12 Books By Black Authors

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76 participants (539 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read one book by a Black author a month for the whole year. It doesn’t matter the genre, author’s gender, release date, traditional published or indie. As long as the author is Black it counts! Use #12BooksByBlackAuthors if you post on social media. 

Challenge Books

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Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

Death of the Author

Nnedi Okorafor

448 pages • 2025 • 19 editions

fiction literary science fiction thriller adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love by Mahogany L. Browne

I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love

Mahogany L. Browne

100 pages • 2021 • 4 editions

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

The Divine Traitors #1

So Let Them Burn

Kamilah Cole

11h 24m • 2024 • 22 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga

Our Lady of the Nile

Scholastique Mukasonga

250 pages • 2012 • 27 editions

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Wounds Are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory Into Justice and Healing by Yolanda Pierce

The Wounds Are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory Into Justice and Healing

Yolanda Pierce

196 pages • 2025 • 3 editions

nonfiction history religion medium-paced
The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

Briony Cameron

12h 35m • 2024 • 14 editions

user-added

fiction historical lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Men We Reaped

Jesmyn Ward

272 pages • 2013 • 23 editions

nonfiction memoir race emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin

Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa

Dipo Faloyin

380 pages • 2022 • 32 editions

nonfiction history race informative reflective medium-paced
Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

Stay with Me

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

272 pages • 2017 • 67 editions

fiction contemporary historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family by Bettye Kearse

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family

Bettye Kearse

7h 48m • 2020 • 5 editions

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nonfiction