Essex Hemphill
Essex Hemphill
Published 2025
112 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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Untethered A Story of Becoming-Editor's Cut Choosing Yourself is Only the Beginning
A. S. HAYNES
Published 2025
260 pages
Searching for Serafim The Life and Legacy of Serafim "Joe" Fortes
Ruby Smith Diaz
Published 2025
144 pages
Christmas Ever After
Niomie Roland
Published 2025
266 pages
Love You a Little Bit
Kasha Thompson
Published 2025
336 pages
Body Count Body Count? Nah. Character Development
Netra Antionette
Published 2025
197 pages
The Rhythms Between Us
Yoe Apolinario
Published 2025
384 pages
A Gangsta's Love Language A Patton Brothers Spin-Off
K. L. Hall
Published 2025
148 pages
A Change Is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke
Published 2025
32 pages
Call Me Mrs. Taylor An Obsessive Dark Romance
Shae Sanders
Published 2025
362 pages
Anywhere But Here
Myunique C. Green
Published 2025
328 pages
The Community We Lost Remembering For Our Future
Linda Joyce
Published 2025
96 pages
Winds of Captivity
KEVIN. GRISWOLD
Published 2025
236 pages
Trips
Lee Jaffe
Published 2025
230 pages
Black Hair Can The Roots of Our Roots
Sylvia Rodriguez
Published 2025
40 pages
Underworld Work Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans
Ahmad Greene-Hayes
Published 2025
288 pages
One Day in June A Story Inspired by the Life and Activism of Marsha P. Johnson
Tourmaline, Charlot Kristensen
Published 2025
40 pages
Brutal Imagination A Play Adapted from the Poem Cycle
Cornelius Eady
Published 2025
64 pages
Gospel
Sierra Wilson
Published 2025
24 pages
The Red Truck Memories of a Country Girl
Zandra Debnam Lee
Published 2025
136 pages
How to Kill Your Neighbors (and Get Away with It)
R. J. Mason
Published 2025
106 pages
Winter's Cold Kiss
Michael Young
Published 2025
106 pages
If These Eyes Could Talk
Cynthia 'Tasha' Osajibenedict
Published 2025
418 pages
A Rose on the Concrete Court
Royce Dixon Sr.
Published 2025
104 pages