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.

12 Books By Black Authors

shellysbookcorner Host

76 participants (539 books)

STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 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

All books added

Just Our Luck by Denise Williams

Just Our Luck
Denise Williams

384 pages • digital • 2025 • 6 editions

fiction contemporary romance funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

fiction contemporary romance funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Just Our Luck by Denise Williams

Just Our Luck

Denise Williams

384 pages • 2025 • 6 editions

fiction contemporary romance funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

fiction contemporary romance funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

New Kid by Jerry Craft

New Kid
Jerry Craft

256 pages • hardcover • 2019 • 17 editions

fiction contemporary graphic novel middle grade funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

fiction contemporary graphic novel middle grade funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

New Kid by Jerry Craft

New Kid

256 pages • 2019 • 17 editions

fiction contemporary graphic novel middle grade funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

fiction contemporary graphic novel middle grade funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism
Jemar Tisby with Lecrae (Contributor), Jemar Tisby (Narrator)

8h 22m • audio • 2019 • 13 editions

nonfiction history race religion adventurous medium-paced

nonfiction history race religion adventurous medium-paced

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism

Jemar Tisby with Lecrae (Contributor), Jemar Tisby (Narrator)

8h 22m • 2019 • 13 editions

nonfiction history race religion adventurous medium-paced

nonfiction history race religion adventurous medium-paced

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde with Roxane Gay (Contributor)

8h 11m • audio • 2020 • 4 editions

nonfiction essays feminism lgbtqia+ poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays feminism lgbtqia+ poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde with Roxane Gay (Contributor)

8h 11m • 2020 • 4 editions

nonfiction essays feminism lgbtqia+ poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

nonfiction essays feminism lgbtqia+ poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories by Gabrielle Union

You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
Gabrielle Union with Gabrielle Union (Narrator)

8h 8m • audio • 2021 • 9 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced

You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories by Gabrielle Union

You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

Gabrielle Union with Gabrielle Union (Narrator)

8h 8m • 2021 • 9 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced

One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon

One of Our Kind
Nicola Yoon

270 pages • digital • 2024 • 13 editions

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced

One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon

One of Our Kind

270 pages • 2024 • 13 editions

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
Shomari Wills

320 pages • digital • 7 editions

nonfiction biography history medium-paced

nonfiction biography history medium-paced

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

320 pages • 7 editions

nonfiction biography history medium-paced

nonfiction biography history medium-paced

The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

The Violin Conspiracy
Brendan Slocumb

342 pages • hardcover • 2022 • 14 editions

fiction crime mystery thriller emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

fiction crime mystery thriller emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

The Violin Conspiracy

Brendan Slocumb

342 pages • 2022 • 14 editions

fiction crime mystery thriller emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

fiction crime mystery thriller emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Fearless and Free: A Memoir by Josephine Baker

Fearless and Free: A Memoir
Josephine Baker with Anam Zafar (Translator), Ijeoma Oluo (Contributor), Jade Wheeler (Narrator), Quentin Bruno (Narrator), Ijeoma Oluo (Narrator), Sophie Lewis (Translator)

8h 41m • audio • 1949 • 9 editions

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

Fearless and Free: A Memoir by Josephine Baker

Fearless and Free: A Memoir

Josephine Baker with Anam Zafar (Translator), Ijeoma Oluo (Contributor), Jade Wheeler (Narrator), Quentin Bruno (Narrator), Ijeoma Oluo (Narrator), Sophie Lewis (Translator)

8h 41m • 1949 • 9 editions

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

The Improvisers by Nicole Glover

The Improvisers
Nicole Glover

442 pages • paperback • 2024 • 6 editions

fiction fantasy historical science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced

fiction fantasy historical science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced

The Improvisers by Nicole Glover

The Improvisers

442 pages • 2024 • 6 editions

fiction fantasy historical science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced

fiction fantasy historical science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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