Iron Will
Roderick Sewell
Published 2025
224 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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I Don't Remember
Hilton Als
Published 2025
320 pages
Let Us March On A Novel
Shara Moon
Published 2025
336 pages
Number 6 Denton Road
Ricardo Knight
Published 2025
273 pages
With Faith in God and Heart and Mind A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper, Derrick P. Alridge
Published 2025
384 pages
Billion-Dollar Ring Ruse
Jadesola James
Published 2025
208 pages
Killaz On Standby
Ira B
Published 2025
212 pages
You Played Me
KAY. BEES
Published 2025
174 pages
Jim The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
2025 · 2026 edition
464 pages
Black Girls and How We Fail Them
Aria S. Halliday
Published 2025
190 pages
The Edge of Yesterday
Rita Woods
2025 · 2026 edition
304 pages
Watts Writers Workshop
Darryl Harvey
Published 2025
122 pages
Love Gone Right
Suzette Riddick
Published 2025
208 pages
Good Dirt
Charmaine Wilkerson
Published 2025
368 pages
Dirty Kitchen A Memoir of Food and Family
Jill Damatac
Published 2025
256 pages
Flagrant Fouls A Novel of Basketball, Murder and Despicable Acts
Glenn Stout, Richard O'Connor
Published 2025
462 pages
Disrupting Political Science Black Women Reimagining the Discipline
Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox
Published 2025
308 pages
The UnWhitewashed Truth ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Maurice Woodson
Published 2025
58 pages
Murder at Cinnamon Falls A Novel
R. L. Killmore
2025 · 2026 edition
384 pages
The Unaccompanied Soul
Jackie Harris
Published 2025
294 pages
O Sinners! A Novel
Nicole Cuffy
Published 2025
464 pages
Death of an Ex A Vandy Myrick Mystery
Delia Pitts
Published 2025
320 pages
A Decided Novelty The Essential Guide to Black Pro Wrestling History, 1880 To 1950
Ian Douglass
Published 2025
590 pages
Millie Magnus for Mayor
Brittany Mazique
Published 2025
144 pages