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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

All books added
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The African Trilogy #1

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

152 pages • 1958 • 106 editions

fiction classics historical challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns

Baker Street #1

Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder

Valerie Burns

271 pages • 2022 • 13 editions

fiction crime mystery funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani

Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream

Blair Imani

192 pages • 2020 • 3 editions

nonfiction history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Erasure by Percival Everett

Erasure

Percival Everett

265 pages • 2001 • 27 editions

fiction literary challenging funny reflective medium-paced
He's My Next Mistake by Jahquel J.

Brookwood #2

He's My Next Mistake

Jahquel J.

7h 40m • 2024 • 7 editions

user-added

fiction romance funny lighthearted fast-paced
Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander

Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances

Kwame Alexander

3h 40m • 2023 • 3 editions

nonfiction memoir poetry emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced
From Come Over To Come Home by Jahquel J.

Brookwood #1

From Come Over To Come Home

Jahquel J.

6h 44m • 2024 • 5 editions

fiction romance funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

The Weight of the Stars

K. Ancrum

384 pages • 2019 • 9 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction young adult adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

256 pages • 1953 • 83 editions

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Queen's Spade by Sarah Raughley

The Queen's Spade

Sarah Raughley

416 pages • 2025 • 6 editions

fiction historical romance thriller young adult dark tense medium-paced