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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All the Noise at Once by DeAndra Davis

All the Noise at Once

DeAndra Davis

377 pages • 2025 • 3 editions

fiction contemporary young adult challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced
Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz

Thank You for Sharing

Rachel Runya Katz

352 pages • 2023 • 8 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Unprotected: A Memoir by Billy Porter

Unprotected: A Memoir

Billy Porter

12h 22m • 2021 • 6 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir race emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

Talia Hibbert

319 pages • 2023 • 29 editions

fiction contemporary romance young adult emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson

Deadly Ever After

Brittany Johnson

288 pages • 2025 • 2 editions

fiction romance young adult
Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known by George M. Johnson

Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known

George M. Johnson

2h 23m • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography essays lgbtqia+ emotional informative inspiring fast-paced
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir by Bernice L. McFadden

Firstborn Girls: A Memoir

Bernice L. McFadden

12h 19m • 2025 • 4 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

Soraya Palmer

9h 11m • 2023 • 9 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ literary magical realism emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Bitter Root Omnibus by Chuck Brown, David F. Walker

Bitter Root (Collected Editions) #1-3

Bitter Root Omnibus

Chuck Brown, David F. Walker

494 pages • 2023 • 2 editions

fiction comics adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Sex, Murder and a Double Latte by Kyra Davis

Sophie Katz Murder Mystery #1

Sex, Murder and a Double Latte

Kyra Davis

336 pages • 2005 • 9 editions

fiction mystery romance funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced