We Belong Here Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place
Shani Adia Evans
Published 2025
240 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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Annabelle Locke and the Forgotten Inventor
Mari Zeno
Published 2025
100 pages
Creaky Acres
Calista Brill
Published 2025
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Mariama J. Lockington
Published 2025
352 pages
Julie Dash Interviews
Kameelah L. Martin
Published 2025
224 pages
No Human Involved The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
Cheryl L. Neely
Published 2025
288 pages
To Love My Enemy
N Rodriguez
Published 2025
70 pages
Where in the Hell is God? Book 1
BARAK. BOMANI
Published 2025
190 pages
Rooted and Rising
TAHNESIA. BROWN
Published 2025
38 pages
Illustrated Edition of the Life and Escape of Wm. Wells Brown From American Slavery
William Wells Brown
Published 2025
68 pages
Secrets of a Bilionaire Bishop
MIKAH. REIGN
Published 2025
158 pages
Forbidden Secrets
Tiye null
Published 2025
1 page
Sing a Black Girl’s Song The Unpublished Works
Ntozake Shange
Published 2025
496 pages
Digital Literary Redlining African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, and the Canon
Amy E. Earhart
Published 2025
226 pages
Rose Colored Glasses
Jackie Branch
Published 2025
350 pages
Dear Manny
Nic Stone
2025 · 2026 edition
224 pages
Roadside My Journey to Iraq and the Long Road Home
Dylan Park-Pettiford
Published 2025
288 pages
This Could Be Forever
Ebony LaDelle
Published 2025
384 pages
Casual Encounters
VERA. SAINT JAMES
Published 2025
28 pages
Casual Encounters With Women From Work 2
Andre Briscoe
Published 2025
58 pages
The Second Emancipation
Howard W. French
Published 2025
512 pages
The Cartier Cartel 3 Saint's Sweetest Sin
Jessica N. Watkins
Published 2025
412 pages
Grown Folks Only
Mahasolin Mack
Published 2025
186 pages
The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity
Kaila Adia Story
2025 · 2026 edition
224 pages