martin

Published 2025

248 pages

Cover of Jamaica Road A Novel

Jamaica Road A Novel

Lisa Smith

Published 2025

448 pages

Cover of Archival Irruptions Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Archival Irruptions Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Katharine Gerbner

Published 2025

240 pages

Cover of God's Perfect Timing Contemporary Christian Romance

God's Perfect Timing Contemporary Christian Romance

Liberty Gaines

Published 2025

136 pages

Cover of God's Perfect Timing Large Print Edition

God's Perfect Timing Large Print Edition

Liberty Gaines

Published 2025

194 pages

Cover of The Tangled Web, Sequel to "The Players Web"

The Tangled Web, Sequel to "The Players Web"

Casrule Oxford

Published 2025

208 pages

Cover of The Mystic Book One, The Art of Rivers

The Mystic Book One, The Art of Rivers

Dawn Reno Langley

Published 2025

310 pages

Cover of Giving Light to Shadows (When Rivers Dance Like Promises)

Giving Light to Shadows (When Rivers Dance Like Promises)

Nekesa Sepiwe

Published 2025

377 pages

Cover of Captain America

Captain America

Jesse J. Holland, L.L. McKinney, Sheree Renée Thomas, Kyoko M, Maurice Broaddus

2025 · 2026 edition

336 pages

Cover of Dear Manny

Dear Manny

Nic Stone

Published 2025

224 pages

Cover of Love Locked Down

Love Locked Down

Kendall Lewis

Published 2025

124 pages

Cover of Mendacity Part 2

Mendacity Part 2

Bryan Clark

Published 2025

367 pages

Cover of Black Studies in Europe An Anthology of Soil and Seeds

Black Studies in Europe An Anthology of Soil and Seeds

Nicole Grégoire, Sarah Fila-Bakabadio, Jacinthe Mazzocchetti

Published 2025

256 pages

Cover of Hub City Menace 2 Avenge Thy Brethren

Hub City Menace 2 Avenge Thy Brethren

J. White

Published 2025

194 pages

Cover of Hub City Menace 3 A Sister's Code

Hub City Menace 3 A Sister's Code

J. White

Published 2025

194 pages

Cover of Hub City Menace 3 A Sister's Code

Hub City Menace 3 A Sister's Code

Jaquille M. White

Published 2025

194 pages

Cover of Victor Ehikhamenor Chronicles of the Enchanted World

Victor Ehikhamenor Chronicles of the Enchanted World

Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie

Published 2025

208 pages

Cover of All the Men I've Loved Again A Novel

All the Men I've Loved Again A Novel

Christine Pride

Published 2025

320 pages

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