The Containment Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
Michelle Adams
2025 · 2026 edition
544 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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By Her Blood
Myunique C. Green
Published 2025
296 pages
Blood & Breath
Qurratulayn Muhammad
Published 2025
272 pages
Chance Beginnings
Roberts Essex
Published 2025
408 pages
A Deadly Chance A Chance Freeman Thriller
Alex Cage
Published 2025
104 pages
Casualties of Truth
Lauren Francis-Sharma
Published 2025
272 pages
Hiding Behind The Cross
D Elias Loadholt, Sr
Published 2025
126 pages
Bent but Not Broken
Mary Monroe
2025 · 2026 edition
320 pages
Colored Insane Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century
Diana Martha Louis
Published 2025
320 pages
Black Freedom Struggle in Urban Appalachia
Sabina Vaught, T. Elon Dancy II, Lori Delale-O'Connor, J. Z. Bennett, Christy L. McGuire
Published 2025
272 pages
The Freedom to Love
Jeza Belle
Published 2025
188 pages
This Some Real Sh*t ( Not Your Normal Love Story )
CURTIS H. LEDBETTER
Published 2025
106 pages
For the Love of City
Dandridge Monroe
Published 2025
280 pages
The Black Atlantic's Triple Burden Slavery, Colonialism, and Reparations
Adekeye Adebajo
Published 2025
564 pages
A Murder in NYC Book 1 - Mama & Me Mystery Series
Brian W. Smith
Published 2025
164 pages
I Can Grow It!
Kelly Greenawalt
Published 2025
48 pages
The Shadows We Carry The Unseen Struggles of Refugee Youth in America
Alinoti Malebo
Published 2025
148 pages
Between Heartache and Havoc
JASMINE. MICHELLE
Published 2025
240 pages
The Line Between Us
SYREETA. HARVEY-PASLEY
Published 2025
314 pages
Between Good and Evil
Rochelle Alers
Published 2025
336 pages
Steep A Black Neurosurgeon's Journey
Craig Yorke
Published 2025
176 pages
Dear White Woman, Dear Black Woman A Tapestry of Letters for Hope and Healing
Bonita T. Hampton Smith
Published 2025
266 pages
Black Pride
Christopher Shead
Published 2025
168 pages
That Little Girl Memories, Challenges, and Reflections on Black Girl Dreams
Charisse L. Gillett
Published 2025
96 pages