| While Justice Sleeps | Stacey | Abrams |
| The Inheritance | Rochelle | Alers |
| The New Jim Crow | Michelle | Alexander |
| Carolina Built | Kianna | Alexander |
| Far From the Tree | DeBerry | and Grant |
| Better Than I Know Myself | DeBerry | and Grant |
| Trying to Sleep in the Bed You Made | DeBerry | and Grant |
| The Heart of a Woman | Maya | Angelou |
| The Fire Next Time | James | Baldwin |
| Lion's Blood | Steven | Barnes |
| Zulu Heart | Steven | Barnes |
| King Peggy | Peggielene | Barrels & Eleanor Herman |
| Queen Sugar | Natalie | Baszile |
| Personal Librarian | Marie | Benedict |
| The Vanishing Half | Brit | Bennet |
| Colored Sugar Water | Venise | Berry |
| Uptown: | Virginia D | Berry & Donna Grant |
| Perfect Peace | Daniel | Black |
| Tell Me of Home | Daniel | Black |
| The Wedding Gift | Marien Suyapa | Bodden |
| Echo | Abraham | Bolden |
| Gal | Ruthie | Bolton |
| Ruby | Cynthia | Bond |
| Church Folks | Michele Andrea | Bowen |
| Can I Get a Witness | Julia | Boyd |
| Can't Get Enough | Connie | Briscoe |
| P. G. County | Connie | Briscoe |
| You Only Get Better | Connie | Briscoe, Lolita Files, Anita Bunkley |
| A Piece of Cake | Cupcake | Brown |
| Mirrored Life | Anita | Bunkley |
| Kindred | Octavia | Butler |
| Parable of the Talents | Octavia | Butler |
| Back Channel | Stephen | Carter |
| Impeachment of A. Lincoln | Stephen | Carter |
| Jericho Falls | Stephen | Carter |
| The Emperor Of Ocean Park | Stephen | Carter |
| Palace Council | Steven | Carter |
| Invisible | Stephen | Carter |
| Waiting in Vain | Colin | Channer |
| Echo of Lions | Barbara | Chase-Riboud |
| Hotttentot Venus | Barbara | Chase-Riboud |
| Sally Hennings | Barbara | Chase-Riboud |
| The President's Daughter | Barbara | Chase-Riboud |
| Baby Brother's Blues | Pearl | Cleage |
| Seen it All & Done the Rest | Pearl | Cleage |
| Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do | Pearl | Cleage |
| Til You Hear From Me | Pearl | Cleage |
| What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day | Pearl | Cleage |
| Just Want to Testify | Pearl | Cleage |
| Babylon Sisters | Pearl | Cleage |
| The Water Dancer | Ta-Nehisi | Coates |
| Sister President | Johnetta B | Cole |
| Family | J California | Cooper |
| In Search of Satisfaction | J California | Cooper |
| Life is Short, But Wide | J California | Cooper |
| Some Love Some Pain Some Time | J California | Cooper |
| Some People Some Other Place | J California | Cooper |
| The Future Has a Past | J California | Cooper |
| The Matter is Life | J California | Cooper |
| The Wake of the Wind | J California | Cooper |
| Unbreakable | William Frederick | Cooper |
| Serpent In My Corner | JD | Dainiels |
| Breath, Eyes, Memory | Edwidge | Danticat |
| Miles: The Autobiography | Miles | Davis/Quincy Troupe |
| The Perishing | Natasha | Deon |
| A Wanted Woman | Eric Jerome | Dickey |
| Sister, Sister | Eric Jerome | Dickey |
| Joplin's Ghost | Tananarive | Due |
| My Soul To Keep | Tananarive | Due |
| The Living Blood | Tananarive | Due |
| Blood Colony | Tananarive | Due |
| The Between | Tananarive | Due |
| Half Blood Blues | Esi | Edugyan |
| No Time To Die | Grace | Edwards |
| Turner House | Angela | Flournoy |
| The Memory of LoveTaking | Aminatta | Format |
| When Twilight Comes | Gwynne | Forster |
| Momma Gone | Nina | Foxx |
| Catherine Carmier | Ernest J. | Gaines |
| Laughing in the Dark | Patrice | Gaines |
| The Edge of Heaven | Marita | Golden |
| Plain Brown Wrapper | Karen | Grigsby Bates |
| Homegoing | Yaa | Gyasi |
| Transcendent Kingdom | Yaa | Gyasi |
| Malcolm X | Alex | Haley |
| As the Wicked Watched | Tamron | Hall |
| The New Moon's Arms | Nalo | Haskinson |
| The Angel of Harlem | Kuwana | Haulsey |
| Somebody Else's Mama | David | Haynes |
| Tangled Roots | Angela | Henry |
| If I Could | Donna | Hill |
| Tender Loving Passion | Donna | Hill |
| The Moaners Bench | Mars | Hill |
| House Divided | Donna | Hill |
| Infidel | Ayaan | Hirsi Ali |
| Flesh and Blood | Allison | Hobbs |
| Summer on the Bluffs | Sunny | Hostin |
| I am These Truths | Sunny | Hostin |
| Sweet Tea | Piper | Huguley |
| Joy | Marsha | Hunt |
| The Breakthrough | Gwen | Ifill |
| Queen of Harlem | Brian Keith | Jackson |
| Before the Dawn | Beverly | Jenkins |
| Edge of Midnight | Beverly | Jenkins |
| Heart of Gold | Beverly | Jenkins |
| Indigo | Beverly | Jenkins |
| Captured | Beverly | Jenkins |
| Rare Danger | Bev | Jenkins |
| The Hatwearer's Lesson | Yolanda | Joe |
| Yellow Wife | Sadeqa | Johnson |
| The Known World | Edward P. | Jones |
| An American Marriage | Tayari | Jones |
| Silver Sparrow | Tayari | Jones |
| Sarah's Psalm | Florence | Ladd |
| Cosmopolitan Girls | Lyah Beth | LaFlore |
| Passing | Nella | Larsen |
| Nayla's Dilemma: The ends of Justic | Toye | Lawson Brown |
| The Best of Everything | Kimberly | Lawson Roby |
| Acting Out | Benilde | Little |
| Good Hair | Benilde | Little |
| The Itch | Benilde | Little |
| Who Does She Think She Is | Benilde | Little |
| Black Water Rising | Attica | Locke |
| Bridge to Brillance | Nadia | Lopez |
| Searching for Tina Turner | Jacqueline | Luckett |
| Violet of a Deeper Blue | Rick | Malone |
| 12 tribes of Hatti | Ayana | Mathis |
| Behold the Dreamers | Imbolo | Mbue |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler | Nathan | McCall |
| Them | Nathan | McCall |
| The Hand I Fan With | Tina | McElroy Ansa |
| Ugly Ways | Tina | McElroy Ansa |
| You Know Better | Tina | McElroy Ansa |
| Taking After Mudear | Tina | McElroy Ansa |
| Glorious | Bernice | McFadden |
| Nowhere is a Place | Bernice | McFadden |
| Sugar | Bernice | McFadden |
| This Bitter Earth | Bernice | McFadden |
| Ms Etta's Fast House | Victor | McGlothany |
| Blues Dancing | Diane | McKinney-Whetstone |
| Lazzaretto | Diane | McKinney-Whetstone |
| Tumbling | Diane | McKinney-Whetstone |
| Trading Dreams at Midnight | Diane | McKinney-Whetstone |
| I almost forgot about you | Terry | McMillan |
| Knowing | Rosalyn | McMillian |
| A day Late & A Dollar Short | Terry | McMillian |
| Disappearing Acts | Terry | McMillian |
| How Stella Got Her Grove Back | Terry | McMillian |
| Mamma | Terry | McMillian |
| Waiting To Exhale | Terry | McMillian |
| Who Asked you? | Terry | McMillian |
| Getting to Happy | Terry | McMillian |
| Say Her Name | Dreda Say | Mitchell |
| Hidden Sins | Selena | Montgomery |
| Singing in the Comeback Choir | BeBe | Moore Campbell |
| What You Owe Me | BeBe | Moore Campbell |
| Brothers and Sisters | BeBe | Moore Campbell |
| Your Blues Ain't Like Mine | BeBe | Moore Campbell |
| A Mercy | Toni | Morrison |
| Beloved | Toni | Morrison |
| Jazz | Toni | Morrison |
| Love | Toni | Morrison |
| Paradise | Toni | Morrison |
| A Little Yellow Dog | Walter | Mosley |
| Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned | Walter | Mosley |
| Blond Faith | Walter | Mosley |
| Charcoal Joe | Walter | Mosley |
| Cinnamon Kiss | Walter | Mosley |
| Fear Itself | Walter | Mosley |
| Gone Fishin' | Walter | Mosley |
| Killing Johnny Frye | Walter | Mosley |
| Little Green; an Easy Rawlins Mystery | Walter | Mosley |
| Little Scarlet | Walter | Mosley |
| White Butterfly | Walter | Mosley |
| Known to Evil | Walter | Mosley |
| Rose Gold | Walter | Mosley |
| John Woman | Walter | Mosley |
| Down the River onto the Sea | Walter | Mosley |
| When The Thrill is Gone | Walter | Mosley |
| Bailey's Café | Gloria | Naylor |
| Linden Hiills | Gloria | Naylor |
| Mama Day | Gloria | Naylor |
| The Men of Brewster Place | Gloria | Naylor |
| Dust Tracks on the Road | Zora | Neale Hurston |
| Hitting a Straight Lick | Zora | Neale Hurston |
| Blanch Cleans Up | Barbara | Neely |
| Blanche on the Lam | Barbara | Neely |
| Blanche Passes Go | Barbara | Neely |
| Sexual Healing | Jill | Nelson |
| Volunteer Slavery | Jill | Nelson |
| Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi | Ngozi Adichie |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi | Ngozi Adichie |
| Born a Crime | Trevor | Noah |
| Audacity of Hope | Barak | Obama |
| Dreams of My Father | Barak | Obama |
| Becoming | Michelle | Obama |
| Douglas Women | Jewel | Parker Rhodes |
| Voices in the Mirror | Gordon | Parks |
| Amistad | Alexs | Pate |
| Along Came a Spider | James | Patterson |
| Balm | Dolen | Perkins-Valdez |
| Wench | Dolen | Perkins-Valdez |
| Before I forget | Leonard | Pitte, Jr |
| Freeman | Leonard | Pitte, Jr |
| The Last Thing You Surrender | Leonard | Pitts, Jr |
| Montaro Caine | Sidney | Poitier |
| My Jim | Nancy | Rawles |
| Hollywood Homicide | Kelly | Reid |
| Such a Fun Age | Kelly | Reid |
| Black Gold | Anita | Richmond Bunkley |
| Starlight Express | Anita | Richmond Bunkley |
| Wild Embers | Anita | Richmond Bunkley |
| Morning Show Murders: A Novel | Al | Roker |
| The Presidency in Black & White | April | Ryan |
| Attorney Client Privilege | Pamela | Samuels Young |
| Lawful Deception | Pamela | Samuels Young |
| Murder on the Down Low Pamela Samuels Young | Pamela | Samuels Young |
| Buying Time | Pamela | Samuels Young |
| Anyone's Daughter | Pamela | Samuels Young |
| Every Reasonable Doubt | Pamela | Samuels Young |
| Abuse of Discretion | Pamela | Samuels Young |
| Trace | Lauret | Savoy |
| Life Matters | Bookclub | Seattle, The |
| Caucasia | Danzy | Senna |
| Having Our Say | Delaney | Sisters, The |
| Violin Conspiracy | Brendan | Slocumb |
| Ancient Nine | Ian | Smith |
| The Blackbird Papers | Ian | Smith |
| Unspoken | Ian | Smith |
| Wolf Point | Ian | Smith |
| White Teeth | Zadie | Smith |
| Blood on the Leaves | Jeff | Stetson |
| Song for my Father | Stephanie | Stokes |
| Black Ink | Stephanie | Stokes-Oliver |
| Cane River | Lalita | Tademy |
| Citizens Creek | Lalita | Tademy |
| Red River | Lalita | Tademy |
| Man Gone Down | Michael | Thomas |
| A Darker Side of Crimson | Paula | Thomas-Graham |
| South by Southeast | Blair | Underwood |
| Cape Town | Blair | Underwood |
| Casanegra | Blair | Underwood, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due |
| In the Night of the Heat | Blair | Underwood, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due |
| Value in the Valley | Iyania | Vanzandt |
| The Good Negress | A.J. | Vernelle |
| Company Man | Brent | Wade |
| The Way Forward w/a Broken Heart | Alice | Walker |
| Salvage The Bones | Jesmyn | Ward |
| Touch | Charlotte | Watson Sherman |
| Race Matters | Cornell | West |
| The Living is Easy | Dorothy | West |
| The Wedding | Dorothy | West |
| Sag Harbor | Colson | Whitehead |
| Underground Railroad | Colson | Whitehead |
| The Nickel Boys | Colson | Whitehead |
| Harlem Shuffle | Colson | Whitehead |
| Sent for You Yesterday & Here you Come Today | John | Wideman |
| The warmth of the suns | Isabella | Wilkerson |
| Caste | Isabel | Wilkerson |
| Ain't Nobody's Business | Valerie | Wilson Wesley |
| Dying in the Dark | Valerie | Wilson Wesley |
| Of Blood & Sorrow | Valerie | Wilson Wesley |
| Playing My Mother's Blues | Valerie | Wilson Wesley |
| The Devil Riding | Valerie | Wilson Wesley |
| Where Evil Sleeps | Valerie | Wilson Wesley |
| Red at the Bone | Jacqueline | Woodson |
