African

Love, Africa

Jeffrey Gettleman

Dread Nation

Justina Ireland, Bahni Turpin

A Good Kind of Trouble

Lisa Moore Ramée

Amari and the Night Brothers

B. B. Alston

Black in Blues

Imani Perry

One True Loves

Elise Bryant

Lose Your Mother

Saidiya Hartman

Palaver

Bryan Washington

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

David Graeber

And Home Was Kariakoo

M.G. Vassanji

Before the Ever After

Jacqueline Woodson

Just a Sister Away

Renita J. Weems

When the Thrill Is Gone

Walter Mosley

When the Ground Is Hard

Malla Nunn

A River of Royal Blood

Amanda Joy

Stony the Road

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

Toby Wilkinson, Michael Page

A Killer Sundae

Abby Collette, Diana Blue

The Color of a Lie

Kim Johnson

Pet

Akwaeke Emezi

Harlem Sunset

Nekesa Afia

The Black Box

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Rules of Engagement

Selena Montgomery, Stacey Abrams

The Art of Desire

Selena Montgomery, Stacey Abrams

The Partner Plot

Kristina Forest

A Murder for Miss Hortense

Mel Pennant

The Princess and the P.i.

Nikki Payne, Arissa Evans

The Best Man

January LaVoy, Jakobi Diem

Rise Up, Shepherd!

Luke A. Powery

A Red Death

Walter Mosley, Michael Boatman