M'Deah and Me A Tale of Two Black Generations
Bobby Jean Perry
Published 2025
474 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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Queen Mother Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore
Ashley D. Farmer
Published 2025
496 pages
Black Boy Discovering the Strength of Black Identity
S. A. MOORE (JR.)
Published 2025
28 pages
Ethiopian History After the Guns of March 1st, 1896 and the Rise of Contemp
Ayalew Adamu
Published 2025
420 pages
Peaches Can Do It!
Daphanny C. Baker
Published 2025
80 pages
The Elusive Bachelor
Peggy Smith
Published 2025
142 pages
Another Cup With Cleo
Cleophus P. Franklin Jr.
Published 2025
191 pages
The Violence of Love Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States
Kit W. Myers
Published 2025
284 pages
Falling for the Grumpy Dad
Marie Hobbs
Published 2025
426 pages
Last Chance Live!
Helena Haywoode Henry
Published 2025
544 pages
Bringing Hope to Life (a Memoir) Creating Pathways Out of Poverty for Youth Through the Beloved YouthBuild Community
Dorothy Stoneman
Published 2025
362 pages
Summertime in the City
Shani Denise
Published 2025
52 pages
Abolition and Reconstruction An Emergent Guide for Collective Study
Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and R.
Published 2025
224 pages
Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions
Luca Bragalini, David Schiff, Aloma Bardi
Published 2025
272 pages
Understanding Octavia E. Butler
Kendra R. Parker
Published 2025
184 pages
The Black Robe
Ed J. Thompson
Published 2025
260 pages
Resting Bitch Face Poems
Taylor Byas
Published 2025
256 pages
The Ephemera Collector A Novel
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson
2025 · 2026 edition
320 pages
Jim The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
2025 · 2026 edition
464 pages
Growing (in)Dependence A Black Woman's Journey of Unlearning
Alexandra D. Young
Published 2025
246 pages
Black-Owned The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Char Adams
Published 2025
304 pages
Black Veteranality Military Service and the Illusion of Inclusive Patriotism
Bryon L. Garner
Published 2025
132 pages
Sunset at Dawn
Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike
Published 2025
448 pages
Black Girls and How We Fail Them
Aria S. Halliday
Published 2025
190 pages