The 50 Best African American Books of 2024
Top 50 Free African American Books - April 2024
Chasing money is all Chloe has ever known. Just when she thinks she’s got it all, times get tight, and her body is put to work in ...
Lauren Michaels is a beautiful 27 year old club owner. Her definition of the perfect man is the one with long pockets and a wife. ...
Welcome to the Savage Life Monique has never had it easy but when she gets into a little trouble she decides to move to St.Louis a...
Shayla is a lively, twenty-two-year-old art student at Howard University with a passion for art. She is the envy of all her friend...
Meet Paige, a famous actress whose career is on the come up. Things couldn't be better, until her front door is kicked in by ...
Seventeen-year-old high school junior, Imani Cooper, always knew that she was destined to one day be the leader of her clique, the...
Once upon a time, not long ago there was a complex called Chappelle Gardens and in this complex lived a 'thotty' bunch o...
Angela is a renowned assassin 'only' known by the name 'the Teflon Queen'. Her lethal grace, steady shot, and ...
Twenty-six year old, Taja Cole, lives the perfect family life with her husband, James Cole, and four-year old daughter, Natocha Co...
Kristen "Na’Tiva" Davis had everything a woman in her 20’s could ever want. Success, beauty, and money. Yet everything d...
How can something a person loves so much be the cause of the deepest hate and bring about their worst fears? Romance, whose name r...
A lot of people say that blood is thicker than water. Which one is drinkable? Ayani has definitely been through the worse. One tra...
Naomi has made a name for herself as one of the top hairstylist in Chicago and although her career is booming, she can't help...
Growing up on the mean streets of Chicago, life wasn’t easy for Jayla Simmons. She worked hard for everything she attained in life...
Doing everything chaotic to get her family's attention, Ayana finally got her wish to meet her sisters. But, Faith and Zaira ...
The Leak is a complimentary short prequel story that leads into K'wan's hit novel, Welfare Wifeys . Learn how Animal got...
Sixteen years ago, William Majors Sr. made his young son, Billy, a promise that he would always take care of him after his mother ...
Thirty-nine-year-old defense attorney Chasity Blanks has wanted Landon ever since she represented him for murder. After proving hi...
"The Game..." makes for strange bedfellows. Local gangster Dante (Jack Boy) knows more than anybody how dangerous and ru...
King woke up to the sun shining bright in the room. He didn’t know what time it was but he must have slept pretty late because Rya...
Thinking about your ex nonstop is never a good idea, especially when your ex is a known Kingpin, but Kia Simmons can’t get him out...
Reeva Lucas is a young woman on a mission, and she doesn’t care who she hurts in the process, even if she’s the one that must be s...
Nancy Grace is a little girl screaming for help and searching for her mother's love. Emotionally, physically and sexually abu...
In Part 2, all three women have big decisions to make. Starr is force to decide her future. Does she stay with Trey, the man she l...
Welcome to the Candy Kloset! Where men come to find their look and admire the looks of the beautiful women who work there. The clo...
*Re-edited in February 2016*   Betrayal. Amibiton. Sex. Wives of DC's biggest ballers. Each hiding a dark secret... ...
Where you come from is what tells the story.  Before they were the Los Sucio Brothers they were just four troubled teens....
From the time she was born Faith has only known pain from her abusive mother. She's never understood the reason on why her mo...
Henry and his wife Dana have made every sacrifice imaginable to build their empire and give their family the best that life has to...
The old world is dead. After a major catastrophe rocks the planet, massive tsunamis swallow coastlines and destroy cities. The rem...
Reneice “Neicey” Peake is a hardworking 18 year old that goes to school and works a 9 to 5. Losing her mother at a young age and n...
An Apple Books Classics edition. The Souls of Black Folk was a call to action when it was published in the United States in 1903, ...
*An Award Winning Urban Novel* *Read the book that sparked a bidding war with some of the top urban publishing companies!* Follow ...
After struggling for so long, Nia Malone is determined to make something out of herself. When she moves to New York City, she know...
The Shakur Brothers, Ahmeen, Ge'Loni, and De'Moni have been waiting for the day their father the great Tobias Kilos Shak...
After killing her ex-boyfriend’s family and kidnapping her Crackhead abusive mother, Faith continues to fight the darkness inside ...
Ali is a drug dealer slash business man who tries to change the way the game is played by giving back to the community. But at the...
When 12-year-old Dmitri Burke's father is murdered, he provides a steady income for his family by running numbers for Mafia b...
Young Andre Mitchell is a gifted football player who is adept at dodging tackles and dodging trouble. In junior high he was a star...
Growing up for Cream wasn't easy. For as long as she can remember its just been Cream and Jackie. Bouncing from city to city ...
Charlise Stanton is the epitome of success. As the heir apparent to her family’s business empire, she seems to have it all… on the...
Lani, Starr and Jada are girlfriends to some of Atlanta's biggest drug dealers and they are friends living a fabulous lifesty...
Meet, Derrick Mason one of the most ruthless drug dealers to ever walk the streets, he and his family controls over fifty percent ...
Mia's tough. A fighter. She's been fighting her entire life. When she was a child, she fought her older sister---Debra. ...
Rozalyn McGuay is a simple-minded 15-year-old who thinks life is easy. She quickly realizes that life is a force to be reckoned wi...
Tianna Fox doesn’t trust men, especially the one she married. After she discovers he’s not the same man she married, their relatio...
Welcome to Hoodoo, Texas—Mayberry with magic, midlife, and a dash of murder. I expected my forties to be filled with imbalanced ho...
At eighteen, Khari didn’t have a care in the world. All she wanted to do was have fun with her friends, until she met the man who ...
In King Pin Wifeys Part 3, Trey gets some very bad news that may change the way he operates his business. Chris and his brother Mi...
Konfetti is a young, ambitious, very educated Street Hustler, who takes whatever hand he is dealt, and plays it wisely.  ...
Top 50 Paid African American Books - April 2024
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New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Essence bestseller La Jill Hunt return with a story of love, betrayal and racism ...
Isaiah Quintabe—an unlicensed detective for all seasons—and his best friend and masterful sidekick, Juanell Dodson, are at a cross...
Sometimes the biggest risk is daring to hope. Cinda Ellis doesn’t dare to dream. Life has dealt too many blows, and she’s come to ...
Kira owns a profitable hair and nail salon. She lives in a nice home in an exclusive community with her husband Ricky, an infamous...
"A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll m...
Written with the voice and vision that have made Mosley one of the most entertaining writers in America, "Fear Itself" m...
The men of Atlanta have no idea who they are dealing with. The women in Kingpin Wifeys are on a rampage. TeTe is determined to ann...
If you loved A Man Called Ove , then prepare to be delighted as Jamaican immigrant Hubert rediscovers the world he'd turned h...
SPECIAL DELUXE VOLUME For Tommy Porter life is nowhere near what he thought it would be. His deepest desire is simple—to love and ...
National bestselling author Carl Weber returns with  Essence  bestseller La Jill Hunt in the latest installment ...
All is fair in love and lust in New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey’s tale of two brothers, four women, and the b...
If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child, she'd be Sophie… What would you do if the crime you were hi...
The bestselling author of B-More Careful, Shannon Holmes, delivers Bad Girlz, another wild adventure into the streets. The setting...
True to the Game II will begin where True to the Game left off, with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Howev...
RECOMMENDED BY GILLIAN FLYNN ON THE TODAY SHOW • A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white rust belt town. Bu...
Butterfly is the first novel in an all new series by New York Times bestselling author Ashley Antoinette and an instant USA Today ...
Charlise knew it was a bad idea, but their chemistry was too strong and her heart wouldn’t let her walk away. Now, a scandal is br...
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE ...
One woman. Five personalities. Private investigator IQ is back to piece together a Newport Beach murder with an eyewitness who giv...
In the latest installment in Joe Ide's "superb" series ( Washington Post ), the relentless, hard-bitten PI...
Eighteen-year-old Joy was a naive girl who found something else to fill the void in her life left by a broken heart and her parent...
From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nati...
The number one, best-selling street novel of all time is undoubtedly True to the Game . Dubbed a ‘ street classic’ , True to the G...
Savages Can Be Male or Female… The Men aren't exempt to the Savage Lifestyle. As a matter of fact they are what make the wome...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read . Renowned hip-hop artist, writer, and activist S...
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was f...
Wahida Clark and Kiki Swinson are two mistresses who have the street lit genre on lock. --The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers Enemy in My Bed ...
As first lady of Kingdom Citizens Christian Center, Vivian Montgomery has it all: a beautiful home, lovely children, and a pastor ...
The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach in the captivating thi...
“One of the biggest names in Urban-fiction, Ashley Antoinette, is back … An intense start to this new series with characters that ...
The 7 Deadly Sins series that inspired four Lifetime original movies begins with this unputdownable novel about a woman caught bet...
In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters. With reign over t...
When a Boeing 747 drops out of the sky with the men of the Cartel aboard, the women of the family have to step into their own. Wit...
After being so In love with a thug named Rue, Cuba Lance ends up doing 3 years in prison after he places blame on her for one trag...
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah’s million copy New...
Winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction “Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze…an unf...
A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with an introduction by Tayari Jones ( An American Marriage ), an excerpt from...
A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of ...
A NATALIE PORTMAN BOOK CLUB PICK FINALIST FOR THE 2022 LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION. “The electrifying fiction ...
Basking in Singapore’s nonstop sunshine, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the glamorous expat dream—until a mysterious (not to ...
Poetic knew that when her family found out what she's been up to, things would not be easy, but what she never expected was f...
Kira is back and needs to make up for lost time. After deciding to leave the Witness Protection Program she gets disturbing news t...
Their affair has been exposed, and Charlise finds herself in a sticky situation.She is torn between two men and now has an unexpec...
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America * Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Nota...
A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Pre...
A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show “If you like Practical Magic… you will love Black Can...
#1 New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller The Globe and Mail Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller AN INSTANT NEW YORK T...
It had to be the dumbest idea she'd ever had in her entire adult life, but desperation covered the slim body of Philomena Ste...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is ba...
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